Have an IT Certification? Expect a Pay Raise this Year

After several years IT Certification pay is expected to bounce back this year, with the growth of skills of non-certified expertise, like – Operating Systems and Databases. The value and demand of so-called non-certified skills and abilities went up off lately, nearly to 4% as compared to 10% of the certified skills (as per a survey in which about 200,000 jobs, across 2800 employers participated). In this survey, the participants who worked in IT departments are one-third and the rest were from various lines of businesses.

The popularity of certain platform can revolutionize and influence the job market, the report also looked at the new technology being pushed by many vendors. On an Average, it is reported that – 378 IT certification paid off with higher salaries in the past two years after a prolonged slump of over seven years. So, it can be said that IT certifications are attaining more respect and IT industry and market has a much different view of certified skills versus non-certified skills.

Some of the non-certified skills that have gained more popularity in the past six months include – Database, Application Development, and Operating Systems skills. Skilled and certified IT professionals are popular among hiring managers as they are equipped to deal with technical architectures and understand what an IT organization has and requires and how to integrate things in the future.

The value and demands of certified skills IT professionals’ pay were above a non-certified skilled professional until about 2007, upon which it dropped. This change took place as the U.S unemployment rate increased tremendously.

So, salaries of IT certifications on the rise include the ones related to security, cloud, architecture that require deep systems knowledge and certifications on specific skills to a vendor or to a platform. As for others, especially those skills begin to see slight salary drop may not be a sign that those skills are no longer hot it may simply mean that the supply of professionals is catching up with the demand. In such a scenario, certification payoff is not that much.

Few of the IT skills that are to remain in vogue in the coming years is – Cloud & Information Security.

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