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):
- Platform as a Service (PaaS): $130,081
- Cassandra: $128,646
- MapReduce: $127,315
- Cloudera: $126,816
- HBase: $126,369
- Pig: $124,563
- Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP): $124,262
- Chef: $123,458
- Flume: $123,186
- Hadoop: $121,313