Salaries for Data Center Jobs Stay Flat

A recent survey conducted by the IT-focused consulting firm Janco Associates finds the volume of seasoned IT professionals seeking employment to be the culprit in IT salary raises being minimal at best. Datamation reports.

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IT salary levels clearly face challenges created by the economic downturn. Unfortunately, IT salary raises have been minimal or none at all. According to Janco Associates, an IT-focused consulting firm that conducts annual IT salary surveys, "there is now a surplus of seasoned IT professionals" -- hence, the ceiling on IT salary increases. Too many potential employees and too few data center jobs equals a market filled with salary stagnation.

Other key findings from Janco relating to 2010 IT salaries:

• Layoffs have focused on middle management and IT support staff.
• Many mid-sized enterprises have stopped hiring all IT professionals altogether.
• IT hiring is limited to a few selected positions as enterprise continue to cut costs.

As you can see, the last few years have been particularly tough on IT salary levels:

Mean IT Salaries, 2007-2010:

Large companies (223 organizations responded):

January 2007	$81,078
January 2008	$82,197
January 2009	$81,302
January 2010	$81,614

Midsize companies (594 organizations responded):

January 2007	$75,096
January 2008	$75,814
January 2009	$73,132
January 2010	$73,216

Read the rest of "IT Salary" at Datamation.

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