IT Salary Benchmarking & Hiring Market Insights
Make smarter, faster hiring decisions with real-time IT salary benchmarks.
200+
Technology roles benchmarked
8
Seniority Levels
24
Months of rolling data
10k+
Candidates 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Outdated salary data costs you candidates at offer stage, drives attrition in your existing team, and erodes trust with the board when headcount plans don't match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
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 Bulgarian 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quarterly Review
The tech market moves fast. We refresh our benchmarks quarterly to ensure compensation data remains accurate with current market conditions.
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.
Frequently asked
questions.
A few answers we give a lot - about timelines, our process, and how we work.
It helps companies remain competitive and reduce offer rejection rates. Outdated salary data costs you candidates at offer stage, drives attrition in your existing team, and undermines board-level headcount plans.
Yes. Reports can be customized by role, seniority and technology stack - so you're comparing like for like, not averaging across roles that have nothing in common.
Yes. We provide both local and remote market comparisons, accounting for on-site, hybrid and fully remote compensation structures across major hiring markets.
Yes. We benchmark compensation for both individual contributors and leadership roles, including Engineering Managers, Heads of Engineering, CTOs, VP Engineering, Product Leaders, and other senior technical positions. Every benchmark considers the role's responsibilities, company size, location, industry, and current market demand.
Our benchmarks combine market research, active hiring data and technology market trends - drawn from live placement activity across our client base, not self-reported surveys.
Benchmark data is continuously updated based on real hiring activity and reviewed quarterly to ensure it reflects current market conditions.
For highly specialized or emerging roles, we combine historical placement data, comparable technology stacks, recruiter market intelligence, active hiring trends, and compensation patterns from similar positions. This allows us to provide realistic and competitive salary recommendations, even when publicly available data is limited.
Most salary benchmark reports are delivered within 4 business days. More complex requests involving multiple locations, leadership positions, or large hiring plans may require additional time to ensure the highest level of accuracy.
Absolutely. Every salary benchmarking request is handled with complete confidentiality. We never disclose company names, hiring plans, compensation strategies, or any information shared during the process. Your data is used solely to prepare your report and is never shared with third parties.
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