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The tech hiring indexUnited States & Europe

Good work. Real numbers.

A wider lens on tech salaries. Explore the US and Europe by role, location, and the skills you bring to the table.

Find your place in the numbers ↗
The transatlantic editionUS ↔ Europe
UNITED STATESEUROPETWO REGIONS. A WORLD OF POSSIBILITY.
A wider view of work.By Clera

Built on approximately 9,209,796 source job postings, including historical listings. Explore the current tech subset below.

79,797

Current tech listings in your selection

50,942

Usable salary ranges · USD

13,786

Companies behind the numbers

Your market. Your role. Your next move.
Compare tech salaries

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City

Industry

Detailed role

Role family

Skill

Experience

Currency

Annual advertised pay · original currency · no currency conversion

Salary snapshotSalary historyRoles, cities & industriesExplore moreHow we calculate

01 / The salary picture

Know where you stand.

50,942 salary ranges · USD / year

Median advertised salary

$162k

The middle of the advertised range midpoints.

Average midpoint: $168k / year

25th percentile
$130k
75th percentile
$199k

Where advertised ranges land

Number of listings by annual salary midpoint

30
$0
655
$50k
3347
$75k
6674
$100k
9434
$125k
10140
$150k
8034
$175k
8851
$200k
2636
$250k
1141
$300k
Each listing contributes one midpoint. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers or total compensation.

Matching tech roles

79,797

Companies represented

13,786

Salary ranges in USD

50,942

Fully remote roles

4.5%

The longer view

How advertised pay is moving.

Quarterly advertised salary midpoints by UTC posting date across current and expired source postings, for the latest eight calendar quarters through today. The current quarter is partial. All selected filters apply. Missing dates are excluded, and quarters with fewer than five salary observations are withheld. This is changing posting composition, not wage growth for a fixed workforce.

Salary by posting quarter

Annual salary midpoints · USD

Solid green: median. Dashed lines: 25th and 75th percentiles. The current quarter is incomplete; changes also reflect the mix of jobs in our coverage.

2025-Q4

$195k

7 salary ranges

25th percentile $163k; 75th percentile $206k

2026-Q1

$170k

550 salary ranges

25th percentile $134k; 75th percentile $205k

2026-Q2

$153k

22,384 salary ranges

25th percentile $125k; 75th percentile $185k

2026-Q3

$157k

90,196 salary ranges

25th percentile $125k; 75th percentile $192k

02 / Pick your lane

Different roles. Different ranges.

From software and AI to infrastructure and product. Compare the broad families of tech work.

Explore a little deeperMedian / year
  1. 01

    Software engineering

    36,516 roles · 24,228 salary ranges

    $170k
  2. 02

    Hardware & robotics

    12,997 roles · 7,165 salary ranges

    $138k
  3. 03

    AI & data

    12,423 roles · 7,689 salary ranges

    $160k
  4. 04

    Product & design

    10,219 roles · 6,856 salary ranges

    $170k
  5. 05

    Infrastructure & security

    7,642 roles · 5,004 salary ranges

    $161k

Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

03 / Role specialties

Get specific about your next role.

Explore the most represented specialties in this selection, with salary counts alongside every figure.

Explore a little deeperMedian / year
  1. 01

    Software Engineer

    16,750 roles · 11,784 salary ranges

    $173k
  2. 02

    Electrical Engineer

    5,125 roles · 2,743 salary ranges

    $130k

04 / Country comparison

Same ambition. Different markets.

Compare countries within your selected region. Salaries stay in their original currency.

Explore a little deeperMedian / year
  1. 01

    United States

    79,797 roles · 50,942 salary ranges

    $162k

Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

05 / Tech hubs

Find your corner of the market.

Cities with the most matching listings. We use the first listed city and exclude postings that span multiple countries.

Explore a little deeperMedian / year
  1. 01

    New York, United States

    4,205 roles · 3,462 salary ranges

    $180k
  2. 02

    San Francisco, United States

    3,240 roles · 2,488 salary ranges

    $215k

06 / Industry landscape

The industries hiring your skills.

Company industries by posting volume. These describe the employer, not the job function.

Explore a little deeperMedian / year
  1. 01

    Software Development

    14,957 roles · 11,649 salary ranges

    $188k
  2. 02

    Financial Services

    6,031 roles · 4,168 salary ranges

    $175k

07 / Highest-paying industries

Where industry pay runs higher.

Ranked by median advertised salary. At least 20 usable salary ranges per industry, in your selected currency.

Explore a little deeperMedian / year
  1. 01

    Holding Companies

    30 roles · 21 salary ranges

    $240k
  2. 02

    Research Services

    670 roles · 517 salary ranges

    $239k

08 / Skills in demand

What’s in your toolkit?

The skills most often mentioned in matching listings. One listing can mention several skills.

Explore a little deeperMedian / year
  1. 01

    python

    26,408 roles · 18,173 salary ranges

    $168k
  2. 02

    sql

    11,571 roles · 7,270 salary ranges

    $152k

09 / Highest-paying tech stacks

Skills in higher-paying roles.

Ranked by median, with at least 20 usable salary ranges per skill. A skill alone does not explain the difference in pay.

Explore a little deeperMedian / year
  1. 01

    resilience engineering

    35 roles · 26 salary ranges

    $279k
  2. 02

    distillation

    36 roles · 27 salary ranges

    $273k

10 / Years of experience

Room for your next step.

Compare the source’s experience bands. These are listing requirements, not the average experience of people hired.

Explore a little deeperMedian / year
  1. 01

    5–10 years

    35,473 roles · 23,856 salary ranges

    $164k
  2. 02

    10+ years

    19,956 roles · 14,111 salary ranges

    $194k

Keep looking. Get specific.

There’s more behind the number.

Explore salaries by role, skill, or industry. Then meet the companies, cities, and investors behind the work.

Popular roles

Software EngineerElectrical EngineerMechanical EngineerProduct ManagerEngineering ManagerQA EngineerSolutions ArchitectFullstack EngineerSecurity EngineerDevops EngineerData EngineerPrincipal EngineerSenior Product ManagerData ScientistData AnalystAI EngineerSupport EngineerDesign LeadershipEmbedded Software EngineerProduct DesignerMachine Learning EngineerInfrastructure EngineerForward Deployed EngineerSRE Engineer

Skills & technologies

pythonsqlci/cdawsjavaproject managementstakeholder managementkubernetes

Industries

Software DevelopmentFinancial ServicesDefense and Space ManufacturingIT Services and IT ConsultingTechnology, Information and InternetHospitals and Health CareAviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

US tech hubs

Meet the companies behind each city.

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Who’s backing them

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The small print, in plain English

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Snapshot: Sep 11, 2026

What we count

The approximate source corpus includes historical listings. This explorer uses unexpired, non-agency postings with a tech-role classification and no elapsed application deadline and a primary listed US or European country. Europe includes the UK and Switzerland. No posting-date cutoff.

What the numbers mean

Annual advertised salary-range midpoints in the selected original currency. Only explicitly yearly records with both bounds ordered and between 10,000 and 1,000,000 contribute. Percentiles use linear interpolation.

Enough data to be useful

We publish salary comparisons from 5 valid ranges. Small samples can still move a lot. Always check the count alongside the number.

A snapshot, with limits

  • Source corpus size is an estimate, not the number of current tech jobs. Filtered job counts and salary sample counts are exact for this query. This is a snapshot of source listings, not a representative market census or salaries paid.
  • Currency changes affect salary statistics only. No currency conversion. Supported salary currencies: USD, EUR, GBP and CHF. Hourly, monthly, unspecified-period, partial and implausible ranges are excluded; equity and bonuses are excluded.
  • Salary statistics and histograms are withheld below five observations. Highest-paying skill and industry rankings require at least 20 salary observations per group and rank by median. Experience groups use source-provided experience bands, not job-title seniority.
  • Each unique source posting counts once in its primary listed country. Reposts and cross-source duplicates may remain. Worldwide or secondary-only locations do not enter regional totals.
  • Tech groups use existing role classifications. Unclassified postings are excluded. Skill options show the 100 most frequent supplied skills; the query returns up to 20 skills by posting count, and comparison cards display up to 10 rows. Remote share counts explicitly fully remote listings divided by all matched jobs.
  • Industry uses the employer LinkedIn industry, not a claim that every employer is a tech company. Cities use the first supplied city for postings whose listed countries all agree; multi-country postings, missing cities and missing industries are excluded from their respective breakdowns. City options show the top 100 by posting count; city and industry queries return up to 30 groups, and comparison cards display up to 10 rows. Detailed roles use the existing source taxonomy.
  • Companies use available LinkedIn organization identifiers, domains or names. Unknown companies are excluded from the company count. Unexpired source records may still represent filled roles; no real-time employer verification is implied.

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  • 03

    Mechanical Engineer

    4,945 roles · 2,625 salary ranges

    $130k
  • 04

    Product Manager

    4,942 roles · 3,138 salary ranges

    $155k
  • 05

    Engineering Manager

    4,465 roles · 2,641 salary ranges

    $190k
  • 06

    QA Engineer

    4,386 roles · 2,605 salary ranges

    $130k
  • 07

    Solutions Architect

    2,647 roles · 1,755 salary ranges

    $180k
  • 08

    Fullstack Engineer

    2,640 roles · 1,781 salary ranges

    $160k
  • 09

    Security Engineer

    2,594 roles · 1,732 salary ranges

    $161k
  • 10

    Devops Engineer

    2,453 roles · 1,604 salary ranges

    $160k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Austin, United States

    1,882 roles · 855 salary ranges

    $170k
  • 04

    Seattle, United States

    1,594 roles · 1,351 salary ranges

    $187k
  • 05

    Sunnyvale, United States

    1,353 roles · 1,184 salary ranges

    $212k
  • 06

    Chicago, United States

    1,257 roles · 1,005 salary ranges

    $148k
  • 07

    Boston, United States

    1,248 roles · 991 salary ranges

    $166k
  • 08

    Washington, United States

    1,182 roles · 911 salary ranges

    $160k
  • 09

    San Jose, United States

    1,121 roles · 962 salary ranges

    $206k
  • 10

    Atlanta, United States

    1,105 roles · 469 salary ranges

    $146k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Defense and Space Manufacturing

    5,918 roles · 4,084 salary ranges

    $149k
  • 04

    IT Services and IT Consulting

    5,569 roles · 3,338 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 05

    Technology, Information and Internet

    2,771 roles · 1,841 salary ranges

    $188k
  • 06

    Hospitals and Health Care

    2,202 roles · 1,413 salary ranges

    $149k
  • 07

    Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

    2,111 roles · 1,605 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 08

    Semiconductor Manufacturing

    1,866 roles · 1,271 salary ranges

    $164k
  • 09

    Business Consulting and Services

    1,225 roles · 681 salary ranges

    $145k
  • 10

    Insurance

    1,206 roles · 790 salary ranges

    $152k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Computer Hardware Manufacturing

    614 roles · 530 salary ranges

    $236k
  • 04

    Social Networking Platforms

    72 roles · 72 salary ranges

    $229k
  • 05

    IT System Custom Software Development

    62 roles · 23 salary ranges

    $208k
  • 06

    Automotive

    88 roles · 58 salary ranges

    $204k
  • 07

    Computer Games

    114 roles · 81 salary ranges

    $203k
  • 08

    Mental Health Care

    165 roles · 144 salary ranges

    $198k
  • 09

    Musicians

    41 roles · 25 salary ranges

    $197k
  • 10

    Robotics Engineering

    298 roles · 148 salary ranges

    $194k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    ci/cd

    11,020 roles · 7,379 salary ranges

    $162k
  • 04

    aws

    10,145 roles · 6,936 salary ranges

    $170k
  • 05

    java

    9,765 roles · 6,943 salary ranges

    $170k
  • 06

    project management

    9,688 roles · 5,444 salary ranges

    $144k
  • 07

    stakeholder management

    8,866 roles · 6,213 salary ranges

    $176k
  • 08

    kubernetes

    8,861 roles · 6,244 salary ranges

    $175k
  • 09

    data analysis

    8,236 roles · 5,038 salary ranges

    $149k
  • 10

    technical leadership

    8,232 roles · 5,891 salary ranges

    $189k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    ai safety

    57 roles · 43 salary ranges

    $271k
  • 04

    vectordbs

    31 roles · 31 salary ranges

    $269k
  • 05

    embodied ai

    36 roles · 23 salary ranges

    $260k
  • 06

    post-training

    34 roles · 27 salary ranges

    $260k
  • 07

    infrastructure scaling

    28 roles · 26 salary ranges

    $255k
  • 08

    fine tuning

    27 roles · 25 salary ranges

    $254k
  • 09

    large-scale system design

    43 roles · 43 salary ranges

    $254k
  • 10

    tpu

    25 roles · 23 salary ranges

    $254k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    2–5 years

    18,792 roles · 11,163 salary ranges

    $130k
  • 04

    0–2 years

    5,567 roles · 1,810 salary ranges

    $88k
  • 05

    Experience not specified

    9 roles · 2 salary ranges

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  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

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