SAN JOSE, Calif., March 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Storage and
networking skills warranted pay increases among technology
professionals across the country with hospitality, Internet,
manufacturing, consumer products and banking seeing the most
industry-specific increases, according to the annual salary survey
by Dice®, the leading career site for technology
professionals. Overall technology salaries in the U.S. were
essentially flat year-over-year (-1%), at $92,081 annually from $93,328* in 2015, with some areas across the
country and specific skills areas seeing increases.
Highly-skilled technology professionals remain in the most
demand, especially those candidates proficient in the technologies
needed to support industry transformation and growth. For example,
both the storage and networking sectors, the categories where Dice
has found the most salary increases overall, are undergoing major
disruption. The migration from hardware-based storage to cloud
storage[1] and the explosion of IoT technologies connecting
billions of devices (Gartner) are creating a demand for skills to
support these transitions and growth. When industries experience
transformation at this level, it creates skills demand and
increased salaries.
The top ten biggest salary increases over 2015 were associated
with the following skills: 1) Compellent (11%); 2) Drupal (9%); 3)
JCL (7%); 4) FCoE (7%); 5) Nimble (6%); 6) Hbase (6%); 7) MariaDB
(5%); 8) Pure Storage (5%); 9) vCloud (5%); 10) T1 or T3 (5%).
Overall, the highest-paid skills in 2016 were: 1) HANA
$128,958; 2) MapReduce $125,009; 3) Cloud Foundry $124,038; 4) Hbase $123,934; 5) Omnigraffle $123,782; 6) Cassandra $123,459; 7) Apache Kafka $122,728; 8) SOA – Service Oriented Architecture
$122,094; 9) Ansible $121,382; and 10) Jetty $120,978. New in 2016 are Cloud Foundry, Apache
Kafka and Ansible.
The biggest increases for programming languages include: Drupal
(9%), JCL (7%), XSLT (4%) and Objective C (3%).
"Skills that were used a year ago may not be as prominent today;
skills that are relevant today will evolve tomorrow. This creates a
marketplace where both tech professionals and employers must keep
their fingers on the pulse of skills training and demand," said
Bob Melk, President, Dice. "The
skills areas which garnered salary increases indicate where
professionals and employers should focus their training and
recruiting efforts."
Tech pros remain confident in their career choices and are
willing to relocate for even more opportunity. Fifty-four percent
of those surveyed say they are satisfied with their compensation,
up one point from 2015, and 27 percent are more willing to relocate
to a new city for a job, up two points from 2015.
While 67 percent of tech pros remain confident they could find a
favorable new position, in 2017, finding a relevant position for
their skillsets is the biggest concern (15%), followed by keeping
their skills up to date (14%) and position elimination (10%), all
of which underscore the increasing need for professionals to
continue skills development and training and to understand the
value of each skills area.
Sixty-one percent of tech pros received a salary increase from a
year ago and 9 percent reported a decrease. Increased compensation
is the most common motivator employers provided to tech pros in
2016 (18%), followed by flexible work location and ability to
telecommute (14%) and more interesting and challenging assignments
(12%).
Dice Salary Survey Methodology
The 2016 Dice Salary
Survey was administered online by Dice.com, with 12,907 employed
technology professionals responding between October 26, 2016 and January 24, 2017. Respondents were invited to
participate in the survey in one of two ways: 1) via an email
invitation to Dice.com's registered ("searchable") database
members; 2) through a notification on the Dice.com home page and/or
via "pop-up" invitations. The latter method was used only to
improve response rates for a small number of respondent types.
A cookie methodology was used to ensure that there was no
duplication of responses between or within the various sample
groups, and duplicate responses from a single email address were
removed. The Dice Salary Survey was adjusted for inflation in 2013
for technology professionals earning salaries of $350,000 and above were not automatically
eliminated from the survey if they met other criteria. *Due to a
high number of outliers in the data, the 2015 salary number was
revised to better reflect a change in outlier methodology and an
adjusted number has been reported this year.
About Dice
Technology powers companies. Professionals
power technology. Dice quickly delivers the opportunities, insights
and connections technology professionals and employers need to move
forward. Learn how to effectively move forward
at www.dice.com. Dice is a DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX)
service.
To learn more about the Dice Careers mobile app, that offers
personalized market value and career path skill insights for tech
pros, visit: dice.com/mobile
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Media Contacts:
Jennifer Cloer
reTHINKit PR for Dice
503-867-2304
jennifer@rethinkitpr.com
Anita Lawhon
Dice
Head of Brand and Communications
408-892-9337
anita.lawhon@dice.com
[1] 451 Research: "Voice of the Enterprise: Storage," 2016
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