Philippines: IT Salary Benchmark 2010
ZDNet Asia conducted an online survey between October 2009 and November 2010, to gain insights into salary trends and the IT workforce in Asia.
The study polled a total of 14,998 respondents from various sectors including government, healthcare, IT, services, telecommunications, legal and finance, and across eight Asian economies: China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
There were 1,995 respondents from the Philippines, holding full-time positions with job functions that cut across several areas such as systems development, project management and support.
In addition, 152 respondents from the economy were either contract or independent consultants, while another 48 held part-time positions, working fewer than 28 hours a week.
Respondents who had IT management responsibilities in the IT, Web and telecom sector were the highest paid among their peers in the Philippines, pulling in an average salary of 672,068 pesos a year.
In the following charts, PHP denotes the Philippine peso.
Average annual salary by IT skills and years of experience (PHP)
IT Skills | Years of Experience | ||
---|---|---|---|
Less than 5 years | 5-10 years | More than 10 years | |
Application Development | 298,995 | 558,767 | 735,556 |
Desktops/Software | 242,395 | 402,656 | 617,794 |
Operating Systems | 232,935 | 382,311 | 590,427 |
Servers/Networking | 250,851 | 381,608 | 630,325 |
Web Development | 274,799 | 495,736 | - |
Systems Administration | 265,678 | 415,505 | 652,934 |
Database Management | 291,293 | 491,918 | 677,431 |
Enterprise Applications | 346,599 | 565,919 | 812,235 |
Consulting/Business Services | - | - | 848,819 |
IT Security | 254,795 | 404,631 | 598,936 |
Infrastructure Management | - | - | 692,936 |
IT Outsourcing | 286,211 | 482,401 | - |
Average annual salary by job function and years of experience (PHP)
Job Function | Years of Experience | ||
---|---|---|---|
Less than 5 years | 5-10 years | More than 10 years | |
IT Management | 267,450 | 542,977 | 735,354 |
Project Management | 325,824 | 604,300 | 672,734 |
Systems Development | 284,071 | 488,553 | 652,545 |
Communications | 243,140 | 378,546 | 716,429 |
Support | 198,395 | 259,358 | 344,659 |
Administration | 285,488 | 429,670 | 497,458 |
Other IT Professionals | 206,324 | 314,842 | 655,709 |
Overall | 261,324 | 443,741 | 637,882 |
Average annual salary of Top 10 most popular IT skills (PHP)
Rank | % of Respondents | IT Skills | Average Annual Salary |
---|---|---|---|
#1 | 46.8 | Desktops/Software | 378,714 |
#2 | 41.5 | Operating Systems | 364,766 |
#3 | 40.3 | Application Development | 482,634 |
#4 | 38.6 | Servers/Networking | 384,314 |
#5 | 36.7 | System Administration | 412,040 |
#6 | 29.9 | Database Management | 450,737 |
#7 | 27.4 | Web Development | 425,221 |
#8 | 25.7 | IT Security | 393,649 |
#9 | 21.9 | IT Outsourcing | 443,555 |
#10 | 19.3 | Enterprise Applications | 548,196 |
Average annual salary by job function and industry (PHP)
Job Function | INDUSTRY | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IT, Web & Telecom | Government, Education & Health | Legal & Finance | Media, Marketing & Sales (non-IT) | Manufacturing, Services & Others (non-IT) | Overall | |
IT Management | 672,068 | 508,337 | 545,897 | 591,885 | 487,338 | 581,539 |
Project Management | 520,288 | 348,288 | 587,540 | 519,750 | 473,168 | 504,852 |
Systems Development | 387,279 | 328,193 | 417,462 | 405,737 | 350,713 | 381,505 |
Communications | 370,606 | 308,604 | 407,472 | 516,688 | 390,175 | 374,827 |
Support | 249,946 | 221,331 | 208,738 | 272,398 | 202,055 | 233,699 |
Administration | 405,974 | 270,695 | 287,281 | 378,457 | 380,014 | 368,964 |
Other IT Professionals | 318,575 | 138,333 | 209,300 | 240,500 | 245,292 | 283,551 |
Overall | 403,792 | 325,171 | 395,249 | 430,389 | 349,793 | 386,875 |
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