The IT sector's median wage in May stood at €4,259 gross — 3.4%, or €141, more than in February, when the median was €4,118. That is pay actually made and declared to Sodra across 17 sector companies employing more than 5,000 people between them — every position included: engineers, sales, administration, customer support. No single profession's salary can be read out of this number; it is a cut across the whole sector. The base is small, so the figure is also sensitive to changes at a few larger employers.
Job listings, meanwhile, offer senior engineers even more.
What the listings offer: from €2,300 to €5,000
On the listings side the picture is more varied. Eight IT roles, each with at least three active listings stating a salary, line up like this:
| Role | Advertised median (gross) | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Backend Engineer | €5,000 | 10 |
| Senior .NET Software Engineer | €4,960 | 4 |
| Senior Data Engineer | €4,400 | 3 |
| Data Engineer | €3,500 | 5 |
| PHP Developer | €3,500 | 3 |
| Data Analyst | €3,000 | 3 |
| Business Analyst | €2,600 | 6 |
| IT Administrator | €2,300 | 3 |
From bottom to top the table spans more than double: an IT administrator is offered a median of €2,300, a senior backend engineer €5,000. The figures rest on thin listings — three to ten per role — so each median is sensitive to a few new offers. The direction is clear all the same: the most expensive roles are senior engineering ones.
Some rows rest on a broader base than the active-listings column suggests: the data analyst median, for instance, is computed including recently expired listings, so it draws on considerably more than three offers. Pooling the development roles alone gives an advertised median of €4,960, with the middle half of offers falling between €3,500 and €5,000 (29 active listings).
A ladder missing its first steps
Pooling the development, administration and data-analytics listings and splitting them by seniority level leaves just two steps visible. Mid-level specialists are offered a median of €3,400 (12 active listings), seniors €4,975 (23 listings): a 46% difference. Within development roles alone the step is narrower, from €3,683 to €4,975, or 35%, but still pronounced. The pooled view holds 35 active listings in total, with an overall advertised median of €4,400.
Note what this picture lacks. Juniors. Positions with a stated salary for junior-level specialists are practically absent from active listings right now, and leadership steps are missing too. The IT market visible through listings starts at mid level: employers compete openly for experienced specialists, while entry points into the profession, it seems, often never reach public listings at all. For someone hunting a first IT job that means something simple: the listing medians say nothing about their level yet.
Listings offer more than the sector pays
Setting the two sources side by side shows an unusual relationship. Senior specialists are offered a median of €4,975 in listings — roughly €700 more than the whole sector's actual-pay median. There is no contradiction here, rather two reasons. The sector figure covers every position at IT companies, including far more modestly paid ones, while salaried listings cluster where competition is fiercest — among experienced engineers. Likely it also matters that a listing's figure is the price of attracting a new hire, so it aims at the top of the market. At the same time, the sector median sits well above what listings offer analysts or IT administrators: every salary in the sector flows into one number, and it lands between the extremes.
Vilnius and Kaunas offer the same
There is little geography in this story. Development-role listings concentrate in two cities: Vilnius offers a median of €4,960 (20 active listings), Kaunas €4,975 (4 listings). A fifteen-euro edge on four listings is noise, not a signal; the sensible reading is that both cities offer essentially the same. The most expensive line still belongs to the capital, though: senior backend engineer listings in Vilnius offer a median of €5,600 (7 listings); Kaunas has too few such listings to compare. No other city currently clears the three-listing bar, and all current listings can be compared in the job search.
For someone weighing the step from mid level to senior, the data names what that step is worth on the listings market: about one and a half thousand euros a month. For someone after a first job — a reminder that listings show only part of the market. The next quarter will show two things: whether the sector's actual pay keeps up its 3.4% pace, and whether a junior-level line finally appears in the listings.