
Average earnings for IT workers at companies with more than 5,000 employees: $88,075.

Workers with experience in Advanced Business Application Programming garnered an average $105, 887 last year.

Those with Informatica experience earned an average of $101,989.

IT pros with experience in Extract Transform and Load pulled in $100,983.

And workers with expertise in Service Oriented Architecture earned $101,827.

Dice reports that Oracle experience was the most requested requirement for job offerings in 2010 and workers with Oracle Database were able to average $90,914 while those with Oracle Application Server pulled in $88,063.

Second-most requested were those with J2EE/Java skills, who made an average $91,060.

Project management skills also made the top five most requested list and did quite well for those bearing the experience, earning them an average $100,143.

Silicon Valley was the best regional salary performer, with workers there making an average $99,028 and receiving a 3 percent raise last year.

Companies in the Washington D.C./Baltimore corridor followed in second, paying an average $89,149.