Researcher Foote Partners’ newest IT skills and certification data shows that IT professionals with expertise in Linux, Java/J2EE, unified communications, Microsoft .NET, virtualization should see their pay increase, according to Foote Partners’ IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index. These skills increased in value during 2009’s first quarter, the company found, as did ERP and business process management/modeling and improvement.
As for certifications, CIO magazine reported:
… the Sun Certified Programmer for Java Platform, HP Certified Systems Engineer and Cisco Certified Security Professional certifications rebounded in value during the first quarter, after having experienced declines during the final months of 2008. The three certifications that remained in demand from the fourth quarter of 2008 to the first quarter of this year are GIAC Certified Incident Hacker (GCIH), HP Accredited Systems Engineer and EMC Proven Professional Technology Architect – Expert.
In general, Foote research found that pay for IT skills fell by 0.5 percent overall during the first three months of this year. But while 60 skills and certifications declined in value, 46 increased in value, according to the latest quarterly update of Foote Partners’ IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index.
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