Software Engineer Salary in Finland: Official Pay Data 2024

What software engineers earn in Finland

Full-time software developers in Finland (occupation 2512 of the Finnish Classification of Occupations 2010, based on ISCO-08) earned a median of €5,020 a month gross in 2024, according to Statistics Finland. The mean was €5,211. These are total monthly earnings, which include overtime pay and working-hour supplements but leave out one-off items such as performance bonuses and holiday bonuses. The median for all full-time employees in Finland was €3,615, so software developers earn about 1.39 times the national midpoint (our calculation). Twelve months at the median comes to €60,240 a year before any holiday bonus (our calculation).

The spread is wide: the lowest-paid 10% of software developers earned up to €3,485 a month and the top 10% at least €7,108. Statistics Finland counted 30,334 full-time software developers in 2024. In the private sector (companies and non-profit institutions) their median was €5,138.

Pay by role and sex

Finnish statistics group jobs by occupation, not by seniority, so there are no official figures for junior or senior engineers. Among related occupations, systems analysts had the highest median at €5,596 a month, web and multimedia developers €5,000 and applications programmers €4,571. Across all ICT professionals the median was €5,170, and ICT service managers had a median of €8,333. Among software developers, men had a median of €5,137 and women €4,596.

How Finland compares in Europe

In Eurostat's Structure of Earnings Survey for 2022, professionals in the information and communication sector in Finland earned a mean of €65,145 a year, 1.13 times the EU average of €57,522. Denmark (€88,248) and Norway (€84,544) were higher, Sweden (€58,225) close to the EU average and Estonia (€42,753) lower. Finland had 202,300 ICT specialists in work in 2025, 7.8% of total employment, against 5.0% across the EU.

What an employer pays on top of salary

Finnish employers pay earnings-related pension (TyEL), health insurance and unemployment insurance contributions on wages. In 2026 the average employer TyEL contribution is 17.10% of pay (the total average rate is 24.40%, of which the employee pays 7.30%), the employer's health insurance contribution is 1.91% and the unemployment insurance contribution is 0.31% on payroll up to €2,509,500 a year and 1.23% on payroll above that.

For a software developer on the 2024 median of €5,020 a month, or €60,240 over 12 months, that comes to €10,301.04 for pension, €1,150.58 for health insurance and €186.74 for unemployment insurance: €11,638.36 a year, or 19.3% on top of salary, for a total of €71,878.36 (our calculation, 2026 rates, small payroll). An employer above the payroll threshold pays 1.23% on that part, which takes the total to about 20.2%. The TyEL rate is an average and varies by employer. Statutory accident insurance and group life insurance, whose rates are set by insurers, occupational health care and any holiday bonus come on top.

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How we built these figures

Statistics Finland's structure of earnings statistics cover full-time wage and salary earners in companies, central and local government and non-profit institutions; from 2024 they are produced with renewed data and methods and include small employers previously missing. The figures are monthly total earnings, gross, and leave out performance bonuses, holiday bonuses and other one-off pay, so annual figures here are 12 times the monthly figure and leave that pay out. The source does not publish 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. Where we multiply or divide, we say so.

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