Technical PM: market
Data as of November 9, 2026: 670 open Technical PM jobs, 30% of them remote; median advertised salary $12,083/mo (from 105 postings that state a salary). Source: Zorky, updated daily.
A Technical Program Manager runs complex technical programs across several teams: plans dependencies, aligns architectural decisions, manages risk and timelines of large launches. We currently track 670 open positions for this role, 620 of them fresh. It takes an engineering background or deep architectural understanding, program and risk management, metrics and negotiating across teams. By co-occurrence in requirements, SQL, backlog, LLM and AWS appear most often. 36% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Technical Program Manager market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Technical PM market currently has 670 open roles, 620 of them freshly observed. Median salary $12,083/mo.
36% of Technical Program Manager postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 105 of 670 jobs; remote share from 555 with a stated format; 620 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply: Technical PM
| Open demand | 670 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Technical PM
- usable for the calculation: 105 (15.7%)
- stated but not converted to USD/month: 113 (16.9%)
- not stated: 452 (67.5%)
One in ten postings offers under $5,000, one in ten over $19,958. Half of the postings offer between $8,423 and $15,833. Sample: 105.
The range histogram for Technical Program Manager uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: Technical PM
| country | jobs | share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 359 | 59.2% |
| India | 41 | 6.8% |
| United Kingdom | 22 | 3.6% |
| Canada | 19 | 3.1% |
| Poland | 16 | 2.6% |
| Germany | 13 | 2.1% |
| Netherlands | 10 | 1.7% |
| Singapore | 10 | 1.7% |
| Mexico | 9 | 1.5% |
| Ireland | 9 | 1.5% |
| Other countries | 98 | 16.2% |
The top country for Technical Program Manager demand is the US (359 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Share — how many of the 670 jobs in the Technical PM market mention this technology. Ordered by job count, not by “strength of association”. Umbrella terms like cloud are not a specific cloud (AWS, Azure).
In Technical Program Manager requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are SQL, backlog, LLM and AWS.
Demand by grade: Technical PM
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 252 |
| principal | 85 |
| lead | 35 |
| junior | 27 |
| middle | 8 |
Senior-and-above is about 91% of 407 Technical Program Manager postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Technical PM
Demand is spread across 361 employers. The largest accounts for 7.1%, the top ten for 24.5%; the remaining 75.5% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 7.1% |
| top-3 | 13.8% |
| top-10 | 24.5% |
| long tail | 75.5% |
Technical Program Manager openings come from 361 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 7.1% 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 41 sources; the largest accounts for 38.5% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Technical Program Manager postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Technical PM
- Sr. Technical Program Manager, Technology Portfolio Management · US · $12,192
- Senior Technical Program Manager · IN
- Senior Technical Product Manager · US
- Staff Technical Program Manager - AI Enablement · US
- Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Federal · US · $20,000
- Technical Program Manager · CA · $6,929
- Senior Technical Program Manager · US
- Technical Product Manager · CA
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 2026-11-09
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Technical Program Manager role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Technical Program Manager do?
A Technical Program Manager runs complex technical programs across several teams: plans dependencies, aligns architectural decisions, manages risk and timelines of large launches.
Which skills do Technical Program Manager postings require?
It takes an engineering background or deep architectural understanding, program and risk management, metrics and negotiating across teams. In the current slice, SQL, backlog, LLM and AWS appear in requirements most often.
How does a Technical Program Manager differ from a Project Manager?
A TPM runs a program of many connected projects and is deeper in the technology — able to discuss architecture and trade-offs with engineers as an equal.
How remote-friendly are Technical Program Manager jobs?
36% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 670 open positions.
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