When you have the right tech skills, you can command a great salary.
But it's an ever-changing target. One day a skill is hot and the next it's not.
Job site Dice.com just sent us a list of tech skills that are worth over $100,000 a year. And that's just salary — a new job might also net you bonuses, stock options and the like.
Dice is a tech-specific job hunting site. It sifted through its database of over 83,000 job postings, plus conducted a salary survey with over 15,000 participants, to come up with this list. (Its salary survey also revealed a few other insights about today's tech job market.)
Many of the skills on this list aren't, by themselves, worth a high salary. They are often combined with other things HR managers are looking for. But if you have these skills, by all means, add them to your resume.
And you are going to be surprised, because the hottest skills are not always the latest, greatest new thing.
SaaS is worth almost $101,000
Software-as-a-Service or SaaS is a relatively new model for buying software.
Instead of buying it and installing it, a company pays a fee to use it over the Internet. Salesforce.com, founded by Marc Benioff, is the classic example of SaaS.
IT pros with experience managing SaaS contracts, and the other issues that come up (like keeping data safe) are in demand these days.
Data Warehouse is worth $101,000
A data warehouse is a giant database of information. It might include a list of every product ever sold for years.
Companies use it to understand their business.
Traditional data warehouses are becoming old school as new "big data" technologies are developed but they haven't been replaced yet.
Change Management is worth $101,000
In life, and in especially in technology, the only constant is change.
Change management is systematized approach to dealing with constant change.
There are a variety of certifications that fall under the "change management" umbrella including some of the other skills on this list like "lean."
If possible, add the "change management" buzzword to your resume.
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