The IT Salary ‘Wave’: Skills, Salaries, and the Coming Reckoning
I'm going to add this personal observation: Support/Help Desk has a crappy pay rate.
The new report shows that currently employed IT professionals see application-development, support, security, and analysis as the important skills to acquire. According to the report, the top five skills that hiring managers are expected to seek are:
— App Development: 49%
— Support/Help Desk: 37%
— Security: 29%
— Network Administration: 28%
— Business Intel: 24%
http://switchon.eaton.com/plug/artic...ies-and-the-coEqually important is what's at the bottom of the list: skills related to software-as-a-service and virtualization.