Structured Query Language (SQL) is a specialized language for updating, deleting, and requesting information from databases. SQL is an ANSI and ISO standard, and is the de facto standard database query language. A variety of established database products support SQL, including products from Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. It is widely used in both industry and academia, often for enormous, complex databases.
Best Paying Cities for Software Developers. The highest paid in the software developer profession work in the metropolitan areas of San Jose, California, Sioux City, Iowa, and Panama City, Florida. The San Francisco area also pays well, as does the city of Baltimore. software developerâs average salary, $96,260, is higher than most other occupations on our technology jobs list.
The median annual wage for software developers, applications was $100,080 in May 2016. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $58,300, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $157,590.