If you thought the SysAdmin role would go away or shrink, you might be surprised to find out that is has in fact grown 5.6 percent in the last nine months, according to September reports from Dice. SysAdmins with operations experience could be in the right place at the right time in their IT career to cash in on this emerging trend.

The DevOps methodology continues to grow with Dice posting more than 200 DevOps positions on any given day and it's no surprise why. Bringing together IT and software developers just makes sense--their successes and failures are tied together, according to Dice.

Rich Hein is a senior writer for CIO.com. He covers IT careers. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline, on , and on .