Fewer IT professionals want to leave the country. Those who do plan to emigrate say they are leaving to advance their careers, rather than because of crime.
The 2004 survey captured over 3000 responses from a cross-industry sample of SA IT professional at all levels - executive managers, operational managers and IT staff.
Database development has taken over from software development as the most highly paid IT field, but a shift towards business-oriented processes has resulted in a corresponding shift in remuneration patterns. By Warwick Ashford
The demand for senior execs has pushed up salaries at the top end. At the lower end, the reported salaries remained much the same as last year, although most respondents received an annual increase between 6 and 8 percent.
Of the 3 112 respondents in the survey, whites made up almost 75 percent, and only just over 17 percent were women. This may, of course, be more indicative of ITWeb`s readership than the true picture in South African IT.
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has been positioned among the market leaders in the METAspectrum evaluation for Leading Outsourcing Vendors North America.