Tech & Data Jobs
Market Report 2026
Skills employers are actually hiring for, salary ranges from disclosed postings and demand trends across data, engineering, AI, DevOps, product and security — drawn from 11,595 active job listings across 3,901 companies.
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This report covers 11,595 active tech and data job listings across 3,901 companies, with skill demand and salary ranges refreshed daily.
Source: Datamata Studios — methodology and update cadence.
Key findings
What the data shows right now
Full Stack Developer is the highest-paying role tracked — a median of $140,000 across 2,400 listings with disclosed pay.
TypeScript demand is rising fastest — up 0.3 points in Engineering over the prior 7 days.
AWS is the most-requested skill in Engineering, appearing in 12% of active Engineering listings.
Among Full Stack Developer listings, those mentioning Cassandra show the highest median pay at $279,000.
Market coverage
Active listing volume by category
Engineering
4,374
active listings · 60 skills tracked
View trendsData
2,930
active listings · 60 skills tracked
View trendsDevOps
1,533
active listings · 60 skills tracked
View trendsAI / ML
1,213
active listings · 60 skills tracked
View trendsProduct
872
active listings · 60 skills tracked
View trendsSecurity
673
active listings · 60 skills tracked
View trendsFastest-moving skills
7-day demand movers by category
Engineering
- TypeScript+0.3 pts
DevOps
- Azure+0.2 pts
Percentage-point change in demand share over the prior 7-day window. See live skill trends for the full table.
Compensation
Salary ranges from employer-disclosed postings
Median with 25th–75th percentile range, computed from the midpoint of disclosed salary_min and salary_max. Only roles with at least 30 disclosed-salary listings are shown. See the salary intelligence hub for category breakdowns and skill premiums.
- Full Stack DeveloperP25 $81,120$140,000P75 $187,2012,400
- Product ManagerP25 $72,282$137,500P75 $198,000320
- Product DesignerP25 $62,362$132,879P75 $175,00053
- Research ScientistP25 $68,957$125,837P75 $195,00086
- Cloud ArchitectP25 $80,901$125,000P75 $145,450132
- Backend EngineerP25 $76,083$124,671P75 $161,654226
- Infrastructure EngineerP25 $61,987$123,102P75 $149,500105
- Data ScientistP25 $83,096$121,903P75 $157,594480
- Systems EngineerP25 $80,000$121,860P75 $151,500186
- MLOps EngineerP25 $96,758$118,994P75 $156,00044
- Platform EngineerP25 $72,528$118,594P75 $172,957155
- ML EngineerP25 $72,059$115,938P75 $180,000435
- Data EngineerP25 $71,440$113,750P75 $150,000668
- Mobile DeveloperP25 $61,948$112,700P75 $145,50443
- AI EngineerP25 $75,000$112,099P75 $164,192296
- Site Reliability EngineerP25 $68,189$109,863P75 $160,17185
- Frontend EngineerP25 $69,675$107,859P75 $168,620129
- QA EngineerP25 $62,410$105,390P75 $145,504142
- Security EngineerP25 $62,038$101,185P75 $147,115337
- DevOps EngineerP25 $68,760$98,759P75 $138,878487
- SOC AnalystP25 $65,000$92,548P75 $133,82447
- Data ArchitectP25 $75,000$92,500P75 $123,37292
- Data GovernanceP25 $51,457$89,028P75 $142,33150
- Analytics EngineerP25 $61,984$84,800P75 $137,80068
- BI EngineerP25 $54,973$71,724P75 $123,50045
- Data AnalystP25 $49,373$68,601P75 $105,934733
Figures reflect current active listings with disclosed pay and update on each refresh. Per-skill premiums and percentile detail are in the salary hub.
Methodology & citation
All data is derived from active job postings scraped and normalized by Datamata Studios. Skill demand is measured as the share of active listings in a category that mention a given skill. Salary figures use the midpoint of employer-disclosed salary_min and salary_max fields — self-reported surveys are not used. Data is refreshed daily. Full methodology is documented at datamatastudios.com/methodology.
To cite this report: Datamata Studios. (2026). Tech & Data Jobs Market Report 2026. Retrieved from https://www.datamatastudios.com/data-jobs-report
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