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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.

1,332

Current tech listings in your selection

917

Usable salary ranges · USD

734

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.

917 salary ranges · USD / year

Median advertised salary

$151k

The middle of the advertised range midpoints.

Average midpoint: $156k / year

25th percentile
$126k
75th percentile
$183k

Where advertised ranges land

Number of listings by annual salary midpoint

0
$0
3
$50k
45
$75k
162
$100k
235
$125k
200
$150k
143
$175k
107
$200k
16
$250k
6
$300k
Each listing contributes one midpoint. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers or total compensation.

Matching tech roles

1,332

Companies represented

734

Salary ranges in USD

917

Fully remote roles

4.1%

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.

2025-Q4

—

0 salary ranges

25th percentile unavailable; 75th percentile unavailable

2026-Q1

$155k

10 salary ranges

25th percentile $128k; 75th percentile $168k

2026-Q2

$147k

447 salary ranges

25th percentile $125k; 75th percentile $177k

2026-Q3

$148k

1,821 salary ranges

25th percentile $125k; 75th percentile $180k

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

    647 roles · 459 salary ranges

    $153k
  2. 02

    Infrastructure & security

    572 roles · 373 salary ranges

    $150k
  3. 03

    AI & data

    76 roles · 59 salary ranges

    $152k
  4. 04

    Hardware & robotics

    23 roles · 17 salary ranges

    $155k
  5. 05

    Product & design

    14 roles · 9 salary ranges

    $185k

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

    363 roles · 258 salary ranges

    $162k
  2. 02

    Security Engineer

    234 roles · 148 salary ranges

    $150k

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

    1,332 roles · 917 salary ranges

    $151k

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

    48 roles · 43 salary ranges

    $173k
  2. 02

    Washington, United States

    46 roles · 37 salary ranges

    $150k

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

    233 roles · 190 salary ranges

    $158k
  2. 02

    IT Services and IT Consulting

    163 roles · 98 salary ranges

    $149k

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

    Technology, Information and Internet

    34 roles · 27 salary ranges

    $190k
  2. 02

    Software Development

    233 roles · 190 salary ranges

    $158k

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 pipelines

    1,332 roles · 917 salary ranges

    $151k
  2. 02

    python

    662 roles · 467 salary ranges

    $150k

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

    machine learning

    42 roles · 34 salary ranges

    $190k
  2. 02

    gcp

    60 roles · 48 salary ranges

    $185k

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

    636 roles · 443 salary ranges

    $150k
  2. 02

    10+ years

    354 roles · 238 salary ranges

    $180k

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

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Skills & technologies

pythonsqlci/cdawsjavaproject managementkubernetesstakeholder management

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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    Devops Engineer

    213 roles · 142 salary ranges

    $140k
  • 04

    QA Engineer

    114 roles · 86 salary ranges

    $131k
  • 05

    Cloud Engineer

    68 roles · 47 salary ranges

    $161k
  • 06

    Fullstack Engineer

    45 roles · 33 salary ranges

    $140k
  • 07

    Engineering Manager

    42 roles · 23 salary ranges

    $184k
  • 08

    Solutions Architect

    42 roles · 27 salary ranges

    $183k
  • 09

    SRE Engineer

    31 roles · 17 salary ranges

    $151k
  • 10

    AI Engineer

    27 roles · 22 salary ranges

    $159k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Atlanta, United States

    38 roles · 24 salary ranges

    $148k
  • 04

    Arlington, United States

    28 roles · 19 salary ranges

    $145k
  • 05

    Seattle, United States

    26 roles · 20 salary ranges

    $180k
  • 06

    Huntsville, United States

    25 roles · 12 salary ranges

    $122k
  • 07

    Austin, United States

    24 roles · 8 salary ranges

    $158k
  • 08

    Boston, United States

    22 roles · 21 salary ranges

    $140k
  • 09

    Plano, United States

    22 roles · 7 salary ranges

    $126k
  • 10

    San Francisco, United States

    22 roles · 18 salary ranges

    $203k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Defense and Space Manufacturing

    162 roles · 113 salary ranges

    $140k
  • 04

    Financial Services

    127 roles · 82 salary ranges

    $153k
  • 05

    Hospitals and Health Care

    48 roles · 36 salary ranges

    $147k
  • 06

    Banking

    34 roles · 27 salary ranges

    $148k
  • 07

    Information Technology & Services

    34 roles · 21 salary ranges

    $125k
  • 08

    Technology, Information and Internet

    34 roles · 27 salary ranges

    $190k
  • 09

    Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

    31 roles · 26 salary ranges

    $151k
  • 10

    Insurance

    28 roles · 16 salary ranges

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

  • 03

    Financial Services

    127 roles · 82 salary ranges

    $153k
  • 04

    Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

    31 roles · 26 salary ranges

    $151k
  • 05

    IT Services and IT Consulting

    163 roles · 98 salary ranges

    $149k
  • 06

    Banking

    34 roles · 27 salary ranges

    $148k
  • 07

    Hospitals and Health Care

    48 roles · 36 salary ranges

    $147k
  • 08

    Defense and Space Manufacturing

    162 roles · 113 salary ranges

    $140k
  • 09

    Information Technology & Services

    34 roles · 21 salary ranges

    $125k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    kubernetes

    490 roles · 336 salary ranges

    $155k
  • 04

    terraform

    371 roles · 250 salary ranges

    $151k
  • 05

    aws

    341 roles · 243 salary ranges

    $153k
  • 06

    infrastructure as code

    335 roles · 215 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 07

    docker

    323 roles · 218 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 08

    devsecops

    297 roles · 198 salary ranges

    $142k
  • 09

    java

    252 roles · 181 salary ranges

    $148k
  • 10

    devops

    228 roles · 171 salary ranges

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

  • 03

    nosql

    23 roles · 22 salary ranges

    $185k
  • 04

    cloud-native architecture

    24 roles · 20 salary ranges

    $183k
  • 05

    prompt engineering

    27 roles · 20 salary ranges

    $182k
  • 06

    system architecture

    80 roles · 62 salary ranges

    $181k
  • 07

    mentorship

    34 roles · 31 salary ranges

    $174k
  • 08

    security engineering

    27 roles · 20 salary ranges

    $171k
  • 09

    api design

    43 roles · 30 salary ranges

    $170k
  • 10

    threat modeling

    68 roles · 41 salary ranges

    $170k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    2–5 years

    303 roles · 216 salary ranges

    $125k
  • 04

    0–2 years

    39 roles · 20 salary ranges

    $91k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

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