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Data-intensive applications, process, and analytics boost IT skills pay to new highs in market value
Overall IT certification values sink to an all-time low in December despite gains in cloud and architecture certifications
Strategic use of skills pay by employers in aggressively reshaping their enterprise IT capabilities is getting creative
NOTE: This news release is a summary extract of content in IT Skills Demand and Pay Trends Report released next week by Foote Partners. This report is updated every 3 months and contains detailed compensation and demand analyses of data from the firm’s IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index
TM and IT
Skills Volatility Index.
Vero Beach, FL, January 20, 2013 – Extra pay---also known as ‘skills premiums’--- specifically awarded to
talented IT professionals for 317 noncertified IT skills and 279 IT certifications continued to follow
dramatically different trend paths in the fourth quarter of 2012 according to the a new update of Foote Partners’
IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM
(ITSCPI). Since its launch in 1999, the ITSCPI has continuously tracked
market values for individual IT skills and certifications at 2,435 U.S. and Canadian employers and their 145,838
IT professionals, with findings and detailed market analyses updated and published every ninety days.
HIGHLIGHTS: Last 3 months (October–December 2012)
Average market value for 317 noncertified skills increased slightly in the 4th quarter of 2012, up 0.5%
overall for the ninth gain in the past eleven quarters and the fourth consecutive quarterly increase this year.
Historically, pay for noncertified IT skills (i.e. those for which certifications are not attained or in many cases not
available) has performed strongly with gains in 27 of the previous 33 calendar quarters going back to 2004.
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Quarterly gains were mixed across eight categories last quarter, offset by losses in four categories:
Operating Systems skills: +8.6% (in market value)
Management/Methodology/Process skills: +0.8%
Applications Development skills: +0.7%
Systems/Networking skills: -0.1%
SAP & Enterprise Business Applications: -0.4%
Database skills: -1.1%
Messaging and Communications skills: -3.7%
No Change: Web/eCommerce skills
Average pay premiums for 279 IT certifications continued their downward slide for a tenth straight quarter –
and for 22 of the last 24 calendar quarters going back to 2007 – posting a 1.57% decline in overall market
values. In this quarter as in the 3rd
quarter pay gains were recorded in only three out of eight certifications
segments (versus four segment in 2nd
Quarter 2012). Three certifications segments posted losses while two
segments showed no change in average pay premiums.
Database certifications: +1.9% (in market value)
Systems Administration/Engineering certifications: +1.4%
Applications Development/Programming Lang. certifications: +0.8%
Information Security certifications: -2.4%
Architecture/Project Management/Process certifications: -2.7%
Web Development certifications: -2.9% No Change: Networking & Communications certifications; Foundation level and Training certifications
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HIGHEST PAYING Noncertified IT Skills (ranked, all 317 skills surveyed) These noncertified IT skills are among those earning the highest pay premiums. Shown by overall rank in descending order including ties (alphabetical within ties). Surveyed October 1, 2012 through January 1, 2013.
NONCERTIFIED IT SKILLS
1.Tie Complex Event Processing/Event Correlation Information Security skills 2.Tie Big Data analytics Prescriptive Analytics SAP HANA
TOGAF (Enterprise Architecture) 3.Tie Apache Hadoop
Business process management/modeling/improvement Information risk management
Infrastructure architecture Oracle SCM Risk management
SAP FS TIBCO Enterprise Message Service
4.Tie Apache Hive Epic Systems applications IT Governance Oracle CRM Pig/Pig Latin
Predictive Analytics and Modeling Product lifecycle management software Project management/governance
Risk Assessment SAP CE SAP HR-PA
SAP-PA Security architecture and models
Virtualization (various)
5.Tie Apache Cassandra
Business Analysis MapReduce
NetWeaver Oracle BPM Quantitative Analysis/Regression Analysis SAP BPC
SAP ESA SAP NetWeaver BW (NetWeaver BI) SAP Oil & Gas SAP Retail SAP SEM SAP Solution Manager SAP SRM Six Sigma/Lean Six Sigma
Source: IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM – Q4 2012 edition
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HIGHEST PAYING IT Certifications (ranked, all 279 certs surveyed) These IT certifications are among those earning the highest pay premiums. Shown by overall rank in descending order including ties (alphabetical within ties). Surveyed October 1, 2012 through January 1, 2013.
CERTIFICATIONS
1.Tie EMC Cloud Architect Expert (IT-as-a-Service) Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP-CISSP) Open Group Master Architect 2.Tie PMI Program Management Professional GIAC Security Leadership(GSLC) 3.Tie CyberSecurity Forensic Analyst EMC Cloud Architect Specialist (Virtualized Data Center) InfoSys Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP-CISSP) Open Group Certified Architect Oracle DBA Administrator Certified Master 4.Tie Check Point Certified Master Architect Certified Information Security Manager Certified Information Systems Security Professional Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional GIAC Assessing and Auditing Wireless Networks
GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware ITIL Expert Certification Oracle Exadata 11g Certified Implementation Specialist PMI Risk Management Professional
Project Management Professional(PMP) Security Certified Network Architect Teradata 12 Certified Master
5.Tie GIAC Certified Forensics Analyst Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) Certified Information Systems Auditor Cisco Certified Design Expert
GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced PenetrationTester
GIAC Secure Software Programmer --.NET GIAC Secure Software Programmer –Java
GIAC Systems and Network Auditor GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester HP ASE – Cloud Integrator HP ASE Cloud Architect V2 HP/Master Accredited Solutions Expert IBM Certified Infrastructure Systems Architect Microsoft Certified Architect Microsoft Certified Solutions Master(all) Oracle Certified Master, Java EE Enterprise Architect
Red Hat Certified Architect
Source: IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM – Q4 2012 edition
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Q4 2012 IT Skills and Certifications Pay Trend Highlights: Notable Market Value Gains Skills and certifications that gained 10% or more in market value in the calendar quarter ending January 1, 2013 vs. prior quarter (by segment). Listed in descending order of gain, including ties:
IT CERTIFICATIONS
Applications Development certifications - Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (all) - Oracle Certified Professional Java SE
Programmer
Architecture, Project Management and Process - EMC Cloud Architect Expert (IT-as-a-Service)
Database certifications - Teradata 12 Certified Technical Specialist - Oracle Certified Professional, MySQL 5
Developer - Oracle Certified Expert MySQL 5.1 Cluster
Database Administrator - Teradata 12 Certified Master
IT Security certifications - CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner - Security Certified Network Specialist (SCNS) - IBM Certified Advanced Security Professional
- GIAC Certified Penetration Tester
Networking and Communications certifications - Cisco Certified Network Associate
(CCNA)
Systems Administration certifications - Novell Certified Linux Engineer - Microsoft Certified Solutions Master(all)
- Citrix Certified Advanced Administrator
NONCERTIFIED IT SKILLS
Applications Development skills - NetWeaver - Hibernate - Oracle Applications Developer Framework - F#
Database skills - Redis - Apache CouchDB - Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise
Management, Process & Methodology skills - Business performance management
(software/systems) - Social media marketing - ITIL V3
Operating Systems skills - Solaris
Systems/Networking Administration skills - vCloud - Microsoft Virtual Server - Microsoft Hyper-V - Network access control/Identity mgt sys. - Network security management - Cisco UCCE/IPCC
SAP/ERP skills - SAP Business Workflow/Webflow - SAP CE - SAP FS - SAP EHS - SAP Crystal Report - SAP Business One - SAP WM – EWM - ABAP - Siebel - SAP Security - SAP Basis Components - SAP WM - SAP MM - SP SM - NetWeaver Portal - SAP NWDI - SAP HCM
Web/SOA/E-Commerce skills - XHTML MP - Microsoft Silverlight - Ajax - XAML/XACML - WSDL - JSON - Microsoft Sharepoint Server - Apache Solr - Documentum - Microsoft Commerce Server
Source: IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM – Q4 2012 edition
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Q4 2012 IT Certifications Pay Trend Highlights: Notable Market Value Declines Skills and certifications that declined 10% or more in market value in the calendar quarter ending January 1, 2013 vs. prior quarter. By segment, listed in descending order of decline, including ties:
IT CERTIFICATIONS Applications Development/Programming Languages certifications - Oracle Certified Professional, PL/SQL Developer - Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE Programmer - Oracle Certified Professional - Advanced PL/SQL
Developer - Oracle Certified Professional Forms Developer
IT Security certifications - Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) - Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) - Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE) - Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) - Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) - Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) - Cisco ASA Specialist - CWNP Certified Wireless Security Professional (CWSP) - GIAC Enterprise Defender - GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA)
Networking & Communication certifications - Avaya Professional Design Specialist (APDS) - Avaya Certified Implementation Specialist (ACIS) - Avaya Certified Solutions Specialist (ACSS) - CWNP/Certified Wireless Network Trainer (CWNT) - Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
- Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE, all variations)
- Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP) - CWNP/Certified Wireless Analysis Professional
(CWAP) - CWNP/Certified Wireless Design Professional
(CWDP) CWNP/Certified Wireless Network Expert (CWNE)
- SNIA Certified Storage Networking Expert (SCSN-E) - Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) - SNIA Certified Storage Architect (SCSA) - Cisco Certified Network Professional Wireless (CCNP
Wireless) - Cisco Rich Media Communications Specialist
Systems Administration certifications - Linux Professional Institute certification (LPIC-Level 3) - Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator (CCEA) - HP/Master Accredited Systems Engineer (Master
ASE) - EMC System Administrator - Specialist (EMCSyA) - Citrix Certified Integration Architect (CCIA) - VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX)
Database certifications - Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) - Oracle DB Administrator Certified Professional (OCP)
Source: IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM – Q4 2012 edition
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Q4 2012 Noncertified IT Skills Pay Trend Highlights: Notable Market Value Declines Skills and certifications that declined 10% or more in market value in the calendar quarter ending January 1, 2013 vs. prior quarter. by segment. Listed in descending order of decline, including ties:
NONCERTIFIED IT SKILLS Applications Development skills - Agile Programming/RAD/Extreme Programming - iRise - Delphi - Progress 4GL/Development tools - PL/SQL
Database certifications - Riak - Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
Management, Process and Methodology skills - Predictive Analytics and Modeling - Security architecture and models
Messaging & Communications - Lotus Notes/Domino
SAP & Enterprise Business Applications skills - SAP ITS - SAP TM - SAP MI - PeopleSoft - SAP CAF - SAP SEM - SAP AFS - SAP GTS - SAP PSCD - SAP LES - SAP GRC - SAP QM - SAP APO - SAP Xcelsius - SAP CCM - SAP ALE - Microsoft Dynamics - SAP BODS
Systems/Networking skills - Gigabit Ethernet (1 GigE/10 GigE) - Novell Netware - IPX/SPX - Wireline Networking/Telecommunications - Cisco ICM
Web/E-commerce Development skills - Python - Wikis - jQuery - Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) - SOAP - Social Media/Networks - HTML5 - Oracle WebLogic - JBoss Enterprise -
Source: IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM – Q4 2012 edition
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Q4 2012 IT Certifications Pay Trend Highlights: Notable Market Value Declines Skills and certifications that declined 10% or more in market value in the calendar quarter ending January 1, 2013 vs. prior quarter. By segment, listed in descending order of decline, including ties:
IT CERTIFICATIONS Applications Development/Programming Languages certifications - Oracle Certified Professional, PL/SQL Developer - Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE Programmer - Oracle Certified Professional - Advanced PL/SQL
Developer - Oracle Certified Professional Forms Developer
IT Security certifications - Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) - Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) - Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE) - Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) - Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) - Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) - Cisco ASA Specialist - CWNP Certified Wireless Security Professional (CWSP) - GIAC Enterprise Defender - GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA)
Networking & Communication certifications - Avaya Professional Design Specialist (APDS) - Avaya Certified Implementation Specialist (ACIS) - Avaya Certified Solutions Specialist (ACSS) - CWNP/Certified Wireless Network Trainer (CWNT) - Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
- Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE, all variations)
- Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP) - CWNP/Certified Wireless Analysis Professional
(CWAP) - CWNP/Certified Wireless Design Professional
(CWDP) CWNP/Certified Wireless Network Expert (CWNE)
- SNIA Certified Storage Networking Expert (SCSN-E) - Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) - SNIA Certified Storage Architect (SCSA) - Cisco Certified Network Professional Wireless (CCNP
Wireless) - Cisco Rich Media Communications Specialist
Systems Administration certifications - Linux Professional Institute certification (LPIC-Level 3) - Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator (CCEA) - HP/Master Accredited Systems Engineer (Master
ASE) - EMC System Administrator - Specialist (EMCSyA) - Citrix Certified Integration Architect (CCIA) - VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX)
Database certifications - Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) - Oracle DB Administrator Certified Professional (OCP)
Source: IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM – Q4 2012 edition
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What is an Individual IT Skill or Certification Worth? Average Median Pay Premiums, Quarterly Since 2001 (expressed as percent of base salary)
Source: Foote Partners' IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM,2000 - 2012 editions
NOTE: Values are expressed as % of base salary but may or may not be
paid as part of salary.
10.2%
279 IT Certifications(Median average for a single cert)
317 Noncertified Skills(Median average for a single skill)
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U.S. Unemployment Rate(at end of each quarter)
SOURCE: Foote Partners IT Skills & Certifications Pay IndexTM 2000 - 2012 quarterly editions
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Certified vs. Noncertified IT Skills
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Source: Foote Partners, IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM
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Source: Foote Partners, IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM
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Key - MAJOR ECONOMIC LEGISLATION PASSED1. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
1
Official start of recession
317 Noncertified IT Skills(Median average pay, single skill)
279 IT Certifications(Median average pay, single cert)
Official end of recession
Persitent high IT skills market volatility, skills shortages, tech workforce
restructuring
Wall St. meltdown
U.S. Unemployment Rate(at end of each quarter)
(Pay data supporting these charts available in the 2012 IT Skills and
Certifications Pay IndexTM.)
Lowest average
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certification in history of
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Premium Pay for Noncertified IT Skills–-not Certifications--Has Become a Key Component of IT Compensation as Employers Transform Their IT Capabilities
(Average Median Pay for a Single Certified vs. Noncertified IT Skill, Last 4 years – 43,775 professionals)
Source: Foote Partners, IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM (1Q2007–4Q2012 editions)
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TRENDS DISCUSSION IT Employment Overview
U.S. employment numbers for December 2012 released by the Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics
(DOL/BLS) revealed a net gain of 9,800 jobs for the months across four industry job segments commonly
associated with IT professionals. This follows three months of seesawing IT employment numbers: September’s
net loss of 1,700 jobs, October’s 12,500 surge, and a sudden drop to 6,800 new workers in November. Last
month’s job gain is notably higher than the 9,442 monthly average for IT job growth in 2012, a year which saw a
net gain of 113,300 IT jobs in these four BLS industry job segments.
All of the growth in IT jobs in 2012 DOL/BLS reporting can be attributed to two segments heavily represented by
the IT services industries, which together added 131,600 new jobs to American payrolls for the year. The
Management and Technical Consulting Services segment gained 5,800 jobs in December --- up from no
growth in November --- for a total of 56,700 new jobs in 2012. The other segment, Computer Systems
Design/Related Services, added 5,600 jobs last month and 74,900 for the year.
Two segments in the Information BLS industry job group, Telecommunications and Data Processing,
Hosting and Related Services segments, continued to post losses in December (-1,600 jobs). Together they
combined for a net total loss of 18,300 jobs for the year (average 1,525 per month), nearly all coming from
telecommunications employers. Interestingly, over the last six months of 2012 these segments combined for a
net gain of 400 jobs. Given the loss of 41,700 jobs in these segments in 2011, we continue to believe a strong
case can be made that the labor market correction so apparent in Telecommunications and Data Processing,
Hosting and Related Services over the past year is nearing its end. But it’s doubtful that we’ll be seeing any
sustained job growth in these segments for the foreseeable future as industry forces continue to limit the
possibilities.
“For IT professionals 2012 certainly ended on a good note, with December exceeding the monthly average for
the entire year,” according to David Foote, chief analyst at Foote Partners which has been closely tracking and
reporting on IT and business labor trends since 1997. “In fact average job growth in the last three months of
2012 exceeded the average in the first nine months of the year by nearly 350 jobs per month. That may seem
like a small margin but there is momentum attached to it and that’s a really good sign of things to come in the
next few months. Employees also enjoyed slightly faster wage growth and worked longer hours in December
according to the BLS, which could bode well for future hiring.”
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The caveat in all this is the challenge facing Washington politicians as they continue to wrestle over how to
address the budget deficit and debt ceiling issue. The $110 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts
scheduled for March 1, for example, might provoke layoffs by local governments, military contractors and other
companies that depend on federal funds. There are a lot of IT workers that could be affected.
“But the fact remains that many of the IT job segments in the government jobs reports, in particular those in IT
services, have been on strong and sustained growth runs for some time now. I see no structural shifts taking
place right now that could produce sustained IT job losses in 2013,” insists Foote. “On the contrary, many of
the 2,500 employers we closely track are actively searching for talent and hiring for the future, though with
considerable selectivity. They are aggressively searching for new talent investments in cloud computing, mobile
platforms and applications development, business analytics and big data, business applications development,
and information security, to name only a few areas. So too are aggressive efforts to innovate new products and
services that are creating demand for new workers to fill a variety of roles that combine IT and business
knowledge and experience. It’s becoming harder than ever to separate information technology and business
strategy; this is an ideal marriage of expediency and innovation in a very competitive global business
environment.”
IT Skills and Certifications Trends—and How They Relate to Employment
At the skills supply and demand level, which Foote Partners closely tracks in its IT Skills and Certifications Pay
IndexTM
(ITSCPI) and quarterly IT Skills Demand and Pay Trends Report, IT employment has been
exceptionally volatile since the economic downturn intensified in 2007. At the jobs demand level the truth is that
many of the IT job segments in the government jobs reports, in particular those in the IT services industries,
have been on sustained growth runs.
But in our proprietary jobs and skills tracking research involving nearly 2,500 employers---arguably a more
accurate picture of the true IT employment market unhampered by the Department of Labor’s unrealistically
narrow definition of IT jobs and roles---we observe that what’s really driving jobs volatility is not so much the
economic environment but widespread acceptance of IT’s role as an engine of innovation and competitiveness.
Mix that with disruptive technologies that offer countless opportunities for business growth and profitability but
so far exceed our ability to manage them comfortably and we have this: shifts in IT roles and responsibilities
that have shaken the foundation of what it means to be an IT professional. And this has had a profound impact
on the IT skills market and how labor is sourced.
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Employers continue to aggressively pursue workers with multiple talents mixing technology, domain, business,
process, and ‘people’ skills. Unique skills sets that many who have fallen out of the workforce simply do not
possess. It can also be a unique combination of pure tech skills: for example, cloud administrators who are
adept at automating the configuration and operations in a cloud environment by combining a variety of different
skill sets around systems administration, virtualization, storage and network administration. It’s not about just
configuring and running a server. Or cloud developers who have mastered new sets of APIs, new frameworks,
and non-relational databases like NoSQL to develop elastic and scalable apps in the cloud. Or in the area of big
data, Data Architects who may have traditional programming backgrounds but are also well versed in statistics
and data management and analytics and exercise powers of creatively and persistence to harness data in new
ways to meet new business needs.
The latest IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index is showing strength in a variety of skills associated with big data
initiatives, further evidence this is poised to go mainstream:
Apache Cassandra
Apache CouchDB
Apache Hadoop
Apache Hive
Big Data analytics
Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop
Complex Event Processing/Event Correlation
Couchbase Server
Hbase
MapReduce
MATLAB
MongoDB
NoSQL
Pig/Pig Latin
Predictive Analytics and Modeling
Prescriptive Analytics
Redis
Riak
So too are a variety of mobile applications development and platform skills. And these cloud computing skills
are gaining value and earning skills premiums well above average:
vCloud
Java SE/Java EE
Cloudera software
EMC Cloud Architect Expert (IT-as-a-Service)
EMC Cloud Architect Specialist (Virtualized Data Center)
HP ASE – Cloud Integrator
HP ATP - Cloud Administrator
HP ASE Cloud Architect V2
Speaking more broadly on the subject of noncertified IT skills, pay and demand for database skills has
performed the strongest in 2012, gaining 14.8 percent in value overall for the calendar year. So too have
management, methodology and process skills which have gained over 13 percent in value over the past two
years. The SAP and Enterprise Business Applications group recorded a surge in demand in the past quarter
for twenty-one SAP and Oracle ERP skills but also diminishing values in twenty-four related skills, for a net
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decline of nearly one-half of a percent market value for the entire group of 98 noncertified skills monitored in
this group. The importance of this ITSCPI finding is that ERP skills still matter enough that employers are willing
to pay a premium for a very large number of them and aggressively adjust these premiums to market conditions
in order to attract and retain ERP talent.
Despite the poor performance of pay for IT certifications overall for the past several years, database
certifications have likewise been the strongest performers among eight categories reported in the IT Skills and
Certifications Pay IndexTM
. For the twenty-one database certifications in this group premiums rose nearly 2
percent in the last three months of 2012 and 7.6 percent for the entire year at 2,430 employers who contribute
data to our benchmark research. The gains in pay for Oracle and Teradata certifications were mostly
responsible for the increases.
Networking and communications certifications lost the greatest market value in 2012 (-11.3 percent) led by
declines in a broad selection of Avaya, CWNP/Wireless, Cisco, SNIA, Juniper, Brocade, and EMC certifications.
The greatest share of these losses were in the first six months, tapering off to flat performance in the final three
months. We believe market adjustments for this group have largely run their course and will be more stable in
2013. Less stable have been 35 applications development and programming certifications which have
displayed marked volatility throughout the past year, ending 2012 with a nearly one percent gain in market
value in October, November and December. We believe new cloud related certifications launched in 2012 and
expected to launch this year may have a positive effect on certifications values in this group based on a very
positive performance for cloud-related noncertified IT skills pay in the last two quarterly updates to the ITSCPI.
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2012 IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM – 4th Quarter 2012 edition
(Data collected through January 1, 2013)
IT Certifications (page 16
Noncertified IT skills (page 20)
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How to interpret gains and losses in IT skills and certifications pay premiums
Quarterly gains and losses in premium pay reflect a widening or narrowing, respectively, in the gap between supply and demand for skills and certifications. This may occur for any number of reasons. For example, a quarterly decline in pay for a skill may signal that the market supply of talent for that skill is catching up to demand—not necessarily that demand is starting to wane. IT professionals are often attracted to a skill or certification if they perceive that it has rising value in the marketplace and therefore can help them to achieve higher pay, greater job security, a promotion , or more flexibility in their career choices. As they pursue greater competency in that skill or as more workers attain certification, supply increases and market pricing(which is elastic to the laws of supply and demand) will be driven downward unless demand is rising at the same proportional rate. Conversely, if demand rises and supply is not increasing to match that level of demand, pay premiums for specific skills and certifications will increase. Therefore when interpreting gains and losses in market pay it is important to consider all factors that could be driving supply and demand and market perception. Those factors range from:
- aggressive marketing of certifications by vendors; - changes in certification programs (e.g. certification extensions or retirement); - new technology and evolution/maturation of current technologies; - technology adoption rate; - product integration strategies, - economic conditions; - employment opportunities; - mergers/acquisitions; - budget cycles and the timing of skills and talent acquisition by employers; - changes in labor sourcing plans pursuant to company strategies.
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Avaya Certified Implementation Specialist
Avaya Certified Professional Design Specialist
Avaya Certified Solution Specialist
Brocade Certified Network Engineer
Brocade Certified Network Professional
Brocade Certified Fabric Designer
Brocade Certified Fabric Professional
Certified Associate in Project Management)
Certified Computing Professional (CCP-ISC2)
Certified Database Design Specialist
Certified Data Management Professional
Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
Certified Information Security Manager)
Certified Information Systems Auditor
Certified Information Systems Security Professional
Certified Protection Professional
Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional
Check Point Certified Master Architect
Check Point Certified Security Administrator
Check Point Certified Security Expert
Cisco Advanced Wireless LAN Design Specialist
Cisco Advanced Wireless LAN Field Specialist
Cisco ASA Specialist
Cisco Certified Design Associate
Cisco Certified Design Expert
Cisco Certified Design Professional
Cisco Certified Entry Network Technician
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert
Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Cisco Certified Network Associate - Security
Cisco Certified Network Professional Wireless (CCNP Wireless)
Cisco Certified Network Associate Wireless (CCNP Wireless)
Cisco Certified Network Professional
Cisco Certified Network Professional - Security
Cisco Certified Network Professional - Voice
Cisco Certified Systems Instructor
Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Design Specialist
Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Support Specialist
Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Design Specialist
Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist
Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist
Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Support Specialist
Cisco Firewall Security Specialist
Cisco IP Communications Express Specialist
Cisco IP Contact Center Express Specialist
Cisco IP Telephony Design Specialist
Cisco IP Telephony Support Specialist
Cisco IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) Specialist
Cisco Network Admission Control Specialist
Cisco Rich Media Communications Specialist
Cisco Unity Design Specialist
Cisco Unity Support Specialist
Cisco VPN Specialist
Cisco VPN Security Specialist
Citrix Certified Advanced Administrator
Citrix Certified Administrator
Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator
Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer for Virtualization
Citrix Certified Integration Architect
CIW Associate
CIW Certified Database Design Specialist
CIW Network Technology Associate
CIW Web Design Professional
CIW Web Development Professional
CIW Web Foundations Associate
Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop
CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner
CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer
CompTIA Cloud Essentials
CompTIA Convergence+
CompTIA/Linux Administrator
CompTIA/Network Technician
CompTIA Project+
CompTIA Security+
CompTIA Server+
CompTIA Storage+
Convergence Technologies Professional
CWNP Certified Wireless Analysis Professional
CWNP/Certified Wireless Design Professional
CWNP Certified Wireless Network Administrator
CWNP Certified Wireless Network Expert
CWNP Certified Wireless Network Trainer (CWNT)
CWNP Certified Wireless Security Professional CWTS/Certified Wireless Technology Specialist
CyberSecurity Forensic Analyst
EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker
EC-Council Certified Hacking Forensics Investigator
EC-Council Certified Secure Programmer
EC-Council Certified Security Analyst
EC-Council Licensed Penetration Tester
EC-Council Network Security Administrator
EC-Council Certified VoIP Professional
EMC Cloud Architect Expert (IT-as-a-Service)
EMC Cloud Architect Specialist (Virtualized Data Center)
EMC Implementation Engineer – Specialist
EMC Implementation Engineer - Expert
EMC Platform Engineer – Specialist
EMC Storage Administrator - Backup Recovery
EMC Storage Administrator – Expert
EMC Storage Administrator – Specialist
EMC System Administrator – Specialist
EMC Technology Architect – Expert
EMC Technology Architect – Specialist
HP/Accredited Integration Specialist
HP Accredited Platform Specialist
HP/Accredited Systems Engineer
HP Accredited Systems Engineer--Cloud Integrator
HP Accredited Systems Engineer--Cloud Architect V2
HP Accredited Technical Professional (ATP - all)
HP Accredited Technical Professional--Cloud Administrator
HP/Accredited Solutions Expert (ASE - all)
HP/Master Accredited Solutions Expert (MASE - all)
HP/Certified Systems Administrator
HP/Certified Systems Engineer
HP/Master Accredited Systems Engineer (Master ASE)
IBM Certified Advanced Security Professional
IBM Advanced Systems Administrator (all)
IBM Certified Database Administrator
BM Certified Advanced Database Administrator
IBM Certified Developer - Cognos
IBM Certified Solution Expert - Cognos
IBM Certified Specialist – Cognos
IBM Certified Systems Expert - AIX and Linux v2 (all)
IBM Certified Advanced Application Developer (all)
IBM Certified Applications Developer (all)
IBM Certified Administrator for SOA Solutions: WebSphere Process Server
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert - Power Systems with AIX v2/v3
IBM Certified Infrastructure Systems Architect
IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer
IBM Certified Solutions Developer: WebSphere (al)
IBM Certified Operator - AIX Basic Ops
IBM Certified Solution Designer - WebSphere
IBM Certified Specialist - System z
IBM Certified Specialist - Storage
IBM Certified Systems Administrator
IBM Certified Systems Administrator - AIX 7
IBM Certified Systems Administrator - IBM i 6.1
IBM Certified Systems Administrator – WebSphere
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert - Power Systems with AIX v2
InfoSys Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP/CISSP)
InfoSys Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP/CISSP)
InfoSys Security Management Professional (ISSMP/CISSP)
ITIL Practitioner Certificate in IT Service Management
ITIL Service Manager Certification
279 IT Certifications Surveyed (NEW THIS QUARTER IN RED)
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JBoss Certified Developer (Seam, Persistence, ESB)
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Professional
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Expert
Linux Professional Institute certification (LPIC-Level 2)
Linux Professional Institute certification (LPIC-Level 3)
Microsoft Certified Applications Developer
Microsoft Certified Architect
Microsoft Certified Database Administrator
Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician
Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP/all)
Microsoft Certified Master/Solutions Master(all)
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (all)
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate(all)
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert(all)
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (all)
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Microsoft MCSA: Messaging
Microsoft MCSA: Security
Microsoft MCSE: Messaging
Microsoft MCSE: Security
Microsoft Office Specialist
Nortel Certified Architect
Nortel Networks Certified Design Expert)
Master CIW Administrator
Master CIW Designer
Master CIW Enterprise Developer
Master CIW Web Site Manager
Nortel Networks Certified Design Expert
Nortel Networks Certified Design Specialist
Nortel Networks Certified Support Expert
Nortel Networks Certified Support Specialist
Nortel Networks Support Expert
Novell Certified Instructor
Novell Certified Linux Engineer
Novell Certified Linux Professional
Novell/Certified Directory Engineer
Novell/Certified Internet Professional
Novell/Certified Novell Administrator
Novell/Certified Novell Engineer
Novell Identity Manager Administrator
Open Group Certified Architect
Open Group Master Architect
Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE Programmer
Oracle Certified Expert, Java Platform EE Developer
Oracle Certified Expert MySQL 5.1 Cluster Database Administrator
Oracle Certified Expert, Oracle Solaris 10 Network Administrator for Solaris
Oracle Certified Expert, Oracle Solaris 10 Systems Administrator for Solaris
Oracle Certified Expert Siebel CRM Business Analyst
Oracle Certified Master, Java SE Developer
Oracle Certified Master, Java EE Enterprise Architect
Oracle Certified Professional Application Server 10g Administrator
Oracle Certified Professional, E-Business Suite
Oracle Exadata 11g Certified Implementation Specialist
Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle Solaris 10 Systems Administrator for Solaris
Oracle Certified Professional - Advanced PL/SQL Developer
Oracle PL/SQL Developer Certified Associate
Oracle Certified Professional Java SE Programmer
Oracle Certified Programmer, Java EE Web Services Developer
Oracle Certified Professional, Java EE Web Component Developer
Oracle Certified Professional, MySQL 5 Developer
Oracle Certified Professional MySQL 5.0 Database Administrator
Oracle DBA Certified Associate
Oracle DBA Certified Master
Oracle DBA Certified Professional
Oracle Forms Developer Certified Professional
Oracle SOA Infrastructure Implementation Certified Expert
Oracle WebLogic Server System Administrator Certified Expert
PMI Program Management Professional
PMI Project Management Professional
PMI Risk Management Professional
Red Hat Certified Architect
Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist
Red Hat Certified Engineer
Red Hat Certified Security Specialist
Red Hat Certified Technician
RedHat Certified Virtualization Administration
RSA Certified Administrator
RSA Certified Systems Engineer
SANS/GIAC Assessing and Auditing Wireless Networks
SANS/GIAC Auditing Wireless Networks
SANS/GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester
SANS/GIAC Certified Firewall Analyst
SANS/GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst
SANS/GIAC Certified Forensics Examiner
SANS/GIAC Certified Incident Handler
SANS/GIAC Information Security Fundamentals
SANS/GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst
SANS/GIAC Certified ISO-27000 Specialist
SANS/GIAC Legal Issues in Information Technology and Security
SANS/GIAC Certified Penetration Tester
SANS/GIAC Certified Project Manager
SANS/GIAC Certified Security Essentials
SANS/GIAC Certified Unix Security Admin
SANS/GIAC Certified Windows Security Admin
SANS/GIAC Enterprise Defender
SANS/GIAC Information Security Professional
SANS/GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware
SANS/GIAC Secure Software Programmer-- .NET
SANS/GIAC Secure Software Programmer—Java
SANS/GIAC Security Essentials
SANS/GIAC/Security Leadership
SANS/GIAC Systems and Network Auditor
SANS/GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester
SAS Certified Advanced Programmer
SAS Certified Base Programmer
Security Certified Network Architect
Security Certified Network Specialist
Siebel 8 Consultant Certified Expert
SNIA Certified Storage Architect
SNIA Certified Storage Networking Expert
SNIA Certified Storage Professional
SNIA Certified Systems Engineer Sniffer Certified Expert
Systems Security Certified Professional
Teradata 12 Certified Associate
Teradata 12 Certified Database Administrator
Teradata 12 Certified Enterprise Architect
Teradata Certified Master
Teradata Certified Professional
Teradata 12 Certified Solutions Developer
Teradata 12 Certified Technical Specialist
Advanced Teradata Certified Professional
TIBCO Certified Professional
TIBCO Certified SOA Architect
VMware Certified Advanced Professional
VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX)
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
279 IT Certifications Surveyed (NEW THIS QUARTER IN RED)
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IT CERTIFICATIONS CATEGORIES
# of certs
surveyed
Foundation level and Training 5
Apps Development/Prog. Languages 36
Database 20
Web Development 11
Networking & Communications 71
System Administration/Engineering 58
Information Security 63
Architecture/Project Management/Process 15
ALL CERTIFICATIONS SURVEYED 279
Change in Average Premium Pay
by Category
% Change
3 mos
% Change
6 mos
% Change
ANNUAL
% Change
2 yrs
0.0% 0.0% -13.3% -27.8%
0.8% -2.5% 1.4% -1.5%
1.9% 3.4% 7.6% 3.3%
-2.9% -2.9% -2.9% -14.1%
0.0% -3.1% -11.3% -15.9%
1.4% -1.4% 2.5% -4.5%
-2.4% -2.0% -3.5% -9.6%
-2.7% 3.4% -1.6% 0.1%
-1.52% -2.08% -3.94% -8.78%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
2Q 3Q 4Q 2004
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2005
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2006
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2007
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2008
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2009
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2010
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2011
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2012
IT Certifications Premium Pay - by Category, last 10 years
Networking/Comm.
Information Security
Database
Architecture/Project Management/Process
Web Development
Foundation level & Training
<--ALL CERTS
Apps Dev/Program
Languages
Systems Admin/Eng.
(Values expressed as equivalent of % of base salary)
13%
2-YEAR IT CERTIFICATIONS PAY TRENDS (Data collected 1/1/2013 – 43,775 participants)
3/12/24 MONTH IT CERTIFICATIONS PAY TRENDS BY CATEGORY
(% Change in Average Median Pay for a Single IT Certification)
(Data collected 1/1/2013 – 43,775 participants)
(Pay data supporting these charts is from the IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM.)
SOURCE: Foote Partners IT Skills & Certifications Pay IndexTM, 4th Quarter 2012 data edition
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Applications Development Tools & Platforms
Adobe Flex Agile Programming/RAD/Extreme Programming Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, ASW, et. al.) Apache Hadoop Business Objects C C# C++/CLI Clarity PPM Cloudera software Cobol Cognos Delphi Drupal Eclipse Epic Systems applications F# Groovy/Grails Hibernate iRise Java/J2SE,ME,J2EE MapReduce MATLAB NetWeaver Oracle Applications Developer Framework Pig/Pig Latin PL/SQL Powerbuilder Progress 4GL/Development tools Ruby Ruby on Rails SAS SQL Windows Tcl Tomcat Transact-SQL UML (unified modeling language) Visual Basic 6.0 Visual C++ Visual J++ WebSphereMQ
SAP & Enterprise Bus. Apps.
ABAP (all modules) Baan J.D. Edwards Lawson Microsoft Dynamics Accelerated SAP (ASAP) NetWeaver NetWeaver BI (SAP BW) NetWeaver Portals (SAP EP) NetWeaver PI Oracle E-Business suite Peoplesoft Oracle BPM Oracle CRM Oracle SCM SAP AFS SAP ALE SAP APO SAP Banking SAP Basis Components SAP BI Accelerator SAP BODI SAP BODS SAP BOXI SAP BPC SAP BSP SAP Business One SAP Business Workflow/Webflow SAP CA SAP CAF SAP CCM SAP CE SAP CFM SAP CO SAP CO-PA SAP CRM SAP Crystal Reports SAP CS SAPEBP SAP EC SAP EDI SAP EHS SAP EPM SAP ERP SAP ESA
SAP/Enterprise Bus. Apps, cont’d.
SAP FI – FSCM SAP FI - Travel Management SAP FI SAP FS (Insurance) SAP GRC SAP GTS SAP HANA ( In-Memory Appliance) SAP HCM (SAP HR) SAP HCM ESS/MSS SAP HR-PA SAP IM SAP IS-U (Utilities) SAP ITS SAP KW SAP LES SAP LO SAP Manufacturing SAP MDM SAP MDX SAP MI SAP MM SAP MRO SAP Netweaver Applications Server SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer SAP NWDS SAP Oil & Gas SAP PLM SAP PM SAP PP SAP PS SAP PSCD SAP Public Sector Management SAP PY (Payroll) SAP QM SAP Retail SAP RF/Auto-ID SAP SAM SAP SCM SAP SD SAP SD - GTS SAP Security SAP SEM SAP SM SAP Smart Forms
SAP/Enterprise Bus. Apps, cont’d.
SAP Solution Manager SAP SRM SAP TM SAP Web Application Server
SAP WEBI SAP WM SAP WM – EWM SAP xMII SAP Xcelsius Siebel Web Dynapro
Networking/Systems
10Base-T Switching APPC ATM Business continuity and disaster recovery
planning Cisco UCCE/IPCC Cisco ICM Citrix XenApp Citrix XenServer DHCP EIGRP Ethernet Ethernet Switching Gigabit Ethernet (1 GigE/10 GigE) HP Converged System HTTP Infrastructure architecture Intrusion prevention/detection systems IPX/SPX LAN LTE/WiMAX Microsoft Hyper-V Microsoft NT Server
Networking/Systems, cont’d.
Microsoft Virtual Server Multiprotocol Label Switching Network access control/Identity mgt sys. NAS/Network Attached Storage Network security management Novell Netware Puppet RFID Routing (e.g. OSPF) SAN/Storage Area Networks Security skills (project-based) SIP SMTP SNA Storage administration TCP/IP Tivoli vCloud VoIP/IP telephony Virtualization VMware Server VPN/OpenVPN WAN/3G/4G services WAP WiMAX Wireless Network Mgmnt Wireline Networking/ Telecomm. WML
Messaging & Communications
Lotus Notes/Domino Message-oriented Middleware (Wave,
XMPP/Jabber, etc.) Microsoft Exchange Novell Groupwise Outlook/cc:mail/various clients Oracle Communications Messaging
Exchange (was Sun JMS) TIBCO Enterprise Message Service
Unified Communications/Messaging
317 Noncertified IT Skills Surveyed (NEW THIS QUARTER IN RED)
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Web/e-Commerce Development Active Server Pages ActiveX AJAX Apache HTTP web server
Apache Solr CGI Cold Fusion MX CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Documentum Google App Engine HTML5 Microsoft Internet Information Server Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) JavaServer Pages JavaBeans/EJB 3.0 JavaFX JBoss Enterprise Joomla! jQuery JSON Microsoft BizTalk Server Microsoft Commerce Server Microsoft Sharepoint Server Microsoft Silverlight Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager (Integration) Server Microsoft .NET Mobile applications development Oracle Fusion Oracle (BEA) WebLogic Oracle Workflow Perl PHP (all) Python Scripting languages (VBScript, Java Script, Jscript) SOAP Social Media/Networks Spring Framework
Web/e-Commerce Development cont’d.
TIBCO Visual Interdev VoiceXML Web collaboration appliances WebSphere Wikis WSDL XAML XHTML
XML (all variants)
Management, Methodology and Process
Big Data analytics Business Analysis Business intelligence Business performance management (software/systems) Business process management/modeling/ improvement Capacity Management Change management Collaboration software Complex Event Processing/Event Correlation CRM Cryptography (encryption, VPN, SSL/TLS. Hybrids) E-Procurement ERP Information management IT Governance ITIL V3 Marketo Microsoft Visio Predictive Analytics and Modeling Product lifecycle management software Project management Quality management/TQM Quantitative Analysis Requirements Engineering/Analysis Risk assessment Salesforce Risk management Security architecture and models Six Sigma (incl. Lean) Social media marketing SEO
TOGAF (Enterprise Architecture)
Database Apache Cassandra Apache Hive Apache CouchDB Couchbase Server Database management DB2 dbase/xbase ETL (Extract, transform, load)
Hbase Informatica Java Database Connectivity Master data management Microsoft Access Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft SQL Server MongoDB MySQL NoSQL Oracle DB Oracle Exadata Oracle Application Server Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise
Edition Plus Progress/ODBMS Redis Riak Sybase Adaptive Server Visual SQL
Operating Systems AIX Mac OS / OS X HPUX Linux Mobile operating systems (Apple, Microsoft, Android, etc.) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Solaris Unix (all) VMware vSphere Windows XP/Vista Windows NT
Windows Server 2008/2003
317 Noncertified IT Skills Surveyed (NEW THIS QUARTER IN RED)
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NONCERTIFIED IT SKILLS CATEGORIES
# of skills
surveyed
Systems/Networking 49
Messaging and Communications 8
SAP & Enterprise Business Applications 98
Apps Development Tools & Platforms 41
Web/e-Commerce Development 49
Database 27
Operating Systems 12
Management/Methodology/Process 33
ALL NONCERTIFIED SKILLS SURVEYED 317
Change in Average Premium Pay
by Category
% Change
3 mos
% Change
6 mos
% Change
ANNUAL
% Change
2 yrs
-0.1% -1.8% 0.4% -1.1%
-3.7% 0.0% 6.1% 10.6%
-0.4% -1.7% -1.0% -2.6%
0.7% -2.4% 1.1% 2.8%
0.0% 3.4% 0.0% -0.4%
-1.1% 2.6% 14.8% 10.1%
8.6% 10.0% 11.4% 4.8%
0.8% 2.3% 5.5% 13.2%
0.47% 0.48% 2.25% 2.51%
5%
6%
7%
8%
9%
10%
11%
12%
2Q 3Q 4Q 2004
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2005
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2006
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2007
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2008
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2009
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2010
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2011
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 2012
Noncertified IT Skills Premium Pay - by Category, Last 9 Years
Systems/Networks
SAP/Enterprise
Business Apps
Operating Sys
<--ALL SKILLS
Messaging/
Communications
Database
Management,,
Methodology, Process
Apps Dev Tools/ Platforms
Web/Ecommerce
(Values expressed as equivalent of % of base salary)
2-YEAR NONCERTIFIED IT SKILLS PAY TRENDS (Data collected 1/1/2013 – 43,775 participants)
3/12/24 MONTH NONCERTIFIED IT SKILLS PAY TRENDS BY CATEGORY
(% Change in Average Median Pay for a Single IT Certification)
(Data collected 1/1/2013 – 43,775 participants)
(Pay data supporting these charts is from the IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM.)
SOURCE: Foote Partners IT Skills & Certifications Pay IndexTM, 4th Quarter 2012 data edition
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ABOUT THIS RESEARCH
Foote Partners’ primary research survey for tracking IT skills and certifications pay and supply/demand volatility is the
industry-leading IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM (ITSCPI), first published in 1999 and updated every three months
since. 145,838 IT professionals in the 83 U.S. and Canada cities (2,430 employers) are reported for IT salaries and skills
pay earned for 161 positions and 576certified and noncertified technical and business skills. Verified and validated pay data
for 43,775 IT workers has been included in the 4th Quarter 2012 ITSCPI data edition, compiled from data collected through
October 1, 2012.
Demographics of the participating organizations for our latest update are as follows, measured most appropriately for the
type of business, by revenues, assets, total premiums and operating budgets:
18% of participating organizations have $3 billion+ in sales/$15+ billion in total assets
28% of participating organizations earn more than $1 billion in annual revenues or more than $3 billion in total assets
46% of participating organizations have $500+ million in sales/$1+ billion in total assets/$500+ million in premiums/$500+ million operating budget (government, educational, not-for-profit)
54% of participating organizations fall in the SMB (small-to-medium sized business) segment, generally defined as organization under $500 million in sales.
[Public sector] 5% have operating budgets of $500 million or more, [nonprofit/educational sectors] 4% with operating budgets $100 million to less than $500 million
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326 pages (Q4 2012 data edition)
Pay premiums for 596 certified and noncertified IT skills - Three data points for each position: 10th, 50th, 90th percentile
Verified and validated IT skills pay survey data from 43,775 IT professionals
Current data collected through January 2013(updated quarterly)
Certifications Guide containing basic information about surveyed IT certifications (pre-requisites; costs; test content; lab requirements, etc.)
Pricing: $3,995 single edition. $15,000 annual subscription.
Definition of IT skills premium pay
- Pay that IT workers receive for possessing high-value IT and business skills used on the job
- Given in the form of a bonus, or embedded in base salary to adjust for the presence of a dominant vendor or technology central to job performance (examples: Cisco Network Engineer, Python Software Engineer, Redhat Linux Systems Administrator, or SAP Developer.)
- Often used to adjust either base pay or total pay in situations where job title does not match actual on-the-job duties and responsibilities, and changing the job title is not an attractive option
- May be used as a reward, recruiting inducement, retention tool, or as a guide for creating consulting rate cards
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Foote Partners News Release- November 20, 2012
Foote Partners 2013 IT Compensation Survey Product Map
IT Professional
Salary Survey
(160 Jobs, 27
IT job families)
IT Skills & Certification
Pay IndexTM
(596 skills)
IT Salary+Skills Pay
Survey Reports
Survey Demographics• 65 US/18 Canadian cities• 143,838 IT workers surveyed
• 2,430 employers• 45+ industries
• Updated continuously.
Salary Reports
• by job family
• by job family clusters
• for individual jobs in
selected cities
SALARY+SKILLS REPORTS AVAILABLE:
• Applications Development
• Business Analysts/Business Technology
• Database
• Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence
• E-Commerce
• IT Architecture
• Microsoft Windows
• Networking Operations & Engineering
• Project Management
• SAP
• IT Security
• Systems Engineering and Administration
• Web/I-net
Long-form
Job Descriptions• updated continuously
• comprehensive, includes
internal/external relationships
key to job success; skills and
certification; detailed experience factors.
Short-form Job Profiles (JD excerpts)
JOB FAMILIES AVAILABLE: - Business Technology
- Business Applications Delivery- Business Analysis- Data Warehousing/BI- Database Administration
- Database Developers - e-Commerce/e-Business- Enterprise Applications- Enterprise Infrastructure- Epic Systems - Help Desk- IT Architecture - IT Security- Internets/intranets/extranets- Java Developers- Lotus Notes/Domino- Messaging
- .NET Developers- Network Eng. & Operations- Project Management- SAP- Six Sigma- Storage/SAN/NAS- Systems Eng. & Operations - Unix/NT/Linux- Voice Engineering- Web/I-net
IT Infrastructure Survey IT Base Positions
Survey
IT Skills Volatility Index
IT Skills and Certifications
HOT LISTS
IT Skills Demand and Pay Trends
Report