Market Data · August 2026

Software Engineering Salary Guide: Finland, August 2026

Software, backend, DevOps, and data-engineering roles in Finland pay a median of ~€7,160–€9,860 per month depending on seniority, based on 180 listings that disclosed salary out of 902 tracked over the last 90 days.

Last 90 days·902 listings analysed·Updated August 2026
~€9,860
median monthly salary for Senior-level software & engineering roles
902
active software & engineering listings analysed
44%
of listings are fully remote

Last 90 days · Finland · monthly salaries only · Source: jobcrawls.com

01

Salary by Seniority

Last 90 days · Finland · Monthly salaries only · Software Engineer, Backend Engineer, DevOps, Data & AI Engineer, and 12 related titles

~€9,860/mo
Senior
€6,020 – €13,020 range · n=108
~€7,160/mo
Mid-Level
€4,000 – €10,390 range · n=70

Junior, Intern, Expert, Executive, and Manager levels each had only one salary-disclosing listing in this window. That's too few to report reliably, so they're excluded here. Only 180 of 902 listings (20%) disclosed monthly salary.

The seniority curve for software and engineering roles is steep, but the spread within each level is wide: senior salaries range from €6,020 to €13,020 per month at the p25–p75 mark, roughly double at the top of that range compared to the bottom. Moving from mid-level to senior adds a median of about €2,700/mo. Both figures rest on reasonably solid samples (n=108 senior, n=70 mid-level), but all figures are drawn from the 20% of listings that voluntarily disclosed salary data, a pattern explored further in our Finland salary transparency guide. These medians run well above our broader Technology Salary Guide, which spans the whole Technology field, including onsite trades and IT support, not just software and engineering roles.

02

Most Common Titles

Most Common Titles in Software & Engineering Roles
Last 90 days · Finland · Active listings · Software, backend, DevOps, data & AI engineering titles
Software Engineer
367 · 41%
Backend Engineer
107 · 12%
AI Engineer
73 · 8%
Software Developer
54 · 6%
Site Reliability Eng.
53 · 6%
Data Engineer
51 · 6%
DevOps Engineer
38 · 4%
Full Stack Developer
29 · 3%

Software Engineer alone accounts for four in ten listings in this group. It's by far the single most common title. Backend Engineer and AI Engineer follow at a considerable distance. This guide focuses specifically on software, backend, DevOps, data, and AI/ML engineering roles, and excludes hardware, electrical, industrial, and other Technology-adjacent titles, which pay and work very differently.

03

Work Arrangement

Work Arrangement Breakdown
Last 90 days · Finland · Active listings
Remote
394 · 44%
Onsite
287 · 32%
Hybrid
233 · 26%

Remote work is common, not exceptional, once the field is scoped to actual software and engineering roles: 44% of listings offer a fully remote arrangement, more than ten times the rate found across Finland's broader Technology field, which includes onsite trades. Job seekers targeting software roles specifically should expect meaningfully more remote flexibility than field-wide averages elsewhere on this site suggest.

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About the data. Figures on this page are based on 902 active Finnish listings across 16 software, backend, DevOps, data, and AI/ML engineering titles, tracked over the last 90 days as of 31 August 2026, crawled by jobcrawls.com directly from company career pages and Työmarkkinatori. Salary figures come from the 180 listings (20%) that disclosed monthly pay; Senior (n=108) and Mid-Level (n=70) are the only seniority bands with a large enough sample to report. No single employer accounts for more than 6% of listings in this pool.

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About the author

John Spina

John Spina is the lead author behind JobCrawls’ career and labour-market guides for Finland: regional hiring snapshots, salary explainers, transparency rules, and step-by-step playbooks for CVs, LinkedIn, and networking. The pages are grounded in aggregated Finnish job-market data and editorial standards so international and local readers get consistent, actionable context.

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