There is money to be made in the tech industry. And there is no limit to what you can earn with your tech skills. Whether in Nigeria or anywhere in the world, you stand a good chance of raking in millions every month if you’re exceptional at what you do. It may not be as easy as it sounds, but it is always good to start somewhere. With specialized tech skills, you write your own cheques and work at your own pace.
As we enter into 2019, you could make it big in the tech industry by proving your mettle in the following technology skills and services:
Become a programmer
Programmers or coders are among the highest-paid specialists in the digital tech industry. Skilled programmers earn as much as $100,000 annually because they are always in high demand. If you are in Nigeria and desire to dominate the coding space in 2019, then you must become a programmer. You must be adept at using programming language such as Ruby, Python, Java, C, JavaScript, Shell, SQL, PHP, Visual Basic, C++ and C# among other coding languages to do your work. You could begin learning this right now and before the end of Q1 2019, you may become ready to take on your first clients.
Web development and design
There is a difference between web development and web design. You may make more money with development, but there is no harm in being skillful with design. Web developers may experts at developing web CMS such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, ExpressionEngine and SilverStripe among others. From here they may try their hands at web themes and templates for various types of websites. And this may make them website designers of repute with lots of web design businesses coming from schools, clubs, businesses, organizations, and individuals among others.
Graphic design and image editing
Thousands of graphic designs get done online per month. All websites thrive on appealing graphic designs and you could tap into the market to make millions for yourself on a sustainable basis. If you also able to do some image editing and even able to work with fonts – then you’re good to go. Thousands of clients are scouring various marketplaces online looking for experienced and talented graphic designers and image editors. This is something you could do in the confines of your room or on your balcony for clients millions of miles away on the other side of the world – and get paid instantly.
Web publishers may have a couple of freelance photographers working for them, but they would require the services of an image editor to enhance the photos and make them appealing. With millions of websites hosted on the internet every year, photo editors and graphic designers are in for lots of businesses. You can use tools such as Photoshop, Adobe Suite, Sketch or Canva among others to accomplish your tasks.
Video editing
With interactive videos, animated cartoons, and gifs among others, a good video editor can expect to be kept busy for as long as they can manage. You must be able to do video post-production work to make any online videos the best they could be in terms of interactiveness, audio quality, visual clarity, and visual effects among others.
Search engine optimization (SEO) expert
Every website needs quality optimization to be found in the search engines and to come up in SERP results. With Google dominating the search engine world, every website wants to appear on the first page of search results and this is possible with effective search engine optimization (SEO) strategies. Website publishers are not always able to achieve this feat, and this is where SEO experts come in. Americans and Indians have long dominated the SEO industry long enough, it is high time Nigerians and Africans came to the scene. With a SEO job, you could become a remote staff of a digital company or a team member of an online business with mouth-watering pay.
Website redesign and maintenance
A hosted and published website may require redesign and maintenance few months after going live. If you are good with website design and optimization, you may get jobs to redesign the websites of clients and also maintain them to sustain search engine optimization over the months. This gives you a steady source of income for many years so long the website meets the needs of the clients. To this extent, you may even be asked to work with content writers and image editors to overall the entire interface and user experience of the website.