Technology and Digital Salary Insights 2025
2025 Technology & Digital Salary Survey: Data-Driven Insights for Competitive Hiring and Workforce Planning

Is Your Workforce Strategy Keeping Up With The Market?
Tech salaries are shifting fast. Get the data you need to stay competitive and attract top talent in 2025.
The Talent Market Has Shifted. Have You?
74,000+ tech layoffs. Zero salary decreases. Talent demand didn’t disappear, it’s evolved. Here’s how:
Your Strategic Edge
Download the data and use it for your 2026 budgets, offers, and future-proof your team.
- Are you paying 10-20% above market rate? Reallocate that spend on high-impact roles.
- 30% faster close rate with competitive offers. Speed wins.
- $167K for AI engineers is the market reality. Show the CFO the data.
- Proactive raises to keep talent. Reactive counteroffers are often too late.
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- Real-time rate intelligence: Data to help close before competitors engage.
- Contingent or project-based talent: Right skills for each situation.
- 31.3% female tech talent: Active diversity pipelines.
Frequently Asked Questions:
$167K average. $180K+ for experienced talent. Range: $130K-$184K. Budget 10-15% premium for critical hires to close quickly.
3-5% baseline keeps pace with the market. AI/Data roles: 4-5%. Critical retention: 8-10%. Proactive increases cost less than replacement.
Strengthen the total compensation package to include equity, bonus structure, remote flexibility, and learning budgets. Consider geographic arbitrage or training adjacent talent.
Highly reliable for strategic planning. Q1-Q3 2025 transaction data from actual placements. Use as directional guidance for compensation strategy.