Remote Software Engineer Salaries in Spain

How much do remote developers in Spain expect to make? $68,216 per year on average (based on self-reported data).

This estimated average salary is based on the expected salaries of Arc Developers in that location. Remote software engineer salaries in Spain are around average for Western Europe.
Below are some things to consider when hiring developers based in this location or building your next engineering hub.

$68,216USD
Avg. Developer Salary
$82,438USD
Avg. Senior Developer Salary

Established Companies in Spain

Here are some notable companies with engineering hubs or engineering teams in this location.

Volta Networks remote branch in Spain
Volta NetworksSource
Barcelona, Spain
Adobe remote branch in Spain
Adobe
Barcelona, Spain
eBay remote branch in Spain
eBay
Madrid, Spain
Amazon remote branch in Spain
AmazonSource
Madrid, Spain

Salary breakdown by expertise

Use the dropdown to compare software engineer salaries in Spain with another location.

Compare with:
United Kingdom
Front-end Developer
$66,948
$70,002
Back-end Developer
$68,820
$73,293
Data Scientist
$72,676
$74,479
App Developer
$67,019
$71,237
DevOps Engineer
$72,610
$74,636

English Proficiency in Spain

moderate
#35
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Proficiency
very high
high
moderate
low
very low

About software engineer salary in Spain

Work with great developers — who just happen to be outside your zip code.We built this tool to help you understand how much remote developers expect to be paid annually across different countries around the world. Software engineer salary in Spain are calculated using self-reported data from remote developers based in Spain, and may not be representative of local salaries.Learn More

The salary data is based on the expected salary of over 300,000 remote developers in Arc's network. Developers provide us with their expected salary after passing our comprehensive vetting process (click here to learn more about Arc’s vetting process).

In addition to software development experience, our research indicates two other major factors that affect salary expectations:

・Local rent and cost of living.
・English ability (in countries where English is not the primary language, developers with a good command of English can often charge a premium compared to local rates).

In addition to providing a base salary, organizations may offer remote developers a more comprehensive package when hired long-term. This package may include benefits such as health insurance, equipment stipends, cash bonuses for high performance, company equity, etc. (For more information on benefits frequently offered to remote developers, click here.)

Hire remote developers in Spain with Arc

Miraj T. - developer in Spain
Miraj T.
Developer, Debugger & Dreamer

A highly motivated and skilled Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience in development, maintenance and optimization of REST APIs in Python (Django), AWS cloud, backend data management, data analytics, backend architecture planning, analysis, management and implementation. Some of my key distinct projects are: ⦿ Developed API’s to provide data for user’s subscribed sales triggers, company’s financial stock charts, triggers data visualisation and app usage analytics. ⦿ Implemented the web socket communication protocols to improve the notifications delivery up to 95%. ⦿ Improved and optimize image loading on web application using AWS S3 object storage service and Cache. ⦿ Code optimization and refactoring of a feature which improved its efficiency by 60% in terms of time. ⦿ Improved code to handle image validation which was previously consuming a large amount of computation resources. ⦿ Managed seamless deployment of a large-scale module with zero downtime which involved 6 servers and multiple AWS services. I have 6 years experience in software development and worked on many interesting projects like implementation of an algorithm of Electrical Load "Demand Response Management" for residential grids in a volunteer collaboration, performed data mining, data analysis and data visualization and built an Arduino based smart plant. I'm truly passionate about learning new technologies, brainstorm new ideas and solutions to problems and implement those solutions using latest platform, tools and technologies. I thrive in an environment which encourages good work ethics, follow processes, provide challenges, appreciate hard work, creativity and innovation. My goals are to learn new technologies, build on the technologies I've already worked with, and eventually pay, if given opportunity, as a mentor to those coming into the industry. Some of the technologies I've worked with include: Backend: Python, PHP, Django, MySQL, Solr, NoSQL Cloud: AWS EC2, S3, SQS, Cloudfront Cache, Dynamo (Mongo DB), Lambda (Serverless) Embedded Systems: C, C++, Arduino, Raspberry Pi Other: VCS (Git), PyCharm, Visual Studio, AWS

Adrian S. - developer in Spain
Adrian S.
React | Next JS | RN | Node | Python | Java | Full-Stack Expert

Working in the IT sector for more than 10 years. With over 10 -years of freelancing and professional experience taught me all kinds of frameworks and languages, ranging from React, Angular, Vue, Node js, Express js, React Native, Redux, Rx JS, JavaScript, Typescript, WordPress, PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Sqlite, Postgresql, ES5+, Python3, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, RNN, CNN, C/C#/C++, .Net, Assembly, VBA, VB, Excel Macro, Java, Spring Boot Micro-services, R, Shiny, STATA, MATLAB, Google Sheet, App Script, Bubble io, etc. Over my long career, I have come across all kinds of challenges and gained vast experience with different kinds of industries like portals, medical industry, perception exercise, employee management, etc. I have good experience with frontend development using React JS along with Typescript, Firebase, GraphQL, React Native, Native Script, React, Material UI, Ionic, Node.js, Web Sockets, and real-time communication. I have also worked on containerization technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure etc. I am very good with backend technologies as well like Java Spring boot, microservices, MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS/Google integration. Please contact me to get the result done in a professional way.

Grant W. - developer in Spain
Grant W.
CS MS (PhD student) with a history of teaching computer science.

I am in the 5th year of my PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology (with a Masters in CS). I've published in top-tier computer science/cybersecurity conferences (including USENIX, ACM CCS, and ACM IMC). My research/expertise is primarily in Network Security, Network Security, and ML Applications to Security. I’m interested in applying my extensive Cybersecurity and ML knowledge to freelance projects, and am enthusiastic about applying my programming expertise to the problems clients are facing!

Salary reports by technologies

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