According to statistics from Liepin.com, 90% of big data positions require at least one programming language to be mastered. From a data analysis assistant earning 8k a month to a data scientist ...

Python could soon be the most popular programming language, battling it out for top spot with JavaScript, Java and C, depending on which language ranking you look at.

SQL history Before there was SQL, databases had tight, navigational programming interfaces, and typically were designed around a network schema called the CODASYL data model.

While Python is IEEE's lead programming language, the spotlight is on SQL, which leads the organization's jobs rankings.