Salary data
Software occupations and salaries, 2018–2026
See what each occupation earns according to the open salary surveys Önceki Yazılımcı runs every year, and how it changes with level and experience. Amounts are monthly net, in Turkish lira.
- salary answers
- 40,459
- from 9 years of surveys
- occupations
- 24
- in groups of at least 15
- highest median
- ₺295,000
- 2026 · Director of Software Development
How many people answered each year?
Latest survey: March 2026
- 1,5232018
- 1,1102019
- 1,9362020
- 2,6362021
- 5,0302022
- 8,1772023
- 5,9892024
- 9,0562025
- 5,0022026
Occupation
2026 median
Middle 50% (P25–P75)
Last year
2018–2026 trend
2026 answers
- Director of Software Development₺295,000Lower quartile ₺215,000, upper quartile ₺335,000+20%33
- CTO₺265,000Lower quartile ₺197,500, upper quartile ₺355,000+45%37
- Engineering Manager₺255,000Lower quartile ₺187,500, upper quartile ₺325,000+40%94
- Software Architect₺235,000Lower quartile ₺197,500, upper quartile ₺285,000+29%137
- Team / Tech Lead₺205,000Lower quartile ₺162,500, upper quartile ₺245,000+34%339
- Project Manager₺167,500Lower quartile ₺107,500, upper quartile ₺245,000+72%49
- Product Manager / Product Owner₺152,500Lower quartile ₺122,500, upper quartile ₺225,000+42%100
- Cybersecurity Specialist₺152,500Lower quartile ₺82,500, upper quartile ₺205,000+56%42
- Data Engineer₺142,500Lower quartile ₺112,500, upper quartile ₺187,500+27%27
- DevOps / SRE₺137,500Lower quartile ₺102,500, upper quartile ₺182,500+41%114
- Back-end Developer₺132,500Lower quartile ₺97,500, upper quartile ₺177,500+29%909
- Database Administrator (DBA)₺132,500Lower quartile ₺77,500, upper quartile ₺205,000+29%22
- Mobile Developer₺127,500Lower quartile ₺92,500, upper quartile ₺187,500+24%397
- Embedded Software Developer₺127,500Lower quartile ₺107,500, upper quartile ₺182,500+38%91
- Data Scientist / ML Engineer₺127,500Lower quartile ₺92,500, upper quartile ₺177,500+38%121
- Business Analyst₺127,500Lower quartile ₺82,500, upper quartile ₺182,500+46%112
- Full Stack Developer₺112,500Lower quartile ₺82,500, upper quartile ₺157,500+29%1,110
- Systems / Support Engineer₺112,500Lower quartile ₺70,500, upper quartile ₺147,500+53%64
- Front-end Developer₺107,500Lower quartile ₺77,500, upper quartile ₺147,500+39%359
- SAP / ERP Developer₺107,500Lower quartile ₺74,500, upper quartile ₺152,500+39%130
- QA / Test Engineer₺102,500Lower quartile ₺77,500, upper quartile ₺127,500+32%144
- Data Analyst₺102,500Lower quartile ₺77,500, upper quartile ₺142,500+32%57
- Game Developer₺92,500Lower quartile ₺70,500, upper quartile ₺117,500+46%41
- AI Engineer₺82,500Lower quartile ₺50,500, upper quartile ₺112,500+36%19
Sorted by the latest year's median. Each trend line has its own scale; a missing year means the occupation was not in that year's survey or had fewer than 15 answers.
Data and method
- ≥ 15 people
- No figure of a smaller group is published
- Range midpoint
- The survey asks for a range; its middle, rounded to 500 lira, an open top marked ≥
- Turkey · lira
- Only people working in Turkey and paid in lira
- Nominal lira
- Each year's money, not adjusted for inflation
Source: the Önceki Yazılımcı salary surveys, 2018–2026, used with the author's permission. We keep nothing per person, only group summaries.