Tech Salary Report 2026

Salary medians and percentile bands computed from disclosed salaries on company career pages — no self-reported survey data, no recruiter estimates. Updated continuously as new jobs are scanned.

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$150k median salary 13708 disclosed salaries 451 companies 17% remote

Key findings

  • AI/ML has the highest median pay at $180k, across 2236 disclosed salaries.
  • The biggest seniority step is director → vp: +$57k median.
  • 28% of active roles (13708 of 49535) disclose a salary.

Salary by skill

Percentile bands over the lower bound of each disclosed range. Skills with fewer than 10 disclosed salaries are excluded.

Skill Jobs 25th pct Median 75th pct Remote
Python 3218 $125k $160k $190.8k 16%
AI/ML 2236 $140k $180k $231k 11%
AWS 1354 $135.7k $170k $199.8k 24%
Kubernetes 1264 $125k $165k $200k 23%
SQL 1124 $115.2k $150.3k $184.3k 19%
Go 960 $127.3k $164.2k $196k 21%
C++ 804 $125k $150k $175k 7%
TypeScript 798 $140k $171.5k $200k 17%
Java 731 $125k $160.8k $190.8k 21%
GCP 688 $139.2k $170k $194.6k 20%
AI 687 $120k $159.8k $199.8k 21%
React 651 $135k $168k $196k 17%
SaaS 636 $115k $151.5k $207.9k 14%
Salesforce 629 $93.1k $128k $165k 25%
Azure 587 $137k $167k $190k 19%
Terraform 550 $140k $170k $200k 18%
PostgreSQL 543 $125k $165k $200k 20%
Docker 451 $125k $160k $182.2k 17%
JavaScript 450 $125k $160k $187k 20%
Linux 440 $109k $130k $165k 11%

Salary by seniority

Seniority Jobs Median
vp 148 $260k
c-level 94 $227.5k
director 771 $203k
staff 1282 $194.5k
principal 369 $185k
lead 1161 $165.6k
senior 5634 $156k
mid 3566 $115k
intern 15 $83.2k
junior 438 $75k

Methodology

Figures are computed from currently active job listings scanned directly from company career pages. Only roles with a disclosed annual USD salary are included; hourly rates and non-USD currencies are excluded to keep medians comparable. Percentiles are calculated over the lower bound of each disclosed range, which makes the medians conservative. Data refreshes continuously as companies are rescanned — last computed September 12, 2026. These figures describe roles Joblaze observed on the career pages it scans, not the entire job market.

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Reproducible: percentiles are PostgreSQL percentile_cont over advertised annual minimums converted to USD; see Methodology.