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 14180 disclosed salaries 443 companies 19% remote

Key findings

  • AI/ML has the highest median pay at $180k, across 2182 disclosed salaries.
  • The biggest seniority step is director → vp: +$57k median.
  • 27% of active roles (14180 of 52918) 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 3317 $125k $160k $195k 18%
AI/ML 2182 $139.2k $180k $230k 15%
Kubernetes 1311 $125k $165k $200k 25%
AWS 1244 $136.6k $174k $200k 29%
SQL 1105 $112k $150k $185k 23%
Go 1021 $128.8k $165k $200k 25%
TypeScript 784 $129.0k $168.1k $196.3k 24%
C++ 743 $125k $150k $175k 7%
AI 742 $114.8k $150.0k $192k 24%
Java 723 $115k $152k $185.2k 27%
React 663 $125k $160k $192.7k 25%
GCP 626 $140k $175.0k $193.5k 24%
SaaS 626 $110k $150k $207k 22%
PostgreSQL 598 $125k $163.5k $199.9k 28%
Salesforce 575 $97.3k $132k $165k 29%
Terraform 539 $130k $165k $200k 21%
Azure 528 $139.1k $170k $190k 25%
Linux 495 $109k $130k $165k 12%
Docker 475 $125k $160k $186.3k 24%
JavaScript 431 $117.0k $153k $188.5k 26%

Salary by seniority

Seniority Jobs Median
vp 130 $257k
c-level 89 $220k
staff 1220 $200k
director 802 $200k
principal 429 $179.7k
lead 1117 $166k
senior 5810 $155.4k
mid 3884 $117.1k
intern 20 $90.8k
junior 422 $80k

Methodology

Figures are computed from currently active job listings scanned directly from company career pages. Only roles with a disclosed annual salary are included; non-USD salaries are converted to USD at current rates and hourly rates 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 November 06, 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.