Highly skilled technology professionals saw higher hourly wages in the third
quarter of 2005 compared with the same period in 2004, according to the latest
Yoh Index of Technology Wages.
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1.1 percent in August, and decreased .4 percent in September, as compared to
the same months in 2004.
The firm says the high-impact technology job titles in greatest demand nationwide
during the third quarter of 2005 were:
- Applications Development--$51.15 (hourly pay rate)
- C#.Net--$50.07
- C/C++--$46.41
- Cisco Engineer--$48.99
- Clinical Data Manager--$43.79
- Clinical Research Associate--$37.79
- Database Architect--$60.53
- Embedded Developer--$57.67
- Java Developer--$53.38
- Oracle DBA--$54.73
- Process Engineer--$36.75
- SQL DBA--$45.56