Employer Salary Guide Report 2025
Salaries have settled, but expectations haven’t. The 2025 Talenza Employer Salary Guide helps you lead with data, defend decisions, and attract the talent your business can’t afford to lose.
Employer Salary Guide Report 2025
Salaries have settled, but expectations haven’t. The 2025 Talenza Employer Salary Guide helps you lead with data, defend decisions, and attract the talent your business can’t afford to lose.
Stay Competitive in a Shifting Tech Talent Market
Shape stronger teams. Back better business cases. Compete with confidence. The 2025 Talenza Employer Salary Guide gives you real Australian salary benchmarks, sharper market insight, and the clarity to lead hiring conversations with conviction.
Attract and retain top talent in an evolving market
The tech and transformation market has recalibrated. Salaries have stabilised, but complexity hasn’t.
For leaders navigating volatility, talent decisions carry more weight than ever. You're not just filling roles – you're shaping capability, culture, and enterprise resilience.
The 2025 Talenza Employer Salary Guide helps you stay ahead of the next skills gap, the next resignation, and the next budget review, so you can lead with data.
Whether you're re-scoping a function, shaping leadership headcount, or pressure-testing an AI uplift strategy, this guide gives you:
- Local benchmarks that hold up under executive scrutiny
- Role-by-role salary bands that reflect real hiring conditions – not assumptions
- Market intelligence that connects pay, progression, and performance
Defend your offers. Retain your leaders. Realign EVP to what actually matters in a complex market.
This isn’t just salary data. It’s strategic clarity for executives building high-performing, future-ready teams.
Smarter decisions start here
The tech talent market is moving – subtly but significantly. This guide gives you the clarity and confidence to lead (before someone else does). Use the 2025 Talenza Employer Salary Guide to:
Benchmark salaries across roles, remits, and seniority
Avoid over- or under-paying – and retain top performers before competitors come calling.
Spot where salary stabilisation is landing, and where premiums still apply
Invest in the roles that deliver ROI. Know where to flex – and where to hold firm.
Understand how AI is reshaping skills and scopes
Anticipate capability gaps. Rethink role design before it slows down delivery.
Align EVP, flexibility and progression with what tech talent actually wants
Compete on more than just pay. Deliver the offer that lands – and sticks.
Plan for portfolio careers and leadership gaps
Strengthen succession. Support internal mobility. See what’s coming before it hits.
Back up your business case with data
From headcount to retention – bring the insight that turns planning into action.
Why trust this data?
Because it reflects what’s really happening – inside real tech teams right now.
Talenza partners with leading tech and transformation employers across Australia to place hundreds of roles every year. From architecture to AI, delivery leads to data teams, we see the shifts as they happen.
We’re not guessing from job ads. We’re not scraping outdated databases. We’re on the ground talking to hiring managers, mapping org charts, and hearing what candidates won’t say on LinkedIn.
This guide captures that field intelligence and distils it into one clear resource to give you confidence.
- 675 tech and transformation roles placed in the last 12 months.
- 100s of conversations every month with hiring managers and jobseekers.
- Salary and market insights drawn from live hiring activity
You’re not just downloading a PDF. You’re getting access to the market signals your competitors are acting on.
Ready to plan smarter?
Hiring in tech and transformation isn’t getting easier. Don’t wait for the next attrition spike or scramble to match last-minute offers. This guide gives you the clarity, context and confidence to shape roles, pitch them well, and secure the talent you can’t afford to lose. It’s not just a salary report. It’s a workforce strategy tool.
- Benchmark compensation with clarity in this volatile and complex market
- Understand how AI is reshaping roles, teams, and leadership
- Align your EVP, flexibility, and growth pathways to what top talent really wants
- Make a case internally – whether you’re hiring, retaining, or rebuilding
