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Fast-growing careers

Roles with the strongest projected demand over the next decade.

24 roles to explore
Medical Surgery Nurse
Healthcare ยท Mid
A registered nurse caring for medical and surgical patients on hospital inpatient units โ€” managing patients across diverse diagnoses, post-operative recovery, chronic disease exacerbations, and the broad bedside nursing work that defines med-surg as the foundation of nursing practice.
$110โ€“150k
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Data Scientist
Technology ยท Mid
Data Scientists turn messy data into models, experiments, and decisions โ€” exploratory analysis, feature engineering, building and validating models, communicating findings to people who won't read the code. The work tends to swing between rigorous and improvisational.
$83โ€“156k
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Clinical Data Analyst
Technology ยท Mid
Clinical data is messy and regulated, and you make sense of it: analyzing outcomes, costs, and operations so leaders can decide. Where the numbers actually shape care.
$83โ€“156k
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Reporting Analyst
Technology ยท Mid
Leaders can't steer on gut alone, so you give them the numbers โ€” building the reports and dashboards that show how a business is really doing. Where data becomes decisions.
$83โ€“156k
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Blue Team Member
Technology ยท Mid
On the defensive side of cybersecurity, you're the one watching for and stopping attacks: monitoring, hardening systems, and responding when something looks wrong. Defense measured in breaches that never happen.
$92โ€“160k
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Analytics Consultant
Technology ยท Mid
Companies bring you in when their data holds a decision they can't read on their own. You scope the real question, build the analysis, and translate the answer into plain language a non-technical room can act on.
$75โ€“140k
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Machine Learning Scientist
Technology ยท Mid
Pushing the frontier of what machines can learn from data โ€” designing models, running experiments, and turning research ideas into systems that predict, classify, or generate. Where research meets real-world data.
$93โ€“169k
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Renewable Energy Specialist
Engineering ยท Mid
As a Renewable Energy Specialist, you help bring clean power online, assessing sites, sizing systems, and making solar, wind, or storage projects pencil out. Turning clean-energy potential into working projects.
$72โ€“114k
Growing
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Nurse Manager
Business Operations ยท Mid
The nurse leader who manages a nursing unit, department, or function โ€” overseeing staff nurses, managing operations, and being the practitioner accountable for the nursing practice and operational fabric of the unit.
$89โ€“162k
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Physiotherapy Assistant
Healthcare ยท Mid
A licensed assistant supporting physical therapy practice โ€” delivering treatment under physiotherapist (physical therapist) supervision, implementing therapeutic exercise programs, manual therapy, and modalities for patients across rehabilitation settings. Common across outpatient, inpatient, home health, and SNF settings.
$58โ€“77k
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Actuary
Technology ยท Mid
You put a price tag on uncertainty. Using statistics, probability, and financial theory, you calculate how much risk costs โ€” helping insurance companies set premiums, pension funds plan for the future, and businesses understand their exposure to the unknown.
$91โ€“165k
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Business Analyst
Technology ยท Mid
You're the person who translates business problems into solutions that actually get built. You sit between stakeholders who know what they need and technical teams who can build it, making sure both sides understand each other and that what gets delivered actually solves the original problem.
$75โ€“138k
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Data Management Manager
Technology ยท Mid
You're responsible for an organization's data โ€” that it's accurate, secure, organized, and usable โ€” leading the people and systems that keep it trustworthy. The steward of a company's most valuable asset.
$95โ€“163k
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Data Architect
Technology ยท Mid
Data Architects design how data moves, lives, and gets used across an organization โ€” modeling entities, choosing platforms, planning for scale, and shaping integrations across operational and analytical systems. The work tends to live in architecture and governance, with steady stakeholder management.
$95โ€“163k
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Business Systems Analyst
Technology ยท Mid
The person who bridges business and IT โ€” gathering requirements, documenting workflows, and being the practitioner who translates business needs into something engineers and systems can actually deliver.
$82โ€“144k
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Data Coordinator
Technology ยท Mid
An organization's data, kept organized and moving โ€” you manage how it's collected, stored, and shared, and make sure it's accurate and findable. The quiet order beneath everyone else's data work.
$81โ€“147k
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Tableau Developer
Technology ยท Mid
Data becomes a dashboard people actually use because you build it โ€” turning complex information into something clear and decision-ready. You sit where data meets design, making numbers tell a story.
$73โ€“140k
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Anesthetic Assistant
Healthcare ยท Mid
Supporting anesthesiologists during surgical procedures โ€” helping prepare equipment, monitor patients, and manage the technical aspects of anesthesia delivery.
$114โ€“160k
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Anesthesia Assistant
Healthcare ยท Mid
In the OR, you help keep a patient safely under during surgery โ€” preparing equipment, monitoring vitals, and supporting the anesthesiologist minute to minute. High-stakes clinical work where attention can't lapse.
$114โ€“160k
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Mental Health Specialist
Healthcare ยท Mid
You support people through mental health struggles โ€” assessing needs, providing care or counseling, and helping them toward stability and better days. Practical, human support for the mind.
$37โ€“49k
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Patient Care Specialist
Healthcare ยท Mid
Much of what a patient feels day to day comes down to care like yours โ€” helping them eat, move, bathe, and stay comfortable through illness or recovery. The steady presence at the bedside.
$37โ€“49k
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Business Intelligence Engineer
Engineering ยท Mid
BI engineers build the data infrastructure that powers reporting and analytics โ€” pipelines, models, dashboards, and the systems analysts depend on when they're trying to answer business questions.
$69โ€“127k
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Certified Ophthalmic Surgical Assistant
Healthcare ยท Mid
In eye surgery, you're the assistant the surgeon relies on โ€” prepping the patient and instruments, handing tools under the microscope, and helping procedures on the eye go smoothly. Precision work, millimeters from sight.
$37โ€“50k
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Occupational Therapy Technician
Healthcare ยท Mid
Occupational therapy runs smoother with hands-on support, and you provide it โ€” prepping activities, helping patients through exercises, and supporting the therapist all day. The practical support behind regaining daily skills.
$60โ€“77k
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