Best jobs in hotspots and key industries driving employment

Career Builder

In our analysis at CareerBuilder, we distilled the top occupations (both degree-requiring and no-degree-requiring) whose monthly job postings are distinctly higher than the number of hires—meaning employers advertising for those jobs are on a vigorous hunt for talent. In this post we wanted to dig deeper. Taking the top five jobs in each education category, we determined where their growth, wages, and concentration are strongest, as well as the key industries driving employment for these occupations. These are the best jobs in the best locations today:

College degree:

1. Marketing manager

Key Industries:
- Management of companies and enterprises
- Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
- Computer systems design and related services

Hotspots:

2. Software developer, applications

Key Industries:
- Computer systems design and related services
- Software publishers
- Management of companies and enterprises

Hotspots:

3. Registered nurses

Key Industries:
- General medical and surgical hospitals
- Education and hospitals (local government)
- Home health care services

Hotspots:

4. Industrial engineers

Key Industries:
- Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
- Motor vehicle parts manufacturing
- Architectural, engineering, and related services

Hotspots:

5. Network and computer system administrators

Key Industries:
- Computer systems design and related services
- Management of companies and enterprises
- Employment services

Hotspots:

No college degree:

1. Truck driver heavy and tractor-trailer

Key Industries:
- General freight trucking
- Specialized freight trucking
- Grocery and related product merchant wholesalers

Hotspots:

2. Merchandising

Key Industries:
- Advertising, public relations, and related services
- Wholesale electronic markets and agents and brokers
- Grocery and related product merchant wholesalers

Hotspots: