Top 12 In-Demand IT Skills With Salaries Over $130K: Dice

February 10, 2022, 02:35 PM EST

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.

1. Solr

Average Salary: $143,464

Salary Increase: 15.8%

Solr is an open-source enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene. Solr is widely used for enterprise search and analytics use cases and has an active development community and regular releases. Solr runs as a standalone full-text search server.

The average tech salary for a person skilled on Solr in 2021 was $143,464, representing a whopping 15.8 percent increase in pay year over year. It is key to note that Dice said it received less than 100 respondents regarding salaries based off Solr.

Providing distributed search and index replication, Solr is designed for scalability and fault tolerance. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world’s largest internet sites.

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