Software Engineer Salary in 2026
Based on 3,104 software engineer listings aggregated by DailyJobFeed in 2026, the median software engineer salary is $117k. Half of listed roles pay between $86k and $145k; top earners (P90) reach $170k. Top markets by listing volume: US, United States, Germany. All figures are annualised, USD-denominated, sourced directly from public job postings — see methodology below.
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Methodology
Salary figures aggregate every active software engineer listing on DailyJobFeed posted within the last 6 months where the employer published a numeric salary in their original posting. We restrict to USD-denominated, yearly base salaries (or unset currency/type, which defaults to USD/yearly). Listings outside $10k–$10M are dropped as data-entry errors. For ranges, we use the midpoint. We re-run the aggregation every 30 minutes against the latest scrape.
What's excluded: equity, bonuses, sign-on, and benefits — base salary only. Roles without a published salary band are not included in the sample.