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The diiirect Talent IndexLiveUpdated 25 Jul 2026 · 30,830 postings trackedAlways free · no login

An open, evidence-based read on the talent market.

The talent market,
in real time.

Real compensation, hiring demand, and the skills behind it — measured from live postings and official statistics across categories and roles, not surveys.

Demand index · all roles26 weeks
▲ 12900%vs. prior period
operations is the biggest mover. Demand measured from live postings.

30,830
Open postings
27
Categories
42
Roles measured
$76K
Median comp
6,463
Companies hiring

Tracking 30,830 live postings across 12 countries — 8 across Latin America, with compensation for 42 roles, every figure labelled by source.


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Questions about the data

Reported

Real individual wages — salary disclosures in live postings (published at 30+ observations, outlier-filtered) plus government administrative micro-records (Brazil RAIS, Mexico IMSS). Census-grade, no self-selection.

Aggregate

Published official statistics (ILOSTAT, INEGI) and community surveys (sysarmy, Stack Overflow). Self-selection is flagged in the source detail and weighted down.

Baseline

Where disclosure is thin, we anchor to public US BLS occupational wage data, mapped role by role — so every figure has a defensible floor.

Modeled

Regional figures apply a transparent cost index and seniority multipliers. Every number on the page is labelled with how it was derived.

How current is the talent index?

Demand refreshes weekly from live job postings across tracked ATS providers, LinkedIn, Indeed and community boards; stale postings retire after 10 days. Compensation cadence varies by source — government data is monthly to annual — and every figure shows its own "as of" date.

How are salary percentiles calculated?

We annualize and FX-normalize every disclosed salary to USD, then compute p25 / p50 / p75 per role. Reported percentiles publish only once a role clears 30 observations; below that, figures fall back to official-statistics or BLS-anchored baselines, clearly labelled.

Why is the Latin America data so deep?

We source free, official government wage records — Brazil RAIS, Mexico IMSS, ILOSTAT — the same data paid vendors resell, with cleaner provenance. It is aggregated and anonymized, and it is why LATAM compensation on diiirect is more honest than survey-based competitors.

Is this data free to use?

Yes — the talent index is a public resource. Cite it, link it, or hire directly through diiirect when you are ready to act on it.

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Biggest movers

  1. 01Virtual Assistantoperations · 131 open▲ 12900%
  2. 02Mobile Engineerengineering · 85 open▲ 7500%
  3. 03Project Manageroperations · 527 open▲ 5070%
  4. 04Senior Backend Engineerengineering · 42 open▲ 3800%

Highest paid

  1. 01Principal Software EngineerMedian · p50, global$205K
  2. 02Senior Software EngineerMedian · p50, global$166K
  3. 03DevOps EngineerMedian · p50, global$160K
  4. 04Senior Product ManagerMedian · p50, global$155K
Software & Web Development7,406 open · comp soon
Business Operations2,965 open · comp soon
Digital Marketing & Growth1,869 open · comp soon
Sales & Lead Generation1,278 open · comp soon
Data, AI & Machine Learning1,221 open · comp soon
Product Management1,214 open · comp soon
UX/UI & Product Design694 open · comp soon
Customer Support & Success534 open · comp soon
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