IT Job Salary Rankings & Pay Rates in Australia (2026)

💰 Top Paying Job Titles

Highest-paying roles with active vacancies in Australia.

Rank	Job Title	Median Salary	Live Jobs	Trends	Courses
1	Data Analyst	A$110,000	🌐 527 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
2	Lead Data Manager	A$151,637	🌐 378 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
3	Senior Cloud Engineer	A$160,000	🌐 397 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
4	Senior Data Consultant	A$150,000	🌐 265 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
5	Senior Data Analyst	A$139,000	🌐 444 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
6	Senior Data Engineer	A$190,000	🌐 366 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
7	Platform Developer	A$115,740	🌐 403 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
8	Data Manager	A$121,273	🌐 1,791 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
9	Cloud Manager	A$205,000	🌐 244 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
10	Cyber Security Engineer	A$157,500	🌐 209 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
11	Lead Data Developer	A$155,909	🌐 281 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
12	Data Specialist	A$122,500	🌐 429 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
13	Senior DevOps Engineer	A$175,000	🌐 414 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
14	Platform Engineer	A$157,500	🌐 1,493 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
15	AI Analyst	A$85,000	🌐 304 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
16	Senior Platform Engineer	A$178,880	🌐 388 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
17	Azure Engineer	A$165,000	🌐 235 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
18	.NET Developer	A$115,000	🌐 663 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
19	Data Engineer	A$112,500	🌐 2,556 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
20	Platform Manager	A$220,000	🌐 367 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
21	AI Architect	A$206,640	🌐 758 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
22	Senior Python Engineer	A$170,000	🌐 468 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
23	Data Consultant	A$130,000	🌐 256 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
24	Business Intelligence Analyst	A$126,939	🌐 264 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
25	DevOps Engineer	A$85,000	🌐 1,738 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
26	Java Developer	A$175,000	🌐 535 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
27	Senior AI Engineer	A$170,000	🌐 376 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
28	AI Engineer	A$155,000	🌐 387 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
29	Cyber Security Analyst	A$140,146	🌐 41 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
30	Python Developer	A$130,000	🌐 200 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
31	C# Developer	A$105,000	🌐 437 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
32	AI Consultant	A$100,000	🌐 253 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
33	Junior Data Analyst	A$87,500	🌐 388 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
34	Senior AI Manager	A$209,500	🌐 309 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
35	Senior AWS Engineer	A$170,000	🌐 361 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
36	Senior Machine Learning Engineer	A$165,000	🌐 310 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
37	Platform Analyst	A$162,500	🌐 250 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
38	Platform Consultant	A$150,000	🌐 291 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
39	Site Reliability Engineer	A$139,483	🌐 315 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
40	Lead Python Engineer	A$290,000	🌐 323 globally Browse jobs → Warm	View →	Courses →
41	Chief Information Officer (CIO)	A$230,000	🌐 31 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
175	Lead C# Engineer	A$270,000	🌐 92 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →
211	Junior Python Developer	A$77,000	🌐 48 globally Browse jobs → Cool	View →	Courses →

Browse all 981 job titles →

Jobs by Adzuna

🔥 Most In-Demand Skills

Technologies most frequently required across IT job titles in Australia.

Rank	Skill Name	Job Titles	Live Job Mentions	Action
1	Python	205 roles	958 ads	Learn This
2	AWS	151 roles	522 ads	Learn This
3	SQL	113 roles	430 ads	Learn This
4	Microsoft Azure	96 roles	280 ads	Learn This
5	Java	95 roles	323 ads	Learn This
6	Kubernetes	77 roles	281 ads	Learn This
7	JavaScript	51 roles	171 ads	Learn This
8	Terraform	51 roles	157 ads	Learn This
9	Docker	50 roles	178 ads	Learn This
10	TypeScript	48 roles	170 ads	Learn This
11	C++	38 roles	90 ads	Learn This
12	DevOps	25 roles	110 ads	Learn This
13	Git	21 roles	62 ads	Learn This
14	Google Cloud Platform	19 roles	35 ads	Learn This
15	Artificial Intelligence	16 roles	28 ads	Learn This
16	Node.js	14 roles	40 ads	Learn This
17	PostgreSQL	13 roles	41 ads	Learn This
18	Linux	13 roles	40 ads	Learn This
19	Machine Learning	12 roles	33 ads	Learn This
20	Apache Kafka	11 roles	23 ads	Learn This
21	Microservices	11 roles	38 ads	Learn This
22	Jira	9 roles	34 ads	Learn This
23	Spring Boot	8 roles	28 ads	Learn This
24	network security	8 roles	40 ads	Learn This
25	sql server	4 roles	9 ads	Learn This
26	API	4 roles	7 ads	Learn This
27	Bash	4 roles	11 ads	Learn This
28	REST APIs	3 roles	3 ads	Learn This
29	AI/ML	3 roles	3 ads	Learn This
30	ServiceNow	3 roles	9 ads	Learn This
31	Cybersecurity	3 roles	13 ads	Learn This
32	MLOps	3 roles	8 ads	Learn This
33	NoSQL	3 roles	6 ads	Learn This
34	Agile	3 roles	13 ads	Learn This
35	ospf	3 roles	11 ads	Learn This
36	bgp	3 roles	11 ads	Learn This
37	sap s/4hana	3 roles	17 ads	Learn This
38	Rust	3 roles	6 ads	Learn This
39	data lineage	2 roles	9 ads	Learn This
40	sd-wan	2 roles	2 ads	Learn This
41	data analytics	2 roles	6 ads	Learn This
42	identity and access management (iam)	2 roles	9 ads	Learn This
43	RAG	2 roles	2 ads	Learn This
44	Scrum	2 roles	9 ads	Learn This
45	lan	2 roles	5 ads	Learn This
46	LLMs	2 roles	2 ads	Learn This
47	wan	2 roles	5 ads	Learn This
48	.NET Core	2 roles	2 ads	Learn This

📈 Median Salary History — Highest Paid 5 Roles

Monthly median salary for the top-paying IT roles in Australia.