Technical PM: market
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 606 open positions for this role, 591 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, backlog, SQL, AWS and LLM appear most often. 32% 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 606 open roles, 591 of them freshly observed. Median salary $12,835/mo.
32% of Technical Program Manager postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 45 of 606 jobs; remote share from 499 with a stated format; 591 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Technical PM 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: 105
New sources connected: 11 May +1 · 18 May +2 · 25 May +5 · 1 Jun +5 · 8 Jun +1 · 15 Jun +4 · 22 Jun +2 · 29 Jun +20 · 6 Jul +13 · 13 Jul +6 · 20 Jul +9 · 27 Jul +3 · 3 Aug +2 · 17 Aug +4 · 24 Aug +1 · 31 Aug +4 · 7 Sept +1 · 14 Sept +1 · 21 Sept +9 · 28 Sept +1 · 5 Oct +3 · 12 Oct +5
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 Technical PM 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 Technical PM 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 Technical PM 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: Technical PM
| Open demand | 606 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Technical PM
One in ten earns under $6,500, one in ten over $19,708. Half the market falls between $8,423 and $16,666. Sample: 45.
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 |
|---|---|
| US | 348 |
| IN | 35 |
| GB | 22 |
| CA | 18 |
| SG | 14 |
| PL | 13 |
| NL | 11 |
| DE | 10 |
| IE | 8 |
| IL | 7 |
The top country for Technical Program Manager demand is the US (348 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Technical Program Manager requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are backlog, SQL, AWS and LLM.
Demand by grade: Technical PM
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 231 |
| principal | 86 |
| lead | 42 |
| junior | 38 |
| middle | 4 |
Senior-and-above is about 90% of 401 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 310 employers. The largest accounts for 9.6%, the top ten for 26.3%; the remaining 73.7% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 9.6% |
| top-3 | 17.5% |
| top-10 | 26.3% |
| long tail | 73.7% |
Technical Program Manager openings come from 310 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 9.6% 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 37 sources; the largest accounts for 44.1% — 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
- Technical Program Manager · US
- Technical Program Manager · US
- Technical Product Manager, Life Sciences · US · $12,835
- Sofia-based I Senior Technical Product Manager · BG · $8,424
- Sr Technical Program Manager, Consolidation Program · $9,750
- Technical Program Manager - Marketing (Remote) US · $8,492
- Technical Program Manager · $8,492
- Technical Product Manager (GenAI & Data) - Contract · US · $12,917
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 2026-10-24
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, backlog, SQL, AWS and LLM 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?
32% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 606 open positions.
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