IT Salary Benchmarking & Hiring Market Insights
Make smarter, faster hiring decisions with real-time IT salary benchmarks and talent market intelligence. Know exactly what top tech professionals expect - before you make the offer.
200+
Technology roles benchmarked
30+
Markets covered globally
12
Months of rolling data
10k+
Compensation data points
Decisions you can stand behind
Outdated salary data costs you candidates at offer stage, drives attrition in your existing team, and erodes trust with the board when headcount plans don't match market reality. Benchmarking fixes all three.
Win more offers
First offers grounded in real market data get accepted faster and at higher rates
Retain your team
Identify pay gaps before they become resignation letters
Budget with confidence
Accurate data turns headcount plans into credible board-level business cases
Move faster
Less back-and-forth at offer stage means shorter hiring cycles
What our benchmarks cover
Granular data across every dimension that actually matters for competitive compensation decisions.
By Role & Seniority
Granular salary ranges from junior to principal level across every major IT discipline - engineering, data, product, security, and infrastructure.
By Geography & Market
Compensation varies enormously by location. Our benchmarks cover major UK, European, and global hiring markets - including remote-first salary structures.
By Technology Stack
Certain stacks command a premium. We benchmark compensation by tech stack so you can price rare skills accurately and avoid losing candidates to better-informed competitors.
By Company Stage
Salary expectations differ significantly between a seed-stage startup and a publicly listed enterprise. Our data is segmented by company size and funding stage.
Trends & Market Shifts
Understand where the market is heading, not just where it is today. Our quarterly insights cover emerging salary pressures, in-demand skills, and hiring sentiment across the sector.
How we gather the data
Benchmarks are only as good as the data behind them. Ours come from live hiring activity — not self-reported surveys.
STEP 01
Live Placement Data
Every salary benchmark is anchored in real placements - not survey guesswork. We draw on live offer, acceptance, and negotiation data from active hiring mandates across our client base.
STEP 02
Market & Network
We combine placement data with ongoing conversations across our candidate and hiring network - giving us ground-level intelligence on shifting expectations, counter-offers, and emerging salary pressures.
STEP 03
Role & Seniority
Benchmarks are broken down by role, seniority level, tech stack, and market - so you're comparing like for like, not averaging across roles that have nothing in common.
STEP 04
Location & Remote
Salary expectations differ significantly by geography and remote policy. Our benchmarks account for on-site, hybrid, and fully remote compensation structures across major hiring markets.
STEP 05
Quarterly Review
The tech market moves fast. We refresh our benchmarks quarterly and publish hiring insights reports so your compensation strategy never falls behind the market.
Better data, better outcomes
What better
data changes
Compensation decisions informed by live market data — not guesswork, not last year's surveys. Every offer, every retention conversation, every board presentation backed by real numbers.
Make Competitive Offers, First Time
Offers that land on market rate get accepted faster and trigger fewer counter-offers - saving weeks of lost time in competitive hiring processes.
Retain the Staff You Already Have
Pay gaps are a leading cause of unexpected attrition. Benchmarking your existing team against market rates flags retention risk before it becomes a resignation.
Budget With Precision
Accurate salary data turns vague headcount plans into fundable business cases. Know what each role will actually cost before you go to the board.
Close Hires Faster
Hiring processes stall most often at offer stage. When your numbers are grounded in current market data, negotiations are shorter and acceptance rates are higher.
Stop guessing. Start hiring with market intelligence.
Request our latest IT salary benchmarking report or speak to our team about a custom compensation analysis for your specific roles and markets.