2025 IT Skills & Certifications Pay Volatility Index
Foote Partners , Thursday, October 9th, 2025
This completely updated quarterly data-driven report--distributed free to all Foote Partners active customer accounts--tracks cash pay premiums price volatility for 1,382 IT skills and certifications paid to more than 109,872 IT professionals and is useful in a variety of ways: analyzing and forecasting demand for skills and certs; monitoring IT workforce transition; and understanding IT management decision making.
In fact, we believe statistical volatility in IT skills pay offers a more complete story of true labor market conditions than salary movements and hiring behavior, among other common indicators. Important in this distinction is that skills can be segmented and benchmarked more meaningfully than jobs allowing to microanalyses.