IT Salary Guide: Good News for Techies in 2012

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 06 February 2012, 21:40 IST   |    6 Comments
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The figures relating to mobile and its related sectors are startling as platform-- Android and iOS developers will be front runners to withdraw higher salaries with starting salary ranges predicted to jump to $98,000 per year for Android, iPhone and iPad developers and Average salaries for Android, iPhone and iPad Developer will jump to $98,000 per year. As per The jobs in the mobile space, the demand for HTML5, iPhone, iPad and Android skills is up more than 200 percent, while BlackBerry and Windows Mobile are down more than 50 percent.

HTML5 Front-end and User Experience technologists will be very much in demand with salary ranges of $89,000-$127,000. Senior Software Developer salaries will rise by 6%+ with an average high of $99,000 per year.

With hackers laying trap to data even in the highest secured places Security Analysts will experience a significant increase in salaries ranging from $94,000-$125,000 per year

Bluewolf found that the top tier ERP, BI, and CRM Developer salaries will rise from $84,000-$105,000 to $88,000-$110,000 and Data Analysts & BI Professional salaries will creep past pre-recession levels, rising between 5-6% annually.

On the executive level, CIOs and CSOs are seeing the most gains. In database administration, business intelligence analysts and data architects are enjoying the largest salary hikes while software and web development salaries are experiencing jumps all across the board. In information security, analysts are seeing the highest demand.

Bluewolf also surveyed the jobs in most demand and it found out that for big data, MySQL, HBase, Cognos and Informatica are up more than 100 percent, while DB2 is down more than 50 percent. The cloud space is seeing soaring demand and companies like  Eloqua, Marketo, Salesforce and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Apps skills are hot with a 100 percent increase, while Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Web Services EC2 talent demand is emerging with a 50-plus percent increase. User interface design is up more than 100 percent, while Flash, Flex and ActionScript are down more than 50 percent on the user engagement side.