Salary for Senior-level / Expert Tech Lead during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Tech Lead during 2025 is USD 200,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 50 individual salaries reported during 2025

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The average senior-level / expert Tech Lead salary lies between USD 159,000 and USD 234,000 globally. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Tech Lead
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
50
Top 10%
$ 300,000
Top 25%
$ 234,000
Median
$ 200,000
Bottom 25%
$ 159,000
Bottom 10%
$ 126,582

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Senior-level / Expert Tech Lead roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Tech Lead job listings are Python, Engineering and Architecture. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Python | 314 jobs Engineering | 300 jobs Architecture | 263 jobs Machine Learning | 262 jobs AWS | 209 jobs Pipelines | 206 jobs SQL | 154 jobs Computer Science | 152 jobs CI/CD | 150 jobs Azure | 142 jobs Security | 131 jobs GCP | 126 jobs Testing | 124 jobs APIs | 124 jobs Agile | 123 jobs LLMs | 105 jobs Big Data | 103 jobs DevOps | 100 jobs Research | 98 jobs Generative AI | 98 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Tech Lead roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Tech Lead job listings are Career development, Health care and Startup environment. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 292 jobs Health care | 113 jobs Startup environment | 105 jobs Equity / stock options | 79 jobs Competitive pay | 76 jobs Flex hours | 74 jobs Team events | 64 jobs Insurance | 51 jobs Salary bonus | 44 jobs Parental leave | 43 jobs Wellness | 41 jobs Medical leave | 41 jobs Flex vacation | 36 jobs Transparency | 32 jobs 401(k) matching | 27 jobs Home office stipend | 22 jobs Conferences | 17 jobs Gear | 13 jobs Fitness / gym | 13 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 13 jobs

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