Salaries in the IT industry remain stable at a high level
The industry association SwissICT has published its Salary Survey 2022. It is based on 37,932 ICT salary responses from 290 companies. For the first time, the salaries of apprentices were also surveyed.
Despite higher demand, with the increasing digitization of recent years, and contrary to common expectations, salaries in the ICT industry remain largely stable for 2022. This is confirmed by the annual salary study published by SwissICT. Taking inflation into account (as of May 01, '22), salaries are actually declining slightly, the study finds. Possible explanations for this development are, on the one hand, the recruitment of talents who still need promotion and, on the other hand, the shift in competence levels within the agile job profiles. For SMEs and micro-enterprises, this ensures continued access to ICT specialists. Salaries remain stable across all industries.
However, a more differentiated analysis reveals an increase in the number of mentions and also an increase in the salary level, particularly for lower salaries. This could indicate that the shortage of skilled workers has led to an increase in the number of entry-level employees, who could benefit from a higher salary than before. It remains to be seen what the 2023 figures will tell us about further developments.
Growth in agile professional profiles
As in previous surveys, there was also an increase in agile job profiles this year. The Product Manager and Release Train Engineer profiles were also surveyed for the first time. There were 97 responses to the Product Manager profile and as many as 136 responses to the Release Train Engineer salary. This is very promising for the first survey of these professional profiles and shows that the establishment of agile professions is progressing continuously.
Further innovations this year were made with regard to age grouping. The additional, expanded age grading makes it possible to better view social changes and draw clearer conclusions from salary trends and mentions. Similarly, an industry adjustment was made. The consolidation of industries was made based on input from the past five years. The change increases the informative value and robustness of the figures collected many times over.
Salaries for ICT trainees higher than expected
For the first time, a salary survey was conducted on the wages of apprentices. The survey was carried out in the basic vocational training programs for computer scientists, ICT specialists and mediamaticians. 122 Swiss companies entered their data on apprentices. Interesting: The median is at the upper limit of the recommendations (partly also above) of the responsible association ICT-Berufsbildung Schweiz. The results of the salary survey show that the salaries of ICT apprentices are highest at banks and insurance companies. They are followed by public administrations and other industries. An exciting finding: the lowest wages are found in IT companies.
Source: SwissICT
