If you have the right tech skills, you can command a great -- and maybe even a fantastic -- salary.
But it's an ever-changing target. One day a skill is hot and the next it's not.
We asked job site Indeed.com to tell us which skills will command a salary of at least $100,000 a year. And that's just salary -- a new job might also net you bonuses, stock options and the like.
Indeed is one of the biggest job search sites on the 'net with 1.5 billion job searches per month. It sifted through its massive database of job titles and descriptions and the salaries associated with them to come up with this list.
And you are going to be surprised, because it's not all about the latest, greatest new thing. Sometimes an older technology is still in demand, with companies competing heavily for people who can still do the task.
No. 10: Unified Modeling Language (UML) is worth at least $101,000
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously said that "software is eating the world." He meant that more of our world depends on software.
As that happens, the software itself grows really complicated. Enter the Unified Modeling Language (UML). This is is a visual language for constructing, and documenting complex software designs. It turns a complicated software process into a diagram.
No. 9: J2EE is worth at least $102,000
J2EE stands for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, though in version 5, the name was officially changed to Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE). People still refer to it as J2EE though.
Whatever you call it, it is is Oracle's enterprise Java computing platform, meaning it is software that let's developers run Java applications. Java is highly popular language for writing web apps and custom enterprise apps.
No. 8: PowerBuilder is worth at least $102,000
PowerBuilder is a software development tool owned by Sybase and used to develop custom Windows enterprise apps.
It is particularly used to develop Web apps on Microsoft's .Net platform.
It is known for building apps that tap into databases from Microsoft, Oracle and Sybase. PowerBuilder is an older tool, first released in the 1990's. Most young developers are more interested in a platform that competes with .Net, Java. So finding .Net experts, and PowerBuilder pros, has become harder to do.
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