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Software Engineer Salary Australia

Software Engineer Salary / Wage

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Salary and wage information for software engineers is compiled regularly by analysis of Australian jobs advertised in major publications. Salaries are annual unless otherwise stated.

The Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations Codes (ANZSCO) for software engineers is 261313 and for software testers is 261314.

Job titles and exact tasks vary in this work and examples of some occupation titles are software engineer, software architect, software designer, software testing engineer and telecommunications software engineer.

Software engineers are currently on the Australian Combined Skilled Occupation List, (Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List, MLTSSL) and software testers are on the Short-term Skilled Occupation List, STSOL.

The average weekly full-time ordinary earnings in Professional, Scientific and Technical Services in mid 2018 were $1,840, giving an annual income of approximately $95,680. This was almost unchanged compared to mid 2017.*

Data supplied from Indeed over the past 36 months, based on over 1,600 salaries, estimated that the average salary for a software engineer was $91,816 per annum in Australia.

Software Engineer Salaries / Wages in 2018

Job TitleSalary / Wage $Location
Backend Software Engineer / JVM, Java8, Kotlin

110,000 – 140,000 Sydney, New South Wales
Junior Software Engineer

62,000 – 79,000 Hunter Valley, New South Wales
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (.NET/Java)

90,000 – 120,000Sydney, New South Wales
Mid level Laravel Developer

70,000 – 80,000 Melbourne, Victoria
Javascript developer

$500 – $750 per day Canberra, ACT
C++ | QT Software Engineer

85,000 – 120,000 Melbourne, Victoria
Embedded Software Engineer

75,000 – 90,000 Brisbane, Queensland
Software Engineer – C# | C++ | DDS

68,000 – 88,000 Adelaide, South Australia
Software Engineer

$70 – $90 per hour Perth, Western Australia

*Source:ABS
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Comments

  1. Andy says

    April 16, 2018 at 8:41 pm

    These salaries seem very low from what I have observed in the Melbourne market.

    Reply
  2. katrina says

    June 20, 2017 at 2:59 pm

    are business analysts/ project managers considered part of this category as well?

    Reply
    • Name says

      January 13, 2018 at 1:14 pm

      No, I think they are talking about programmers

      Reply

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