Software Engineer Salary & Career Guide

What 7,360 live Software Engineer postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles: 7,360
Employers: 1,649
Remote: 16%
Typical pay: $130k–270k
Verified live (7d): 7,068

Pay is advertised by 68% of these postings (4,979 of 7,360 in USD), so read it as what is offered rather than what is paid.

Pay by experience

Median advertised base, from postings that disclosed a range in USD · pick a band to read the rest of this page for it

Experience	Median	Postings
0–2 years	$125k	372
3–5 years	$158k	1,781
6–9 years	$179k	1,178
10+ years	$185k	526

Skills in demand

Across 7,074 software engineer postings that named at least one skill

Python45%
Amazon Web Services37%
Kubernetes28%
Oracle Java27%
C++25%
TypeScript23%
Docker21%
Google Cloud Platform19%
Microsoft Azure17%
JavaScript16%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 5,364 postings stated one

0–2 years: 10%
3–5 years: 47%
6–9 years: 30%
10+ years: 13%

Work arrangement

Where the work is done · 4,305 postings stated one

Remote: 26%
Hybrid: 48%
On-site: 27%

Education

The floor the posting sets · 2,400 postings stated one

High school: 1.0%
Associate: 0.3%
Bachelor's: 87%
Master's: 2.6%
Doctorate: 9.2%

Employers hiring for this

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