Dice tech salary survey 2018

Dice 2018 Tech Salary Report Released January 22, 2018

WHILE TECH SALARIES REMAIN FLAT, EMPLOYERS OFFER OTHER INCENTIVES TO ATTRACT TOP TALENT

Contents PAGE 3

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Reasons for Salary Increase 10-Year Trend in Tech Salaries

Top-Paying Skills by Tech Category

PAGE 9 PAGE 4 Willingness to Relocate Salary Satisfaction Reasons for Changing Employers

PAGE 5 Top Tech Metros by Salary

PAGE 6 Salary by State Tech Promotions Salary by Generation Salary by Level

Master Salary Prediction and Focus on Flexibility to Win Tech Talent Motivators

PAGE 10 Working Remotely

PAGE 11 Top-Paying Skills and Experience

PAGE 13 Salary by Industry

PAGE 7 Salary by Job Title Salary by Experience Hourly Rates for Consultants Salary by Employment Type

HOW MUCH IS TECH TALENT WORTH? Get custom salary estimates based on title, experience, location and skills.

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REASONS FOR SALARY INCREASE

While Tech Salaries Remain Flat, Employers Offer Other Incentives to Attract Top Talent Dice’s new salary tools help professionals and employers discover salary data to align expectations with market trends.

Salaries for technology professionals in the United States were flat in 2017 with average annual pay of $92,712, a slight 0.7% increase from 2016. The annual salary report from Dice mirrors the stagnant wages broadly across the U.S., but finds over the years that employers have been offering more motivators and benefits to remain competitive when offering the highest pay isn’t an option.

36% Merit raise 23% Changed employers 10% Internal promotion 8% Cost of living Mandated 6% company-wide increase

In 2017, a third of tech professionals received a bonus, earning on average $10,254. Average contract rates rose five percent to $72.32 per hour.

6% 5% 3% 2% 1% 1%

Became employed (full time, first job, etc.)

Higher commission or bill rate Other More hours (overtime) Counteroffer Obtained certification

AVERAGE U.S. TECH SALARY 10-YEAR TREND

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 AVG. SALARY

AVG. SALARY

AVG. SALARY

AVG. SALARY

AVG. SALARY

AVG. SALARY

AVG. SALARY

AVG. SALARY

AVG. SALARY

AVG. SALARY

$78,035

$78,845

$79,384

$81,327

$85,619

$87,526

$88,479

$93,328

$92,081

$92,712

YR/YR CHANGE

YR/YR CHANGE

YR/YR CHANGE

YR/YR CHANGE

YR/YR CHANGE

YR/YR CHANGE

YR/YR CHANGE

YR/YR CHANGE

YR/YR CHANGE

YR/YR CHANGE

4.6%

1.0%

0.7%

2.4%

5.3%

2.2%

1.1%

5.5%

-1.3%

0.7%

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While tech salaries have remained steady, demand for very specific IT skills is driving salaries upward as employers compete to attract hard-to-find talent.

Categories where skills outpace the national average include Cloud, Big Data and Process Management.

“There’s a perception that the technology field is the Wild West with outsized compensation and lavish

TOP 10 PAYING SKILLS

REASONS FOR CHANGING EMPLOYERS

SALARY

SALARY

1 PaaS $ 127,171 2 MapReduce $ 125,378 3 Elasticsearch $ 124,650 4 Amazon Redshift $ 124,640 5 Cloudera $ 124,221

6 Amazon DynamoDB $ 124,054 7 CMMI $ 123,970 8 webMethods $ 123,578 9 ISO 27000 $ 123,575 10 SOA $ 123,192

WILLINGNESS TO RELOCATE ARE YOU MORE OR LESS WILLING TO RELOCATE TO A NEW CITY OR STATE FOR A JOB THAN ONE YEAR AGO?

40%

Same now as a year ago

29%

More willing to relocate now

26%

Less willing to relocate now

5%

Not sure

SALARY SATISFACTION SALARY SATISFACTION HAS HELD STEADY. SATISFIED WITH SALARY

54 52 53 54 52 %

%

%

%

%

Confidence in finding a favorable new position in the next year has declined.

2016

2013

2014

perks. While not true across the board, salaries for skills where employers have to compete for a limited supply do come with a premium,” said Michael Durney, President and CEO of DHI Group, Inc., parent company of Dice. “This disconnect is partly what creates frustration among employers or tech pros when the recruiting process yields a gap between salary expectations and true market trends.”

2015

2016

2017

2017

67% 60%

OF THE 42% OF TECH PROS THAT ANTICIPATE CHANGING EMPLOYERS IN 2018, HERE'S WHY.

63% 45% 30% 23% 16% 13% 13%

Higher compensation AVERAGE SALARY

$79,889

Better working conditions AVERAGE SALARY

$87,464

More responsibility AVERAGE SALARY

$86,696

Anticipate losing current position AVERAGE SALARY

$104,870

Shorter commute AVERAGE SALARY

$84,516

Relocation AVERAGE SALARY

$83,299

Other AVERAGE SALARY

$92,953

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TOP TECH METROS BY SALARY

2Boston

1

Silicon Valley

6

3New York

2017 $105,329 YR/YR Change 1.9%

2017 $114,654 YR/YR Change 0.4%

2017 $103,941 YR/YR Change 4.6%

15 9 12 11

23

22 14

7

20

5

13

18

4

8

10

San Diego

17

16

24 19

2017 $101,025 YR/YR Change -1.8%

METRO

6 Seattle 7 Los Angeles 8 Philadelphia 9 Minneapolis 10 Dallas 11 Denver 12 Chicago 13 Atlanta

2017

YR/YR CHANGE

$ 99,352 $ 99,145 $ 97,415 $ 96,936 $ 95,222 $ 94,668 $ 93,025 $ 92,637

0.1% -0.3% 7.7% -2.5% 0.1% -1.9% -1.7% 5.0%

METRO

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Charlotte Portland Houston Austin Phoenix Tampa Raleigh Miami

Real-Time Salary Tools To solve the pain point of lacking industry metrics, Dice is launching a new tool leveraging predictive analysis to help employers discover salary estimates based on skills, job titles, years of experience and location in real-time.

The new Dice Tech Salary Calculator allows employers to calculate salaries based on a tailored combination

2017

YR/YR CHANGE

$ 92,507 $ 91,192 $ 90,265 $ 90,214 $ 89,749 $ 86,564 $ 86,563 $ 86,300

3.7% 6.5% 2.4% -4.0% -3.0% 6.5% 3.7% 4.6%

Wash. D.C. / Baltimore

2017 $99,937 YR/YR Change 2.0%

21

METRO

22 Kansas City 23 Detroit 24 Orlando

2017

YR/YR CHANGE

$ 84,428 $ 82,911 $ 81,289

-3.5% -2.9% -6.0%

SEE MORE: For additional market information,

an interactive map of average U.S. tech salaries by state and key metro area is provided at: dice.com/salarymap

of attributes for use in setting budgets, recruiting for in-scope candidates and offering pay commensurate with experience. It uses machine learning to estimate salaries based on more than 600,000 data points. You can find this useful tool at dice.com/calculator. “While Dice’s annual salary survey is an excellent barometer of average salaries and one-time benchmarks for tech pay across the U.S., our

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Motivators > Money?

Employers have increasingly been offering tech professionals incentives beyond salary since Dice began tracking this in its annual report. In 2009, half (53%) of companies offered benefits such as paid trainings, more vacation, flexible work hours or the option to telecommute. Today, that has jumped to 71 percent, a testament to employers using creative recruiting tactics to secure top talent when they may not have the budgets to compete with the other company hiring tech talent across the street.

proprietary Salary Calculator provides ongoing deep, custom compensation data based on the varying measures that make tech pros exclusive and in demand,” said George McFerran, EVP of Product & Marketing at Dice. “That said, not all employers can compete on pay, especially in hot markets like Silicon Valley, Seattle or New York. For those companies who might not be the cool kid on the block, other factors like good benefits, challenging projects and flexible work schedules can be as rewarding as compensation to tech pros.”

SALARY BY STATE STATE

2017

AL* AK* AZ AR* CA CO CT DE* DC FL GA HI* ID*

$ 76,284 $ 93,833 $ 90,592 $ 85,509 $ 104,445 $ 94,608 $ 98,840 $ 112,255 $ 95,540 $ 82,901 $ 89,708 $ 80,556 $ 88,588

YR/YR CHANGE

-4.3% 19.9% -0.5% 15.5% -0.2% -1.5% 5.6% 53.2% -1.1% -0.4% 4.3% -0.6% 29.6%

STATE

IL IN IA* KS* KY* LA* ME* MD MA MI MN MS* MO

2017

$ 91,206 $ 76,284 $ 87,193 $ 82,800 $ 80,705 $ 80,372 $ 77,254 $ 99,488 $ 106,047 $ 79,986 $ 96,005 $ 62,791 $ 82,389

YR/YR CHANGE

-2.1% 2.7% 10.4% -7.1% 0.7% 7.4% 8.5% 6.3% 2.3% -2.9% -3.1% 1.7% 0.1%

STATE

MT* NE* NV* NH* NJ NM* NY NC ND* OH OK* OR PA

2017

$ 76,312 $ 87,986 $ 77,391 $ 89,188 $ 98,604 $ 92,710 $ 105,133 $ 84,813 $ 79,098 $ 83,354 $ 80,123 $ 91,019 $ 89,158

YR/YR CHANGE

1.4% 7.0% -9.8% -2.0% -0.6% 15.7% 8.6% 0.3% 2.5% 0.1% 3.8% 8.3% 2.1%

STATE

2017

RI* SC SD* TN TX UT VT* VA WA WV* WI WY*

YR/YR CHANGE

$ 74,265 -15.7% $ 80,038 4.2% $ 51,921 -21.2% $ 79,352 -4.1% $ 90,514 -0.4% $ 86,981 -3.1% $ 82,269 6.5% $ 97,626 -2.2% $ 97,798 1.3% $ 68,182 -27.4% $ 88,801 12.4% $ 77,820 13.0%

SEE MORE: For additional market information, an interactive map of average U.S. tech salaries by state and key metro area is provided at: dice.com/salarymap * Sample size less than 100 respondents, therefore, not statistically valid, but presented for continuity purposes only.

TECH PROMOTIONS WERE THERE MORE PROMOTIONS IN YOUR TECH DEPARTMENT AT YOUR COMPANY IN THE LAST YEAR?

42% 29% 16% 13

%

No, promotions stayed about the same Not sure N/A, all or most are tech pros Yes, there were more promotions

SALARY BY GENERATION

SALARY BY LEVEL

SALARY

Millennials

>35 Gen X

36-49

$ 70,139

$ 124,376

Manager of a $ 117,072 Group of Teams $ 96,474

Baby Boomers

50+

SALARY

Head of a Department

$ 106,047

Team Lead

$ 99,927

Member of a Team

$ 79,756

Work Independently

$ 76,867

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TOP SALARY BY JOB TITLE 1 Tech Management (CEO, CIO, CTO, VP, Dir.)

$136,786 YR/YR CHANGE

-0.1%

2 Systems Architect

$135,082 YR/YR CHANGE

7.3%

3 Product Manager

$119,141 YR/YR CHANGE

N/A

4 Tech Management (Srategist, Architect)

$117,748 YR/YR CHANGE

6.1%

6 Software Engineer 7 Database Administrator 8 Developer: Applications 9 Developer: Database 10 QA Engineer 11 Business Analyst 12 Network Engineer 13 Programmer/ Analyst 14 Systems Administrator 15 QA Analyst 16 Web Developer/ Programmer 17 QA Tester 18 Technical Support 19 Desktop Support Specialist 20 Help Desk

$114,136

SALARY BY EXPERIENCE YEARS

SALARY

Under 1 1–2

3–5

6–10 11–15 Over 15

$ 56,036 $ 57,313 $ 68,113 $ 82,410 $ 96,512 $ 112,235

YR/YR CHANGE

$ 105,580

-0.9%

$ 103,258

2.5%

$ 97,744

3.1%

$ 96,829 -2.3% $ 91,997 4.4% $ 90,876 0.0% $ 86,009 1.5% $ 84,123

-2.5%

$ 83,062 $ 76,033

4.4% -2.6%

$ 74,131 -10.4% $ 72,453 3.6% $ 56,720 0.7% $ 52,334 3.6% $ 43,343 -5.1%

Get a custom salary estimate based on title, skills and location for the exact position you're recruiting at dice.com/calculator

5 Project Manager

YR/YR CHANGE

2017

JOB TITLE

1.6%

HOURLY RATES FOR CONSULTANTS YR/YR CHANGE

0.2%

2.1%

18.2% 5.3%

1.9%

0.6%

YEARS

BASE RATE PER HOUR

2013

$ 65.70

2014

$ 66.70

2015

$ 69.16

2016

$ 69.05

2017

$ 72.32

YR/YR CHANGE

3.3% 1.5% 3.7% -0.2% 4.7%

SALARY BY EMPLOYMENT TYPE U.S. Average

$92,712 YR/YR CHANGE

0.7%

Full-Time Workers

$91,398 YR/YR CHANGE

0.4%

Consultant

Consultant

(Base Rate Per Hour)

$114,725 $72.32 YR/YR CHANGE

0.2%

YR/YR CHANGE

4.7%

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TOP-PAYING SKILLS

BY TECH CATEGORY BIG DATA

CLOUD ELASTICSEARCH

MAPREDUCE

$125,378

$124,650

YR/YR CHANGE: 0.3%

YR/YR CHANGE: 3.9%

CLOUDERA

$124,221

YR/YR CHANGE: 4.5%

CASSANDRA

PAAS

$122,792

$127,171

YR/YR CHANGE: -0.5%

KAFKA

SOLR

HADOOP

HBASE

AMAZON REDIS

$122,335

$119,202

$118,551

$118,107

$117,389

YR/YR CHANGE: -0.3%

YR/YR CHANGE: 0.1%

YR/YR CHANGE: -0.1%

YR/YR CHANGE: -4.7%

YR/YR CHANGE: 2.1%

PROCESS / PROJECT MANAGEMENT

YR/YR CHANGE: 5.6%

AMAZON REDSHIFT

AMAZON DYNAMODB

$124,640

$124,054

YR/YR CHANGE: 5.0%

YR/YR CHANGE: 4.4%

HANA

DOCKER

OPENSTACK

$118,569

$115,919

$115,797

YR/YR CHANGE: 4.6%

AMAZON ROUTE 53

$118,891

YR/YR CHANGE: -8.1%

YR/YR CHANGE: 0.1%

AUTOMATION TOOLS

CMMI

ISO 27000

PMBOK

SOX

CHEF

JENKINS

$123,970

$123,575

$122,198

$119,721

$114,160

$112,928

YR/YR CHANGE: 3.8%

YR/YR CHANGE: 9.8%

LEAN

KANBAN

$114,345

$113,872

YR/YR CHANGE: 2.1%

YR/YR CHANGE: 0.8%

YR/YR CHANGE: 3.4%

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

$112,188

YR/YR CHANGE: 2.7%

YR/YR CHANGE: 2.6%

PURE STORAGE

$121,708 YR/YR CHANGE: 13.5%

YR/YR CHANGE: 1.5%

YR/YR CHANGE: -0.4%

SCRUM

VAGRANT

GRADLE

$111,253

$110,966

$110,393

YR/YR CHANGE: 1.3%

STORAGE

YR/YR CHANGE: -0.4%

YR/YR CHANGE: -1.4%

DATABASES SYBASE

INFORMIX

$114,257

$117,206

$116,239

HP EVA

3PAR

EMC

$116,740

$114,777

YR/YR CHANGE: 14.4%

YR/YR CHANGE: 4.7%

YR/YR CHANGE: 4.8%

YR/YR CHANGE: 6.8%

NETAPP

HITACHI

FIBRE CHANNEL

JDBC

$113,894

$113,667

$111,916

$116,042

YR/YR CHANGE: 10.3%

Source: 2018–2017 Dice Tech Salary Survey

SEE MORE: For addtitional salary info on skills, see pages 12-13.

YR/YR CHANGE: 9.7%

YR/YR CHANGE: 3.0%

YR/YR CHANGE: -0.7%

YR/YR CHANGE: -2.5%

$122,643

YR/YR CHANGE: 5.1%

CLOUD FOUNDRY

$121,159

YR/YR CHANGE: -2.3%

AMAZON CLOUDFRONT

$114,390

YR/YR CHANGE: 7.8%

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ABAP

$118,123

YR/YR CHANGE: -1.5%

RABBITMQ

JAX-RS

KORN SHELL

$117,557

$114,599

$114,407

PEARL

FORTRAN

XSLT

$113,760

$112,783

$112,615

YR/YR CHANGE: 0.6%

YR/YR CHANGE: 1.3%

YR/YR CHANGE: -2.0%

YR/YR CHANGE: 3.1%

YR/YR CHANGE: -3.3%

YR/YR CHANGE: -2.1%

SPECIAL SKILLS

YR/YR CHANGE: 8.3%

WEBMETHODS

ETL

$113,145

YR/YR CHANGE: 10.4%

YR/YR CHANGE: -1.5%

IAAS

SOA

MICROSTRATEGY

$123,192

$116,598

UML

EDI

$113,833

$111,832

YR/YR CHANGE: 0.9%

YR/YR CHANGE: 11.6%

$123,578 YR/YR CHANGE: -1.3%

YR/YR CHANGE: 3.0%

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MASTER SALARY PREDICTION AND FOCUS ON FLEXIBILITY TO WIN TECH TALENT While tech salaries overall grew only slightly last year, skills in Big Data, Cloud and Process Management are in high demand and are driving compensation upward. Being aware of these “big picture” salary trends is vital to your success as a talent acquisition professional, but how do you know if the salary being offered for a particular position is truly comparable to what tech pros in your market are actually being paid?

For instance, what is a competitive salary for a Data

Scientist in San Jose skilled in Hadoop, Scala and Numpy with five years of experience?

Introducing Customized, Skills-Based Salary Estimates Until recently, this question was hard to answer; in tech, skills are often more important than job title, years of experience or education in determining competitive compensation. That’s why Dice has launched a new,

MOTIVATORS

WHAT WAS THE PRIMARY MOTIVATOR YOUR EMPLOYER PROVIDED YOU IN 2017?

15%

10%

3%

More interesting or challenging work

PERCENTAGE OF EMPLOYERS PROVIDING MOTIVATORS TO RETAIN TALENT.

14%

Increased compensation

3%

Training and certification courses

Flexible work location/telecommute

11%

2%

Promotion or new title

Flexible work hours

More vacation/paid time off

100 80 60

53

%

59%

62%

2010

2011

67%

66%

66%

67%

70%

71%

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

40 20 0

2009

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WORKING REMOTELY skills-driven Salary Calculator that accurately pinpoints the compensation necessary to attract the best tech talent in your market. In addition to considering traditional data points like location, title and experience, the Dice Salary Calculator is unique in that it also accounts for the impact that multiple tech skills have on a position’s compensation to more accurately predict a salary.

Our proprietary machine-learning model incorporates desired salary information that tech professionals share with potential employers on Dice. The model currently uses over 600,000 data inputs, with new data being added weekly. We’re excited to share this powerful new tool with you. Try it out free at dice.com/calculator.

Look Beyond Salary to Compete for Talent Since 2009, our annual Salary Survey has seen steady increases in the number of tech pros who report their employers offering incentives to retain talent, including increased compensation, flexible work location and hours, more challenging assignments, paid training and vacation. In fact, 71% of respondents reported they received some kind of motivator in 2017, as compared to only 53% in 2009.

But, what if you can’t offer the cash incentives to attract the tech talent you need? Besides dollar signs, what else are tech candidates looking for?

Workplace Flexibility is on the Rise When focusing on non-monetary incentives, flexibility in work location has gained favor in recent years, steadily growing from 10% in 2013 to 14% in 2017. And, for the first time since we began asking about motivators in 2009, increased compensation was offered less frequently as a perk vs. the previous year.

So, what’s driving this change in the way tech pros like to work? Digital transformation. Mobile collaboration and messaging technologies plus bandwidth proliferation are now allowing businesses to hire, engage and retain top talent anytime and anywhere in the world, far beyond the physical confines of traditional office space.

Tech employees value this flexibility, and they want even more. Dice’s salary survey revealed 60% of tech

HOW OFTEN DO YOU PREFER TO WORK REMOTELY IF IT WERE UP TO YOU VS. HOW OFTEN DO YOU CURRENTLY WORK REMOTELY? PREFER

Never

CURRENTLY

3%

25%

A few days a month

14%

27%

One day a week

19%

11%

Half of the time

20%

5%

More than half of the time, but not always

18%

6%

Always

22%

11%

4%

15%

Not sure / Not allowed at my company for my role

60% OF TECH PROS PREFER TO WORK REMOTELY HALF OF THE TIME OR MORE, BUT ONLY 22% CURRENTLY DO. HOW MUCH OF A PAY CUT WOULD YOU TAKE TO TELECOMMUTE AT LEAST HALF OF THE TIME?*

37% 36% 17% 7% 3%

None Up to 10% 11 – 20% 21 – 30% 31%+

* Dice Snap Poll, Jan. 2018.

pros would like to work remotely half of the time or more, but only 22% currently do. To dig deeper into how much tech pros value workplace flexibility, we conducted a separate snap poll and about two-thirds (63%) said they would take a pay cut to telecommute at least half of the time. More than a quarter (27%) would reduce their salary by 11% or more to work remotely half of the time.

Be Informed and Flexible in 2018 As you recruit in 2018, remember these two tips to help you land (and keep) top tech talent: Know exactly what top talent is worth using Dice’s new Tech Salary Calculator; and look beyond compensation to incentives like workplace flexibility to keep your tech workforce engaged, motivated and productive.

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TOP-PAYING TECH SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE SKILL

PaaS (Platform as a Service) MapReduce Elasticsearch Amazon Redshift Cloudera Amazon DynamoDB CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) webMethods ISO 27000 SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Cassandra IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Kafka PMBok (Project Management Body of Knowledge) Omnigraffle Pure Storage Cloud Foundry SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) Solr Jetty EMC Documentum Amazon Route 53 HANA (High Performance Analytical Application) Hadoop ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) Hbase LoadRunner RabbitMQ Redis Sybase HP Eva MicroStrategy Pig Informatica Informix Hive JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Docker Big Data OpenStack Zookeeper NoSQL Solaris SDN (Software Defined Network) 3Par JAX-RS (Java API RestFUL Services) Splunk Spark Korn Shell Amazon CloudFront Lean EMC

2017

YR/YR CHANGE

$ 127,171 $ 125,378 $ 124,650 $ 124,640 $ 124,221 $ 124,054 $ 123,970 $ 123,578 $ 123,575 $ 123,192 $ 122,792 $ 122,643 $ 122,335 $ 122,198 $ 121,778 $ 121,708 $ 121,159

5.6% 0.3% 3.9% 4.6% 4.5% 5.0% 3.8% 10.4% 9.8% 0.9% -0.5% 4.4% -0.3% 3.4% -1.6% 13.5% -2.3%

$ 119,721 $ 119,202 $ 119,147 $ 119,121 $ 118,891 $ 118,569 $ 118,551 $ 118,123 $ 118,107 $ 117,921 $ 117,557 $ 117,389 $ 117,206 $ 116,740 $ 116,598 $ 116,529 $ 116,465 $ 116,239 $ 116,100 $ 116,042 $ 115,919 $ 115,884 $ 115,797 $ 115,791 $ 115,751 $ 115,347 $ 114,949 $ 114,777 $ 114,599 $ 114,589 $ 114,579 $ 114,407 $ 114,390 $ 114,345 $ 114,257

2.6% 0.1% -1.5% 8.0% 0.1% -8.1% -0.1% -1.5% -4.7% n/a 0.6% 2.1% 6.8% 14.4% 11.6% -2.2% 2.0% 8.3% -2.1% -0.7% -2.5% 3.0% 5.1% 3.8% -3.1% 3.8% 0.2% 4.7% -2.0% 2.1% 2.6% -3.3% 7.8% 2.1% 4.8%

SKILL

Chef NetApp Kanban UML (Unified Modeling Language) Waterfall Perl Hitachi Qlik Tech Junit SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Jenkins Fortran Rackspace AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) Change Management Weblogic Fibre Channel Apache Oozie EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Load Balancers FCoE (Fibre Channel Over Ethernet) Mokito JBoss Scrum Rally TCL (Transformation Control Language) Vagrant Groovy PCI (Payment Card Industry) Cloud Computing Teradata Amazon S3 (Simple Cloud Storage Service) Cognos Confluence Gradle Balsamiq Sun Tomcat Ansible TOAD (Tool for Application Development) ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Postgres RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) Hibernate Agile Websphere Compellent VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) REST (Representational State Transfer) Data Warehouse

2017

YR/YR CHANGE

$ 114,160 $ 113,894 $ 113,872 $ 113,833 $ 113,806 $ 113,760 $ 113,667 $ 113,466 $ 113,307 $ 113,219 $ 113,145 $ 112,928 $ 112,783 $ 112,754 $ 112,617 $ 112,615 $ 112,188 $ 111,968 $ 111,916 $ 111,891

1.5% 10.3% 0.8% -1.3% 1.8% 1.3% 9.7% 9.1% n/a 3.1% -1.5% -0.4% 3.1% 11.5% 1.6% -2.1% 2.7% 0.2% 3.0% 0.4%

$ 111,832 $ 111,692 $ 111,662 $ 111,587 $ 111,449 $ 111,253 $ 111,067 $ 111,043 $ 110,966 $ 110,852 $ 110,833 $ 110,779 $ 110,724 $ 110,531 $ 110,506 $ 110,395 $ 110,393 $ 110,214 $ 110,198 $ 110,043 $ 109,928 $ 109,849 $ 109,609 $ 109,589 $ 109,568 $ 109,516 $ 109,433 $ 109,425 $ 109,388 $ 109,377 $ 109,333 $ 109,252

3.0% 0.5% -3.9% 0.5% 0.6% 1.3% 2.0% 5.7% -0.4% -6.0% 6.6% 2.6% 1.5% 1.9% 3.9% 0.4% -1.4% -0.5% 8.9% 1.0% -9.4% -0.9% 2.6% 2.0% -1.9% -0.9% 0.9% -0.5% -1.9% 11.0% n/a 1.6%

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YR/YR CHANGE

SKILL

2017

Lawson OS 390 ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Nginx InfoSphere DataStage Siebel JMeter Objective-C Unified Communication JIRA JDE (JD Edwards) BugZilla Disaster Recovery Data Science ALM/Quality Center (Application Lifecycle Management) SOAP (Simple Object Acess Protocol) Puppet Business Intelligence Oracle eBusiness SaaS (Software as a Service)

$ 109,110 $ 109,016 $ 108,971 $ 108,955 $ 108,906 $ 108,865 $ 108,850 $ 108,843 $ 108,832 $ 108,680 $ 108,674 $ 108,662 $ 108,436 $ 108,290 $ 107,974 $ 107,878 $ 107,831 $ 107,827 $ 107,768

17.6% 8.6% 2.2% 0.0% 10.6% 1.7% n/a -6.7% 6.8% 1.8% 3.4% n/a 1.1% 1.2% n/a -2.5% -4.5% -2.3% 1.2%

$ 107,763 $ 107,739 $ 107,699 $ 107,640 $ 107,625 $ 107,500 $ 107,456 $ 107,414 $ 107,405 $ 107,303 $ 107,120 $ 107,063 $ 107,038 $ 106,588 $ 106,566 $ 106,476 $ 106,317 $ 106,314 $ 106,284 $ 106,224 $ 106,203 $ 106,001 $ 105,977 $ 105,829 $ 105,807 $ 105,806 $ 105,718 $ 105,636 $ 105,581 $ 105,574 $ 105,526 $ 105,507 $ 105,488

2.0% n/a n/a -3.1% 9.3% -2.6% -3.4% 3.0% 1.9% -0.1% 2.2% -0.1% 12.1% n/a 1.5% 3.8% 2.6% 1.3% 5.2% 0.8% n/a 5.0% -1.7% 1.7% 1.8% n/a 6.2% 3.2% n/a 0.1% -2.8% -3.3% 9.1%

Test Management WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) Mongo DB Backbone C JSP (JavaServer Pages) Six Sigma MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) Tableau Nimble Glassfish VDP (vSphere Data Protection) Agile Testing Oracle DB DB2 Tivoli Azure SAP BASH (Bourne Again Shell) SAP Testing BABOK (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge) R Unix HL7 (Health Level 7) Database Testing MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) ISO 9000 SoapUI Workday NumPy XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language) NetSuite

SKILL

Cucumber WAN Opt Shell Visio IBM Mainframe SAN (Storage Area Network) Selenium z/OS PowerBuilder Virtualization JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) KVM (Kernal-based Virtual Machine) Knockout QTP (QuickTest Professional) Parallels Microsoft Team Foundation Server Telepresence Mantis Apache Web Server Ruby CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Angular Python vCloud Lucidchart Salesforce.com XML (eXtensible Markup Language) T-SQL (Transact SQL) FreeBSD (Free Berkeley Software Distribution) Manual Testing Linux OpenVMS DigitalOcean Cerner Application Delivery Java/J2EE QA (Quality Assurance) MariaDB Data Analysis Epic BMC Remedy GE Electricity IBM Notes (Lotus Notes) TypeScript IIS (Internet Information Systems) Node.js MS Dynamics MS SQL Axure Metro Ethernet C++ MobileIron

2017

YR/YR CHANGE

$ 105,397 $ 105,381 $ 105,297 $ 104,860 $ 104,519 $ 104,476 $ 104,470 $ 104,300 $ 104,091 $ 104,034 $ 104,009 $ 103,916 $ 103,890 $ 103,862 $ 103,513 $ 103,496 $ 103,438 $ 103,385 $ 103,379 $ 103,287

6.0% -4.5% -0.5% 1.6% 11.6% 1.4% 7.1% 4.7% 7.2% 3.4% -3.0% 10.4% 3.8% n/a 12.0% n/a -0.4% n/a 1.2% 0.6%

$ 103,218 $ 103,199 $ 103,191 $ 103,175 $ 103,141 $ 103,080 $ 103,063 $ 103,036 $ 103,032 $ 102,807 $ 102,803 $ 102,803 $ 102,676 $ 102,635 $ 102,620 $ 102,469 $ 102,286 $ 102,242 $ 102,174 $ 102,127 $ 102,027 $ 102,021 $ 101,996 $ 101,912 $ 101,690 $ 101,642 $ 101,638 $ 101,549 $ 101,544 $ 101,513 $ 101,503 $ 101,475

2.9% -2.2% -2.3% -2.8% 3.2% 1.6% 0.3% 1.2% -3.0% n/a 0.8% 3.6% 5.0% 10.6% 0.0% -2.0% 3.4% -3.0% 2.9% 11.6% 5.6% 13.2% 10.4% 1.7% 0.9% -1.8% 8.4% 2.8% n/a -0.7% -1.4% 7.2%

NOTE: Several new tech skills were added to the 2017 survey and therefore yr/yr change is not available.

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$70,000+

$80,000+

$90,000+

$100,000+

TOP SALARIES BY INDUSTRY

Bank/Financial/Insurance

Aerospace & Defense

Utilities / Energy

Medical / Pharmaceutical / Biotechnology

$108,527

$104,079

$100,622

$100,534

YR/YR CHANGE: 4.5%

YR/YR CHANGE: 4.1%

YR/YR CHANGE: -2.8%

YR/YR CHANGE: 3.6%

Professional Services

Computer Software

Computer Hardware

Consumer Products

Telecommunications

$99,808

$97,045

$96,265

$95,400

$95,346

YR/YR CHANGE: 1.3%

YR/YR CHANGE: -1.4%

YR/YR CHANGE: -1.3%

YR/YR CHANGE: 0.4%

YR/YR CHANGE: 3.0%

Entertainment Media

Government

Manufacturing

Internet Services

$94,555

$93,305

$90,498

$90,283

YR/YR CHANGE: -1.1%

YR/YR CHANGE: 5.4%

YR/YR CHANGE: 0.0%

YR/YR CHANGE: -1.9%

Healthcare Providers

Transportation/ Logistics

Retail / E-Commerce

Marketing/ Advertising

Hospitality/ Travel

Distributor/ Wholesale

$88,358

$86,443

$84,322

$83,461

$81,370

$80,063

YR/YR CHANGE: 0.1%

YR/YR CHANGE: 1.1%

YR/YR CHANGE: -5.0%

YR/YR CHANGE: -3.7%

YR/YR CHANGE: -6.3%

YR/YR CHANGE: -10.1%

Non-Profit

Education

$74,220

$70,158

YR/YR CHANGE: 3.2%

YR/YR CHANGE: -1.0%

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Dice Salary Survey Methodology The Dice salary survey was administered online by Dice.com, with 10,705 employed technology professionals responding between October 18, 2017 and December 13, 2017. Respondents were invited to participate in the survey in several ways: 1) via an email invitation to Dice’s registered database members, 2) through a notification on the Dice.com home page and/or via site intercept invitations within the site to visitors, and 3) via banner ads on external sites.

Additionally, for the first time, technology professionals who were registered users of eFinancialCareers.com were invited to participate in the survey via an email invitation. A cookie methodology was used to ensure that there was no duplication of responses between or within the various sample groups, and duplicate responses from a single email address were removed. Technology professionals earning salaries of $350,000 and above were not automatically eliminated from the survey if they met other criteria.

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