Top Tech Skills and Employers
Top Tech Skills
Universities are looking to make major overhauls to their IT infrastructure to keep their networks up and running — and to improve them. The educational services industry, therefore, wants tech professionals who can effectively manage the fundamentals of information and teams. That’s why (besides computer science) project management, technical support, workflow management, information technology and information systems are featured in this list.
Moreover, educational services want tech professionals who are skilled in some of the most popular programming languages, SQL and Python, to produce high-quality data insights and analysis.
Getting to the Right Compensation for Tech Professionals
It’s been a wild ride for tech salaries and benefits over the past few years. While salaries may be stabilizing after years of fluctuation due to competition and demand, tech professionals are still likely to be some of the highest-dollar hires in your organization.
Dice’s Tech Salary Report breaks down the current state of tech professional compensation, including average salaries parsed by location, occupation and skills, and also provides the benefits and perks that are most important to tech professionals. Take advantage of this exclusive resource in building compensation packages that will attract top tech candidates.
Top Employers
Universities dominate the top employers list. A large majority of the educational services tech job postings so far this year came from universities and colleges, rather than companies that specialize in educational services products like Kaplan.
Although its tech hiring slowed after March, The University of California had far and away the highest number of tech job postings overall during this six-month period — nearly three times as many as the employer ranked second in this list, the University of Pennsylvania.
And with institutions like the University of California and the University of Texas System seeing record admissions rates — and most likely looking to continue to grow their student bodies — tech talent will be necessary to support the stress more devices will put on campus technological backbones.
