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Big Data Devs Make Big Bucks

Big Data Devs Make Big Bucks

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Online job board Dice.com has released its annual salary report, including its list of the highest paying IT skills. Interestingly, seven of the top ten highest-paying skills are related to big data. Cloud development also fared well as platform as a service skills took the top spot. Here’s the complete list (with big data skills in italics):

  1. Platform as a Service (PaaS): $130,081
  2. Cassandra: $128,646
  3. MapReduce: $127,315
  4. Cloudera: $126,816
  5. HBase: $126,369
  6. Pig: $124,563
  7. Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP): $124,262
  8. Chef: $123,458
  9. Flume: $123,186
  10. Hadoop: $121,313

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