Software Engineer Salary in 2025
💰 The median Software Engineer Salary in 2025 is USD 180,000
✏️ This salary info is based on 8179 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Software Engineer salary lies between USD 138,900 and USD 234,000 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
- Software Engineer
- Experience
- all levels
- Region
- global/worldwide
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 8179
- Top 10%
-
- Top 25%
-
- Median
-
- Bottom 25%
-
- Bottom 10%
-
All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.
Last updated:Salary trend
Top 20 Job Tags for Software Engineer roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with Software Engineer job listings are Engineering, Python and Machine Learning. 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:
Engineering | 8825 jobs Python | 8789 jobs Machine Learning | 7252 jobs Computer Science | 6209 jobs Architecture | 4989 jobs AWS | 4476 jobs Testing | 4221 jobs Security | 3926 jobs Java | 3850 jobs Pipelines | 3639 jobs APIs | 3598 jobs Kubernetes | 3100 jobs SQL | 2828 jobs Agile | 2762 jobs Azure | 2734 jobs CI/CD | 2713 jobs Research | 2687 jobs GCP | 2556 jobs LLMs | 2525 jobs Docker | 2502 jobsTop 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Software Engineer roles
The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Software Engineer job listings are Career development, Health care and Equity / stock options. 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 | 7935 jobs Health care | 4512 jobs Equity / stock options | 3914 jobs Competitive pay | 2869 jobs Startup environment | 2854 jobs Flex hours | 2724 jobs Salary bonus | 2529 jobs Insurance | 2191 jobs Flex vacation | 2103 jobs Medical leave | 2078 jobs Parental leave | 1966 jobs Team events | 1671 jobs 401(k) matching | 1350 jobs Wellness | 1334 jobs Relocation support | 686 jobs Transparency | 535 jobs Home office stipend | 459 jobs Fertility benefits | 437 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 383 jobs Conferences | 318 jobsRelated salaries
Want to contribute?
📝 Submit your salary info
Enter your own salary data for the current or past work year. It's quite simple and doesn't take more than a minute to fill out.
Go to salary survey📢 Share our salary survey
Share our "in-less-than-a-minute survey" with others working in the field of AI, ML, Data Science. The more data we have the better for everyone.
💾 Download the data
All collected information will be updated into a public dataset regularly and provided as a download free for anyone to use.
Go to download page🚀 Search for jobs & talent
If you're thinking about a career change or want to hire fresh talent quickly check out the jobs page.
Go to frontpageAbout this project
We collect salary information anonymously from professionals and employers all over the world and make it publicly available for anyone to use, share and play around with.
Our goal is to have open salary data for everyone. So newbies, experienced pros, hiring managers, recruiters and also startup founders or people wanting to switch careers can make better decisions.