Bluewolf's Annual IT Salary Guide: Outlook Optimistic for 2011

NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluewolf (www.bluewolf.com), a leading agile business consulting firm and IT Staffing agency, today released its 2011 IT Salary Guide. The annual data gathered offers unique insight into IT salary trends across the United States and identifies the technologies that are creating demand for new technical resources.

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The Bluewolf 2011 IT Salary Guide is based on the salary information collected from thousands of IT staffing placements managed by the company each year. Key findings include:

• Salaries at the highest levels continue to increase. VPs of IT will see salaries spike upwards to 7.1 percent in 2011. C-level IT executives enjoyed a similar hike in 2010, but will see a flat change for 2011.
• Database administrators will experience flat salary growth with an average salary high of $120,000.
• Network administrators and managers will finally see salaries creep back up to pre-recession levels.
• High demand for new positions include mobile "app" developers for Google's Android, Apple's iPhone and iPad platform and social networking sites such as Facebook.

"This year's outlook for IT professionals and organizations is quite optimistic," said Michael Kirven, co-founder and principal of Bluewolf. "Pent-up demand for IT services is resurfacing, as previously frozen IT budgets begin to thaw. 2011 is the year for CIOs to look beyond cost-cutting measures and leverage their tech spending for innovation that will position their companies for long-term growth."

Overall, Bluewolf's IT Salary Guide indicates a need for companies to align IT with strategic business goals, and shift from managing resources to managing results – especially now that IT-related spending appears to be returning to pre-recession levels. This is further evidenced by Oracle, SAP and Microsoft's recent moves, which indicate growing recognition that – while on-premise infrastructure still dominates the IT landscape – the future is in the cloud.

As companies begin to modernize their IT departments, demand for "hot" technologies such as Flash, Flex, PHP, Ruby, Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com is increasing, prompting CIOs to rethink their technology priorities and seek new skill sets for IT hires.

"Today, as Fortune 2000 companies compete against savvy start-ups, the need for skilled IT staff is just as crucial as being able to implement the technology itself," concluded Kirven.

About Bluewolf

Bluewolf  is the agile business transformation company. We partner with clients to sync the business and IT to create a new level of business responsiveness. From customer lifecycle innovation, cloud implementations, IT staffing to agile managed services, Bluewolf helps clients to attain efficient, adaptive business performance. With over 3,000 clients, only Bluewolf can bring 10 years of best practices and guarantee success. Bluewolf is headquartered in New York City, with offices across the US and Europe.

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