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Global Software Engineering Salary Report: Average Pay by Country, Role, and Programming Language

The report analyzes average software engineering salaries across more than 20 countries, ranking nations, states, programming languages, and job titles, and highlights the United States as the highest‑paying market while revealing significant regional and language‑specific wage differences.

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Global Software Engineering Salary Report: Average Pay by Country, Role, and Programming Language

CodeSubmit recently released a software engineering salary report that compares developer compensation in over 20 countries, including the United States, the EU, India, and others.

U.S. developers earn the highest average annual salary, exceeding $110,000, followed by Switzerland and Israel, with a top‑ten list shown in the accompanying chart.

Other high‑paying countries include Ireland, Finland, and the Netherlands, while China ranks 19th with an average of $23,790.

Nigeria has the lowest average salary at $7,255, and India follows at $7,725.

Countries with the greatest demand for software developers—Canada, Australia, Russia, Sweden, and New Zealand—also tend to offer higher wages.

In the U.S., average salaries break down to $110,140 per year ($9,178 per month) overall, $69,354 for junior developers, and $104,188 for senior developers; California, Washington, and Maryland are the top‑paying states.

Among programming languages, Go leads with an average salary of $120,577, followed by Ruby ($119,558), Python ($114,904), Java ($112,013), JavaScript ($111,922), Android ($109,377), iOS ($108,783), Rust ($108,744), C ($101,734), PHP ($92,867), and SQL ($85,845) at the low end.

Job titles also affect earnings: software developers, QA analysts, and testers average $110,140, while programmers average $105,310, and overall computer‑related occupations average $91,250.

European salaries are generally lower than U.S. figures, with Western Europe above $40,000, Eastern Europe around $20,000, and Southern Europe between $21,314 and $36,323.

Additional country data: Israel’s junior developers earn $69,851 and seniors $114,751, with Go and Python topping language salaries; Japan’s junior developers earn $26,553 and seniors $53,773, with iOS leading language pay; India’s junior developers earn $5,488 and seniors $11,999, with Ruby highest.

The report concludes that Go and Ruby are consistently high‑paying languages worldwide, while JavaScript and PHP rank among the lowest.

Overall, software development remains one of the highest‑earning and most in‑demand professions globally.

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