https://www.resourced.com.au/insights Hiring insights, salary trends and market signals for engineering teams and candidates, from Re:Sourced. en-AU Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-ai-engineering-salary-guide-q1-2026 https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-ai-engineering-salary-guide-q1-2026 Salary & Compensation Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The AI engineering talent market has shifted significantly over the past twelve months. Demand for machine learning engineers, AI infrastructure specialists, and forward deployed engineers continues to outstrip supply, and compensation packages reflect that imbalance. This guide draws on publicly… https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-cto-priorities-2026 https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-cto-priorities-2026 Founder Notes Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Over the past quarter, I have had the privilege of sitting down with CTOs across Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore. The conversations ranged from Series B start-ups to ASX-listed enterprises, but a single thread ran through almost every discussion: the rules of building a technical team have chang… https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-data-engineering-compensation-trends https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-data-engineering-compensation-trends Salary & Compensation Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Data engineering has matured from a niche discipline into one of the most in-demand engineering specialisations globally. As companies invest heavily in data infrastructure to support AI and analytics initiatives, competition for experienced data engineers has intensified -- and compensation has… https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-offer-acceptance-rates https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-offer-acceptance-rates Founder Notes Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT You have spent six weeks sourcing, screening, and interviewing. The candidate has cleared every round. Your hiring manager is excited. Then, at the finish line, the offer is declined. It is one of the most frustrating patterns in technical recruitment. According to the Gem 2025 Recruiting Benchma… https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-structured-intake-call https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-structured-intake-call Hiring Process Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT The intake call is the single highest-leverage moment in any hiring engagement. Get it right and you compress time-to-hire, reduce interview rounds, and dramatically improve candidate quality. Get it wrong and you waste weeks chasing profiles that will never convert. Based on experience working w… https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-72-hour-shortlists https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-72-hour-shortlists Hiring Process Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Speed in recruitment is only valuable when it does not come at the expense of quality. When we commit to delivering a calibrated shortlist within 72 hours of an intake call, clients often ask how that is even possible. The answer is a combination of deep network access, disciplined screening meth… https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-growth-to-efficient-teams https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-growth-to-efficient-teams Founder Notes Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT For the better part of a decade, the playbook for scaling a technology company was straightforward: raise capital, hire aggressively, and worry about efficiency later. Engineering teams doubled and tripled in size year over year. Headcount became a proxy for ambition. But that era is over. The co… https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-senior-devops-expectations-2026 https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-senior-devops-expectations-2026 Salary & Compensation Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Senior DevOps engineers are among the most discerning candidates in the engineering market. They know their value, they have strong opinions about tooling, and they will walk away from roles that do not meet their expectations around flexibility and culture. After placing dozens of senior DevOps… https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-ai-engineer-salaries-sydney-melbourne https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-ai-engineer-salaries-sydney-melbourne Market Signals Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sydney and Melbourne remain the two primary markets for AI engineering talent in Australia, yet compensation structures between the two cities continue to diverge in meaningful ways. Industry data from Glassdoor AU and ERI SalaryExpert puts the national average for AI Engineers at $130K-$153K, wh… https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-interview-loops-slowing-ai-hiring https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-interview-loops-slowing-ai-hiring Hiring Process Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI engineering is the most competitive hiring category in the Australian tech market right now. Demand is outstripping supply by a significant margin, and the best candidates are fielding multiple offers simultaneously. Yet many employers are still running interview processes designed for a buyer… https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-seek-vs-linkedin-engineering https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-seek-vs-linkedin-engineering Market Signals Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT The conventional wisdom in Australian recruitment has long been that SEEK dominates job search across all industries. SEEK remains Australia's most well-known job board and carries the highest candidate traffic volume across sectors. However, the engineering market increasingly tells a more nuanc… https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-staff-engineer-locations-2026 https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-staff-engineer-locations-2026 Market Signals Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Staff Engineer is one of the most sought-after levels in the Australian tech market, yet many hiring managers operate with outdated assumptions about where these candidates actually live and work. The post-pandemic redistribution of senior technical talent has created a landscape that looks very… https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-tech-hiring-q1-2026 https://www.resourced.com.au/insights#article-tech-hiring-q1-2026 Market Signals Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT The first quarter of 2026 confirmed what many in the Australian tech market suspected: AI engineering has moved from a niche discipline to a core hiring priority. Across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, demand for AI Engineers rose 34% compared to Q4 2025, making it the fastest-growing engineerin…