[scottiebarnes]

Solidity being highest is interesting, I suspect its because in boom times, crappy projects are willing to throw any amount of money to get development in so they can show progress and cash out. So I'd question the quality and longevity of those jobs.

[TigeriusKirk]

Most of the crappy projects are largely cut/paste copies of existing projects and there's always someone willing to cut/paste for lower rates.

The big thing with actual development in Solidity is that you can't just google for a lot of your issues. Documentation sucks and for any novel project there aren't any answers on stackoverflow. You've got to work out best practices for yourself, sometimes the hard way. It's better than it was, but it's still on you and your personal network to figure most of it out.

[twox2]

I don't think crappy projects dominate the high solidity comps, most of the crappy projects I think pay average dev comps and/or a cut of proceeds.

The high paying jobs are the ones that require an intimate understanding of EVM, and usually DeFi protocol design, or really competitive fields like MEV. These will be around regardless of "boom times" and require a highly specialized skillset.