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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.

11,026

Current tech listings in your selection

7,384

Usable salary ranges · USD

3,757

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.

7,384 salary ranges · USD / year

Median advertised salary

$162k

The middle of the advertised range midpoints.

Average midpoint: $167k / year

25th percentile
$135k
75th percentile
$192k

Where advertised ranges land

Number of listings by annual salary midpoint

2
$0
20
$50k
248
$75k
840
$100k
1616
$125k
1761
$150k
1344
$175k
1187
$200k
286
$250k
80
$300k
Each listing contributes one midpoint. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers or total compensation.

Matching tech roles

11,026

Companies represented

3,757

Salary ranges in USD

7,384

Fully remote roles

6.5%

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.

2026-Q1

$178k

63 salary ranges

25th percentile $156k; 75th percentile $212k

2026-Q2

$151k

3,631 salary ranges

25th percentile $125k; 75th percentile $175k

2026-Q3

$156k

14,660 salary ranges

25th percentile $128k; 75th percentile $184k

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

    6,862 roles · 4,659 salary ranges

    $165k
  2. 02

    Infrastructure & security

    2,493 roles · 1,633 salary ranges

    $160k
  3. 03

    AI & data

    1,440 roles · 933 salary ranges

    $154k
  4. 04

    Hardware & robotics

    174 roles · 117 salary ranges

    $164k
  5. 05

    Product & design

    57 roles · 42 salary ranges

    $191k

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

    4,259 roles · 3,005 salary ranges

    $166k
  2. 02

    Devops Engineer

    1,332 roles · 876 salary ranges

    $158k

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

    11,026 roles · 7,384 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

    625 roles · 530 salary ranges

    $175k
  2. 02

    San Francisco, United States

    371 roles · 306 salary ranges

    $210k

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

    1,975 roles · 1,442 salary ranges

    $179k
  2. 02

    Financial Services

    1,505 roles · 958 salary ranges

    $169k

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

    59 roles · 51 salary ranges

    $236k
  2. 02

    Research Services

    52 roles · 41 salary ranges

    $199k

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

    ci/cd

    11,026 roles · 7,384 salary ranges

    $162k
  2. 02

    python

    6,247 roles · 4,258 salary ranges

    $161k

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

    developer productivity

    23 roles · 22 salary ranges

    $249k
  2. 02

    technical strategy

    60 roles · 43 salary ranges

    $232k

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

    5,773 roles · 3,945 salary ranges

    $162k
  2. 02

    10+ years

    2,659 roles · 1,868 salary ranges

    $189k

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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    Fullstack Engineer

    926 roles · 580 salary ranges

    $148k
  • 04

    Data Engineer

    695 roles · 453 salary ranges

    $149k
  • 05

    QA Engineer

    514 roles · 308 salary ranges

    $137k
  • 06

    Engineering Manager

    383 roles · 250 salary ranges

    $196k
  • 07

    Security Engineer

    359 roles · 242 salary ranges

    $160k
  • 08

    SRE Engineer

    334 roles · 233 salary ranges

    $175k
  • 09

    Cloud Engineer

    301 roles · 175 salary ranges

    $146k
  • 10

    AI Engineer

    290 roles · 174 salary ranges

    $162k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Austin, United States

    257 roles · 103 salary ranges

    $172k
  • 04

    Atlanta, United States

    241 roles · 102 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 05

    Chicago, United States

    238 roles · 198 salary ranges

    $155k
  • 06

    Boston, United States

    225 roles · 193 salary ranges

    $165k
  • 07

    Jersey City, United States

    202 roles · 185 salary ranges

    $184k
  • 08

    Sunnyvale, United States

    199 roles · 170 salary ranges

    $215k
  • 09

    Washington, United States

    199 roles · 157 salary ranges

    $165k
  • 10

    Plano, United States

    160 roles · 44 salary ranges

    $177k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    IT Services and IT Consulting

    1,095 roles · 633 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 04

    Defense and Space Manufacturing

    723 roles · 535 salary ranges

    $151k
  • 05

    Technology, Information and Internet

    411 roles · 293 salary ranges

    $174k
  • 06

    Retail

    341 roles · 270 salary ranges

    $176k
  • 07

    Hospitals and Health Care

    317 roles · 243 salary ranges

    $153k
  • 08

    Insurance

    282 roles · 214 salary ranges

    $154k
  • 09

    Information Technology & Services

    276 roles · 187 salary ranges

    $125k
  • 10

    Business Consulting and Services

    223 roles · 135 salary ranges

    $145k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Robotics Engineering

    33 roles · 21 salary ranges

    $195k
  • 04

    Non-profit Organizations

    82 roles · 75 salary ranges

    $193k
  • 05

    Consumer Services

    32 roles · 22 salary ranges

    $180k
  • 06

    Wellness and Fitness Services

    29 roles · 21 salary ranges

    $180k
  • 07

    Software Development

    1,975 roles · 1,442 salary ranges

    $179k
  • 08

    Semiconductor Manufacturing

    119 roles · 83 salary ranges

    $178k
  • 09

    Computer and Network Security

    187 roles · 131 salary ranges

    $178k
  • 10

    Retail

    341 roles · 270 salary ranges

    $176k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    kubernetes

    3,896 roles · 2,672 salary ranges

    $166k
  • 04

    aws

    3,890 roles · 2,593 salary ranges

    $161k
  • 05

    java

    2,877 roles · 1,969 salary ranges

    $161k
  • 06

    docker

    2,861 roles · 1,845 salary ranges

    $157k
  • 07

    terraform

    2,603 roles · 1,691 salary ranges

    $163k
  • 08

    sql

    2,388 roles · 1,494 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 09

    git

    2,059 roles · 1,303 salary ranges

    $143k
  • 10

    typescript

    1,911 roles · 1,220 salary ranges

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

  • 03

    operational excellence

    26 roles · 20 salary ranges

    $228k
  • 04

    engineering leadership

    39 roles · 21 salary ranges

    $222k
  • 05

    engineering management

    96 roles · 75 salary ranges

    $218k
  • 06

    technical project delivery

    25 roles · 25 salary ranges

    $216k
  • 07

    distributed computing

    68 roles · 52 salary ranges

    $215k
  • 08

    mobile architecture

    41 roles · 24 salary ranges

    $215k
  • 09

    data-driven decision making

    37 roles · 35 salary ranges

    $215k
  • 10

    software prototyping

    20 roles · 20 salary ranges

    $215k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    2–5 years

    2,325 roles · 1,442 salary ranges

    $135k
  • 04

    0–2 years

    269 roles · 129 salary ranges

    $101k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

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