Web Development and Database skills lead the pack

 in IT salary increases!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                               August 10, 2000

OTTAWA --  The last few years have seen healthy salary increases for those working in almost all aspects of Information Technology, according to Personnel Systems, an Ottawa-based Human Resources consultancy specializing in the high technology sector. 

Their compINSIGHT High Tech survey, which has run for 15 years, indicates that from July 1999 to July 2000, salaries for jobs in the information technology field (such as database analysts, network administrators and architects, webmasters, systems analysts, and programmer/analysts) increased by 7% on average.  This is in comparison to all jobs in the high technology sector, which have increased on average during that time period by just under 4%. 

Within IT, there are some jobs that stand out as having received especially high salary increases.  These include Web Developer/ Architects.  These individuals design and develop system and application level software using Internet technologies and relational databases; they require electronic engineering degrees.  Salaries for intermediate and senior levels of these positions have increased over the last year by a robust 9% to 14%.

Another job that has seen higher-than-average increases is Database Analysts.  These workers are responsible for planning and administering corporate information systems to support the data processing and storage requirements of daily business operations.  The intermediate and senior levels received average salary increases of up to 12% over the last year.

According to Bob Hodgson, Senior Partner at Personnel Systems, “IT jobs, and especially these positions, are seeing extraordinary increases due to the boom in e-commerce and other web applications.  This means that not only high tech companies but also more traditional sectors such as financial and insurance companies are trying to snap up talent from the same pool.  As Y2K issues fade into memory, the other work that piled up during that time means that individuals with these skills have their pick of workplaces and in many cases can even name their price.”

Adds Mr. Hodgson, “We are also seeing U.S. salaries moving ahead a bit more aggressively in this sector, as in many other branches of high technology.”

And this higher-than-average trend in salary increases is expected to continue.  Personnel Systems’ database is indicating that in the IT sector, the average increase for all jobs is predicted to be 6% over the next year.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Bob Hodgson, 613-241-8210 (1-800-263-0491)

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