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Best Jobs For Former Programmer Analysts [2023]

By Chris Kolmar
Jul. 13, 2022

It’s tough to be a programmer analyst nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a programmer analyst isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become programmer analysts in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many programmer analysts no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former programmer analysts to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former PROGRAMMER ANALYSTS

  1. Software Developer Jobs

  2. Applications Developer Jobs

  3. Lead Technician Jobs

  4. Information Technology Manager Jobs

  5. Database Administrator Jobs

  6. Developer Jobs

  7. Senior Java Developer Jobs

  8. Information Technology Consultant Jobs

  9. Web Developer Jobs

  10. Project Leader Jobs

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former PROGRAMMER ANALYSTS

Rank Job Title %
1 Senior Software Engineer 4.5%
2 Senior Programmer Analyst 3.94%
3 Software Engineer 2.61%
4 Business Analyst 2.45%
5 Consultant 2.08%
6 Project Manager 1.44%
7 Systems Analyst 1.43%
8 Software Developer 1.42%
9 Applications Developer 0.95%
10 Senior Consultant 0.95%
11 Lead Technician 0.89%
12 Information Technology Manager 0.83%
13 Programmer 0.81%
14 Data Analyst 0.77%
15 Database Administrator 0.76%
16 Developer 0.75%
17 Senior Java Developer 0.7%
18 Senior Analyst 0.7%
19 Systems Administrator 0.68%
20 Information Technology Consultant 0.65%
21 Senior Systems Analyst 0.63%
22 Web Developer 0.62%
23 Project Leader 0.61%
24 Senior Project Manager 0.55%
25 Information Technology Project Manager 0.53%
26 Senior Business Analyst 0.52%
27 Team Leader 0.51%
28 Quality Assurance Analyst 0.5%
29 Java Developer 0.5%
30 Systems Engineer 0.48%
31 Information Technology Specialist 0.48%
32 Technical Consultant 0.46%
33 Senior Database Administrator 0.43%
34 Director Of Information 0.41%
35 Senior .net Developer 0.39%
36 Net Developer 0.38%
37 Lead Developer 0.38%
38 Senior Quality Assurance Analyst 0.36%
39 Analyst 0.36%
40 Quality Assurance Lead 0.36%
41 Vice President 0.34%
42 Senior Technician Specialist 0.34%
43 Research Assistant 0.34%
44 Mainframe Developer 0.33%
45 Developer Analyst 0.32%
46 Owner 0.31%
47 Manager 0.31%
48 Graduate Research Assistant 0.31%
49 Oracle Developer 0.31%
50 Information Technology Analyst 0.31%
51 Senior Programmer 0.3%
52 Associate 0.3%
53 Program Manager 0.3%
54 Senior Systems Engineer 0.29%
55 Senior Manager 0.29%
56 Technical Support Specialist 0.29%
57 Information Technology Director 0.28%
58 Technical Analyst 0.27%
59 Programmer Analyst-Consultant 0.26%
60 Senior Oracle Database Administrator 0.25%
61 Senior Data Analyst- 0.24%
62 Solutions Architect 0.24%
63 Sas Programmer 0.24%
64 Graduate Assistant 0.24%
65 Systems Analyst Programmer 0.23%
66 Senior Associate 0.23%
67 Database Developer 0.23%
68 Internship 0.23%
69 Developer/consultant 0.23%
70 Quality Assurance Engineer 0.23%
71 Senior Etl Developer 0.23%
72 Applications Analyst 0.22%
73 Graduate Teaching Assistant 0.22%
74 Oracle Database Administrator 0.22%
75 Senior Web Developer 0.21%
76 Principal Consultant 0.21%
77 Business Intelligence Developer 0.2%
78 Software Consultant 0.2%
79 Information Technology Technician 0.2%
80 Architect And Developer 0.19%
81 Contract Programmer Analyst 0.19%
82 Technical Project Manager 0.19%
83 Systems Developer 0.19%
84 Data Architect 0.18%
85 Sql Developer 0.18%
86 Development Manager 0.18%
87 Teaching Assistant 0.18%
88 Systems Programmer 0.17%
89 Business Intelligence Analyst 0.17%
90 Applications Programmer 0.17%
91 Engineer 0.17%
92 Sql Server Developer 0.17%
93 Contract Programmer 0.17%
94 Technical Business Analyst 0.17%
95 Java/j2ee Developer 0.17%
96 Administrator 0.17%
97 Database Analyst 0.16%
98 Computer Programmer 0.16%
99 Systems Analyst/developer 0.16%
100 Vice President Of Information Technology 0.15%

Most Common Jobs For Former PROGRAMMER ANALYSTS

  1. Senior Software Engineer

  2. Senior Programmer Analyst

  3. Software Engineer

  4. Business Analyst

  5. Consultant

  6. Project Manager

  7. Systems Analyst

  8. Software Developer

  9. Applications Developer

  10. Senior Consultant

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a programmer analyst would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former programmer analysts to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former PROGRAMMER ANALYSTS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed programmer analyst under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a programmer analyst, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

  • Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
  • And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

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Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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