By the end of this you will have picked one role and know the next five things to read. That is the whole point. People spend six months learning tools in no particular order because they never decided what job they were learning them for.

Deciding is itself an analysis. You have a question, "which of these jobs should I aim at", and you have data: what the work is, what it pays, how many of these jobs exist, and how hard it is to get the first one. Work the question the way you would work any other.

Do this now: read the nine roles, pick one, and write the name of it somewhere you will see tomorrow. Everything after that is easier because of it.

How to read the numbers

Before the numbers, a question. Why would a median be more useful to you than an average? Have a go before you read on.