The highest paid tech professionals are C-suite leaders, followed by solutions architects, according to a survey from dice.com.
CIOs and chief technology officers reported relatively flat salaries from 2022 to 2023, but remained the highest earners in tech roles. The leaders with a combination of technical and soft skills were highly compensated to lead change within organizations, the report notes.
Tech workers executing on those changes saw higher salary growth over the last year, including software developers who had 6.5% salary growth. However, other tech titles including project managers and dev opps engineers reported salary declines. Overall, healthcare tech salaries were up 4.5% in the last year, averaging $117,578 per year.
Here is the average salary for 20 tech roles and how those salaries changed from 2022 to 2023.
1. IT management: CIO, CTO, VP and director - $163,526 (-0.8%)
2. Solutions architect - $157,768 (1.2%)
3. Program analyst / manager - $148,173 (6.1%)
4. Principal software engineer - $145,206 (-5.3%)
5. Cybersecurity engineer / architect - $140,565 (-3.4%)
6. Product manager - $129,814 (-6.7%)
7. MIS manager - $124,774 (-5.5%)
8. Devops engineer - $124,071 (-8.8%)
9. Systems engineer - $123,437 (2.2%)
10. Software developer - $123,067 (6.5%)
11. Cloud architect / engineer - $122,509 (-15.8%)
12. Project manager - $121,110 (0.4%)
13. Back end software engineer - $121,037 (-6.3%)
14. Data engineer - $120,248 (-2.1%)
15. .NET developer - $119,551 (4.8%)
16. Scrum master - $118,149 (-0.6%)
17. Business / management consultant - $113.583 (-2.5%)
18. Full stack developer - $113,000 (-3.3%)
19. Data scientist - $106,130 (-9.5%)
20. Database administrator - $102,734 (-4.7%)