The shifting sands of an IT career

24.05.2006
There is nothing static about a career in IT, the landscape is always changing. As technology changes so do the skill sets required to work in the industry.

Not to mention the vicissitudes of supply and demand and the changing fortunes of other economic indicators that impact the job market.

Just check out our front page article (May 24th Edition) on declining tech skills with Gartner warning that some jobs will be eliminated as companies move to commodity and virtualized systems. And that's without factoring in the increasing uptake of software as a service and offshoring.

On a good day IT can best be described as a dynamic industry; on a bad day it's just plain exhausting.

But have you ever wondered what you're really worth? Wouldn't it be great to know what your peers are earning, by title, by state, by industry?

Well let's find out. In this issue (May 24th Edition) of Computerworld readers will find a two-page questionnaire that will form the basis of our inaugural 2006 IT Salary Survey.