Which pays more, Delivery Driver or Technician?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Delivery Driver vs Technician

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit within 2.4% apart. Demand is comparable on both sides. Technician is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 7.4%. Listings for Delivery Driver move faster — median age 43 days against 54.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Delivery Driver	Technician	Gap
Open postings	21,608	21,258	+350
Posted this week	590	558
Median salary	$65,000	$63,500	+$1.5k
25th percentile	$51.5k	$50k
75th percentile	$80.5k	$78.5k
Salary disclosed	3.0%	7.5%
Remote share	4.3%	11.7%	-7.4pp
Median age of posting	43d	54d
Open over 60 days	40.9%	33.7%
Visa sponsorship	13.2%	17.3%

Pay

Pay distribution

Delivery Driver

$29k$112k

Technician

$29k$110k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Delivery Driver

just posted43d median90d+

Technician

just posted54d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Delivery Driver — technologies

Python

72.0%

Tableau

65.8%

dbt

59.6%

Docker

53.4%

Terraform

47.2%

Spark

41.0%

Figma

34.8%

Technician — technologies

Java

72.0%

React

65.8%

Tableau

59.6%

Docker

53.4%

Salesforce

47.2%

GCP

41.0%

SQL

34.8%

Delivery Driver — employers

Ironbark Manufacturing

9.4%

Lakeshore Hospitality

8.7%

Pinewood Education

8.0%

Quarry Analytics

7.2%

Beacon Robotics

6.5%

Northwind Systems

5.8%

Tidewater Insurance

5.1%

Technician — employers

Solstice Biotech

9.4%

Kestrel Health

8.7%

Fairmount Legal

8.0%

Brightline Retail

7.2%

Beacon Robotics

6.5%

Meridian Software

5.8%

Halcyon Energy

5.1%

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.