India: IT Salary Benchmark 2012
ZDNet Asia conducted an online survey between March 2011 and March 2012 to look into the pay packages Asia's IT professionals were receiving and related market trends.
The study polled a total of 945 respondents from various job functions varying from administrators and support to IT management and systems development, and across seven Asian economies: China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.
India contributed 508 participants to the survey. Of these, 176 of them had less than 5 years of working experience in the industry and 254 had between 5 and 10 years, while 78 had more than 10 years' worth of experience.
In terms of pay, those in IT management within the country's IT, Web and telecom sector head the top earners list with an average annual salary of just over 1 million rupees, trumping their counterparts in the legal and finance sector who earn 986,500 rupees a year.
In the following charts, INR denotes the Indian rupee.
Average annual salary by IT skills and years of experience (in INR)
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
|
Average annual salary by job function and years of experience (in INR)
Job Function
|
Years of Experience
| ||
|---|---|---|---|
Less than 5 years
|
5-10 years
|
More than 10 years
| |
| IT Management |
299,850
|
798,242
|
903,216
|
| Project Management |
546,920
|
887,153
|
1,298,958
|
| Systems Development |
410,871
|
777,586
|
563,333
|
| Communications |
303,692
|
802,643
|
824,000
|
| Support |
382,154
|
492,567
|
380,989
|
| Administration |
286,227
|
586,295
|
614,571
|
| Other IT Professionals |
900,000
|
763,167
|
515,000
|
| Overall |
900,000
|
762,614
|
1,126,240
|
Average annual salary of Top 10 IT skills (in INR)
Ranking
|
% of Respondents
|
IT Skills
|
Average Annual Salary
|
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |
42.9
|
Application Development
|
806,784
|
| #2 |
34.6
|
System Administration
|
589,128
|
| #3 |
33.3
|
Servers/ Networking
|
637,128
|
| #4 |
33.3
|
Desktops/ Software
|
583,279
|
| #5 |
32.3
|
Operating Systems
|
606,937
|
| #6 |
26.4
|
Web Development
|
751,089
|
| #7 |
25.8
|
Infrastructure Management
|
764,212
|
| #8 |
22.2
|
Database Management
|
684,209
|
| #9 |
20.4
|
Consulting/ Business Services
|
956,892
|
| #10 |
20.4
|
Enterprise Applications
|
876,561
|
Average annual salary by 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
|
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