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Top 12 In-Demand IT Skills With Salaries Over $130K: Dice
Mark Haranas
From Amazon’s RDS and DynamoDB to Elasticsearch and SOA, here are the top 12 IT skills that generate the highest average salaries, according to a new 2022 report by Dice.

The IT Skills With The Highest Tech Salaries
If you’re looking for a high-paying IT job, there are 12 specialized IT skills you should be seeking which generate an average salary of over $130,000.
In 2022, there are several IT skillsets that are high-paying due to the highly specialized skillset needed to be mastered, compared to the millions who learn certain programming languages, according to the new Dice Tech Salary Report for 2022.
“What this list of the top-paying skills makes absolutely clear is that organizations are more than happy to pay a premium for skills related to enterprise-level infrastructure, particularly as it relates to data storage and discovery, and the cloud,” said Dice in its new report which surveyed over 7,200 IT professionals working in the U.S.
Although programming skills such as Ruby, JavaScript and Python are equally vital to many businesses, those skills aren’t paying quite as high as salaries as these 12 IT skills.
In the emerging as-a-service and multi-cloud world, CRN breaks down the 12 top paying salaries based on specific IT skills, according to Dice’s new 2022 salary report.