Over the past six months, Middle-level developers have continued to face a downward trend in salaries (-$50 vs. December 2024).
Over the past six months, Middle-level developers have continued to face a downward trend in salaries (-$50 vs. December 2024).
As the latest DOU salary survey shows, the salaries of developers who joined IT 2-6 years ago have decreased, but this is one of the largest groups of specialists, accounting for 43% of all developers.
At the same time, the salaries of senior developers tend to increase, and the decline in salaries of junior developers has stopped (the statistics returned to the level of summer 2024, adding +$30 in six months).
The median salary for developers, according to the DOU graph, is $3,400 as of June 2025.
As for the difference in salaries in product companies and in service or outstaffing firms, the former have a higher salary. Over the past six months, median salaries for middle managers in product companies have increased (+$100) and for specialists at the Lead/Staff/Principal level and above (+$250). In startups, median salaries for middle managers have also increased (+$325 over six months).
In service and outstaffing companies, median salaries for middle workers, on the contrary, decreased. Over the six months, it was -$224 in outstaffing companies and -$150 in service companies.
As for statistics by specialization, Back-end and Mobile still offer the highest median salaries. The survey shows that over the past six months, median salaries for seniors in most areas have increased by $200-300, except for Front-end development, where there were no significant changes.
Among programming languages, Scala users have the highest median salaries. Statistics also show that 75% of those for whom Scala is their primary programming language are Senior developers and above.
Next in the salary ranking for programming languages are Go, Kotlin, Swift, and Python.
Among the twenty most popular frameworks by median developer salaries, Jetpack Compose, Django, Kotlin Multiplatform, SwiftUI, and iOS SDK lead.
Previously, dev.ua analyzed who in IT is paid $8,000–9,000, highlighting the most expensive hires in June on Djinni.
We also wrote that Frontend Lead with nine years of experience, Serhiy Babayev, raised the topic of the cost of work for lead-level specialists on LinkedIn. How much should lead be paid — IT professionals are thinking.
