What’s Happening to Salaries for IT Professionals?

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A review of recent IT salary surveys reveals good news, although with some variation in specifics. Organizations conducting the surveys generally found that IT pros who specialize in Oracle-centric technologies and apps report receiving higher salaries than last year.

InfoWorld Salary Survey

InfoWorld says that competition for talent is on the rise, as are salaries. They report on a salary survey that lists the IT positions that are expected to see the largest percentage increase in salaries in 2015.

Job Title 2015 Salary Range Yr/Yr Change Mobile applications developer $107,500 - $161,500 10.2% Big data engineer $119,250 - $168,250 9.3% Wireless network engineer $99,000 - $137,500 9.1% Business intelligence analyst $108,500 - $153,000 7.4% Data security analyst $106,250 - $149,000 7.4% Data architect $119,750 - $164,750 7.2% Lead applications developer $106,250 - $148,250 7.2% Database developer $98,000 - $144,750 7.2% Software engineer $96,000 - $147,250 7.2% Chief security officer $134,250 - $204,750 7.1%

Robert Half Salary Guide

The Robert Half Technology 2015 Salary Guide has data gathered from observations of the firm’s staffing and recruiting professionals. The report is based on actual job placements as well as frequent surveys of CIOs and other IT professionals.

Job Title 2015 Salary Range Yr/Yr Change Mobile App Developer $107,500 - $161,500 10.2% Data Security Analyst $106,250 - $149,000 7.4% Software Engineer $ 96,000 - $147,250 7.2% IS Security Manager $122,250 - $171,250 6.6% CTO $137,500 - $220,250 5.8% DBA $ 91,000 - $134,750 5.7% Business Continuity Analyst $ 92,500 - $132,250 5.6% Systems Engineer $ 80,250 - $117,500 5.2% CIO $157,000 - $262,500 4.9% Project Manager $ 91,250 - $139,250 4.8%

Dice Tech Salary Survey

The Dice survey also shows increases in many positions, although at lower percentages than reported by InfoWorld and Robert Half. Over 23,000 technology professionals took the Dice online salary survey at the end of 2014. More than half (61%) of technology professionals reported salary increases. Here are the job titles with the highest salaries, plus the percent those salaries changed year over year.

Job Title Average Salary Yr/Yr Change IT Management (CIO, CTO, VP) $135,454 1.9% Systems architect $126,886 1.1% Data architect $119,360 0.5% IT strategist, architect $118,655 0.5% Project manager $106,460 -2.9% DBA $102,446 1.3% Software Engineer $101,941 4.1% MIS Manager $99,607 -2.4% Security Engineer $99,367 -2.4% UI/UX Engineer $95,498 0.0%

Some additional good news from the Dice survey: respondents with specific Oracle-related skills earned impressive salary hikes. We can speculate that some of the dramatic increases in compensation, for PeopleCode experts as example, are driven by the current supply and demand situation for specific skills.

Skill Average Salary Yr/Yr Change NoSQL $118,587 21.7% SOA $118,518 8.7% Big Data $116,414 9.3% PeopleCode $113,690 23.7% WebLogic $112,698 10.9% Solaris $106,468 1.7% JD Edwards $104,586 12.2% Business Intelligence $103,871 6.5% Java/J2EE $102,889 6.1% Siebel $101,987 8.4% eBusiness Suite $101,587 2.6% Oracle Database $101,189 2.0%

While we don’t have space here to cover reports from other publications, all of which also found positive salary growth for IT professionals, here are other surveys you can check out if you’re interested:

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Do these surveys reflect what you’re seeing at work? Relative to salary, where do you stand? Do your Oracle skills make a difference in your compensation? We’d love to hear from you!