A couple weeks ago we shared some interesting salary data based on the findings of Dice's annual Tech Salary Survey. While this is great knowledge, it may not be helpful to those deciding where to invest in training to get the best return. Fortunately, the survey went on to answer that question by providing the top-paying skills for the most in-demand tech roles. Here's a quick summary of the findings:
Top Paying Big Data Skills
MapReduce ($125,009)
HBase ($123,934)
Cassandra ($123,459)
Apache Kafka ($122,728)
Elasticsearch ($120,002)
PIG ($119,118)
Solr ($119,032)
Hadoop ($118,625)
Hive ($118,589)
RabbitMQ ($116,909)
Top Paying Cloud Skills
HANA ($128,958)
Cloud Foundry ($124,038)
PaaS ($120,403)
Amazon RedShift ($119,197)
Cloudera ($118,896)
Docker ($118,873)
Amazon Route 53 ($118,828)
IaaS ($117,422)
Top Paying DevOps Skills
Ansible ($121,382)
Korn Shell ($118,273)
Jenkins ($113,354)
Puppet ($112,883)
Chef ($112,523)
Vagrant ($111,422)
Top Paying Project Management Skills
CMMI ($119,466)
PMBOK ($118,233)
Kanban ($112,932)
ISO 270000 ($112,556)
Lean ($111,970)
Scrum ($109, 876)
Agile ($108,459)
Top Paying Mobile Skills
Objective-C ($116,667)
Swift ($110,877)
Top Paying Design UI/UX Skills
OmniGraffle ($123,782)
Balsamiq ($110,744)
Top Paying Front-End Dev Skills
JSON ($107,258)
Angular ($105,496)
Keep in mind, the findings above are based in the United States. While we expect these are still high-paying skills in Canada, rates and salaries will differ depending on your industry and region.
