TechTarget releases 2025 US Tech and IT Salary Report

TechTarget published its 2025 US Tech and IT Salary Report in 2025, the company's most recent annual benchmark for compensation across the American technology and information-technology workforce. The full report is hosted on techtarget.com.

What does the report cover?

The title itself, the only substantive information available in the public excerpt reviewed for this article, indicates three defined parameters:

• Geography: United States only
• Sector: technology and IT roles
• Subject: salary, framed as a 2025 snapshot

TechTarget has not, in the material available to Path & Pay, released specific base-salary figures, role-level medians, percentile distributions, geographic breakdowns, or methodology notes from the 2025 edition.

What salary reports of this kind typically include

To set expectations for readers who intend to consult the underlying document, annual US tech salary reports in this format generally segment compensation across several axes. These categories describe the standard structure of such surveys, not specific findings from the 2025 edition:

• Role categories, most often software engineering, data science, IT management, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and product management
• Experience bands, typically entry-level, mid-career, senior, and principal or staff
• US regions or metropolitan areas, frequently with separate figures for San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Austin, and Boston
• Company size, often split between enterprise employers and startups
• Compensation components, including base salary, bonus, equity, and total compensation

Without the report's underlying tables, this article cannot verify which roles command the highest premiums in 2025, how compensation has shifted from 2024, or which metros lead the rankings.

What is missing from the public excerpt

The source material supplied to Path & Pay contains the report's title and a link to techtarget.com, but no salary numbers, no quotations from TechTarget editors or contributors, no sample size disclosure, and no methodological footnotes. Readers evaluating the report's reliability should weigh the absence of these elements before drawing conclusions. Salary surveys vary in rigor: self-reported data can skew toward higher earners, respondent pools may favor specific employer types, and definitions of "tech" and "IT" roles are not standardized across publishers.

How to use the report

For individual candidates, the report functions as one reference point among several — useful for anchoring a negotiation, not sufficient as a sole authority. For hiring managers and compensation teams, it can inform range-setting, but should be triangulated against proprietary benchmarks and current requisition data. Sophie Lindqvist recommends treating any single salary survey as indicative rather than definitive.

The 2025 edition lands as US tech employers continue to balance post-2023 layoffs at major firms, expanding headcount in AI engineering and machine-learning operations, and sustained demand for cybersecurity and cloud talent. Path & Pay will update this article if TechTarget releases specific figures, methodology, or executive commentary from the report.