Europe: Remote Software Engineer Salary Insights
Compared to Canada and Latin America, Europe has the largest salary differences from country to country.
Median Salary: $73,773–$107,897 (40 to 60% lower than U.S. salaries)
Added Employment Cost: 22% (Poland) – 36% (Spain)
Highest-Paid Roles: DevOps Engineer and Full-Stack Engineer
European software engineer salaries are lower than other regions.
With the exception of Poland, the region’s salaries are lower than in both Canada and Latin America. Spain's and Romania’s salaries are more than $20,000 lower than those in LatAm on average.
Europe shows the greatest salary variation country to country.
Spain’s low salaries may be attributed to its status as a relatively new tech hub. Poland, on the other hand, has been long-established as a premier source of tech talent, contributing to its relatively higher median salaries.
Salaries for different roles within a country are similar.
Europe is unique in that salaries are comparable for different roles within a country. Spain has the largest salary by role discrepancy, with DevOps engineers earning a median salary of $79,633 and automation QA engineers earning $66,313. In Poland and Romania, the difference between the highest and lowest paid roles is less than $7,000.
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About Our Remote Engineer Salary Data
Terminal collected salary expectations for full-time employment from more than 260,000 candidates across 10 countries. Our data sources also include nearly 500 job postings and 1,000 employed engineers sourced through Terminal. This data was cleaned, normalized, and modeled to represent an accurate picture of salary expectations in each country.
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