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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.

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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.

26,494

Current tech listings in your selection

18,208

Usable salary ranges · USD

6,210

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.

18,208 salary ranges · USD / year

Median advertised salary

$168k

The middle of the advertised range midpoints.

Average midpoint: $173k / year

25th percentile
$135k
75th percentile
$203k

Where advertised ranges land

Number of listings by annual salary midpoint

7
$0
159
$50k
889
$75k
2064
$100k
3283
$125k
3722
$150k
3030
$175k
3663
$200k
980
$250k
411
$300k
Each listing contributes one midpoint. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers or total compensation.

Matching tech roles

26,494

Companies represented

6,210

Salary ranges in USD

18,208

Fully remote roles

4.4%

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

$174k

205 salary ranges

25th percentile $146k; 75th percentile $211k

2026-Q2

$152k

7,939 salary ranges

25th percentile $125k; 75th percentile $186k

2026-Q3

$160k

33,554 salary ranges

25th percentile $126k; 75th percentile $195k

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

    12,702 roles · 9,037 salary ranges

    $173k
  2. 02

    AI & data

    8,192 roles · 5,348 salary ranges

    $163k
  3. 03

    Infrastructure & security

    3,715 roles · 2,517 salary ranges

    $162k
  4. 04

    Hardware & robotics

    1,688 roles · 1,160 salary ranges

    $150k
  5. 05

    Product & design

    197 roles · 146 salary ranges

    $174k

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

    7,560 roles · 5,482 salary ranges

    $175k
  2. 02

    Data Scientist

    1,947 roles · 1,302 salary ranges

    $162k

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

    26,494 roles · 18,208 salary ranges

    $168k

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

    1,454 roles · 1,188 salary ranges

    $185k
  2. 02

    San Francisco, United States

    1,250 roles · 962 salary ranges

    $213k

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

    5,924 roles · 4,727 salary ranges

    $187k
  2. 02

    Financial Services

    2,548 roles · 1,810 salary ranges

    $185k

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

    295 roles · 260 salary ranges

    $236k
  2. 02

    Social Networking Platforms

    35 roles · 35 salary ranges

    $229k

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

    python

    26,494 roles · 18,208 salary ranges

    $168k
  2. 02

    sql

    7,474 roles · 4,858 salary ranges

    $157k

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

    vectordbs

    32 roles · 32 salary ranges

    $263k
  2. 02

    model quantization

    36 roles · 27 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

    12,564 roles · 9,039 salary ranges

    $170k
  2. 02

    2–5 years

    6,848 roles · 4,462 salary ranges

    $141k

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 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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Snapshot: Sep 12, 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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    Data Engineer

    1,843 roles · 1,163 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 04

    QA Engineer

    1,545 roles · 1,020 salary ranges

    $137k
  • 05

    Devops Engineer

    1,491 roles · 993 salary ranges

    $160k
  • 06

    Fullstack Engineer

    1,168 roles · 832 salary ranges

    $178k
  • 07

    AI Engineer

    1,082 roles · 678 salary ranges

    $178k
  • 08

    Security Engineer

    1,070 roles · 763 salary ranges

    $165k
  • 09

    Machine Learning Engineer

    749 roles · 530 salary ranges

    $205k
  • 10

    Data Analyst

    701 roles · 380 salary ranges

    $115k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Austin, United States

    722 roles · 318 salary ranges

    $174k
  • 04

    Sunnyvale, United States

    578 roles · 483 salary ranges

    $214k
  • 05

    Seattle, United States

    555 roles · 474 salary ranges

    $193k
  • 06

    McLean, United States

    521 roles · 474 salary ranges

    $202k
  • 07

    Chicago, United States

    484 roles · 394 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 08

    San Jose, United States

    476 roles · 407 salary ranges

    $207k
  • 09

    Washington, United States

    471 roles · 373 salary ranges

    $163k
  • 10

    Boston, United States

    463 roles · 384 salary ranges

    $168k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    Defense and Space Manufacturing

    2,137 roles · 1,504 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 04

    IT Services and IT Consulting

    1,879 roles · 1,069 salary ranges

    $150k
  • 05

    Technology, Information and Internet

    1,087 roles · 734 salary ranges

    $183k
  • 06

    Hospitals and Health Care

    763 roles · 547 salary ranges

    $149k
  • 07

    Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

    733 roles · 561 salary ranges

    $155k
  • 08

    Semiconductor Manufacturing

    682 roles · 445 salary ranges

    $171k
  • 09

    Business Consulting and Services

    461 roles · 257 salary ranges

    $145k
  • 10

    Information Technology & Services

    450 roles · 308 salary ranges

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

  • 03

    Automotive

    33 roles · 27 salary ranges

    $220k
  • 04

    Research Services

    333 roles · 270 salary ranges

    $218k
  • 05

    Robotics Engineering

    128 roles · 62 salary ranges

    $199k
  • 06

    Artificial Intelligence

    38 roles · 30 salary ranges

    $199k
  • 07

    Non-profit Organizations

    283 roles · 259 salary ranges

    $193k
  • 08

    Mental Health Care

    65 roles · 60 salary ranges

    $188k
  • 09

    Software Development

    5,924 roles · 4,727 salary ranges

    $187k
  • 10

    Financial Services

    2,548 roles · 1,810 salary ranges

    $185k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    ci/cd

    6,256 roles · 4,255 salary ranges

    $161k
  • 04

    aws

    6,036 roles · 4,192 salary ranges

    $171k
  • 05

    java

    5,962 roles · 4,332 salary ranges

    $179k
  • 06

    kubernetes

    5,428 roles · 3,861 salary ranges

    $176k
  • 07

    c++

    5,083 roles · 3,799 salary ranges

    $175k
  • 08

    machine learning

    5,005 roles · 3,483 salary ranges

    $181k
  • 09

    docker

    4,163 roles · 2,866 salary ranges

    $168k
  • 10

    linux

    3,366 roles · 2,311 salary ranges

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

  • 03

    sglang

    42 roles · 27 salary ranges

    $245k
  • 04

    latency optimization

    33 roles · 23 salary ranges

    $238k
  • 05

    technical strategy

    107 roles · 82 salary ranges

    $237k
  • 06

    engineering management

    140 roles · 110 salary ranges

    $237k
  • 07

    ai safety

    30 roles · 25 salary ranges

    $236k
  • 08

    nccl

    35 roles · 30 salary ranges

    $236k
  • 09

    distillation

    26 roles · 20 salary ranges

    $235k
  • 10

    autonomous vehicles

    50 roles · 38 salary ranges

    $235k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

  • 03

    10+ years

    5,208 roles · 3,963 salary ranges

    $201k
  • 04

    0–2 years

    1,874 roles · 744 salary ranges

    $99k
  • Bands show the middle 50% of salary midpoints. A dash means fewer than 5 usable salary ranges.

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