That's entirely possible. Depends on the certification, rather than professional category, whether it continues to be relevant, etc. Most information on this subject (the DoL salary survey, for example) is not sufficiently fine-grained as to refer to market sector and technology certification; they usually look at professional categories such as "programmer" and "systems analyst".
Very few software professional categories have significant increases on a year to year basis. "Hot" skills tend to take most of the gain; more tradesmanlike skills, such as network administration, tend to plateau low and early.
Read http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html, Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage. Actually, that might be good reading for LBO-ers in general who are interested in the tech industry.
Marco
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