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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.

7,611

Current tech listings in your selection

5,597

Usable salary ranges · USD

1,582

Companies behind the numbers

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

Country

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.

5,597 salary ranges · USD / year

Median advertised salary

$172k

The middle of the advertised range midpoints.

Average midpoint: $179k / year

25th percentile
$142k
75th percentile
$213k

Where advertised ranges land

Number of listings by annual salary midpoint

1
$0
45
$50k
263
$75k
534
$100k
831
$125k
1192
$150k
993
$175k
1158
$200k
433
$250k
147
$300k
Each listing contributes one midpoint. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers or total compensation.

Matching tech roles

7,611

Companies represented

1,582

Salary ranges in USD

5,597

Fully remote roles

3.4%

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

—

1 salary ranges

25th percentile unavailable; 75th percentile unavailable

2026-Q1

$176k

71 salary ranges

25th percentile $140k; 75th percentile $211k

2026-Q2

$164k

2,314 salary ranges

25th percentile $125k; 75th percentile $196k

2026-Q3

$170k

10,035 salary ranges

25th percentile $130k; 75th percentile $207k

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

    5,436 roles · 4,056 salary ranges

    $174k
  2. 02

    Hardware & robotics

    1,077 roles · 690 salary ranges

    $154k
  3. 03

    AI & data

    750 roles · 597 salary ranges

    $191k
  4. 04

    Infrastructure & security

    332 roles · 243 salary ranges

    $179k
  5. 05

    Product & design

    16 roles · 11 salary ranges

    $195k

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

    4,410 roles · 3,318 salary ranges

    $174k
  2. 02

    Embedded Software Engineer

    665 roles · 450 salary ranges

    $152k

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

    7,611 roles · 5,597 salary ranges

    $172k

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

    Sunnyvale, United States

    352 roles · 323 salary ranges

    $216k
  2. 02

    Redmond, United States

    299 roles · 284 salary ranges

    $190k

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

    2,089 roles · 1,852 salary ranges

    $190k
  2. 02

    Defense and Space Manufacturing

    1,141 roles · 763 salary ranges

    $150k

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

    Computer Hardware Manufacturing

    174 roles · 155 salary ranges

    $261k
  2. 02

    Computer Games

    29 roles · 21 salary ranges

    $228k

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

    c++

    7,611 roles · 5,597 salary ranges

    $172k
  2. 02

    python

    5,073 roles · 3,797 salary ranges

    $175k

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

    58 roles · 53 salary ranges

    $254k
  2. 02

    large-scale system design

    21 roles · 21 salary ranges

    $254k

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

    3,250 roles · 2,528 salary ranges

    $180k
  2. 02

    2–5 years

    2,088 roles · 1,540 salary ranges

    $157k

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.

New YorkSan FranciscoSeattleBostonAustin

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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    QA Engineer

    379 roles · 248 salary ranges

    $131k
  • 04

    Applied Scientist

    238 roles · 224 salary ranges

    $197k
  • 05

    Principal Engineer

    199 roles · 168 salary ranges

    $191k
  • 06

    Engineering Manager

    184 roles · 143 salary ranges

    $237k
  • 07

    Electrical Engineer

    150 roles · 80 salary ranges

    $130k
  • 08

    Machine Learning Engineer

    150 roles · 117 salary ranges

    $212k
  • 09

    Security Engineer

    115 roles · 87 salary ranges

    $181k
  • 10

    Chip Design Engineer

    100 roles · 79 salary ranges

    $175k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Seattle, United States

    233 roles · 201 salary ranges

    $190k
  • 04

    Santa Clara, United States

    219 roles · 196 salary ranges

    $220k
  • 05

    Austin, United States

    216 roles · 98 salary ranges

    $178k
  • 06

    San Jose, United States

    213 roles · 179 salary ranges

    $206k
  • 07

    San Diego, United States

    209 roles · 187 salary ranges

    $167k
  • 08

    San Francisco, United States

    202 roles · 145 salary ranges

    $209k
  • 09

    Mountain View, United States

    200 roles · 190 salary ranges

    $213k
  • 10

    New York, United States

    181 roles · 147 salary ranges

    $200k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

    454 roles · 379 salary ranges

    $151k
  • 04

    Semiconductor Manufacturing

    340 roles · 238 salary ranges

    $169k
  • 05

    IT Services and IT Consulting

    324 roles · 242 salary ranges

    $160k
  • 06

    Computers and Electronics Manufacturing

    204 roles · 43 salary ranges

    $167k
  • 07

    Technology, Information and Internet

    200 roles · 153 salary ranges

    $190k
  • 08

    Computer Hardware Manufacturing

    174 roles · 155 salary ranges

    $261k
  • 09

    Financial Services

    174 roles · 98 salary ranges

    $201k
  • 10

    Non-profit Organizations

    146 roles · 142 salary ranges

    $222k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Non-profit Organizations

    146 roles · 142 salary ranges

    $222k
  • 04

    Financial Services

    174 roles · 98 salary ranges

    $201k
  • 05

    Robotics Engineering

    88 roles · 34 salary ranges

    $199k
  • 06

    Retail

    48 roles · 42 salary ranges

    $198k
  • 07

    Airlines and Aviation

    37 roles · 25 salary ranges

    $192k
  • 08

    Software Development

    2,089 roles · 1,852 salary ranges

    $190k
  • 09

    Technology, Information and Internet

    200 roles · 153 salary ranges

    $190k
  • 10

    Manufacturing

    51 roles · 24 salary ranges

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

  • 03

    java

    2,409 roles · 1,876 salary ranges

    $175k
  • 04

    c

    2,365 roles · 1,644 salary ranges

    $161k
  • 05

    linux

    1,709 roles · 1,192 salary ranges

    $156k
  • 06

    distributed systems

    1,251 roles · 1,038 salary ranges

    $195k
  • 07

    debugging

    1,250 roles · 875 salary ranges

    $170k
  • 08

    c#

    1,239 roles · 924 salary ranges

    $170k
  • 09

    ci/cd

    1,138 roles · 869 salary ranges

    $170k
  • 10

    git

    1,034 roles · 705 salary ranges

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

  • 03

    technical strategy

    40 roles · 33 salary ranges

    $239k
  • 04

    engineering management

    26 roles · 20 salary ranges

    $230k
  • 05

    performance management

    27 roles · 20 salary ranges

    $229k
  • 06

    imitation learning

    32 roles · 24 salary ranges

    $223k
  • 07

    parallel programming

    35 roles · 28 salary ranges

    $222k
  • 08

    estimation theory

    24 roles · 22 salary ranges

    $221k
  • 09

    model optimization

    35 roles · 28 salary ranges

    $220k
  • 10

    recommendation systems

    25 roles · 25 salary ranges

    $220k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    10+ years

    1,504 roles · 1,215 salary ranges

    $221k
  • 04

    0–2 years

    769 roles · 314 salary ranges

    $95k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

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