30 specific tech skills that will get you a $110,000-plus salary

Business Insider ^ | 03/19/2015 | Julie Bort

[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.

[Robert DeLong]

If you don’t mind me asking what languages are you working with?

[central_va]

I make 700 dimes per hour. I’m lucky I guess.

[KC Burke]

I suggest to youngsters all the time to apprentice as a fitter and after journeyman’s card and Master’s test start a Mechanical Engineering degree at night.

Probably be making 250k by age 35 and never have to re-train or be out of work more than a week.

[Nifster]

Not always true (”There are always older tech people...”) not even mostly true. If you have not been in Silicon Valley
and watched the carnage then you really don’t know.

Believe as you will, experience says otherwise

[Nifster]

Not so lucky....CCU and ICU nurses make more than that

[AppyPappy]

I’m just telling you. There are a lot of “fixed into a mindset” folks in Silicon Valley. If they can code, they can go anywhere.

[RainMan]

Your opinions of Microsoft are juvenile. As an example, Azure has performance metrics that meet or beat any other Cloud DB technology you could name when independent testing is done. In a tech field that is getting pushed probably as fast as any other, a leader in that field would be considered by most reasonable people to be a pretty strong tech company.

Furthermore, regarding your attack on MBA’s, sure, a lot are not (like finance), but my MBA is in Technology Management ... i.e, running a tech business, so yes, my MBA does have a lot to do with Technology.

You see to have some really weird biases in both your blanket statement as well as your defense of it. The point being, if you want to sit on your rusty dusty and complain about being left on the bench ... well, that’s your choice, but if you are willing to reinvent yourself, you wont be left on the bench. I reinvented myself at 50, and I am not on the bench.

[Nifster]

I don’t disagree. But doing software isn’t the high tech I was talking about

[Nifster]

And Washington state is just the capital of high tech