Zachary Rodgers

Wages for Java pros are among the highest in IT, according to dice.com, EarthWeb’s online job board for IT professionals. This group made an average salary of $85,000 per year in July 2000, and an average contract rate of $83 per hour. Top-level salaries hovered at around $200,000. Silicon Valley has the most demand for […]

According to dice.com, EarthWeb’s online job board for IT professionals, database administrators were offered an average salary of $76,500 per year in July 2000, and an average contract rate of $64 per hour. The lowest salaries came in at around $40,000 per year; and at the high end, senior database administrators could hope for offers […]

Data warehouses today are an important strategic aid in product development and customer analysis. The number of jobs available to data warehousing professionals has increased, as have their salaries and contract rates. According to dice.com, EarthWeb’s online job board for IT professionals, data warehousing pros were offered an average salary of $87,000 per year in […]

In this first in a series of three Salary Trackers on data management pros, we look at wages for data modelers and analysts. These two job types are often grouped together, indicating a broad responsibility for development and maintenance of the corporate data model. When they’re listed separately, modelers tend to make more than analysts. […]

Quality assurance is a core element of any implementation–and the pros who do it play as integral a role as the developers themselves. Software testing in all its various incarnations boasts a higher profile than it once did, maybe because IT managers have figured out that the chaos of a development project–a chaos which has […]

PeopleSoft is ranked third, behind SAP and Oracle, in ERP solutions for global back-end operations. Originally a product-based company, PeopleSoft’s principal revenues these days are largely generated by services such as consulting and maintenance, which make up 75% of sales. But the leftover 25% still claims a hefty share of the world market for ERP […]

In July 2000, employers were offering SAP professionals an average salary of $81,500 per year and an average contract rate of $76 per hour, according to dice.com, Datamation’s sister site and an online job board for IT professionals. These wages are based on 443 listings for this type of professional, with cities bearing fewer than […]

It may be that Java this year overtook C++ as the most in-demand programming skill in the IT labor marketplace. But don’t think demand for C++ has declined. As with most other IT skill types, many jobs for pros experienced in the language will go unfilled this year. C++ became popular because of its combination […]

The ascent of open source is no longer in question. Linux, Apache, Perl and the rest have come a long way from the days when Linus Torvalds made his entry onto the stage as a David to Microsoft’s Goliath. And it has all happened very fast. No doubt, many open source techies are still pinching […]

PHP professionals PHP is a scripting language used to extract data from a database for presentation on a Web page. The major NT and UNIX Web servers support the language, and it is widely used with the mSQL database. Demand for IT professionals with PHP skills has recently increased. This is largely because PHP is […]