The 10 Highest-Paid Tech Skills In 2016
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2. MapReduce
Average annual salary in 2016: $125,009
Year-over-year change: Down 0.3 percent
Hadoop MapReduce is the highest-paying big data skill, according to the Dice survey. It's a software framework for easily writing applications that process vast amounts of data in-parallel on large clusters of commodity hardware in a reliable, fault-tolerant manner, according to The Apache Software Foundation.