Salaries and Rates in 2024

Despite layoffs at the beginning of the year, even today. After the start of the pandemic in 2020, companies in US, Europe, LATAM, EMEA or other geos had been recruiting on an almost daily basis top software engineers. Indeed, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics’ reports, at least by 2032, the software field will experience a 26% increase, compared to the national average. Unsurprisingly, this strong demand has proven to outpace the global amount of candidates with the right software engineering skills.

With market volatility continuing, growth of software engineer salaries in North America slowed to .1% year-over-year, a fraction of the tech national average of 2% for all tech workers.

On the other hand, the extremely low rate of unemployment among software engineers demonstrates that this industry will continue to develop.

If you are hiring a software engineer or if you are looking for a career in software engineering and you would like to have a full overview of the software engineer market in 2024, Upstaff has prepared the Upstaff 2024 Tech Rates and Salary Statistics so that all who are working or want to work as a software engineer have the clear answers to all questions regarding the software engineer job market in 2024.

Data and Analytics

Data Analyst (DA) Data Engineer Data Extraction and ETL Business Intelligence (BI) Data Science Data Visualization Process Mining

Digital Platforms

Adobe Commerce (ex Magento) Adobe Experience Manager & Platform (AEM, AEP) Drupal Microsoft (AX, Dynamics 365, SharePoint) MuleSoft Oracle NetSuite Salesforce SAP Shopify Sitecore

Mobile Applications

iOS Android React Native Flutter Ionic Kotlin

Delivery Management and Analytics

Agile Leader Product Owner Project Delivery Project Manager Scrum Master Service Manager

Design and Creative

User Interface and Experience Designer (UI/UX) Mobile Apps Product Designer 3D Modelling Audio and Music Production Illustration Immersive Experience Designer (AR/VR/MR/Metaverse) Interior Designer Publication and Typographic Design

Desktop Software

Desktop Software

Embedded Systems

Embedded Firmware Embedded Software Device Drivers GPU Software Hardware Design

GameDev

Game Designer Mobile Games Unity Video Game

Industrial Engineering

BIM (Building Information Modelling) Electrical Engineering HVAC engineering Mechanical Engineering

Low-Code

Appian Caspio Microsoft PowerApps OutSystems Pega Salesforce Lightning ServiceNow App Engine

Marketing

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

Metaverse and Blockchain (Web 3.0)

Blockchain and Cryptography Smart Contracts with Solidity Smart Contracts with Plutus (Cardano) Smart Contracts with Rust NFT Marketplaces Wallet and Web3 Integration DeFi Ecosystem Metaverse/GameFi Smart Contract Audit/Security DEX and CEX DAO/dApps Blockchain Project/Product Manager Crypto Social Media Marketing Crypto and Web3 Community Management and Support

Operations and Cloud

DevOps Security Operations (SecOps) Database Development Database Management and Administration Information Security and Compliance Officer NetOps and SysOps Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Solutions Architect Support

Quality Engineering and Testing

Data QA Manual QA / Tester Mobile QA QA Automation / Testing

Scripting and Automation

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Scripting and Automation

Web Engineering

Back-End Web Front-End Web Full Stack Web Coding Tutor Prototyping

Writing and Translation

Language Localization Language Tutor Sales and Marketing Copywriter Technical Writer