IT Salary Report 2026 — CIS & Global
Developer salaries by role — in USD/month, from open jobs with a stated salary. Unlike Western platforms, we include Russia, Belarus and the whole CIS. Normalised from source currencies (RUB / EUR / PLN / KZT) at publish time. Level and country breakdowns are not published right now — the reason and the evidence are below.
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Based on 23,865 jobs with a stated salary · median $7,880/mo
Salary by role (USD/mo)
| Role | P25 | Median | P75 | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Backend | $3,750 | $6,324 | $9,246 | 1227 |
| Fullstack | $4,880 | $7,250 | $11,667 | 1227 |
| Data | $5,750 | $8,143 | $12,292 | 1049 |
| PM | $5,396 | $7,708 | $11,309 | 1018 |
| DevOps | $5,418 | $7,880 | $12,627 | 1012 |
| Architect | $7,606 | $11,033 | $16,411 | 704 |
| Product | $6,627 | $10,792 | $15,615 | 590 |
| ML/AI | $6,952 | $11,479 | $15,740 | 586 |
| QA | $4,750 | $7,500 | $11,153 | 437 |
| AI Engineer | $6,543 | $9,841 | $14,988 | 410 |
| Security | $7,250 | $11,267 | $15,625 | 405 |
| Platform Engineer | $6,967 | $9,583 | $13,395 | 350 |
| Design | $4,565 | $7,917 | $13,542 | 253 |
| Frontend | $4,230 | $6,567 | $11,667 | 251 |
| Analyst | $4,400 | $6,124 | $10,666 | 203 |
| SRE | $6,872 | $8,945 | $13,281 | 166 |
| Mobile | $3,940 | $7,091 | $11,771 | 112 |
| Embedded | $6,567 | $11,250 | $14,138 | 79 |
| Analytics Engineer | $5,674 | $7,120 | $11,938 | 67 |
| GameDev | $6,925 | $8,500 | $11,723 | 35 |
| DevRel | $11,282 | $13,438 | $16,875 | 20 |
Salaries by seniority and by country are not published yet: there is not enough data for a reliable estimate.
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Median by role, USD/mo
Weekly trends
Weekly salary dynamics are not published yet: they need salaries with a known period (per month or per year) over several weeks. Current medians by direction are in the table above.
Data collected automatically from public sources • Source: Zorky CRM