Common wage: US$121,560

Enhance since 2021: +2.9%

6. Shopper merchandise 

The patron merchandise business has seen large development in IT salaries, rising simply over 14% since 2021, buoyed by a excessive demand for expertise. Data areas particularly very important to the buyer merchandise business embody e-commerce, digital advertising, provide chain administration, and cell app improvement. Different related roles embody safety professionals, venture managers, UX/UI designers, product managers, information analysts, and enterprise analysts. There’s a requirement for expertise round product optimization, customer support administration, monitoring digital and advertising tendencies, demand forecasting, data-driven resolution making, enhancing effectivity, decreasing prices, and navigating supply-chain administration.

Common wage: US$121,052

Enhance since 2021: +14.4%

7. Leisure

At first thought, you won’t consider the leisure business as having a excessive demand for IT roles, however there’s loads of want for expert tech professionals. Expertise is a cornerstone to creating films, video video games, reside occasions, music, and tv exhibits. There’s sometimes a excessive demand for multimedia builders, online game builders, digital actuality builders, and manufacturing technologists. There’s additionally a rising want for streaming platform engineers, now that streaming companies dominate for TV and films. Different very important roles embody venture supervisor, safety specialist, internet developer, information analyst, and programs administrator.

Common wage: US$119,921

Enhance since 2021: +0.1%

8. Utilities/Power

You’ll discover demand for some distinctive job titles within the utilities and vitality industries, together with SCADA engineer, renewable vitality engineer, good metering specialist, grid modernization specialist, vitality information analyst, vitality environment friendly advisor, GIS specialist, and vitality storage engineer. There’s additionally a requirement for extra typical IT roles equivalent to venture supervisor, information scientist, cybersecurity skilled, RPA developer, IoT engineer, asset administration specialist, information middle supervisor, and extra. The business has a requirement for highly-skilled IT professionals who’ve the abilities and information to navigate complicated and technical programs and networks.

Common wage: US$118,498

Enhance since 2021: +3.6%

9. Telecommunications

IT jobs are a pure match for the telecommunications business, on condition that it’s totally depending on know-how. You’ll discover demand for practically each IT job you’ll be able to consider, together with venture supervisor, software program developer, programs analyst, community engineer, safety specialist, information analyst, radio frequency (RF) engineer, cloud engineer, and consultants. There’s a broad vary of job roles obtainable, and also you’ll be onerous pressed to seek out an IT job title that doesn’t fall below the umbrella of telecommunications. And for an business that has relied on know-how because the begin, there has nonetheless been an almost 7% improve within the common tech wage since 2021, suggesting the demand solely continues to develop.

Common wage: US$115,940

Enhance since 2021: +6.8%

10. Insurance coverage

As insurance coverage corporations flip to digital companies, the business has seen development in demand for IT employees who may help construct, deploy, and keep inside and exterior apps and companies. As a way to meet the rising demand for tech expertise, corporations equivalent to Progressive have invested in inside upskilling bootcamp applications to assist shut the abilities hole. Just like the healthcare business, the insurance coverage business offers with a excessive quantity of typically delicate and confidential information, so there’s sometimes a requirement for cybersecurity and information employees, along with builders and engineers. And as extra insurance coverage corporations develop client-facing apps and companies, there’s a necessity for UX/UI designers, builders, and engineers.

Common wage: US$114,522

Enhance since 2021: 0%