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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.

5,103

Current tech listings in your selection

3,483

Usable salary ranges · USD

1,573

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.

3,483 salary ranges · USD / year

Median advertised salary

$156k

The middle of the advertised range midpoints.

Average midpoint: $160k / year

25th percentile
$127k
75th percentile
$185k

Where advertised ranges land

Number of listings by annual salary midpoint

1
$0
32
$50k
225
$75k
510
$100k
742
$125k
862
$150k
477
$175k
508
$200k
94
$250k
32
$300k
Each listing contributes one midpoint. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers or total compensation.

Matching tech roles

5,103

Companies represented

1,573

Salary ranges in USD

3,483

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

—

2 salary ranges

25th percentile unavailable; 75th percentile unavailable

2026-Q1

$145k

46 salary ranges

25th percentile $120k; 75th percentile $176k

2026-Q2

$153k

1,228 salary ranges

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

2026-Q3

$153k

6,314 salary ranges

25th percentile $123k; 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

    3,126 roles · 2,186 salary ranges

    $158k
  2. 02

    Infrastructure & security

    1,229 roles · 800 salary ranges

    $151k
  3. 03

    Hardware & robotics

    435 roles · 302 salary ranges

    $156k
  4. 04

    AI & data

    299 roles · 184 salary ranges

    $153k
  5. 05

    Product & design

    14 roles · 11 salary ranges

    $204k

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

    2,153 roles · 1,508 salary ranges

    $162k
  2. 02

    Devops Engineer

    543 roles · 372 salary ranges

    $151k

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

    5,103 roles · 3,483 salary ranges

    $156k

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

    Austin, United States

    139 roles · 72 salary ranges

    $152k
  2. 02

    Huntsville, United States

    137 roles · 81 salary ranges

    $125k

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

    956 roles · 743 salary ranges

    $170k
  2. 02

    Defense and Space Manufacturing

    946 roles · 655 salary ranges

    $144k

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

    102 roles · 85 salary ranges

    $220k
  2. 02

    Non-profit Organizations

    75 roles · 74 salary ranges

    $193k

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

    linux

    5,103 roles · 3,483 salary ranges

    $156k
  2. 02

    python

    3,363 roles · 2,314 salary ranges

    $160k

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

    qnx

    35 roles · 31 salary ranges

    $220k
  2. 02

    slurm

    28 roles · 22 salary ranges

    $209k

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

    2,384 roles · 1,751 salary ranges

    $161k
  2. 02

    2–5 years

    1,354 roles · 849 salary ranges

    $128k

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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its working.

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

    404 roles · 293 salary ranges

    $142k
  • 04

    Embedded Software Engineer

    281 roles · 199 salary ranges

    $154k
  • 05

    SRE Engineer

    210 roles · 131 salary ranges

    $160k
  • 06

    Security Engineer

    204 roles · 139 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 07

    Support Engineer

    177 roles · 100 salary ranges

    $111k
  • 08

    Cloud Engineer

    136 roles · 79 salary ranges

    $146k
  • 09

    Infrastructure Engineer

    132 roles · 77 salary ranges

    $147k
  • 10

    Fullstack Engineer

    122 roles · 75 salary ranges

    $153k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    New York, United States

    123 roles · 96 salary ranges

    $158k
  • 04

    Santa Clara, United States

    108 roles · 96 salary ranges

    $219k
  • 05

    San Francisco, United States

    107 roles · 76 salary ranges

    $204k
  • 06

    San Diego, United States

    105 roles · 93 salary ranges

    $143k
  • 07

    Sunnyvale, United States

    95 roles · 85 salary ranges

    $216k
  • 08

    San Jose, United States

    91 roles · 69 salary ranges

    $189k
  • 09

    Annapolis Junction, United States

    87 roles · 61 salary ranges

    $200k
  • 10

    Chantilly, United States

    87 roles · 57 salary ranges

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

  • 03

    IT Services and IT Consulting

    492 roles · 279 salary ranges

    $149k
  • 04

    Financial Services

    265 roles · 158 salary ranges

    $170k
  • 05

    Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

    262 roles · 228 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 06

    Semiconductor Manufacturing

    176 roles · 115 salary ranges

    $164k
  • 07

    Technology, Information and Internet

    166 roles · 123 salary ranges

    $175k
  • 08

    Computer Hardware Manufacturing

    102 roles · 85 salary ranges

    $220k
  • 09

    Information Technology & Services

    85 roles · 58 salary ranges

    $125k
  • 10

    Telecommunications

    85 roles · 34 salary ranges

    $148k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    IT System Data Services

    41 roles · 38 salary ranges

    $178k
  • 04

    Computer and Network Security

    76 roles · 55 salary ranges

    $175k
  • 05

    Medical Equipment Manufacturing

    62 roles · 45 salary ranges

    $175k
  • 06

    Technology, Information and Internet

    166 roles · 123 salary ranges

    $175k
  • 07

    Software Development

    956 roles · 743 salary ranges

    $170k
  • 08

    Financial Services

    265 roles · 158 salary ranges

    $170k
  • 09

    Space Research and Technology

    34 roles · 28 salary ranges

    $169k
  • 10

    Aviation & Aerospace

    29 roles · 27 salary ranges

    $167k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    c++

    1,708 roles · 1,191 salary ranges

    $156k
  • 04

    kubernetes

    1,427 roles · 971 salary ranges

    $160k
  • 05

    ci/cd

    1,413 roles · 946 salary ranges

    $160k
  • 06

    docker

    1,246 roles · 869 salary ranges

    $160k
  • 07

    git

    1,231 roles · 806 salary ranges

    $148k
  • 08

    java

    1,100 roles · 752 salary ranges

    $153k
  • 09

    aws

    1,026 roles · 670 salary ranges

    $155k
  • 10

    terraform

    956 roles · 664 salary ranges

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

  • 03

    scala

    39 roles · 30 salary ranges

    $201k
  • 04

    hpc

    41 roles · 29 salary ranges

    $200k
  • 05

    bazel

    38 roles · 35 salary ranges

    $198k
  • 06

    opentelemetry

    38 roles · 30 salary ranges

    $195k
  • 07

    parallel computing

    27 roles · 26 salary ranges

    $194k
  • 08

    memory management

    44 roles · 37 salary ranges

    $194k
  • 09

    telemetry

    71 roles · 50 salary ranges

    $192k
  • 10

    performance analysis

    32 roles · 25 salary ranges

    $192k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    10+ years

    935 roles · 693 salary ranges

    $192k
  • 04

    0–2 years

    430 roles · 190 salary ranges

    $98k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

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