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)
