Developer Salary in 2025

💰 The median Developer Salary in 2025 is USD 116,500

✏️ This salary info is based on 274 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average Developer salary lies between USD 83,616 and USD 160,500 globally. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Developer
Experience
all levels
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
274
Top 10%
$ 193,000
Top 25%
$ 160,500
Median
$ 116,500
Bottom 25%
$ 83,616
Bottom 10%
$ 51,789

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Developer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with Developer job listings are Python, Engineering and SQL. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Python | 2093 jobs Engineering | 1583 jobs SQL | 1556 jobs Computer Science | 1420 jobs Machine Learning | 1366 jobs Security | 1025 jobs Architecture | 968 jobs Testing | 967 jobs AWS | 964 jobs Azure | 962 jobs Agile | 942 jobs APIs | 902 jobs Pipelines | 821 jobs ETL | 696 jobs Java | 693 jobs Research | 675 jobs Power BI | 674 jobs CI/CD | 599 jobs Git | 566 jobs DevOps | 563 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Developer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Developer job listings are Career development, Health care and Flex hours. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 2015 jobs Health care | 902 jobs Flex hours | 802 jobs Competitive pay | 575 jobs Startup environment | 461 jobs Equity / stock options | 436 jobs Insurance | 426 jobs Team events | 397 jobs Flex vacation | 364 jobs Salary bonus | 301 jobs Medical leave | 270 jobs Parental leave | 242 jobs Wellness | 193 jobs 401(k) matching | 189 jobs Fitness / gym | 104 jobs Transparency | 100 jobs Relocation support | 79 jobs Flexible spending account | 70 jobs Conferences | 65 jobs Gear | 54 jobs

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