If you are an IT professional and in midst of a change of job or an appraisal, this report may be very beneficial for you. ZDNet Asia conducted an online survey between March 2011 and March 2012 to find salary packages of IT professionals from India.
The study findings are based on 508 Indian participants. Of these, 176 of them had less than 5 years of experience in IT industry and 254 had between 5 and 10 years, while 78 had more than 10 years’ worth of experience. Although this is definitely not a very large size, it is enough to draw broad conclusions about the salaries that IT professionals get in India.
So, if you are currently unsure of if your salary is more or less compared to your peers across IT Industry – This should definitely give you a good pointer at where you stand.
Average annual salary by IT skills & Experience (in rupees)
|
IT skills |
Years of Experience | ||
| Less than 5 years | 5-10 years | More than 10 years | |
| Application Development | 431,616 | 881,376 | 1,364,788 |
| Desktops/Software | 318,395 | 640,154 | 949,618 |
| System Administration | 295,679 | 617,957 | 979,079 |
| Servers/Networking | 349,295 | 666,986 | 1,073,571 |
| Web Development | 447,126 | – | – |
| Operating Systems | 293,032 | 661,507 | 954,408 |
| Database Management | 386,741 | 685,909 | 1,214,667 |
| Web Services | 421,458 | – | – |
| Infrastructure Management | 334,958 | 781,422 | 1,209,714 |
| IT Outsourcing | 419,391 | – | – |
| Consulting/Business Services | – | 993,250 | 1,326,471 |
| Web Development | – | 798,637 | 1,271,278 |
| Enterprise Applications | – | 892,982 | 1,292,105 |
It is clear that if you are less experiences IT professional, Web development is currently the hottest thing. With everything moving on cloud, there is no doubt that web development is only going to grow. While if you are a senior IT professional or a consultant, you stand to earn higher than you peers who have other IT skills.
On the other hand system admin & Operating system jobs are lowest paid in the IT Industry on whole.
Average annual salary job function and industry (in INR)
| Job Function | ||||||
| IT, Web & Telecom | Government, Education & Health | Legal & Finance | Media, Marketing & Sales (non-IT) | Manufacturing, Services & Others (non-IT) | Overall | |
| IT Management | 1,000,012 | 574,091 | 986,500 | 794,667 | 874,444 | 903,216 |
| Project Management | 965,149 | 632,500 | 453,333 | 923,488 | 772,143 | 930,901 |
| Systems Development | 585,276 | 385,250 | 688,000 | – | 492,727 | 574,525 |
| Communications | 722,750 | 423,667 | – | – | 384,667 | 603,281 |
| Support | 462,599 | 234,000 | 482,500 | 300,000 | 438,143 | 440,505 |
| Administration | 489,936 | 408,700 | 591,400 | 320,000 | 452,100 | 484,854 |
| Other IT Professionals | 834,250 | – | – | – | 220,000 | 766,000 |
| Overall | 731,996 | 478,827 | 667,800 | 744,217 | 564,922 | 695,236 |
If you are an IT professional working in IT or Telecom Industry you stand to earn much more than your peers in other Industries. Government, Education & health are the worst paying Industries for an IT professional.
Read the entire survey by ZDNet Asia who also have benchmarks based on various IT Job functions, years of experience & IT skills
its a great work but it is 50% wrong data.
All I can say for the people asking for more wages is that if you want the same rate as they get in west why would they send their work to india instead of doing it in their own country..
Lets create a group in facebook so that all i.t professionals can come under a union to fight against low vages.
http://thekapils.com/2012/08/15/job-profiles-and-average-salaries-for-h1b-visa-holders/
Jago coder jago!
The salaries are too less in India. 12 lacs per annum for 10 years of experience ! Its really less. Indians are willing to work for low wages and live with compromised lifestyles and thats why we get paid less. We need an union to fight for as good pay packages as you get elsewhere. Example: A job function say Tech lead J2EE, that pays you 90,000 USD in USA, would be around the same scale even in UK, France, Saudi, UAE, Singapore , HongKong, Australia. BUT, when it comes to india, a Tech lead will not even make 30 percent of that figure. Why the speacial CHEAP rates in india ?? Because you and me do not revolt against this. We badly need an union in IT
dont compare with west , East
In India you can live lavishly with 10 L per annum
we need to do a socio-eco balancing as well.
other side of it, IT coding guys spend lots of time in time-pass, who will bear the cost of it.
I have been a CEO of an IT firm and I understand the issues so you are wrong in projection.
Dear shaji,
U can see IT guys do lot of timepass but can’t u see they never miss deadlines.. They works like anything when project is in critical condition.. People like u will share at the most 30% of what earning and rest is totally in ur pocket…injustice.. Remember if u will keep people in organization happy ur organization will b wealthy or else tie tie fishhhh…
you are right , thats why i leave companies every bw 1-3 yrs to takes few moths off to relax, i did not mind leaving TCS sapient like companies …. becoz Its better to sit at home with friends family relative neighbour than to be such a RAT race …. with low income pkgs. we have wonderful life to live after all merely breathing is not LIVING
It’s too less compared to our western counterparts!
Boss..Hope you have not read this ;)
IT salaries.
Good stats at the high level. This site: http://Zuby.in allows users to search salaries by companies, location and experience.