IT Salaries and certifications

Why no mention of university degrees which, in South Africa at least, are essential for getting your foot in the door. Specifically Bachelor of Commerce (Information Systems) and Bachelor of Science (Computer Science).
 
deweyzeph said:
Why no mention of university degrees which, in South Africa at least, are essential for getting your foot in the door. Specifically Bachelor of Commerce (Information Systems) and Bachelor of Science (Computer Science).
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Article will get too long. Will add that in another article.

Maybe also of value to mention that the average age of the guys in this survey was around 44...so definitely not junior salaries.
 
So much with CCNA?! CCNA is compulsory with my degree and is only 16 credits in total. (160 hours) So if you take this table then it seems Computer Engineers will receive way more than any of those listed.

Edit: We also do CCNP in our final year.
 
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They are? I'm a project manager with PMP and i don't have a degree. I found in South Africa, a degree is nice to have but years of expierence is worth a lot more :)

also, this was a global survey, not South Africa.

deweyzeph said:
Why no mention of university degrees which, in South Africa at least, are essential for getting your foot in the door. Specifically Bachelor of Commerce (Information Systems) and Bachelor of Science (Computer Science).
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SLAQ said:
So much with CCNA?! CCNA is compulsory with my degree and is only 16 credits in total. (160 hours) So if you take this table then it seems Computer Engineers will receive way more than any of those listed.

Edit: We also do CCNP in our final year.
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You sure its a proper qualification?, I also did CCNA in my course, doesn't mean your an CCNA or CCNP, Cisco is NOT easy.
 
rpm said:
Article will get too long. Will add that in another article.

Maybe also of value to mention that the average age of the guys in this survey was around 44...so definitely not junior salaries.
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Also consider, specialist degrees, i.e. some engineers goes into programming. In Finance a qualified CPA, CFA or CA will put you in the top notch of salaries - and yes, there are IT software developers with those qualifications in SA.
 
Not to nit-pick, but is security spelled wrong in the second table?
 
DurbanMonkey said:
They are? I'm a project manager with PMP and i don't have a degree. I found in South Africa, a degree is nice to have but years of expierence is worth a lot more :)

also, this was a global survey, not South Africa.
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Is it awesome work?
 
deweyzeph said:
Why no mention of university degrees which, in South Africa at least, are essential for getting your foot in the door. Specifically Bachelor of Commerce (Information Systems) and Bachelor of Science (Computer Science).
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Interesting question ... I used to be a facilitator for short courses such as MCSE ...... Your university degree in the IT field is only really required when you specialise in fields that you cannot do in your everday normal courses. We use to recieve a lot of university graduates that came to do the whole set of microsoft courses because the companies would not accept them if they did not have those qualifications.
 
I won't read anything into these increases because this survey is 80% american and they don't have high inflation rates so not getting an increase every year is not such a big deal as it is here.
 
I am often surprised that the market has never been flooded with Cisco Engineers, for some time now it has been a decent money maker. Is the material too complicated or just a pure cost issue, from what I recall it was not a cheap exercise.
 
sidai said:
You sure its a proper qualification?, I also did CCNA in my course, doesn't mean your an CCNA or CCNP, Cisco is NOT easy.
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He does computer engineering at UP. Has to do the CC crap during his holiday time :/ 99% chance he'll never even use it. It is a proper CCNA. He gets it end of 2nd year and at the end of 3rd year he would be done with CCNP except for the final examination.
 
$78,000 for a web developer?! :wtf:
I wouldn't mind getting paid R525K per annum to develop web sites or web based applications.

In the USA:
- Fuel is cheaper
- Housing is almost equivalent in Rand terms thanks to the property crash (can buy a house for 1 bar in Las Vegas)
- Interest rates are much lower so debt repayments are easier
- Personal tax is much, much lower
 
I'm quite surprised - no SAP certifications in there? I work on a lot of SAP sites (though I'm not a SAP consultant myself) and those guys earn insane salaries.
 
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