Monthly market report
Developer salaries and job market, October 2026
Snapshot of live job postings taken on October 12, 2026. These figures are frozen and will not change.
- Live postings
- 13,426
- Hiring companies
- 3,750
- Countries
- 72
- Show a salary
- 24 %
- Fully remote
- 43 %
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Key findings
- The median posted salary across all stacks is €109,000 per year, over 3,209 postings that publish one.
- Data Science & ML has the highest median posted salary: €161,000 per year (608 postings with a salary).
- In the United States, the median posted salary is $170,000 per year (1,390 postings with a salary).
- Senior postings show a median posted salary 70 % above junior postings: €112,000 against €66,000.
- Ruby on Rails has the largest share of fully remote postings: 70 %.
- United States leads on pay transparency: 33 % of postings state a salary.
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Median posted salary by stack
In euros per year, over postings that publish a salary. A stack appears from 8 such postings.
Data Science & ML608
Rust21
iOS56
React Native17
DevOps824
Data Engineering476
Android109
Data Analytics296
Vue.js / Nuxt.js22
.NET231
Ruby on Rails14
Django55
Angular82
React / Next.js93
Spring Boot181
Symfony20
Go32
Node.js / NestJS56
Laravel11
€0€100K€200K
| Stack | Median | 25th to 75th percentile | Postings with a salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Science & ML | €161,000 | €117,000 – €206,000 | 608 |
| Rust | €129,000 | €80,000 – €186,000 | 21 |
| iOS | €119,000 | €80,000 – €156,000 | 56 |
| React Native | €114,000 | €85,000 – €135,000 | 17 |
| DevOps | €114,000 | €83,000 – €152,000 | 824 |
| Data Engineering | €110,000 | €79,000 – €150,000 | 476 |
| Android | €104,000 | €67,000 – €156,000 | 109 |
| Data Analytics | €102,000 | €77,000 – €124,000 | 296 |
| Vue.js / Nuxt.js | €89,000 | €44,000 – €104,000 | 22 |
| .NET | €85,000 | €50,000 – €107,000 | 231 |
| Ruby on Rails | €84,000 | €66,000 – €136,000 | 14 |
| Django | €83,000 | €43,000 – €104,000 | 55 |
| Angular | €82,000 | €50,000 – €101,000 | 82 |
| React / Next.js | €80,000 | €44,000 – €102,000 | 93 |
| Spring Boot | €80,000 | €52,000 – €106,000 | 181 |
| Symfony | €79,000 | €52,000 – €115,000 | 20 |
| Go | €76,000 | €55,000 – €110,000 | 32 |
| Node.js / NestJS | €76,000 | €40,000 – €123,000 | 56 |
| Laravel | €68,000 | €42,000 – €102,000 | 11 |
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United States: median posted salary by stack
In US dollars per year, over US postings that publish a salary. A stack appears from 8 such postings.
Rust10
Data Science & ML432
iOS24
Android50
DevOps376
Django9
Node.js / NestJS15
Data Engineering204
React / Next.js14
Spring Boot23
Data Analytics164
.NET41
$0$100K$200K
| Stack | Median | 25th to 75th percentile | Postings with a salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rust | $208,000 | $202,000 – $228,000 | 10 |
| Data Science & ML | $198,000 | $164,000 – $245,000 | 432 |
| iOS | $184,000 | $156,000 – $208,000 | 24 |
| Android | $177,000 | $170,000 – $208,000 | 50 |
| DevOps | $168,000 | $135,000 – $205,000 | 376 |
| Django | $165,000 | $87,000 – $175,000 | 9 |
| Node.js / NestJS | $161,000 | $135,000 – $197,000 | 15 |
| Data Engineering | $158,000 | $125,000 – $207,000 | 204 |
| React / Next.js | $143,000 | $126,000 – $173,000 | 14 |
| Spring Boot | $140,000 | $129,000 – $158,000 | 23 |
| Data Analytics | $126,000 | $100,000 – $156,000 | 164 |
| .NET | $125,000 | $110,000 – $156,000 | 41 |
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Junior and senior pay
All stacks combined, in euros per year. A level appears from 8 postings with a salary.
Junior
100
Mid-level
647
Senior
1,880
Lead
224
Staff / Principal
117
€0€200K
By stack, where both levels reach the threshold
| Stack | Junior | Senior | Senior premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| DevOps | €56,000 | €118,000 | +109 % |
| Data Science & ML | €93,000 | €163,000 | +76 % |
| Data Engineering | €53,000 | €114,000 | +115 % |
| Data Analytics | €70,000 | €104,000 | +48 % |
| .NET | €72,000 | €98,000 | +37 % |
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Remote work by stack
Share of postings that are fully remote, for stacks with at least 10 postings.
Ruby on RailsLaravelReact NativeNode.js / NestJSReact / Next.jsRust
FlutterDjangoGo.NETDevOpsAndroidData AnalyticsVue.js / Nuxt.jsData EngineeringSymfonySpring BootData Science & MLiOSAngular0 %50 %100 %
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Pay transparency by country
Share of postings that state a salary, freelance excluded, for countries with at least 30 postings published directly by employers. Same scope for every country. At most the 15 countries with the most such postings.
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Germany
Ireland
France
Singapore
Spain
India
Brazil
China
Israel
0 %50 %100 %
| Country | Postings in scope | State a salary |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,576 | 33 % |
| United Kingdom | 189 | 19 % |
| Canada | 179 | 17 % |
| Netherlands | 48 | 15 % |
| Poland | 63 | 8 % |
| Portugal | 60 | 5 % |
| Germany | 175 | 3 % |
| Ireland | 49 | 2 % |
| France | 344 | 1 % |
| Singapore | 91 | 1 % |
| Spain | 75 | 1 % |
| India | 394 | 0 % |
| Brazil | 164 | 0 % |
| China | 54 | 0 % |
| Israel | 48 | 0 % |
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Methodology
- Postings: developer job postings live on October 12, 2026, duplicates removed. Each posting counts once, under its main stack.
- Salaries: only salaries published by employers in their postings. Estimates are excluded, and so are yearly amounts outside 10,000 to 1,000,000 euros.
- We report the median posted salary, never an average: half of the postings publish more, half publish less. The range runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile.
- Thresholds: a median appears from 8 postings with a salary, a country breakdown from 10 postings, and the transparency ranking from 30 postings per country.
- Currencies: a salary published in another currency is converted to euros at the exchange rate of the day it is recorded. US figures are converted back to US dollars at the snapshot-date rate (1 USD = 0.8924 EUR) and rounded to the nearest thousand.
- Remote: fully remote postings only. Hybrid postings do not count as remote.
- Limits: a posted salary is what an employer offers, not what people end up being paid, and employers who publish pay are not all employers. Read small samples (n) with care.
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Cite this report
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Suggested citation
SharpSkill, “Developer salaries and job market, October 2026”, https://sharpskill.dev/en/jobs/report/2026-10