Indeed Salary Search is an index of salary information extracted from over 50 million job postings from thousands of unique sources over the last 12 months. Many job descriptions don’t contain salary information, but there are enough that do to produce statistically significant median salaries.
Inspired by The Unix Guy, following are the annual salaries (as of June 10, 2008) for software developer jobs for the most popular programming languages and a few related technologies such as LAMP, Ajax and ASP.NET. The second column lists the salary for developer jobs in that language, such that the job title for C# would be “C# developer.” The third column lists senior developer salary, and the fourth columns lists junior developer salary. Note that some jobs had no listings for the specified language.
| Language | Developer Salary | Senior Developer | Junior Developer |
| C++ | $85K | $90K | $52K |
| Python | $84K | — | — |
| C# | $81K | $91K | $57K |
| C | $80K | $88K | — |
| UI | $79K | $91K | — |
| Java | $79K | $84K | $54K |
| LAMP | $75K | $78K | $44K |
| Ajax | $78K | — | — |
| Cobol | $77K | $77K | — |
| SQL | $76K | $79K | $66K |
| Perl | $76K | $75K | — |
| Ruby | $75K | — | — |
| JavaScript | $74K | — | — |
| Delphi | $73K | $80K | — |
| VB.NET | $71K | $83K | $52K |
| ColdFusion | $70K | $81K | $44K |
| ASP.NET | $68K | $82K | $55K |
| PHP | $64K | $73K | $44K |
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June 10th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Wait. So you’re telling me that a PHP programmer makes $73K as a senior developer, but a senior LAMP programmer makes $78K, and if he can do SQL it’s $79K, and UI work he can make $91K? WTF?
June 10th, 2008 at 11:24 am
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June 10th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Yes, that’s what the data says. Odd, isn’t it? For some reason, dedicated UI developers are very expensive. My experience in business has shown this to be true. Maybe it’s similar to why the lead singer in a rock band is usually the most important member. They are the interface to the audience, just as the UI developer is the interface to the customer. Or maybe it’s just a supply & demand equation: there are more PHP and LAMP experts than UI experts.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:26 am
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June 10th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
This is just more garbage from indeed.com. It’s already been busted.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Savagecat, can you provide me with some links to this negative information on indeed.com? A search on Google turns up only positive information, yet I have been receiving many flames from developers about indeed.com. I’d like to see the evidence/discussion. Thank you.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
great, I write Py/Ajax/JavaScript and I get $13K at my country lol
June 10th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
This report is very inconsistent.
LAMP Programmers may include PHP and Perl Programmers.
ASP.NET can include VB.NET and C# (since the former two are languages and the first is a technology utilizing these two).
AJAX is a set of technologies that are based on JavaScript but cannot be usually used without a server side technology (ASP.NET, JSP, PHP etc.)
June 10th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Don’t think of these as cumulative qualities that you can add and subtract to equal net worth. i.e. LAMP = PHP + Perl + MySQL, etc. These numbers are simply salary statistics derived from job titles. So if there were two “C++ Developer” jobs currently available, one for $80K and the other for $90K, the average would be $85K as shown in this report. The value of the numbers is that there are thousands of jobs available at any one time, so this gives a good pulse. Note these numbers will vary with time based on jobs available. So you should also investigate salary trends from sites like salary.com, monster.com, etc.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Alrightee… But when I write a web site in ASP.NET I automatically write in C# or VB.NET or even combined. In this case how can an ASP.NET job be considered? Simply an ASP.NET job or a C# one? Or both?
June 10th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
@timm
The majority of salaries listed on sites like Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, and even the salaries listed on Salary.com and Indeed.com are very over-inflated and a far stretch from the actual salaries paid. The trend is recruiters listing the “bill to customer rate” rather than the actual employee salary rate. It’s a slick bait-and-switch routine.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Re: In this case how can an ASP.NET job be considered? Simply an ASP.NET job or a C# one? Or both?
Based on today’s available jobs, an “ASP.NET Developer” job title is considered to be less valuable than a “C# developer” job title. ASP.NET requires C# (or VB.NET or some other .NET language), but C# is also much more than just ASP.NET. Which is why this list is not a skills=salary calculator, but rather just a statistical reporting on the salaries associated with various job titles.
I believe most people will find that location is the single biggest factor on salaries. Cost of living in that area, supply of available jobs of that type, and demand of qualified candidates ultimately determine what the market is willing to pay for a given job position.
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June 13th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
@#9 I think Timm is right. It only makes sense that the lowest paid jobs are going to be the ones that sit on the boards longest. And the higher paid jobs for the same skill set will usually never hit a board, since they will be filled before that ever get listed.
I guess this statistic is like any other, you need to follow the money, to find the true motivation for the article. Someone wants us to believe that C# developers get paid the most, and I can imagine how funded this study. And it wasn’t the companies behind PHP, LAMP, Ruby or Java.
It’s just paid advertised garbage.
June 14th, 2008 at 5:15 am
These prices do not reflect the Tampa metro area. Java Enterprise is still a hot job opportunity and pays close to 90k.
Is this statistic just data culled from job websites…..it certainly is not reality.
Regards,
Tom Pridham
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June 17th, 2008 at 6:00 am
ohh… WTF! I earn about $7000 per year as a .Net developer…
June 17th, 2008 at 6:02 am
Wait man, compare your income to your country’s average income and the average cost of life in your area too.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Interesting survey
… Good to learn that C# programmers are in the top-3 spot. You can never go wrong with .Net!
Cheers man!
Cyril
June 21st, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Perhaps I am fortunate; my title is “architect” and I code 80% of the time in C#. I earn $136k a year and them around me are not too far behind; moreover, I have external clients whom I charge $95/hr. It is all about motivation and the ability to take chances.
I read the LAMP folks take exception yet in the market, advanced .Net is in extreme demand and PHP or Ruby folks are opined as “cheap labor”. The prevailing attitude is “…if I do not have to pay for the software, why should I spend a lot for open-source scripters…”
I have overheard that too many times to be an isolated opinion.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Thank you so much for the statistics!
This will really help me when I am evaluating potential offers.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:34 am
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