https://www.offerzen.com/reports/software-developer-south-africa
Always a good read. A few random takeaways:
Always a good read. A few random takeaways:
- Remote work is becoming less common, but many developers still prefer it.
- Over the past 12 months, 17% of developers lost their fully remote status. This is despite over half of surveyed developers saying they'd leave if they were forced to return full-time.
- The gender pay gap in tech is narrowing.
- Salary growth has slowed for the majority of developers in South Africa, and some developers have even experienced a decrease in buying power.
- Salaries for senior developers increased by 6.3%.
- Cape Town is still the best place to be for developer salaries: Capetonian developers have earned the highest average salaries in South Africa for four years in a row.
- AI is becoming more important and is being used by more developers.
- Over the past three years, Go, Ruby and Kotlin had the highest average salaries among South African developers
- Spring and Spring Boot have the highest average salaries among frameworks and lead to higher average salaries for Java developers across the majority of their careers.
- Backend devs still earn more, but the gap between frontend and full-stack developers is narrowing