Software Engineer Salary in Sweden: Official Pay Data 2024

What software engineers earn in Sweden

Software and system developers in Sweden (occupation group 2512, Mjukvaru- och systemutvecklare m.fl., in the Swedish classification SSYK 2012) earned an average of SEK 55,500 a month before tax in 2024, according to the salary structure statistics of Statistics Sweden (SCB) and the National Mediation Office. The figure is converted to full time. Over 12 months that is SEK 666,000 a year, or about €5,034 a month and €60,403 a year at the ECB reference rate of SEK 11.0260 per euro on 6 November 2026 (our calculation).

Swedish salary statistics are monthly. The monthly salary covers basic pay plus variable pay supplements and benefits, converted to full time; overtime pay is not included. It is an average across every age, level of experience and responsibility, so individual offers vary.

For comparison, the average monthly salary across all employees in Sweden was SEK 42,900 in 2025 and the median SEK 38,300, meaning half of all employees earned less. Among white-collar employees in the private sector, where most developers work, the average was SEK 53,600 and the median SEK 48,400 in 2025. These all-employee figures are for 2025, a year later than the developer figure, so we do not compute a ratio between them.

Pay by role, sex and sector

Systems analysts and IT architects were the best paid of the IT groups in the SCB salary search, at an average of SEK 58,500 a month in 2024. System administrators and maintainers (SSYK 2515) averaged SEK 53,800, system testers and test managers (SSYK 2514) SEK 49,200, and system administrators SEK 47,500.

Among software and system developers, women averaged SEK 53,400 a month in 2024 and men SEK 56,100.

The state sector publishes a spread for the same occupation. In 2025, about 3,800 software and system developers worked for central government in Sweden. Their average was SEK 49,300 a month and their median SEK 49,500; a quarter earned less than SEK 43,200 and a quarter more than SEK 54,900. The state sector average for all occupations was SEK 46,300, so developers there earned about 1.06 times the state average (our calculation). The state sector is a small part of the developer workforce, and these figures are not a guide to private-sector pay.

How Sweden compares in Europe

In Eurostat's Structure of Earnings Survey for 2022, professionals in the information and communication sector in Sweden earned a mean of €58,225 a year, close to the EU average of €57,522 (1.01 times, our calculation). Finland was at €65,145, Germany at €78,189, Norway at €84,544 and Denmark at €88,248. These figures are converted to euros by Eurostat and cover all professionals in the sector, not software engineers alone.

What an employer pays on top of salary

Swedish employers pay social security contributions (arbetsgivaravgifter) on gross pay. In 2026 the full rate is 31.42%, made up of the old-age pension contribution 10.21%, the general payroll tax (allmän löneavgift) 12.62%, health insurance 3.55%, labour market 2.64%, parental insurance 2.00%, survivor's pension 0.30% and work injury 0.10%, according to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket). Skatteverket lists no upper earnings limit for the full rate.

For a software developer on the average of SEK 55,500 a month, SEK 666,000 a year, that comes to SEK 209,257.20 in employer contributions, for a total of SEK 875,257.20 a year, or about €79,381 (our calculation, 2026 rates applied to 2024 pay, ECB rate of 6 November 2026). Lower rates apply to some employees: from 1 April 2026 to 30 September 2027 employers pay 20.81% on pay up to SEK 25,000 a month for employees born 2003 to 2007, and only the 10.21% pension contribution for employees born 1938 to 1958. Occupational pensions and insurances under collective agreements or company policy are not included and come on top.

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How we built these figures

The developer figures come from the salary search of Statistics Sweden, which draws on its salary structure statistics for the whole economy and states that the figures shown are for 2024. They are averages before tax, converted to full time and rounded to SEK 100. The salary structure statistics cover employees aged 18 to 68 in all sectors; the private sector is surveyed by sample, the public sector in full. The 2025 all-employee and state sector figures come from SCB tables published on 16 June 2026. SCB publishes no median or percentiles for developers across the whole economy in its salary search, and no figures by job title such as frontend or backend engineer, by years of experience or by remote status. The Eurostat comparison is from 2022. We converted kronor to euros at the ECB reference rate of SEK 11.0260 per euro on 6 November 2026 and rounded to the nearest euro. Where we multiply, divide or convert, we say so.

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