Average Software Engineering Salaries by Country 2024/2025

The top three in our comparison are: the United States, Switzerland, and Israel. Denmark, Canada, and Norway are next, with Australia, the UK, Germany, and Sweden rounding out the top 10.

Developing countries like Nigeria pay the lowest at $7,255/year. India, a country where Western companies tend to outsource their technical needs, has an average yearly salary of $7,725. Developers in Eastern European countries can expect a significantly lower salary than their Western colleagues. In Poland a developer will typically make $22,740, and in Ukraine, the average is $22,348.

Overall, software development is the most in-demand profession in the world. According to PageGroup, the countries with the highest demand for software developers are Canada, Australia, Russia, Sweden, and New Zealand.

Popular backend languages like Go and Python top the list. However, these are average salaries, so there can be big differences depending on where a developer is located. JavaScript and PHP are the languages with the lowest salaries.

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See also:
📌 By Country and Job Role
📌 Average Salaries in 2022
📌 Salary by Country in 2024 Revealed
📌 Full list of 2025

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