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IT salaries 2026

What 69 IT roles earn in Germany – calculated from 12,566 data points: job ads with a stated salary and recorded salary data sets.

Median of all IT jobs
€59,000
Jobs with salary, current
6,376
Roles compared
69

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Experience

 

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Experience pays off

Median and middle 50 % of all current IT jobs with a stated salary per level

€49,000

Junior

44,000 – 55,000

420 jobs

€58,500

Mid-level

51,000 – 67,500

+19 % · 4,704 jobs

€66,500

Senior

57,000 – 76,000

+36 % · 1,150 jobs

Does working from home cost salary?

Median of all current IT jobs per work model

Remote

€54,000

€49,500 – €59,500

180 jobs

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Hybrid

€59,500

€52,500 – €69,500

2,330 jobs

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On site

€59,000

€50,000 – €68,500

3,866 jobs

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Which skills pay more

Median of IT jobs with the technology compared with jobs without · at least 20 jobs each. Not proof of causation: skills often go hand in hand with role and seniority.

  • ABAP +12 % €65,500 n = 185
  • GCP +8.5 % €63,500 n = 123
  • Python +6.9 % €62,000 n = 950
  • Kubernetes +6.8 % €62,500 n = 570
  • Terraform +6.8 % €62,500 n = 289
  • SAP +6.8 % €62,500 n = 221
  • Java +4.3 % €61,000 n = 671
  • Azure +4.3 % €61,000 n = 409
  • JavaScript −10.9 % €53,000 n = 537
  • Vue.js −11.9 % €52,000 n = 135
  • MySQL −13.4 % €51,500 n = 173
  • PHP −16.8 % €49,500 n = 227

Centre = same salary as jobs without the technology · bars up to ±17 %

Salary in the largest IT cities

The 12 cities with the most jobs with a stated salary – sorted by median. Bar = middle 50 %.

  1. Düsseldorf €66,000 n = 180
  2. Darmstadt €63,500 n = 86
  3. Stuttgart €60,500 n = 483
  4. München €60,000 n = 838
  5. Hamburg €60,000 n = 763
  6. Berlin €59,500 n = 828
  7. Dortmund €59,500 n = 91
  8. Köln €58,500 n = 1,123
  9. Münster €58,500 n = 86
  10. Frankfurt am Main €57,500 n = 838
  11. Hildesheim €56,000 n = 105
  12. Leipzig €46,000 n = 112

How we calculate

  • Sources: job ads with a stated salary that are assigned to a role, plus recorded salary data sets. Currently 6,376 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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