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Solutions Engineer: salary 2026 at a glance

Salary at a glance: this is what Solutions Engineer earn in Germany – from 43 job ads with a stated salary and 65 salary data sets.

Median, gross

€60,394

€42,602 lower 10 % €81,690 upper 10 %

How salaries are distributed

Each column = number of salary figures per €5,000 band · basis 108

  • Between lower and upper 10 % (€42,602 – €81,690)
  • Edges

Salary rises with experience

Median and middle 50 % per level · jobs + data sets

€48,000

Junior

43,500 – 50,500

13 values

€59,000

Mid-level

54,500 – 62,500

+23 % · 56 values

€63,000

Senior

58,500 – 66,000

+31 % · 19 values

€71,500

Lead/Principal

64,000 – 74,000

+49 % · 18 values

Salary by federal state

Median of the salary data sets for Solutions Engineer per federal state. The samples are small here – read the figures as a trend, not a guarantee.

  1. Hesse €67,000 n = 7
  2. Baden-Württemberg €66,500 n = 7
  3. North Rhine-Westphalia €63,000 n = 4
  4. Hamburg €61,500 n = 5
  5. Berlin €61,000 n = 8
  6. Bavaria €58,500 n = 5
  7. Rhineland-Palatinate €55,500 n = 4
  8. Schleswig-Holstein €55,000 n = 5
  9. Lower Saxony €54,000 n = 4
  10. Saarland €54,000 n = 4
  11. Brandenburg €53,500 n = 4
  12. Thuringia €52,000 n = 4
  13. Saxony €51,000 n = 4

Remote, hybrid or on site?

Median from job ads for Solutions Engineer per work model

On site

€62,500

€55,500 – €67,500

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KI Solutions Engineer (m/w/d) Solingen · On site €40,000 – €58,000 below median
AI Solutions Engineer (m/w/d) Münster · Hybrid €58,000 – €82,000 above median
Solutions Engineer / Solutions Consulting (m/w/d) Frankfurt am Main · On site €44,000 – €65,000 below median
Healthcare Solutions Engineer (m/w/d) Berlin · Hybrid €46,000 – €65,000 below median
Industrial Solutions Engineer (m/w/d) Köln · On site €50,000 – €69,000 below median
Werkstudent (m/w/d) Solutions Engineer München · Hybrid Salary not stated

Solutions Engineer: job profile and outlook

Solutions Engineers combine technical expertise with sales skills and support the sales process for technical products and services. They demonstrate solutions, create technical concepts, answer complex customer enquiries and develop proof-of-concepts that make the added value of a solution tangible for the customer. The requirements include a broad technical understanding, experience with the respective product category and the ability to present technical solutions in an understandable and convincing way. Customer communication, negotiation skills and a feel for business requirements are also crucial. Programming skills, cloud experience and the ability to quickly familiarise yourself with new technologies round off the profile. Salaries for Solutions Engineers are above average and are often supplemented by performance-related commissions or bonuses. SaaS companies, cloud providers and enterprise software manufacturers offer particularly attractive remuneration packages. The combination of basic salary and variable component can lead to total remuneration that is significantly higher than pure engineering roles. Career opportunities range from Junior Solutions Engineer to Senior Solutions Engineer to Solutions Architect, Director of Solutions Engineering or VP of Pre-Sales. Moving into product management, customer success or pure engineering roles is also common. The growing complexity of technical products ensures excellent long-term prospects for Solutions Engineers.

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€40,000 – €100,000 · bar = lower to upper 10 %, line = median

How we calculate

  • Sources: job ads with a stated salary that are assigned to a role, plus recorded salary data sets. Currently 6,380 active IT jobs state their salary.
  • Range: lower 10 % to upper 10 % (P10–P90), so that individual outliers do not shift the limits. The median splits the values into two equal halves.
  • Plausible: only gross annual salaries between €15,000 and €250,000; placeholders and monthly values are excluded.
  • Calculator: role median × experience factor × federal state factor. The factors come from 4,290 salary data sets – each as a ratio to the median of its role, so the mix of roles does not distort them.
  • Minimum size: breakdowns by skill, city and work model only appear from 20 values; every figure states its basis.

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