TravelTech in IT — global market
TravelTech engineers build flight and hotel search and booking, dynamic pricing, integrations with booking systems and payment flows for travel. Zorky currently tracks 488 open tech jobs in TravelTech; the leading countries are the US (44%), Germany (14%), Poland (11%) and the UK (9%). The most common directions are backend, fullstack, data and DevOps. Below: the technologies and roles employers in this industry ask for, and what to learn on top of the stack to get hired.
Salary distribution
The distribution uses postings with an explicit salary; there are fewer of them than all postings in the industry.
Hiring geography
The US leads by the number of openings in this industry. Shares count postings with an identified country; remote positions are often open to candidates elsewhere.
Industry tech stack
Postings in this industry most often name AWS, Python, SQL, Java and React. The number next to each technology is how many postings mention it.
Who's hired
The industry hires more than developers: the top directions are backend, fullstack, data and DevOps.
What to know to work in TravelTech
Much of the stack is shared across industries. What sets this one apart is the domain knowledge interviewers expect:
- global distribution systems (GDS) and the NDC standard
- search across a huge number of offers with price caching
- holding and confirming bookings across several suppliers
- dynamic pricing and demand forecasting
- multi-currency payments and refunds