Posted on 03/19/2015 2:14:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Being a tech professional is a good career with plenty of high-paying jobs.
But it's an ever-changing job market. One day a skill is hot and the next it's not.
Job site Dice.com recently published its 2015 Salary Survey, which named the highest-paying tech skills.
Dice, a tech-job-hunting site, surveyed 23,470 IT professionals in the fall of 2014 to come up with this list.
Of course, skills alone won't always lead to a high salary. Work experience counts, too.
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No. 30: RDBMS is worth $114,100
RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) is the full-jargon term for the thing otherwise known as a database.
This is the traditional kind of database that uses the structured query language (SQL) used by databases like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2.
While noSQL databases are growing extremely popular for new applications, most companies still use this kind of database to their most-important business apps.
There are currently over 1,300 job listings on Dice for RDBMS-related jobs.
No. 29: JDBC is worth $114,234
JDBC is a Java-based technology from Oracle. It helps a database connect to an app written in the Java programming language.
Java is a super popular language for writing apps, so lots of skills associated with it pay well and this is one of those skills.
Pay for JDBC-associated jobs has climbed 11% over last year, Dice says. It has over 880 job listings for it.
No 28: Sqoop is worth $114,328
Sqoop is one of those skills that has zoomed into popularity thanks to the big data craze.
It's a free and open source tool that lets you transfer data from popular big-data storage system, Hadoop, into classic relational databases like the ones made by Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
I know relatively few use JDBC directly, most Java database programming will use Spring Framework and/or Hibernate.
Don’t worry, they all get jobs in the government
Thus we have the Idiocracy of those who can’t overseeing those who can
I like to capitalize on synergies to create efficiencies. Give me mo’ stupid money for sayin’ it.
yup i got sun certified java and couldn’t get work @48 14 years ago. never had an interview. Got a contract to test a new system from a friends wife. now i manage a business unit using that software. I have a huge java app that translates reports into databases.
I am on the half that will still have a job. IBM Power with the IBMi OS with DB2. We are spending tons of money in upgrades. I will be able to retire on the platform.
No so fast there Nifster.
I have been in Tech mostly doing Business Development for 25+ years.
52, got my MBA last years, mostly because I wanted out of sales. Now I am a v-dash at Microsoft.
The problem is that H-1Bs have a short shelf life and as soon as they get their experience they move on which is the real reason why corps are pushing so hard to get even more authorized. The company I work for has actually had to move a lot of its offshore operations to the Philippines due the the increasing cost of consultants in India.
What large corporations have (and I’ve worked for the largest ones in the US) are ETL teams and BI teams for ‘massaging data’. The truth is having a bunch of cheap labor doing transformation mappings doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in theory and is pretty inefficient and numbers of cheap staff don’t always accomplish what real experienced staff can.
Right now the biggest barrier to corporations hiring in the US for what would be entry level jobs is the tax code. I’m sure many young kids out of school would be happy to take entry level tech jobs. The problem is the federal government has made it prohibitive. The biggest area where this is evident is Manufacturing. Apple could be making phones in the US rather than China if not for the 35% corporate tax and the stupid rules on taxes overseas profits. So what happens is the jobs that should be going to lower middle class and poor kids getting them on a path to a long career instead are going to communist Chinese and what do the US kids get? They get a future of subsistence.
Contractors are a dime a dozen.....in any field
I have kept up and I do have the energy. I am older than you and have noticed a consistency when lay offs come around that those over 45 are the first to go......quality or not
And that is exactly what happens.
“.if you are over the age of 45 you may well be a goner in terms of ever working in high tech again”
Only if you are a “Project Lead”. If you can code, you will get work.
I’m 56 and I still get 6 figure offers.
Doing MBA work is not really high tech.....and neither is microsoft. It is a large bloated company that long ago left the tech world
That has not been my experience.
My phone rings 10-20 times per week and I am 58 years old- I am currently working 3 contracts for about $300K per year
(But IM GOOD)
Writing software while interesting ( and you usually end up at the a$$ end of all projects being told to make it work)is NOT the same thing as doing hardware in high tech....ask those who do it and they will tell you
and you are a contractor.... Contractors come and go as a company upsizes and downsizes. Truth is that if you look at actual high tech companies and what their staff looks like ( those that are on the companies payroll not contractors) you will see a different story.
I still do contract work because companies still need to solve problems but they don’t want to put you on the payroll. Plus I don’t know where you live.....Silicon Valley is notorious and the law suits prove it
I have two permanent offers at 2 of the companies I am contracting with
And you do not live or work in Silicon Valley.... high tech there is notorious
I’m just saying. There are always older tech people complaining but they have been left behind.
HVAC tech here, $150-200/year not unusual... High School grad too!
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