ICT 2023 salaries up again
The ICT Salary Survey 2023 is based on 38,597 ICT salary nominations from 293 companies - a record participation, as reported by the association SwissICT. For the first time, questions about working conditions were also included in the Employment Conditions Report. The salary increases underscore the changes in the market.
The swissICT association connects ICT providers, users and professionals in Switzerland with its 2500 members. The comprehensive study "Salaries in ICT" has been one of swissICT's core services since 1981. The 2023 edition has just been published. It shows that salaries in 2022 and 2023, excluding the inflation rate on the cut-off dates (May 1), have increased. This is 1.8 percent across all professions and skill levels. This presumably also reflects the recruitment of talent, which is sometimes desperately sought after - but not at any price, as is also evident from the study. A more differentiated look reveals a large increase of 2 percent, particularly at the junior competence level. This is only surpassed by those in senior and top management and goes up to a maximum increase of 4.8 percent. It can be assumed that salaries have increased since the previous year due to both inflation and the shortage of skilled workers.
Working conditions
For the first time, the salary survey also included six questions on employment conditions. Three of the six questions concerned home office arrangements and thus address the changes that have taken place in recent years. For example, employees are most often expected to be present in the office three or more days. However, 17.4 percent of the 293 companies said they do not have any requirements. However, if asked which companies pay financial compensation for home office days, the figure is just under 18 percent. When it comes to weekly target working hours, an average of 119 companies report that they have a 42-hour week. A small but still not insignificant number of companies have a 35-hour week.
From traditional to agile organization
For the first time since the survey of agile job descriptions, there has been a slight decline in the number of mentions of DevOps Engineer. The decline amounts to 10 percent from 2022 to 2023, but this does not detract from the apparent growth in the agile job descriptions, as the product manager has increased by 133 percent in return. On average, the agile jobs are therefore still up by 40 percent in terms of mentions. They can also look forward to slightly above-average growth of 3.6 percent in salaries.
"The forms of collaboration have changed," says Lukas Ruggli, HR business partner at Swiss Post. And when asked about the general salary issue in the IT industry, he says: "We're in the same situation as everyone else: We are constantly looking for highly qualified IT specialists. Everyone faces more or less the same challenges. But I'm glad that companies are nevertheless remaining realistic and not paying excessive wages just to attract the right people. It is important to continue paying fair and appropriate wages in the future. But it wouldn't be good to suddenly get into a wage spiral that then can't be controlled and costs go through the roof as a result."
Source: swissICT
