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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.

5,614

Current tech listings in your selection

3,744

Usable salary ranges · USD

1,898

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.

3,744 salary ranges · USD / year

Median advertised salary

$145k

The middle of the advertised range midpoints.

Average midpoint: $149k / year

25th percentile
$120k
75th percentile
$175k

Where advertised ranges land

Number of listings by annual salary midpoint

1
$0
30
$50k
278
$75k
797
$100k
922
$125k
778
$150k
433
$175k
445
$200k
50
$250k
10
$300k
Each listing contributes one midpoint. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers or total compensation.

Matching tech roles

5,614

Companies represented

1,898

Salary ranges in USD

3,744

Fully remote roles

6.1%

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.

2026-Q1

$174k

27 salary ranges

25th percentile $144k; 75th percentile $201k

2026-Q2

$129k

1,736 salary ranges

25th percentile $101k; 75th percentile $161k

2026-Q3

$137k

7,648 salary ranges

25th percentile $112k; 75th percentile $167k

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

    3,858 roles · 2,594 salary ranges

    $145k
  2. 02

    Product & design

    580 roles · 343 salary ranges

    $139k
  3. 03

    AI & data

    535 roles · 339 salary ranges

    $142k
  4. 04

    Infrastructure & security

    448 roles · 310 salary ranges

    $149k
  5. 05

    Hardware & robotics

    193 roles · 158 salary ranges

    $142k

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

    2,342 roles · 1,573 salary ranges

    $145k
  2. 02

    Fullstack Engineer

    674 roles · 462 salary ranges

    $140k

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

    5,614 roles · 3,744 salary ranges

    $145k

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

    McLean, United States

    272 roles · 263 salary ranges

    $202k
  2. 02

    New York, United States

    212 roles · 179 salary ranges

    $158k

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

    Financial Services

    858 roles · 620 salary ranges

    $184k
  2. 02

    Defense and Space Manufacturing

    745 roles · 582 salary ranges

    $143k

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

    Financial Services

    858 roles · 620 salary ranges

    $184k
  2. 02

    Computer and Network Security

    39 roles · 27 salary ranges

    $178k

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

    agile

    5,614 roles · 3,744 salary ranges

    $145k
  2. 02

    python

    2,282 roles · 1,656 salary ranges

    $151k

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

    people management

    134 roles · 129 salary ranges

    $211k
  2. 02

    distributed computing

    38 roles · 33 salary ranges

    $211k

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

    2,737 roles · 1,895 salary ranges

    $151k
  2. 02

    2–5 years

    1,395 roles · 834 salary ranges

    $115k

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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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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    Product Manager

    454 roles · 260 salary ranges

    $138k
  • 04

    QA Engineer

    307 roles · 200 salary ranges

    $119k
  • 05

    Data Engineer

    251 roles · 172 salary ranges

    $148k
  • 06

    Devops Engineer

    234 roles · 174 salary ranges

    $151k
  • 07

    Engineering Manager

    192 roles · 129 salary ranges

    $174k
  • 08

    Embedded Software Engineer

    140 roles · 111 salary ranges

    $141k
  • 09

    Solutions Architect

    128 roles · 83 salary ranges

    $168k
  • 10

    Security Engineer

    94 roles · 57 salary ranges

    $142k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Austin, United States

    108 roles · 44 salary ranges

    $145k
  • 04

    Huntsville, United States

    107 roles · 59 salary ranges

    $136k
  • 05

    Chicago, United States

    105 roles · 91 salary ranges

    $145k
  • 06

    Washington, United States

    102 roles · 75 salary ranges

    $142k
  • 07

    Atlanta, United States

    97 roles · 41 salary ranges

    $119k
  • 08

    Chantilly, United States

    97 roles · 77 salary ranges

    $161k
  • 09

    Boston, United States

    79 roles · 66 salary ranges

    $143k
  • 10

    Arlington, United States

    78 roles · 59 salary ranges

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

  • 03

    IT Services and IT Consulting

    691 roles · 434 salary ranges

    $125k
  • 04

    Software Development

    658 roles · 400 salary ranges

    $146k
  • 05

    Hospitals and Health Care

    169 roles · 124 salary ranges

    $129k
  • 06

    Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

    148 roles · 127 salary ranges

    $126k
  • 07

    Information Technology & Services

    142 roles · 75 salary ranges

    $125k
  • 08

    Technology, Information and Internet

    134 roles · 104 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 09

    Insurance

    127 roles · 76 salary ranges

    $134k
  • 10

    Banking

    114 roles · 69 salary ranges

    $120k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Aviation & Aerospace

    30 roles · 30 salary ranges

    $159k
  • 04

    Semiconductor Manufacturing

    36 roles · 30 salary ranges

    $158k
  • 05

    Professional Services

    30 roles · 23 salary ranges

    $158k
  • 06

    IT System Data Services

    33 roles · 30 salary ranges

    $157k
  • 07

    Information Services

    30 roles · 20 salary ranges

    $153k
  • 08

    Biotechnology Research

    38 roles · 28 salary ranges

    $152k
  • 09

    Real Estate

    66 roles · 49 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 10

    Technology, Information and Internet

    134 roles · 104 salary ranges

    $150k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    java

    1,994 roles · 1,457 salary ranges

    $151k
  • 04

    ci/cd

    1,880 roles · 1,234 salary ranges

    $145k
  • 05

    aws

    1,609 roles · 1,171 salary ranges

    $154k
  • 06

    sql

    1,481 roles · 957 salary ranges

    $144k
  • 07

    git

    1,336 roles · 886 salary ranges

    $130k
  • 08

    scrum

    1,325 roles · 795 salary ranges

    $135k
  • 09

    javascript

    1,198 roles · 798 salary ranges

    $140k
  • 10

    kubernetes

    1,139 roles · 845 salary ranges

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

  • 03

    distributed microservices

    37 roles · 37 salary ranges

    $211k
  • 04

    html/css

    27 roles · 22 salary ranges

    $211k
  • 05

    go

    339 roles · 294 salary ranges

    $202k
  • 06

    scala

    156 roles · 140 salary ranges

    $202k
  • 07

    rdbms

    82 roles · 79 salary ranges

    $202k
  • 08

    ai tooling

    68 roles · 64 salary ranges

    $202k
  • 09

    redshift

    51 roles · 47 salary ranges

    $202k
  • 10

    unix/linux

    25 roles · 23 salary ranges

    $202k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    10+ years

    1,177 roles · 873 salary ranges

    $173k
  • 04

    0–2 years

    305 roles · 142 salary ranges

    $86k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

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