IT Salaries in Romania 2025 Market Insights

Historical salary data from 260+ 2025 job listings

Salary transparency: 95% of listings show salary ranges (260 of 275 listings)

Last updated: 2026-01-26 · By Ivo Pereira · Methodology

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How to use these insights

  • Use the distribution to understand typical salary bands (not just averages).
  • Compare experience levels and technologies to calibrate negotiations and career moves.
  • Use the tools to estimate take-home pay (CIM) or contractor outcomes (PFA/SRL).

Important caveats

  • Charts use job listings with explicit salary ranges; not all jobs disclose pay.
  • Averages may use midpoints of ranges for aggregation.
  • Location, remote policy, and seniority labels come from listings and can vary by company.
Average Salary
€3,250
Most In-Demand Role
Full Stack Developer
6 open positions
Remote Jobs
63%
of all positions
Highest Paying Tech
Golang
€4,937 avg

Salary Distribution

Breakdown of salary ranges across different experience levels

Experience Level Breakdown

Salary ranges and distribution by experience level

junior

€1,352

average

Range: €589 - €2,008

2% of listings

mid

€2,462

average

Range: €589 - €6,287

43% of listings

senior

€3,926

average

Range: €602 - €14,833

52% of listings

lead

€4,046

average

Range: €982 - €7,101

3% of listings

Top Paying Technologies

Technologies and areas commanding the highest salaries in the market

Programming Languages

G

Golang

€4,937

10 open positions

R

Ruby

€4,640

4 open positions

J

JavaScript

€3,940

36 open positions

J

Java

€3,515

18 open positions

P

Python

€3,142

17 open positions

Areas & Specializations

D

DevOps & Cloud

€3,738

92 open positions

B

Backend Development

€3,594

66 open positions

F

Frontend Development

€3,218

89 open positions

M

Mobile Development

€3,170

9 open positions

D

Data & AI

€3,164

92 open positions

Salary by Location

How salaries vary across different regions in Romania

Romanian Cities

Foreign Companies Hiring Remotely in Romania

Employment Type Analysis

Salary comparison across different employment arrangements

Contract

€3,352

average

Range: €589 - €5,894

8% of listings (20 jobs)

Full time

€3,230

average

Range: €589 - €14,833

92% of listings (238 jobs)

Remote Work Analysis

How remote work policies affect compensation

Remote

€3,735

average

Range: €589 - €14,833

63% of listings (163 jobs)

Hybrid

€2,636

average

Range: €589 - €9,430

25% of listings (66 jobs)

Office

€2,006

average

Range: €688 - €3,815

12% of listings (31 jobs)

Company Size Impact

How company size correlates with compensation

500-1k

€4,150

average

Range: €1,965 - €8,251

2% of listings (4 jobs)

1k-5k

€3,119

average

Range: €1,965 - €4,322

2% of listings (4 jobs)

200-500

€2,956

average

Range: €982 - €9,430

4% of listings (11 jobs)

<50

€2,453

average

Range: €589 - €5,894

17% of listings (45 jobs)

50-200

€2,445

average

Range: €1,179 - €3,929

8% of listings (22 jobs)

5k+

€2,292

average

Range: €1,081 - €3,733

1% of listings (3 jobs)

Industry Impact

How different industries compensate tech talent

Startup

€2,656

average

Range: €786 - €5,894

5% of listings (14 jobs)

Services

€2,622

average

Range: €589 - €9,430

21% of listings (55 jobs)

Product

€2,562

average

Range: €786 - €4,912

7% of listings (18 jobs)

Powerful Tech Combinations

Most rewarding technology stack combinations

Architect + Backend

€8,022

average

Based on 3 positions

Architect + Frontend

€8,022

average

Based on 3 positions

Architect + DevOps

€7,048

average

Based on 4 positions

Gcp + Web

€6,427

average

Based on 3 positions

Golang + microservices

€6,336

average

Based on 4 positions

AWS + Machine-Learning

€6,287

average

Based on 3 positions

Backend + Web

€6,271

average

Based on 3 positions

AWS + Architect

€6,139

average

Based on 4 positions

Ai + Architect

€6,139

average

Based on 4 positions

Azure + Web

€6,135

average

Based on 5 positions

Career Growth Paths

Salary progression by technology and experience level

Javascript

Mid
€3,039 avg
Range: €696 - €6,287
16 jobs
Senior
€4,620 avg
Range: €1,375 - €6,287
19 jobs
Lead
€5,422 avg
Range: €4,719 - €6,125
1 jobs

Python

Mid
€2,358 avg
Range: €1,179 - €3,929
6 jobs
Senior
€3,494 avg
Range: €1,965 - €4,921
10 jobs
Lead
€4,317 avg
Range: €3,815 - €4,819
1 jobs

Java

Mid
€3,135 avg
Range: €1,965 - €5,403
5 jobs
Senior
€3,661 avg
Range: €1,768 - €5,894
13 jobs

Php

Mid
€2,026 avg
Range: €589 - €5,894
21 jobs
Senior
€3,716 avg
Range: €1,004 - €14,833
14 jobs
Lead
€3,143 avg
Range: €2,652 - €3,635
1 jobs

Ruby

Mid
€5,305 avg
Range: €4,813 - €5,796
1 jobs
Senior
€4,418 avg
Range: €3,815 - €5,020
3 jobs

Rust

Junior
€1,757 avg
Range: €1,506 - €2,008
1 jobs
Senior
€5,206 avg
Range: €4,617 - €5,796
1 jobs

Total Compensation

Understanding the full value of compensation packages

Average Benefits Value

€0

per month

Additional value from benefits and perks

Total Compensation

€3,263

per month

Base salary + benefits value

Benefits Ratio

0%

of total comp

Percentage of compensation from benefits

Market Trends

Quarter-over-quarter changes in demand and compensation

Cloud

Demand Change +171.4%
Salary Change -7.9%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Java

Demand Change +111.1%
Salary Change +0%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

CI/CD

Demand Change +97.8%
Salary Change +2.9%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Rest

Demand Change +75%
Salary Change +65.8%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Web

Demand Change +75%
Salary Change +10.4%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Ai

Demand Change +58.3%
Salary Change +4.4%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

C#

Demand Change +55.6%
Salary Change +126.2%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

DevOps

Demand Change +52.8%
Salary Change +0.7%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Git

Demand Change +50%
Salary Change -4.4%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Azure

Demand Change +50%
Salary Change +183.8%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

GitHub

Demand Change +50%
Salary Change -53.3%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

HTML5

Demand Change +50%
Salary Change -38.1%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

UX UI Design

Demand Change +50%
Salary Change -15.2%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

Kubernetes

Demand Change +33.3%
Salary Change +18%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Backend

Demand Change +33.3%
Salary Change -33.5%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

PostgreSQL

Demand Change +28.9%
Salary Change +23%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Etl

Demand Change +25%
Salary Change +81.8%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

API

Demand Change +22.2%
Salary Change -51%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Frontend

Demand Change +16.7%
Salary Change +83.7%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Mobile

Demand Change +16.7%
Salary Change -22%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

dotNET

Demand Change +16.7%
Salary Change +37.7%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

AWS

Demand Change +13.9%
Salary Change +1.7%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

TypeScript

Demand Change +11.1%
Salary Change +7.6%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Docker

Demand Change +11.1%
Salary Change +12.3%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

React

Demand Change +8.3%
Salary Change -48.2%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

JavaScript

Demand Change +4.4%
Salary Change +61.5%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Spark

Demand Change +0%
Salary Change -61.4%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Support

Demand Change +0%
Salary Change +178.6%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

Sap

Demand Change +0%
Salary Change -57.2%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

GitLab

Demand Change +0%
Salary Change -50.1%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

React Native

Demand Change +0%
Salary Change +94.3%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

Tester

Demand Change +0%
Salary Change -3.7%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

.NET Framework

Demand Change -16.7%
Salary Change +37.7%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Python

Demand Change -16.7%
Salary Change -24.8%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Asp.NET

Demand Change -16.7%
Salary Change -51%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

MongoDB

Demand Change -16.7%
Salary Change -12.1%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Jira

Demand Change -25%
Salary Change -12.9%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

PHP

Demand Change -30.1%
Salary Change -11.8%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Kafka

Demand Change -33.3%
Salary Change +0%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Angular

Demand Change -33.4%
Salary Change -45%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Security

Demand Change -41.7%
Salary Change -4.6%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

CSS

Demand Change -45.9%
Salary Change +305.1%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

Data-Engineer

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change +30.3%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q3

MySQL

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change -79.5%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q3

Swagger

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change -89.6%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q3

RabbitMQ

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change -58.4%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

Symfony

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change -26.3%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

Kotlin

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change +16.2%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

SAP Fiori

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change -64.3%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

RedUX

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change -7.5%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

Llm

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change -43.3%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

No-Code

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change -30.9%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Node.js

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change -85.1%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Confluence

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change -22.5%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Network

Demand Change -50%
Salary Change +63.1%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

System

Demand Change -75%
Salary Change +39.1%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q4

Laravel

Demand Change -75%
Salary Change -65.4%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Bash

Demand Change -75%
Salary Change +7%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

NoSQL

Demand Change -75%
Salary Change -41.9%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

ElasticSearch

Demand Change -75%
Salary Change -62%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4, 2025-Q3

Data

Demand Change -83.4%
Salary Change +30.3%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q3

SQL

Demand Change -91.7%
Salary Change -38.6%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q3

Golang

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Terraform

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Business Intelligence

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Databricks

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Erp

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Gcp

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q3

Power BI

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

PySpark

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

pandas

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Architect

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q3

Ddd

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Grafana

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Bootstrap

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Es6

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Less

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

SCSS

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Linux

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q3

TSQL

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

.NET Mvc

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Blazor

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Swift

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Redis

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q3

PHPUnit

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Marketing

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Nginx

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q3

Playwright

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Postman

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1, 2025-Q3

Selenium

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Tosca

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Android

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

iOS

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

n8n

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Celery

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Django

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Cursor

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

Flutter

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

ServiceNow

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2026-Q1

TensorFlow

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Figma

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

GraphQL

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Firebase

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Ms-SQL

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

OAuth

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

NestJS

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Storybook

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Jwt

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Atlassian

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

JFrog

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Owasp

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

SpecFlow

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Tdd

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

microservices

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

WordPress

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Spring Boot

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Maven

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

TailwindCSS

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Manager

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Cto

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Abap

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

S4Hana

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Adobe CS

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Database

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Ssis

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Json

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Data Warehouse

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

Zend

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q4

MariaDB

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Oop

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Hl7

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

QA Testing

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

C++

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Machine-Learning

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

BigQuery

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

FastAPI

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Dynatrace

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Embedded

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

PyTorch

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

NextJS

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Business

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

DevExpress

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Elk

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Hibernate

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Ldap

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Spring

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

gRPC

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Bamboo

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Jenkins

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Sass

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

jQuery

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

GameDev

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Unity

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Vr

Demand Change -100%
Salary Change -100%
Based on data from: 2025-Q3

Common Benefits

Most frequently offered benefits in IT jobs

Full Remote Work

Offered in 59% of jobs

Flexible Hours

Offered in 40% of jobs

International Team

Offered in 38% of jobs

40-Hour Work Week

Offered in 34% of jobs

Private Health Insurance

Offered in 30% of jobs

Hybridwork

Offered in 29% of jobs

Company Retreats

Offered in 20% of jobs

Performance Bonuses

Offered in 20% of jobs

Career Development Path

Offered in 19% of jobs

Professional Workshops

Offered in 19% of jobs

Methodology

How we analyze and present salary data

Our salary insights are based on real-time data from active job listings on our platform. We analyze:

  • Salary ranges from 260+ active job listings
  • Data from 167 unique companies
  • Job postings across 11 different regions
  • 10 different technology stacks

Data sources

We aggregate and analyze salary ranges from IT job listings published on IT Jobs List. Some listings include salary bands explicitly; others may not.

  • Active job listings on IT Jobs List
  • Salary ranges provided by employers (when present)
  • Job metadata (role, seniority, location, tech stack) used to group and compare results

Normalization and assumptions

To keep comparisons useful, we normalize the way we interpret listing data across companies.

  • Salary figures are displayed in EUR where possible; listings may use different currencies and compensation structures.
  • When a listing provides a range, we may use the midpoint for aggregate charts.
  • Remote/hybrid/office and employment type are taken from the listing and may differ across teams within the same company.

Limitations

These insights reflect the market as described by listings, not private compensation data.

  • Not all jobs publish salary ranges, so some segments may be under-represented.
  • Job titles vary between companies; we group them, but edge cases exist.
  • Outliers can appear; trends are more reliable than any single datapoint.

Data is updated daily and reflects the current state of the IT job market in Romania.

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