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There is some evidence that key IT professionals, particularly in NSW, are securing retention bonuses from employers who don't want to lose them mid-project.

A new group of IT professionals is starting to emerge in the US as the result of the move toward cloud computing. CIOs in some larger IT-centric organisations are hiring cloud architects, system configuration specialists and data scientists who, for the next couple of years are going to be able to command premium pay rates because of their special skills.

The Michael Page Salary and Employment Forecast for 2011-12 has been released which lets IT professionals compare their current salary to the market average - and assess what they might be worth if they moved to other sectors or states.

If you are a male software engineer, you're likely to be earning around $96,000 a year. If you're a female doing the same job you'll be getting $69,000, signalling that gender discrimination doesn't just persist in the ICT sector, it positively thrives.

Salary growth among ICT professionals is slowing, particularly in the private sector where growth slumped to 3 per cent in the 12 months to the end of May. Almost half - 45 per cent - of all private sector ICT employees got no pay rise at all last year.