Developer job-market data

Salaries by role

Highest-paying skills

• djangoUS$269,50041 postings · +103% vs typical
• sast/dastUS$259,00036 postings · +95% vs typical
• recommendation systemsUS$222,80046 postings · +67% vs typical
• experimental designUS$222,80033 postings · +67% vs typical
• deep learningUS$215,00029 postings · +62% vs typical
• apexUS$213,35025 postings · +60% vs typical
• people managementUS$212,00029 postings · +59% vs typical
• data storytellingUS$210,40030 postings · +58% vs typical
• container securityUS$209,25045 postings · +57% vs typical
• reinforcement learning environmentsUS$208,00048 postings · +56% vs typical
• threat detectionUS$205,65036 postings · +55% vs typical
• causal inferenceUS$203,87575 postings · +53% vs typical
• feature engineeringUS$202,50032 postings · +52% vs typical
• computer-visionUS$202,00079 postings · +52% vs typical
• a/b testingUS$199,725145 postings · +50% vs typical
• roboticsUS$197,50054 postings · +48% vs typical
• erp systemsUS$197,50029 postings · +48% vs typical
• experimentationUS$193,61352 postings · +45% vs typical
• oidcUS$191,00025 postings · +44% vs typical
• kafkaUS$189,025402 postings · +42% vs typical
• change managementUS$187,89034 postings · +41% vs typical
• feature storesUS$186,00042 postings · +40% vs typical
• airflowUS$186,00027 postings · +40% vs typical
• autonomous systemsUS$186,00026 postings · +40% vs typical
• statistical modelingUS$183,625121 postings · +38% vs typical
• ts/sci clearanceUS$183,35030 postings · +38% vs typical
• zero trustUS$182,50036 postings · +37% vs typical
• data meshUS$182,50033 postings · +37% vs typical
• power pagesA$275,6004 postings
• system-designUS$181,6004,937 postings · +36% vs typical

Skills employers ask for together

The technology pairings that show up most often in the same job posting: the demand signal for what to learn alongside what.

What kinds of roles are hiring

How current postings break down: the mix of seniority, company stage, and how central system design is to the work.

Salaries by country

Top-paying tech employers

Employers ranked by the median base wage they disclose on H-1B/LCA visa filings. This is a base figure that omits equity and bonus, sourced from U.S. DOL OFLC. Only employers with enough filings to be reliable are ranked.

Biggest H-1B tech visa sponsors

Employers ranked by how many tech H-1B/LCA filings they disclose: the most active sponsors of international tech hires. Showing the top 24 of 9,383 employers.

The IT-services pay gap

Large IT-services, consulting, and staffing firms disclose a median base wage of US$109,886, which is US$35,409 (32%) below the US$145,295 product and direct-hire employers disclose.

IT-services, consulting & staffing

US$109,886

59,201 filings · 63 employers

Product & direct-hire

US$145,295

248,084 filings · 9,320 employers

Cohorts are a heuristic classification of a curated set of large IT-services, consulting, and staffing filers, matched by employer name; every other sponsor counts as product/direct-hire. Each figure is the filing-weighted median of its cohort’s disclosed base wages. This is a base figure that omits equity and bonus, sourced from U.S. DOL OFLC. It classifies a curated set, not every filer, and is not a judgment of any individual employer.

Highest-paying tech roles

Tech roles ranked by the median base wage disclosed on H-1B/LCA visa filings. This is a base figure that omits equity and bonus, sourced from U.S. DOL OFLC. Only roles with enough filings to be reliable are ranked.

Top-paying tech cities

Metro areas ranked by the median base wage disclosed on H-1B/LCA visa filings. This is a base figure that omits equity and bonus, sourced from U.S. DOL OFLC. Only cities with enough filings to be reliable are ranked.

Disclosed tech salaries by US state

How fresh are these postings?

We re-check the job boards we track on every refresh and note when a posting first appeared, how long it stays up, and when the same listing comes back. These are raw counts across 57,718 tracked postings (14,853 still open), not a verdict on any one job.

These counts cover only the boards we track, not the whole hiring market, so read them as a sample. A dash means we haven’t seen enough of that signal here yet. A reposted or long-open listing isn’t necessarily a ghost job. Visa and green-card rules require some roles to be re-advertised. So we show what we saw and leave the call to you.

Posting patterns by company

How the busiest employers on the boards we track run their postings: how long a typical role stays open, and how often we saw the same listing come back. These are observations, not a verdict on any employer, measured across 56,280 tracked postings with a named company, through September 2026.

Only employers with at least 5 tracked postings appear, since fewer can’t carry a typical figure. A reposted or long-open listing is not necessarily a ghost job. Visa and green-card rules require some roles to be re-advertised, so we show what we saw and leave the call to you.

Where roles sit open longest

The role and location cells whose postings stay open longest across the markets we track, and how often the same listing comes back. These are the roles where a candidate has the most time and leverage. These are observations over the postings we tracked, not a verdict on any employer. As of the week of 21 September 2026.

Only cells with at least 30 tracked postings appear, since fewer can’t carry a typical figure. A long-open or reposted listing is not necessarily a ghost job. Visa and green-card rules require some roles to be re-advertised, so we show what we saw and leave the call to you.

Dossiers, bulletin, and open data

Quarter-grain trend reporting with disclosed methodology: a hiring dossier per market we collect (Australia, United States, United Kingdom), the dated Global Tech Hiring Bulletin, and the CC-BY datasets behind the published figures.