Depends on the area, unless you're only aiming for 100% remote. If remote I'd rank them C# or Java/Kotlin Typescript/javascript Python If you're looking for generalist jobs, looking for full stack developers. If you're looking for stuff more niche like a specific thing like say game development then I would say C++. If you're looking for purely back end roles, then C sharp and Java can do that, but other popular backend program language should just include Go, scala, etc. If you're looking for Swiss army programming languages that have a lot of options, I would go with C sharp or Java... Keeping in mind that you're going to be learning JavaScript no matter what you do if you're doing any kind of web development. And this is purely just job advice not what's the best language or what would I rather be writing code in. Non-Remote wise C sharp is more prevalent on the East Coast and Java is more prevalent on the west coast. Most the government jobs are on the East Coast, specifically when you get near Northern Virginia and all the data centers. Basically, the Washington DC Metro area tends to be a lot of c-sharp. However, there is an Amazon headquarters in Arlington now and they use a little bit of everything. Oracle headquarters is also in Northern Virginia. As is a couple divisions of Microsoft. Northern Virginia is basically where all the AWS and Azure jobs are. It's the heaviest hot spot on the internet where most of the world's internet traffic passes through. The main oceanic fiber line leaves the va coast somewhere near norfolk, which is the largest US Navy base as well. So from Northern Virginia to South Carolina there are a lot of data centers. And there's a lot of developers working on AWS itself and Azure itself etc. All in that area highly focused in Northern Virginia. When you get out to the West Coast, there's Microsoft in Seattle and a bunch of companies on the west coast as well, but I think you will have better luck with Java on the west coast. Between C sharp and Java I don't think you can really go wrong with either language depending on where you live. As a first step. But over time you should pick up familiarity with modern system languages like go and rust. Highly recommend rust. It's really gaining traction. But rust isn't necessarily going to find you a lot of jobs right now. And most the rust jobs evolve a lot of C++ porting so you kind of need to know both. Answer from Deleted User on reddit.com