DevRel / Developer Advocate: market
A Developer Relations connects the product with the developer community: writes docs, samples and articles, speaks, collects feedback and helps developers succeed with the product. We currently track 235 open positions for this role, 232 of them fresh. It takes real development experience, writing and speaking, community and content work, and for AI products — hands-on LLM and API practice. By co-occurrence in requirements, Python, LLM, JavaScript and Kubernetes appear most often. 54% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Developer Relations market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The DevRel / Developer Advocate market currently has 235 open roles, 232 of them freshly observed. Median salary $15,416/mo.
54% of Developer Relations postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 17 of 235 jobs; remote share from 216 with a stated format; 232 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many DevRel / Developer Advocate postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 58
New sources connected: 11 May +1 · 25 May +1 · 1 Jun +4 · 15 Jun +1 · 22 Jun +4 · 29 Jun +2 · 6 Jul +5 · 13 Jul +4 · 20 Jul +3 · 27 Jul +3 · 3 Aug +2 · 10 Aug +2 · 17 Aug +1 · 24 Aug +1 · 31 Aug +1 · 14 Sept +3 · 21 Sept +6 · 28 Sept +1 · 5 Oct +2 · 12 Oct +9
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Remote work over time
Share of DevRel / Developer Advocate postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of DevRel / Developer Advocate postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of DevRel / Developer Advocate postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: DevRel / Developer Advocate
| Open demand | 235 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: DevRel / Developer Advocate
One in ten earns under $6,429, one in ten over $18,312. Half the market falls between $12,500 and $16,666. Sample: 17.
The range histogram for Developer Relations uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
⚠ percentiles from 17 salaries out of 235 jobs — a guide on a small sample
Demand geography: DevRel / Developer Advocate
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 110 |
| GB | 23 |
| DE | 6 |
| CA | 5 |
| NL | 5 |
| PL | 4 |
| IN | 4 |
| SG | 3 |
| FR | 3 |
| AR | 2 |
The top country for Developer Relations demand is the US (110 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Developer Relations requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Python, LLM, JavaScript and Kubernetes.
Demand by grade: DevRel / Developer Advocate
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 62 |
| lead | 18 |
| principal | 11 |
| junior | 4 |
| middle | 2 |
Senior-and-above is about 94% of 97 Developer Relations postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: DevRel / Developer Advocate
Demand is spread across 143 employers. The largest accounts for 6.9%, the top ten for 26.0%; the remaining 74.0% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 6.9% |
| top-3 | 14.2% |
| top-10 | 26.0% |
| long tail | 74.0% |
Developer Relations openings come from 143 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 6.9% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 33 sources; the largest accounts for 27.7% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Developer Relations postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: DevRel / Developer Advocate
- Technical Evangelist - AI infrastructure and GPU Technologies · US · $15,476
- Developer Relations Lead/ Community Lead (Open Source) · CA
- Staff/Principal Developer Advocate · US
- Developer Advocate · US
- Developer Relations Manager · US · $16,667
- Developer Relations Engineer, Android and Play, Games · GB
- Senior Staff, Developer Relations · US · $18,000
- Developer Relations Advocate · US
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-23
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Developer Relations role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Developer Relations do?
A Developer Relations connects the product with the developer community: writes docs, samples and articles, speaks, collects feedback and helps developers succeed with the product.
Which skills do Developer Relations postings require?
It takes real development experience, writing and speaking, community and content work, and for AI products — hands-on LLM and API practice. In the current slice, Python, LLM, JavaScript and Kubernetes appear in requirements most often.
Does DevRel require coding?
Yes: community trust is built on technical credibility, and most postings expect development experience, not only communication.
How remote-friendly are Developer Relations jobs?
54% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 235 open positions.
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