Companies are apt to pay hefty salaries for rare, in-demand tech skills, particularly ones related to enterprise-level infrastructure, such as data storage and discovery, and the cloud, according to a report by the career website Dice.com.
Here are the highest average tech salaries by skill (with the percentage increase — or decrease — from 2020 to 2021), the survey of 7,215 people found:
1. Solr*: $143,464 (15.8 percent)
2. Mokito*: $140,366 (5.3 percent)
3. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): $139,961 (5.1 percent)
4. RabbitMQ: $137,717 (1.2 percent)
5. Elasticsearch: $137,203 (6 percent)
6. Redis: $136,405 (5.5 percent)
7. PAAS: $134,894 (1.9 percent)
8. RDS: $133,651 (10.9 percent)
9. DynamoDB: $133,522 (5.6 percent)
10. HANA: $133,302 (6.7 percent)
11. MapReduce: $132,014 (2.6 percent decrease)
12. Apache Kafka: $131,520 (2.1 percent)
13. Amazon Route 53: $131,236: (3.6 percent)
14. Neural Networks: $130,922 (1.5 percent)
15. Amazon Redshift: $130,468 (4.2 percent)
16. OLAP: $130,404 (2.2 percent)
17. Korn Shell: $129,971 (5.3 percent)
18. Hadoop: $129,903 (0.4 percent)
19. Chef*: $129,903 (0.4 percent)
20. Tensorflow: $129,161 (0.1 percent)
21. OLTP: $128,871 (1.9 percent)
22. Spark: $128,107 (3.7 percent)
23. REST: $127,298 (3.1 percent)
24. NoSQL: $126,905 (1.5 percent)
25. ETL: $126,417 (1.3 percent)
26. Containers: $126,344 (0.3 percent decrease)
27. Vagrant: $126,164: (2.1 percent)
28. LoadRunner Tutorial: $124,653 (0.4 percent decrease)
29. Cloudera: $124,526 (5.7 percent decrease)
30. Cassandra: $123,764 (5.2 percent decrease)
31. Golang: $122,884 (4 percent decrease)
32. Machine Learning: $122,597 (2.1 percent decrease)
33. Natural Language Processing: $121,286 (7.8 percent decrease)
34. Artificial Intelligence: $120,168 (8.9 percent decrease)
35. Ansible: $120,064 (3 percent decrease)
36. Verilog*: $118,582 (10 percent decrease)
37. Master Data Management (MDM): $118,340 (4.7 percent decrease)
38. Scala: $117,454 (5.3 percent decrease)
39. DOORS*: $117,420 (5.6 percent decrease)
40. FCoE: $116,483 (5.7 percent decrease)
*Skills noted with an asterisk had less than 100 survey respondents so are not statistically valid, but Dice.com included them for continuity purposes.