10 highest-paying programming languages to learn

Clojure, a general-purpose programming language, has been employed by the likes of Walmart. It is part of the Lisp family of languages. Knowing Clojure fetches a median yearly salary of $106,644, according to the report.

2) Erlang

Knowing Erlang, a language used across e-commerce, banking and telecom sectors, can get you an annual salary of $103,000, the Stack Overflow report said.

3) F#

Median annual salaries for those knowing F#, Microsoft's universal programming language, are $95,526.

4) LISP

After Fortran, LISP is the oldest high-level programming language. Having knowledge of it can fetch you $95,000 yearly.

5) Ruby

The Ruby Programming Language lays emphasis on simplicity and productivity. Programmers knowing Ruby are paid up to $93,000 annually, the Stack Overflow survey showed.

6) Elixir

Elixir allows professionals to work across several domains. Programmers equipped with it earn a median annual salary of $92,959.

7) Scala 

Scala is a language ideal for teaching beginner as well as advanced courses in software engineering. Professionals knowing it get paid $92,780 per year on an average.

8) Perl - $90,073

Perl is a language capable of operating on more than 100 platforms and can be used for both prototyping and large-scale projects, according to its website. Perl programmers get an annual salary of $90,073.

9) Go 

Backed by Google, Go is an open source programming language. It can get professionals $89,204 per year.

10) Rust 

Rust is used by hundreds of companies around the world -- from big corporations to startups. You can get paid $87,047 a year working with this language.