The 20 Highest-Paying IT Skills By Salary: 2024 Dice Report

Here are the 20 highest-paying skill sets in the U.S. by average salary, including Kubernetes, SAP HANA, Docker, Elasticsearch, SOA and PostgreSQL.

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No. 20: Amazon RDS 

Average Salary: $129,057 

Cracking into the top 20 skill sets based on salary is Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS). The database service aims to make it easier to set up, operate and scale relational databases in the AWS cloud. 

Professionals who have an Amazon RDS skill set make a $129,057 salary on average. This is down 3.4 percent in salary compared to 2022.  

No. 19: Redis  

Average Salary: $129,719 

At No. 19 is Redis, a popular open source, in-memory, NoSQL data store commonly used as a database, cache and message broker. Redis stands for Remote Dictionary Server.  

IT experts who are skilled in Redis generate an average salary of $129,719. This represents a 7.5 percent decrease in salary compared to last year.  

No. 18: ETL  

Average Salary: $129,771 

ETL stands for extract, transform and load. This is a three-phase process data engineers use to combine data from multiple sources into a large, centralized repository data warehouse.  

Professionals who own an ETL skill set generate an average salary of $129,771. This is up 1.7 percent compared to 2022.  

No. 17: Load Balancers 

Average Salary: $129,776 

At No. 17, load balancers refer to experts in charge of efficiently distributing incoming network traffic across a group of backend servers. The goal is to improve application performance by reducing network latency. 

IT experts who are skilled in load balancing capture an average salary of $129,776. This represents flat growth year on year.  

No. 16: OLTP  

Average Salary: $130,091 

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) is a type of data processing that consists of executing several transactions that occur concurrently, such as with ecommerce or online banking. This enables the execution of large amounts of database transactions by a large number of people.  

Professionals who possess an OLTP skill set capture $130,091 in average annual salary. This is down 3.9 percent year on year.  

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Mark Haranas is an assistant news editor and longtime journalist now covering cloud, multicloud, software, SaaS and channel partners at CRN.