IT and Security Jobs Will Require Creative Compensation to Meet Demand, According to New Infinity Consulting Solutions Staffing Trends Data

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / January 29, 2018 / Infinity Consulting Solutions (ICS), one of the nation’s leading staffing and recruiting firms, issued its market trends and 2018 Salary Guide today, which includes proprietary data on the most high-demand jobs in information technology (IT), database development, networking and project support across the U.S.

“In this extremely competitive employment landscape, hiring managers seek strong guidance, backed by reliable data, to attract and retain the highly skilled employees they need to support continued growth,” says Jeff Pelliccio, director of marketing at ICS. “We have the insight and the data, which we are offering to our clients and those interested in a better understanding of 2018 staffing issues in the IT, cybersecurity and programming sectors.”

ICS’s annually published guide projects salary ranges based on placements, market trends, and anticipated market changes for the coming year. Salary is also influenced by competition, location, corporate culture and budgets.

The ICS Guide places chief information officers and chief technology officers at the top of the list with salaries in the $169,000 – $259,000 range. Director of project management office positions earn $149,000 – $182,000. A director of information technology stands to earn $127,000 – $160,000.

According to ICS sources, top paying IT salary categories include:

Executives

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

$169,300 – $259,200

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

$168,900 – $252, 400

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

$155,200 – $218,400

VP of Engineering

$155,500 – $212,400

VP of Information Technology

$162,500 – $199,700

Project Management Office (PMO)

Director of PMO

$149,700 – $182,100

Program Manager

$108,000 – $131,600

Technical Project Manager

$ 98,100 – $122,000

Agile Project Manager

$100,700 – $121,200

Infrastructure Project Manager

$ 91,400 – $120,500

Tech Support/Systems

Director of Information Technology

$126,900 – $159,800

Virtualization Engineer

$ 88,300 – $118,600

Middleware Engineer

$ 96,500 – $116,000

Systems Engineer

$ 84,600 – $113,000

Citrix Engineer

$ 82,000 – $ 96,000

Database Admin/Development

Data Architect

$115,700 – $144,100

Oracle DBA

$ 90,400 – $116,100

MYSQL DBA

$ 84,900 – $113,900

Database Engineer

$ 86,700 – $110,200

Data Warehouse Analyst

$ 77,000 – $100,000

Networking

Network Architect

$120,900 – $143,900

Wireless Network Engineer

$ 90,600 – $125,700

Network Voice Engineer

$ 96,900 – $121,200

Network Engineer

$ 96,000 – $118,000

NOC Manager

$ 93,000 – $116,6000

Other Top Salaries

Business Intelligence Architect

$105,700 – $139,900

DevOps Manager

$ 99,500 – $137,200

Information Security Manager

$113,500 – $133,900

Senior Cyber Security Analyst

$110,000 – $131,000

Data Scientist

$ 97,500 – $128,400

A comprehensive list of IT salaries, including jobs in big data/cloud, development, security, app/software development, quality assurance and business analysis, and web development is available in the digital ICS 2018 Salary Guide. The full guide also includes salaries for Legal & Compliance, Accounting & Finance, and Corporate Support positions.

Creative Compensation Key for Attracting and Retaining Top Talent

According to the report, which also includes market trends survey data from 500 hiring managers working in startups to Fortune 500 companies, a combination of high incentive pay and creative compensation appeals to employees in the IT, healthcare and retail industries. Creative compensation is particularly important to those seeking software, insurance and education jobs.

The top five means of creative compensation are:

Work from home
Tuition Reimbursement
Flex-time
On-going education
Paid healthcare

Companies that offer ongoing internal training and career mapping programs have a strong advantage over their competition. However, while 85 percent of ICS survey respondents report training new hires, only 64 percent have advanced skills or leadership training. Within the 15 percent that don’t provide internal training, only eight percent offer employee reimbursement for third party training.

According to the survey, organizations that provide internal training are 3.3 times more likely to invest in career mapping, yet 55 percent of respondents indicate their organizations don’t provide career mapping.

“Since on-going education is one of the most valued creative compensation benefits, not offering internal training or employee reimbursement for outside programs is a big miss,” says Pelliccio. “In fact, lack of internal training and career mapping are the top two reasons top talent leaves an organization.”

The full ICS Employers Guide to Recruiting, which includes market trends, best practices, information about the upcoming salary history ban, and comprehensive salary guides for four sectors, is available at www.ics.com/salary guide.

About ICS

Infinity Consulting Solutions (ICS) is one of the nation’s leading staffing and recruiting firms, specializing in connecting talented people to the businesses who need them. ICS relies on collaboration versus automation to provide a wide range of staffing solutions for information technology, legal and compliance, accounting and finance, and corporate support, including contract and permanent placement, temporary to permanent staffing and payroll services. ICS is headquartered in New York, with offices in Washington DC, Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis, Denver, Columbus, Ohio and Wilmington, Delaware. For additional information visit www.infinity-cs.com.

Contact

Andrew Lavin
A. Lavin Communications
516-944-4486
andrewlavin@alavin.com

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