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Job outlook for computer technology teachers in the United States
Computer technology teacher job growth summary. After extensive research, interviews, and analysis, Zippia's data science team found that:
The projected computer technology teacher job growth rate is 12% from 2018-2028.
About 159,400 new jobs for computer technology teachers are projected over the next decade.
Computer technology teacher salaries have increased 10% for computer technology teachers in the last 5 years.
There are over 10,236 computer technology teachers currently employed in the United States.
There are 119,934 active computer technology teacher job openings in the US.
The average computer technology teacher salary is $50,205.
Are computer technology teacher jobs in demand?
Computer technology teacher job and salary trends over time
Computer technology teacher jobs over time
Computer technology teacher job growth rate over time
| Year | # of jobs | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 10,236 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 8,774 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 8,657 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | 8,828 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 8,774 | 0.00% |
Average computer technology teacher salary over time
Computer technology teacher salary by year
| Year | Avg. salary | Hourly rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $50,205 | $24.14 | +0.4% |
| 2024 | $49,993 | $24.04 | +3.6% |
| 2023 | $48,256 | $23.20 | +4.6% |
| 2022 | $46,149 | $22.19 | +1.4% |
| 2021 | $45,527 | $21.89 | +3.6% |
Computer technology teacher jobs by state
Most common states for computer technology teachers
| Rank | State | Population | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Hampshire | 1,342,795 | 351 | 26% |
| 2 | Massachusetts | 6,859,819 | 1,682 | 25% |
| 3 | Maryland | 6,052,177 | 1,514 | 25% |
| 4 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 176 | 25% |
| 5 | Montana | 1,050,493 | 246 | 23% |
| 6 | Delaware | 961,939 | 211 | 22% |
| 7 | Vermont | 623,657 | 137 | 22% |
| 8 | Minnesota | 5,576,606 | 1,194 | 21% |
| 9 | Colorado | 5,607,154 | 1,169 | 21% |
| 10 | Wyoming | 579,315 | 121 | 21% |
| 11 | Virginia | 8,470,020 | 1,653 | 20% |
| 12 | New Mexico | 2,088,070 | 410 | 20% |
| 13 | Illinois | 12,802,023 | 2,420 | 19% |
| 14 | New Jersey | 9,005,644 | 1,719 | 19% |
| 15 | Nebraska | 1,920,076 | 361 | 19% |
| 16 | North Dakota | 755,393 | 133 | 18% |
| 17 | Oregon | 4,142,776 | 689 | 17% |
| 18 | Washington | 7,405,743 | 1,214 | 16% |
| 19 | Iowa | 3,145,711 | 490 | 16% |
| 20 | Idaho | 1,716,943 | 274 | 16% |
Most common cities for computer technology teachers
| Rank | City | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairbanks | 1 | 3% | $46,363 |
Computer Technology Teacher job outlook: Expert opinions
Our panel of computer technology teacher experts
Longwood University
Saint Mary's College of California
Centenary University
University of Wyoming
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Providence College
University of Miami
Utah State University
Lehigh University
Western Kentucky University
University of Mary Washington
Gallaudet University
Park University
Orchard Farm High School
Anderson University
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
DePaul University
Calvin University
Dr. Audrey Church Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Education and Counseling; Professor of School LibrarianshipLongwood University
Education
What Computer Technology Teacher skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Dr. Audrey Church Ph.D.: In the field of education, skills that will become even more important and prevalent are really at, what I would consider, opposite ends of a spectrum: at one end, interpersonal skills--strength and knowledge in the areas of social and emotional learning and trauma-informed teaching; at the other end, technology skills-refining and enhancing information literacy and digital literacy skills.
What Computer Technology Teacher skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Dr. Christina O'Connor Ph.D.: Teachers need to have an understanding of trauma-informed practice and incorporate social-emotional learning into the classroom. They also need to understand and be adept with using artificial intelligence as an instructional tool as well as know how to identify when AI is being used to deceive or falsify information. Information literacy is extremely important.
What Computer Technology Teacher skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Peter Alter Ph.D.: Public school salary systems are determined by years of teaching (sometimes called Steps) and level of education. Get a Master's degree. Add an authorization via coursework. Anything that will move you over a column on the salary schedule. Then figure out your side hustle- coaching, tutoring, doing something completely away from education. This may be challenging in your first year but as you get acclimated, you are going to have more time that you will be able to monetize.
What will help Computer Technology Teachers increase their earning potential?
Peter Alter Ph.D.: Good classroom and behavior management skills will serve you well. To do that, understanding the big ideas around Applied Behavior Analysis will really help.
Use technology to your best advantage. Depending on your age, you are either a digital native or a digital immigrant but you're going to have to get comfortable with technology because it will only become a bigger part of the education system (e.g. learning management systems, AI, digital communication, etc...).
Dr. Lisa Mastrangel Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English, Director of CompositionCentenary University
Department is Business, Media, and Writing
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Dr. Lisa Mastrangel Ph.D.: Because many of the jobs will be online, technological skills will be vital.
Dr. Andrea Burrows
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, Professor, Science Education, School of Teacher EducationUniversity of Wyoming
College of Education
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Dr. Andrea Burrows: The definition of technology can be a tricky one; for example, see a newly published article by Ellis et al. (2020) in CITE Journal Science. The authors explore technology perspectives relating to vocational education, instructional technology, computing, and practitioners of science, mathematics, and engineering. In all of these spaces, technology has and continues to be important to education, and in the next five years, it has the potential to dramatically impact the field. It is important for the educational community to understand what technology is and how it is being assessed for effectiveness before making technology decisions and deciding if it has an impact or not.
Tatiana Joseph Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Teaching and Learning Program Director, Second Language ProgramUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Tatiana Joseph Ph.D.: This is a giant question.
This pandemic has pushed us to use technology in new ways. In the next five years, we will see a teacher population who is highly trained in using new-age technology to enhance learning and build new opportunities because many HAD to learn these new systems in order to teach currently.
Snow days may become a thing of the past, for example, as now we have the platforms and the training to provide remote instruction.
I hope that districts will continue to support teachers in learning and maintaining knowledge of these new systems.
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Bret Cormier: That's a really good and important question. Based on everything that we are seeing, as well as implementing to adhere to COVID protocols, I believe, that we will continue to provide remote learning to students in K-12 and higher education, hybrid schooling, and online learning, but with that being said, I still know, that as someone who has been researching and studying the achievement gap over 15 years, the best way to educate students is to have them in a classroom with other students and a teacher to guide them; what we refer to as brick and mortar instruction.
As we continue to improve our technology to educate our students, we have to be aware of the costs to provide this education, for many of our students who aren't able to access that education, due to lack of a desktop computer, laptop, or tablet, as well as the technology needed for Wi-Fi. So as the pedagogy and the andragogy continue to improve our instruction in cyberspace, we tend to overlook that students still need devices and internet access to take full advantage of the educational optimal learning environments. So I think that we'll learn a lot from COVID to continue to improve education for all of our students, but the economic realities will also continue to play a role and factor for access and opportunity.
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Patricia Saunders: The rapid increase in online learning due to the pandemic will undoubtedly reshape the pedagogical landscape in the U.S. Traditional modes of teaching in-person have been tested during the epidemic. For many students, in-person courses are their preference, and in some instances, particularly in science labs, the only realistic mode of teaching has to be in person and with all hands on deck. However, in some other instances (i.e., visual arts and museum studies) in person remains critical, and some would say essential to how and what students learn.
Sylvia Read Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Dean for Teacher EducationUtah State University
Department of Education
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Sylvia Read Ph.D.: Teachers have had to become much more fluent with technology to enable their teaching and student learning, and this will carry through and be refined over time. The challenge is how to leverage technology to differentiate learning based on students' needs.
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Dr. William Gaudelli: COVID exposed great rifts in student/community ability to learn via distance and the technology/bandwidth to support it. In the next 5-10 years, in addition to that challenge, we will have an increasing presence of VR, AI, and robotics/robotics in classrooms and through learning systems that may not fundamentally alter learning but will significantly augment it.
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
David Bell Ph.D.: The coronavirus pandemic propelled the use of technology forward in both the classroom and the clinic, changing the way both healthcare and healthcare education is delivered. Although I believe the pendulum will swing back toward the traditional delivery of both kinds of services once the pandemic ends, I doubt that we will fully return to the pre-pandemic status quo, and maybe we will not even want to do so.
Janine Davis Ph.D.
Associate ProfessorUniversity of Mary Washington
College of Education
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Janine Davis Ph.D.: Already we see some amazing resources that help with virtual learning, and teachers are teaching students in so many different ways in the virtual setting. Not just will teachers be using more technology to communicate, teach, and collect and analyze student data, but it is likely that students will also use technology in more advanced ways-for example, more students may be editing video, producing podcasts, and collecting and analyzing data with technology.
Will there be an enduring impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Computer Technology Teachers?
Janine Davis Ph.D.: For our teacher education graduates, the impact of the pandemic will most likely work in their favor when it comes to finding jobs-the pandemic has led to many retirements, which will mean that we will need even more teachers to fill those empty positions. At the same time, the advent of increased virtual learning means that it will no longer be an option that teachers know and use technology, including teaching online and using learning management and data analysis systems-those skills will almost certainly be a non-negotiable for future teaching positions. Finally, I think that this event has highlighted the importance of working as part of a team of teachers and other school leaders.
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Kristen Harmon Ph.D.: What does he mean by technology? Gaming, cars, artificial intelligence, signing gloves, real captioning, social media?
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Suzanne Tiemann: The generations we are educating are growing up with technology all around them. They expect their teachers to be current and innovative, and we are answering back. The incredible work that teachers have done in the last few months is commendable and impressive. The teachers are modeling how to adapt, be flexible, and meet the learner where they are. Technology in the classroom will continue to grow. As teachers, we will do the same as we strive for excellence in education.
Dr. Greg Jones
High School PrincipalOrchard Farm High School
What technology do you think will become more important and prevalent for Computer Technology Teachers in the next 3-5 years?
Dr. Greg Jones: Technology is ever-changing and expanding. I do not see this trend changing. Technical skills will remain important, but there has to be a focus on creativity, imagination, and problem-solving. In schools, we are working to prepare our students for their next steps in life and the workforce. We cannot prepare them for an ever-evolving workforce if we do not focus on these skills that will equip them with what they need to prosper and make our community a beautiful place to live and work.
What technology do you think will become more important and prevalent for Computer Technology Teachers in the next 3-5 years?
Dr. Diana Jones: Technology in the next 3-5 years -- That is a tough question because technology is continually changing. However, I would say whatever learning system their school provides (e.g., Canvas, Blackboard, etc.), they should get to know. Also, the technology that involves making/editing videos of teaching would be necessary. The technique that includes exercise, fitness, sports such as heart rate monitors, Fitbits, etc. Finally, a technology that allows interactions between teachers and students and students and students.
Josh MacIvor-Andersen
Assistant Professor of EnglishSaint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Languages and Literature Department
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Josh MacIvor-Andersen: Increasingly, employers want to see young writers who have skill sets that transcend mere wordcraft. They want to see some design experience, the ability to craft compelling presentations, some chops in instructional design. Young professional writers should get familiar with multiple platforms and build a diverse professional toolkit. You don't have to be an expert at everything, but some basic understanding of design software allows you to fake your way forward until, if you stick with it, you might actually become the real deal.
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Roxanne Owens Ph.D.: Technology is always going to be a useful tool in education. It provides a venue for communication, for practicing skills, and for creating products. The big caveat is that it has to be in the hands of a good teacher who knows how to apply it in ways that turn kids on, rather than turn them off.
How do you envision technology impacting Computer Technology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Dr. Mark Williams Ph.D.: Classics was the first field in the humanities to be entirely digitized, mainly thanks to the efforts of people like David Packard (yes, he's the son of the Packard of Hewlett and Packard). I suspect that the digital humanities will become more important, and even necessary, in an online learning environment, and classics, as a discipline, is well placed to be a part of this change.