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Salaries for Storage and Networking Skills on the RiseSAN 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 ( "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 About Dice 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 To access tech talent solutions, visit Dice and follow us on Facebook, Twitter. Media Contacts: Anita Lawhon [1] 451 Research: "Voice of the Enterprise: Storage," 2016
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