- Mobile applications developer. Their salaries are expected to increase 9.1 percent to between $85,000 and $122,500.
- Data warehouse analyst, with salaries expected to grow 6.7 percent to between $88,000 and $119,000.
- User experience designer, whose salaries should increase 6.2 percent to between $71,750 and $104,000.
Tech Hiring Growth Should Continue into 2012
Technology hiring boom is growing at a healthy rate--healthy in this economy, at least--and some observers are even drawing analogies to the dot com boom of the late 90s. And it's happening across the country, not just in Silicon Valley Salesforce.com is having to work harder to find the people it needs. "It is an incredibly competitive job market. Finding the right people is hard," said Woodson Martin, Salesforce.com's senior vice president for employee success. At the end of October, Salesforce was looking for professionals in IT, technical operations (including Linux network system administrators), R&D staff. The boom is inflating some salaries, said Bill Reichert, managing director for the venture capital firm Garage Technologies. "Software engineers are the hottest," he said. "The higher the software level, the harder it is to fill those jobs." Robert Half Technology has identified seven jobs that will see demand grow in 2012. They include: