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The average tech salary was again above the six-figure mark in 2022 (at $111,348), according to the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report, with cloud- and data-related skills commanding higher-than-average compensation. This continued growth in salaries “for a wide range of different tech-focused roles and specialized tech skills,” says the report, indicates that experienced tech professionals remain in high demand.
In a previous article, we looked at other salary trends from this recent Dice report, including growth by industry, with the following areas seeing the highest averages:
- Consulting
- Medical/Pharmaceutical/Biotech
- Banking/Finance
- Software
- Aerospace and Defense
In this article, we’ll focus on the specific skills and technologies associated with higher salaries.
Data Skills in Demand
Several of the highest average salaries seen in this year’s report are associated with data-related skills, such as:
- MapReduce — $146,672
- Elasticsearch — $143,619
- Apache Kafka — $142,764
- Teradata — $141,515
- Redis — $140,290
- RDBMS — $137,104
Highest-Paying Skills
In addition to the above, the following skills and technologies are associated with higher-than-average salaries:
- Go/Golang — $145,672
- Chef — $143,188
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) — $142,459
- Kubernetes — $139,167
- Containers — $138,559
- Amazon Route 53 — $137,928
- Rust — $137,153
- Cloudera — $136,295
- Docker — $136,120
- Ansible — $135,303
- REST — $135,031
- NoSQL — $135,015
Highest Salary Increases
Technologies seeing more than a 15-percent increase in average salary (compared with 2021) are:
- Arista — $127,417 (+26%)
- SUN — $120,139 (+22%)
- Glassfish — $112,743 (+20%)
- Hbase — $133,912 (+20%)
- Hibernate — $130,316 (+18%)
- Go/Golang — $145,672 (+18%)
- vCloud — $118,093 (+16%)
Read the full report and check out the following resources for additional insight.
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