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Salary bands by role, seniority and city, from the latest edition, with the year-on-year movement.
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What tech professionals in Romania earn, want and do next
Salary bands for 20+ roles, by seniority and city. Bonuses, benefits, job-change intent, working models and eNPS. From an annual survey of about 6,000 tech professionals that we have run for more than 15 years.
~6,000tech professionals surveyed each year
20+roles with salary bands by seniority and city
15+ yearsof the same questions, so trends are real
95%confidence level
What you can ask us
Three questions we answer from the latest edition
We don't publish the report openly, but we do answer questions from it. Tell us the role, the seniority and the city, and we'll come back with the current salary band, the benefits that typically go with it and how the profile has moved in the last year. Three questions we get most often:
Why are our offers being declined?
Recruitment behavior from the survey: the reasons candidates say no, and what makes them say yes.
Remote, hybrid or office: what does the market expect?
Working-model preferences and how they trade off against pay, by seniority.
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What's inside
The Tech Salary & Employment Behavior Report
Salary trends for 20+ roles
Salary evolution by role, seniority and city, from 2020 to the current edition, with the economic context that moved them.
Bonuses and benefits
Bonus criteria and percentages, the benefits employers offer and the ones professionals actually want.
Recruitment behavior
Job offers, rejections and the reasons behind them. What makes a candidate say no.
Satisfaction and retention
Industry eNPS scores, professional goals and what keeps people in place.
Working models
Remote, hybrid and office preferences, and how they trade off against pay.
Freelancing
The effect of tax changes on contractor work in tech.
Method
How we know
~6,000
respondents a year
An annual online survey of tech professionals across Romania, at a 95% confidence level.
15+ yrs
of longitudinal data
The same questions, every year, so we show trends rather than snapshots.
165,000+
specialists in our databases
Complemented by LinkedIn research and desk research for the talent maps.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
What is the average salary of a software developer in Romania?
It varies widely by stack, seniority and city. Our annual Tech Salary & Employment Behavior Report tracks 20+ roles from a survey of about 6,000 tech professionals, with salary bands by experience level and the benefits and bonuses that go with them. Headline figures from the latest edition are published on this page each year; the full report is available on request.
How much does a senior Java developer earn in Bucharest?
Bucharest pays the highest median tech salaries in Romania, with Cluj-Napoca close behind. Senior Java, .NET and cloud engineers sit in the upper bands of our survey. Contact us for the current figures for your exact profile and city.
How do tech salaries in Romania compare with Poland or Bulgaria?
Our CEE+ Tech Talent Map compares 18 countries, over 3.5 million IT professionals, on talent volume, growth, density, gender balance and hard-to-fill vacancies. Romania combines one of the region's larger pools with competitive cost, which is why so many centers land here.
How is the data collected?
An annual online survey of around 6,000 tech professionals across Romania, at a 95% confidence level, complemented by our databases of 165,000+ specialists, LinkedIn research and desk research. We have run it every year for more than 15 years, so we can show trends, not just snapshots.
Can we get salary data for our specific roles?
Yes. Our Advanced search engagements include a mini salary and employment behavior report for your roles, and our custom research answers questions like where to build a capability, what to pay for it and who you compete with.
Is the report deductible from the disability fund?
Yes. All our talent intelligence reports qualify for companies with 50 or more employees in Romania, because Brainspotting is an Authorized Protected Unit (UPA).
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