Computer Science Careers

Are you interested in a job related to programming? If so, you're in luck because computer science is a top paying college degree and the amount of computing jobs are growing extremely fast.

According to percentage estimates of computer science related jobs in STEM career groups from Computer Science Online, the main career categories in this field are:

1. Software Development (32%) — programming, testing and bug fixing applications and framework for a software product. 
2. Security (3%) 
3. Systems Analysis (15%) — study an activity through mathematical means (for example, observing data) to define its goal and purpose to discover methods to efficiently accomplish them. 
4. Database Administration (2%) — store and organize data. 
5. Support Specialist (14%) — provide help and advice related to technology. 
6. Network and Systems Administration (7%) — organize, install and support an organization's computer systems. 
7. Other (1%)

Note: the percentages add up to 74% because 74% of STEM related careers are in computing. 


Although that website contains most of the necessary basic info about computer science jobs, I know there's one job most of you are interested in: video game design. After all, most of you found this blog from Scratch.


According to Creative Skillset, the jobs field can be split into 17 categories. Click on the link to read descriptions, discover requirements and learn more.

1. Animator
2. Assistant Producer
3. Audio Engineer
4. Creative Director
5. DevOps Engineer
6. External Producer
7. Game Designer
8. Game Programmer
9. Games Artist
10. Lead Artist
11. Lead Programmer
12. Level editor
13. Narrative Copywriter
14. Product Manager
15. Project Manager/Producer
16. QA Tester
17. Technical Artist

The website also contains info about ways to get into the industry, real life stories, other useful links and.the games industry (however, the infographic data is not international).

Thanks for reading! I hope you found this article helpful.

—Stang