Salary Survey 2005: Holding Pattern
By Alexandra Weber Morales, November 01, 2005
Little has changed in the last year, according to our eighth annual examination of compensation and satisfaction trends for software developers. Salaries have increased by a hair, and most other job measures are dormant or just budding.The one bright spot? The continued growth of head-hunting.
November, 2005: Salary Survey 2005
Software Development
November 2005
Holding
Pattern
Little has changed
in the last year, according to our eighth annual examination of compensation
and satisfaction trends for software developers. Salaries have increased
by a hair, and most other job measures are dormant or just budding.The
one bright spot? The continued growth of head-hunting.
By Alexandra Weber Morales
AVERAGE
SALARY BY KEY TECHNICAL SKILLS |
|
Staff |
Mgt |
Service-oriented architectures |
$87K |
$112K |
Architectural/modeling and design |
$86K |
$103K |
Component/distributed object development |
$86K |
$107K |
Programming/algorithm design/scripting |
$83K |
$99K |
Requirements management |
$82K |
$100K |
Writing/documentation |
$82K |
$94K |
People management |
$81K |
$99K |
Process improvement |
$80K |
$97K |
Usability |
$80K |
$94K |
Security |
$79K |
$95K |
Business rules development |
$79K |
$98K |
Quality assurance and testing |
$78K |
$99K |