Top 20 Tech Skills That Will Instantly Get You Big Salary (page-2)

#10 ETL
 Value in the Market - $104,000
 

 

ETL is short for Extract, Transform and Load. In non-technical language ETL refers to extraction of data from original sources and putting them into the right format to be used with various types of databases. With the current growth of databases rated as exponential any skill associated with management of database, or increasing the efficiency of a database is well worth the money. Amazon’s top engineer James Hamilton is the perfect example of the value of such professionals today. James lives on a yacht and works from Hawaii on occasions.
  
#9 Objective C

Value in the Market - $105,000
 



Objective C is a general purpose object oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language. But the main reason why it is in demand or is largely popular today is because it is the preferred language for writing apps for OSX, which is the Mac OS, and more popularly known iOS for the iPhone and iPad. Something as simple as being an Objective C  enthusiast can land you a high paying job in a leading company today.

 #8 Jetty

Value in the Market - $106,000

 

Jetty provides an HTTP server, HTTP client, and javax.servlet container. These components are open source and available for commercial use and distribution. Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products. It can be embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters. In short, Jetty is a way to host web sites and web apps. It's particularly good for cloud apps that might need to support thousands of users all accessing the app at the same instant.

Google helped Jetty get popular when it used it for its App Engine cloud computing service.


#7 Mongo DB

Value in the Market - $108,000


Mongo DB is an open source document-oriented database system developed and supported by 10gen. It is part of the NoSQL family of database systems. Instead of storing data in tables as is done in a "classical" relational database, MongoDB stores structured data as JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas (MongoDB calls the format BSON), making the integration of data in certain types of applications easier and faster. These features of easy accessibility and speed of Mongo DB makes it popular and wanted.

  
#6 SOA

Value in the Market - $109,000

 


In the software engineering circles SOA or service oriented architecture, is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services have well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components (discrete pieces of code and/or data structures) which can be reused for different purposes. SOA design principles are used during the phases of systems development and integration.

It allows bits of the software to become "services" available to other apps. For instance, the SOA may have "customer information" service, which is a little piece of code that inputs a customer name, phone number, etc. into an app; SOA is one way to create apps for the cloud.




#5 Omnigraffle

Value in the Market - $110,000
 


OmniGraffle is a diagramming application made by The Omni Group. OmniGraffle is built only for Mac OS X and the iPad. It may be used to create diagrams, flow charts, org charts, and illustrations. It features a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG interface. "Stencils"—groups of shapes to drag and drop—are available as extensions for OmniGraffle, and users can create their own stencils.

It may seem a bit farfetched to hear that the simple knowledge of how to use this tool could give you a job worth $110,000! Well it is outrageous and it is also true because this popular tool is used for complex diagramming tasks like website wireframes and graphic design.

 #4 PMP

Value in the Market - $110,000
 


Project Management Professional (PMP) is a credential offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Government, commercial and other organizations employ PMP certified project managers in an attempt to improve the success rate of projects in all areas of knowledge, by applying a standardized and evolving set of project management principles as contained in PMI's PMBOK Guide.

PMI's Project Management Professional is probably the most universally recognized certification for project managers. Although it’s not an IT-specific certificate, PMP is the one that most IT project managers get, and most IT employers want.


#3 NoSQL

Value in the Market - $113,000
 


NoSQL database systems are often highly optimized for retrieval and appending operations and often offer little functionality beyond record storage (e.g. key–value stores). The reduced run-time flexibility compared to full SQL systems is compensated by marked gains in scalability and performance for certain data models. In short, NoSQL database management systems are useful when working with a huge quantity of data.

NoSQL has sometimes been called the cloud database. Regular databases need data to be organized. Names and account numbers need to be structured and labeled. But NoSQL doesn't need that. It can work with all kinds of documents. There are numerous NoSQL databases including Mongo DB, Couchbase, Cassandra. If you happen to be familiar with one or more then the keyword for you would be “NoSQL.”

 #2 Big Data

Value in the Market -$114,000

 



Big Data is the word that people are using today for software that can analyze huge chunks of data. The software can analyze data in all formats e-mail, tweets, posts, documents, video, audio and any more you can name. Just feed the thing and it will churn it out for you.
There are four basic technologies that make up the "big data world" they are analytics, in-memory databases, NoSQL databases and Hadoop. Once you master these four principles you will find that companies are fighting each other to rope you in. Paint’s quite the picture and it will hold true for quite some years to come.

#1 Hadoop
 Value in the Market - $115,000

 

Hadoop is an open-source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications. It supports the running of applications on large clusters of commodity hardware. The Hadoop framework transparently provides both reliability and data motion to applications. To simplify, with Hadoop you can gather and store large amounts of data and analyze them at a very low cost.

For instance the Yahoo search webmap is a Hadoop application, Facebook claims to have the largest Hadoop cluster in the world and many other renowned companies like Amazon, Netapp, Apple, Microsoft, IBM. This is a sure shot ticket into the biggies of tech.


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