7 lucrative jobs for IT pros

As IT unemployment hovers below 3 percent (and the national unemployment rate at 4.9 percent), companies are increasingly having to up the ante to attract and retain elite IT talent. The results of cloud compensation and services provider PayScale highlights just how high many organizations are willing to go to fill these critical technology roles. Here are seven high-paying -- and highly lucrative -- IT services roles showcased in PayScale's IT Salary Survey 2016.

All data comes from user reporting on their current salary, bonuses, benefits and perks. Salary is national median salary.