Software Engineer Salary in Czechia: Official Pay Data 2025

What software engineers earn in Czechia

Software developers (occupation 2512 of the Czech classification CZ-ISCO, Vývojáři softwaru) earned a median of CZK 101,002 gross a month in 2025, according to the CZSO's structure of earnings statistics. The mean was CZK 113,218, pulled up by the highest earners. About 25,600 employees were counted in this occupation. The median for all employees in Czechia was CZK 44,337 and the mean CZK 52,202, so the developer median is 2.28 times the national midpoint (our calculation).

In euros, the median is about €4,148 a month and the mean about €4,650 (our calculation, ECB reference rate of CZK 24.350 per euro on 6 Nov 2026). Taken as 12 monthly payments, the median comes to CZK 1,212,024 a year, about €49,775 (our calculation). The CZSO figures already include bonuses, so there is no separate annual bonus to add.

Other software roles earn less at the median. Web and multimedia developers had CZK 89,860, systems analysts CZK 87,668, applications programmers CZK 86,953 and software testers CZK 82,618. Managers of ICT services had a median of CZK 142,721.

Pay by sex, age and employer

Among software developers, men had a median of CZK 104,260 a month and women CZK 80,814. The CZSO does not publish age bands for occupation 2512, but it does for the wider group of software and applications developers and analysts (251): the median was CZK 53,299 under 25, CZK 81,740 at 25 to 34, CZK 105,411 at 35 to 44, CZK 103,077 at 45 to 54 and CZK 80,575 at 55 and over.

Employer type matters. In group 251, the median was CZK 93,911 in the wage sphere (mostly private companies) and CZK 53,963 in the salary sphere (public bodies paid under state pay scales). Within the information and communication sector it was CZK 98,202. Across all ICT specialists (group 25), foreign nationals had a median of CZK 107,958 against CZK 84,380 for Czech citizens.

How Czechia compares in Europe

In Eurostat's Structure of Earnings Survey for 2022, professionals in the information and communication sector in Czechia earned a mean of €43,077 a year, 0.75 times the EU average of €57,522 (our calculation). That is above Slovakia (€31,617) and Poland (€29,721), and well below Austria (€71,668) and Germany (€78,189). Czechia had 248,200 ICT specialists in work in 2025, 4.7% of total employment, against 5.0% across the EU.

What an employer pays on top of salary

In 2026 a Czech employer pays 24.8% of gross pay in social security contributions to the Czech Social Security Administration (ČSSZ): 21.5% for pension insurance, 2.1% for sickness insurance and 1.2% for state employment policy. It also pays two thirds of the 13.5% health insurance contribution, which is 9% of pay. Social security stops at a maximum assessment base of CZK 2,350,416 a year in 2026 (48 times the average wage); health insurance has no ceiling.

For a software developer on the 2025 median of CZK 1,212,024 a year, that comes to CZK 300,581.95 for social security and CZK 109,082.16 for health insurance: CZK 409,664.11 a year, or 33.8% on top of salary, for a total of CZK 1,621,688.11, about €66,599 (our calculation, 2026 rates, ECB rate of 6 Nov 2026). Statutory accident liability insurance and any pension or other benefits come on top.

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How we built these figures

The CZSO structure of earnings statistics for 2025 combine the Ministry of Labour's sample survey of average earnings (ISPV), which covers employers that pay wages, with the Ministry of Finance's records for the public sector. They cover employees working 30 hours a week or more. Gross pay includes bonuses, rewards and pay for time not worked such as holidays, and the monthly figure is calculated over the months each employee was actually paid. The CZSO does not publish deciles or regional figures for occupation 2512, nor figures by job title such as frontend or backend engineer, by years of experience or by remote status. The Eurostat comparison is from 2022 and covers all professionals in the information and communication sector, not software engineers alone. Euro amounts and ratios are our calculation; where we multiply or divide, we say so.

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