Compensation2025 baseline
106’900
CHF / year
Average gross annual salary for an IT position in Switzerland.
SwissDevJobs presents
Transparent IT Job Market Report
The reality behind Swiss tech work — told through transparent data.
SwissDevJobs presents
Transparent IT Job Market Report
The reality behind Swiss tech work — told through transparent data.
The report premise
The market changed.
The need for clarity didn’t.
Swiss tech professionals deserve to know what the market actually offers — before the first interview, not after the final one.
The 2026 edition will connect salary ranges, candidate sentiment and hiring realities to show where the market is moving, not just where it stands.
Baseline
2025
Verified findings
Next read
2026
Data to come
01EntryJuniors
02ImpactAI at work
03MovementJob change
04RealityRecruitment
05ValueSalaries
Built for candidates, companies and recruiters — by engineers, for engineers.
Where the next report begins
Four signals
worth tracking.
These verified 2025 findings establish the reference point. The 2026 edition will make the change visible.
Typical salary2025 baseline
105’000
CHF median
The midpoint of salary ranges advertised on SwissDevJobs.
Junior reality2025 baseline
76%
say requirements are too high
Entry-level roles still ask juniors to arrive with experience.
AI adoption2025 baseline
91%
use AI at work
Extensively or to some extent — adoption is already mainstream.
Source: Transparent IT Job Market Report 2025 Switzerland.
Salary pulse
What Swiss tech
work was worth.
All figures2025 baseline
Salary distribution
Gross annual salary
106’900 CHF average
10%82’500
25%95’000
Median105’000
75%117’500
90%130’000
The average moved only slightly from 106’000 CHF in 2024, pointing to a market in adjustment rather than acceleration.
City leaders
Average salary
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01Zurich110’600
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02Geneva110’600
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03Bern107’400
Zurich, Geneva and Bern led the 2025 city comparison by average advertised salary.
Key takeaway
Stability was the story of 2025. The 2026 report will test whether Swiss tech salaries finally moved.
Based on salary ranges from more than 5,300 SwissDevJobs listings in the 2025 report.