Talent cost & availability
Talent cost & availability
Top 10 roles: where's the talent and what will it cost?
Below, you can investigate the current talent market for 10 roles in high demand across the world.
Choose a role via the drop-down filter and use the three buttons at the top to filter the heatmap. You can filter it by talent availability to see the supply count of professionals on permanent contracts in those roles or looking for those roles in each country. Alternatively, you can filter the map by talent cost to explore average salary expectations for permanent positions or hourly rates for contractors. Click on each country to load the data for that market.
To compare the situation in one country with another in more detail, progress to the next section.
*All rates shown in USD
Top 10 roles: country to country comparison
Here, you can load different countries side by side to compare specific locations for hiring the same 10 roles we highlighted above. Dive into more detail as to the makeup of the talent market for the roles in each country by talent availability, experience levels and pay expectations.
For both permanent hires and contractors, we present the current pay expectations as well as a future forecast for those expectations through to 2026.
*Future pay expectations are calculated through the % salary increase that professionals on permanent contracts said they would expect to receive and the % by which contractors said they planned to increase their rates in the coming year.
*All rates shown in USD
Talent mobility & plans
Using the tools above, you can research the current state of play in the market for 10 key roles, but what about other positions, and what about the future?
Below, we widen the focus to explore the plans of all the tech professionals on permanent contracts in the year ahead. Use the drop-down filters of the two graphics to compare professionals by the country or speciality they operate in.
The % of people looking to leave their organisations suggests opportunities for new hires as well as potential threats to your own talent retention. Will you target those looking for new opportunities in your country or look overseas for new permanent recruits? Or... will you engage contractors instead? Investigate the data to inform your decisions and then add the later resource to your downloads package for more analysis.
Talent on the move: the tech professionals most looking for change
Explore the reasons tech specialists are looking for change and the challenges and opportunities for your company as their potential destination.
Add to downloads packageTalent attraction
Pay will always be crucial, but aside from that, what matters most to tech professionals when it comes to choosing a new employer?
Find out from 9,870 tech specialists across the world on the next page. Expect variations from country to country...