"Companies can find people with IT skills, but they need people who also have other skills," including being business, product and service thinkers, Foote said. "Those other needs are just superseding the demand that they be certified."

The Foote study covers premium skills pay for IT workers possessing a wide range of 253 certified and uncertified job skills. The study included 13,240 participants in North America, with data compiled from confidential data provided by IT, business and human resources executives from more than 1,800 public and private sector companies and organizations.