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Tech Salaries Up 0.7%

January 19, 2011

Technology workers' salaries rose 0.7 percent in 2010, and Oracle experience ranks as the most-sought IT skill, Dice Holdings Inc. reported today.

Dice's annual salary survey found tech workers, on average, received a salary increase of 0.7 percent to $79,384 in 2010.

Forty-nine percent of workers received a salary increase last year compared to 36 percent in 2009, the survey found. And almost four in 10 tech workers feel they could make more money by changing jobs in 2011.

Dice's survey included 19,798 employed technology professionals.

In addition, the company reported that Oracle experience is presently the most commonly requested job skill. More than 15,000 job postings on Dice.com, the technology job board, request Oracle experience. The number represents almost a quarter of all the postings on the site.

Demand for Oracle experience is up 57 percent from this time last year, and the national average salary for tech workers with experience in Oracle Database is $90,914, according to Dice. The average salary for Oracle application server experience is $88,063.

The next most-sought skill is J2EE/Java experience. The 14,663 job postings on Dice seeking this skill rose 50 percent on a year-over-year basis. The national average salary in this area is $91,060.

Ranking as the third most-sought information technology skill is C language experience. Postings rose 46 percent from this same time last year to 14,123 on Dice.com. The national average salary for programmers specializing in the C languages is between $85,500 and $90,350.

Dice operates career Web sites for information technology, engineering, financial services and other professionals.