How's Your HTML5? App Skills in Demand

imes are good for Web- and mobile-application developers. The number of online listings containing the keywords “HTML5,” “Mobile app,” and “Android,” have skyrocketed over the past year, making them the fastest growing keywords in jobs posted online, according to data tracked by jobs search engine Indeed.com.

Tech Workers Get a Raise

Businesses may be cutting the amount they spend on technology, but tech workers got a raise in 2008. The average information technology pro made $78,035 last year, a 4.6 percent increase from 2007, according to tech job site Dice.com, which surveyed close to 20,000 of its visitors. Security analysts got the biggest raises in 2008, with an average salary increase of 8.4 percent to $86,778. Software engineers were next, with an increase of seven percent to $90,031. Application developers got a 6.6 percent raise to $84,672.