Landing.

Jobs

Tech Careers
Report 2021

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HIGHLIGHTS
Demography

Report Highlights

• 34% of respondents have Remote Jobs (Full or Flexible), • The average gross annual salary for tech professionals in Portugal is
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independently of the pandemic . 32.500€ (48.000€ for Contractors).

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• More than half of tech professional in Portugal (54%) have more • Residents in Lisbon Metropolitan Area earn more 18,4% salary than
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than 6 years work experience. the national average.

• Tech professional change jobs in average between every 1,5 years • Women have salaries 16% lower than Men (was 23% lower last year).
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to 2,3 years.
• Working for an international company means 35,8% more wage than
Company
Employer

• Working for companies outside Portugal is growing, currently working for a company in Portugal.
with 22% of the tech workforce in this situation (more than 50%
• 52% of respondents saw their salary raised in the last 12 months, while
for Contractors).
42% had salary stagnation.
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• Full-Stack, Back-End and Front-End Developers are the

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• If you are looking for a top tech salaries, go for Go, Perl, Kotlin and
most popular jobs profiles (around 50%) for portuguese tech
Ruby on Rails, and stay away from VBA and PHP. Whatever you do,
professionals.
stay in tech, salaries are still higher than in most other industries.
Salary

• JavaScript is king amongst tech languages, used by the majority

of tech professionals - sharing the podium is also Java, and C#.

Motivators
& Perks

• Work Life Balance is the number one Job Motivator for

portuguese Tech Talent.

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INDEX
Demography

Index
Remote

P1. HIGHLIGHTS P16. EMPLOYER COMPANY

Work

P2. INDEX P21. TECH & JOBS ROLES

Employment

P3. INTRODDUCTION P24. SALARY

Type

P4. FOREWORD (by tb.lx) P43. MOTIVATORS & PERKS

Company
Employer

P5. DEMOGRAPHY P45. REPORT DATA SHEET

P9. REMOTE WORK

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P11. EMPLOYMENT TYPE

Salary
Motivators
& Perks
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INTRODUCTION
Demography

Landing.Jobs

Tech professionals sometimes make career decisions in the dark, with Enter this report at your own risk. You might find you’re hugely underpaid (or
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As for us, these results are golden nuggets we will use not only to improve our
with this information, so that every Tech professional can make informed
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This year, besides this Report, we challenge the Community to use the anonymized
A deep knowledge of Tech professionals is essential for every
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respondents providing data about demographics, their relation to Report PT 2021.

Tech &

remote work, languages and frameworks they use, their salaries and
Please reach us with comments, critics, suggestions or anything else
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In this report there are some interesting results, like the fact that

Contractors earn on average 54,5% more than Permanent Employees,

Pedro Moura
Motivators

the salary gap between men and women shrank from 23% to 16%, Stock
& Perks

Options are poorly seen by developers and GO is the top paying language. CMO at Landing.Jobs, Head of Future at Future.Works
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INTRODUCTION
Demography

Foreword - tb.lx

The tech market in Portugal continues to expand as a hotspot for About tb.lx:
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innovation, investment, and highly skilled talent. Despite last year’s

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tb.lx by Daimler Trucks & Buses is a startup within the corporate based in Lisbon,
challenges, Portugal remains one of the most attractive countries for
Portugal founded in 2018. With the vision to live in a world of sustainable and
tech companies and professionals to thrive.
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connected transportation, tb.lx is developing data-driven software and connectivity

With several changes behind us and more on the horizon – in terms services for several global Daimler brands like Mercedes-Benz, Fuso or Freightliner.
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of the future of offices, remote work, diversity, and inclusion – market These new customer-centric products improve vehicle efficiency, costs and

intelligence becomes especially important. As sponsors of the Tech sustainability for users all around the world, such as fleet managers, drivers,

operators, cities. For more information please visit

Company
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Careers Report, we’re supporting the research that will fuel the

Portuguese tech scene’s development.

www.tblx.io

Being established in this market since 2018, we are no strangers to its

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trends and challenges, and we value transparency as a way to navigate

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them. The research provided by Landing.Jobs in this report is a tool for

fair and transparent growth, as it offers a comprehensive analysis of the

Salary

reality of a large portion of the tech professionals in Portugal.

tb.lx strongly believes in the empowerment of both companies and

Motivators

talent towards a stronger tech ecosystem in Portugal, and this data-

& Perks

driven approach is key to boost it.

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DEMOGRAPHY
Demography

What’s the gender breakdown? What’s the age breakdown?

Remote
Work

12.52%
Employment

1.48% 6%
Type
Company
Employer

4%

86%
2%
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Tech &

0%
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 61 62 67
Salary

Age (reference 2021)

Motivators
& Perks

Male Female I prefer not to say Male Female I prefer not to say
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DEMOGRAPHY
Demography

What’s their highest level of In which district do respondents reside?

formal education? • Lisbon went from having around 66% respondents last year to 50%

this year. Something has changed here.

Remote
Work
Employment

50% 40%
Type

40%
30%
Company
Employer

30%

20%
Job Roles

20%
Tech &

10%
10%
Salary

0% 0%
Motivators

Lisbon Porto Centre North South Azores and Other

Masters Bachelor Trade / High School University Doctoral I prefer not Basic
& Perks

Metropolitan Metropolitan Madeira

degree degree technical / Education drop out degree to answer Education
Area Area
vocational
training
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DEMOGRAPHY
Demography

How do respondents classify their

own English level?
Remote
Work

40%

Portuguese speak a mean English, that’s what

Employment

everyone says.
30%
Type

• But this a claim backed both by self-judgment (look at this chart)

and by independent data (7th position in the English Proficiency

Index 2020).
Company
Employer

20%

• Why this happens is matter of speculative opinion. Some say it’s

because we watch tv and video mostly in the original language,
Job Roles

some say we just have a natural knack for it.

Tech &

10%

• Reality is that the common behaviour for someone portuguese

when boarded by a foreigner is to try to communicate in the

Salary

other person’s language, not in portuguese. That’s an A for

0%
communication skills. Elementary Limited Professional Full Native or
working working professional bilingual
Motivators

proficiency proficiency proficiency proficiency

& Perks
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DEMOGRAPHY
Demography

How did respondents

4.82%
enter the tech industry?
Remote
Work

The percentage of self-taught IT professionals (19,21%) 19.21%

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might be surprising, as it is usually perceived that the

‘university’ path is almost the only one.
Type

• Information Technology is one of the most accessible markets due

to the enormous availability of self- training resources, the growing

Company
Employer

demand for tech professionals and the insufficient ‘production’ of

tech professionals by the universities.

75.97%
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• Entering the Tech Market via Bootcampshas grown from 3.2%

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in 2020 to 4,8% in 2021. The Bootcamp offer is increasing, with a

growing number of players like Ironhack, LeWagon, Academia

de Código, Wild Code School, 42 Lisboa, 4Geeks, Thorly and even

Salary

UpSkill (a government backed program). Non tech folks, join the

Reskilling wave.
Motivators

University Code bootcamp Self-taught

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REMOTE WORK
Demography

Do respondents have a Full Office Job Note: Current work situation [line break] Jan-Feb 2021,
Covid-19 Pandemic Contex
or a Remote Work Job?
Remote Job: Flexible Remote vs Full Remote
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• Remote Work is upswinging. More than 1/3 respondents having Full

Work
Work

or Flexible jobs is damn significative. Full Office jobs are beggining

to look like a sign of a far past.

31.94%
Employment

Flexible between remote and office

Note: Job base type, not current work situation due to
Type

Covid-19 Pandemic Yes, fully remote

Company
Employer

68.06%

34.17%
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Full Office Job: Full-Office vs Flexible Remote vs Full Remote

Tech &

24.29%
65.83%
Salary

Flexible between remote and office

Yes, fully remote

Motivators
& Perks

No, full office job

15.46%
Remote Job (full or flexible) Full Office Job
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REMOTE WORK
Demography

Full Office vs Remote Job What’s your personal inclination regarding

(by Employment Type) Remote Work? (by Employment Type)
Remote

• Not surprisingly Contractor’s jobs are much more Remote than

Work
Work

Permanent Employees’ (but even for Perms, Remote work is above 30%!)
Employment
Type
Company
Employer

Contractor Contractor
Job Roles
Tech &

Permanent Permanent
Employee Employee
Salary

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 0% 25% 50% 75% 100%

Motivators
& Perks

Full Office Job Remote Job (full or flexible) 1 - Office Only 2 3 4 5 6 7 - Remote Work
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Demography

What’s the respondents

working experience?
Remote

IT is no longer a realm of youngsters. 40%

Work

• It’s significant over 54% of respondents

are ‘Seniors’ (>6 years of experience),

Employment
Employment

30%
showing a possible sign of maturity of the
Type

tech professionals community.

• Could this chart indicate Portugal needs

Company
Employer

20%
to get more people into IT? Some studies

indicate a need of a lot of IT professionals

everywhere, around 75.000 just in

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Portugal. Maybe it’s time to accelerate the 10%

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tech skilling of new people.

Salary

0%
No working Less than Between Between Between More than
experience 1 year 1 - 3 years 3 - 6 years 6 - 9 years 9 years
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EMPLOYMENT TYPE
Demography

Are respondents Contractors or Working Experience Distribution

Permanent Employees (Employment Type) (Employment Type)
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• Choosing a Contracting employment type instead of a Permanent • Tipically Contractors are senior professionals
Work

Employee Contract rose 0,5% from 2020 to 2021

Employment
Employment

6.08%
100%
6+ years
Type

3 - 6 years
Company
Employer

75% 0 - 3 years
Job Roles

50%
Tech &

93.92%

25%
Salary
Motivators

0%
& Perks

Contractor Permanent
Employee
Contractor Permanent Employee
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EMPLOYMENT TYPE
Demography

Permanent Employees considering working Contractors considering working as Permanent

as Contractors in the next 12 months? Employees in the next 12 months
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• What makes Perms so afraid of working as Contractors? Higher risk • Contractors attitude seems more and more to be that a job is a job,
Work

perception? Lack of stability? being it as Perm or Contractor.

Employment
Employment
Type

33.17%
28,33%
Company
Employer
Job Roles

66.83%
Tech &

71.67%
Salary
Motivators
& Perks

No Yes No Yes
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EMPLOYMENT TYPE
Demography

What’s the duration of Contractors projects?

Remote

Contractors projects seems to last in average between 6 and

Work

More than 24 months

12 months, a fair amount of time to create something cool and

move on to another challenge.

Employment
Employment

• This may seem risky and unstable for a tech professional used 13 to 24 monthts
Type

to work as a Permanent Employee, but once a Contractor starts

having a network of contacts and works with quality, projects will

7 to 12 months
come easily.
Company
Employer

• And the salary reward for being a contractor is veryyy appealing

(more on this ahead in this report). 4 to 6 months

Job Roles
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• Landing.Jobs own opinion is that a clear trend is forming that

tech professionals (and companies) will care progressively less Less than 3 months
about the employment type (Perm/Contractor), and focus more
Salary

on the job at hand. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

Motivators
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EMPLOYMENT TYPE
Demography

How long are Permanent Employees in (Permanent Employees)

their current company? Considering changing jobs in the next 6 months?
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• Our data indicates Permanent employees change jobs on average

Work

every 1.5 and 2.3 years.

Employment
Employment
Type

More than 3 years More than 3 years

Company
Employer

Between 1 - 3 years Between 1 - 3 years

Job Roles
Tech &

Less than one year Less than one year

Salary

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 0% 25% 50% 75% 100%

Motivators
& Perks

1 - Definitely No 2 3 4 5 - Definitely Yes

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EMPLOYER COMPANY
Demography

What’s the industry of the

company you work for?
Consulting
Remote

More than 56% (52% in 2020) of respondents work for Software development - other
Work

Financial and banking

companies that provide IT Services or Products to
Information technology
other companies (Consulting, SW/Web Development, Information Cloud-based solutions or services
Employment

technology, SaaS development, Cloud-based solutions or services, and Software as a service (saas) development
Retail or ecommerce
Data and analytics).
Type

Web development or design

Telecommunications
This possibly indicates:
Media, advertising or entertainment
Employer
Company

Transportation
a) companies in Portugal continue to have a big preference
Manufacturing
for externalization of their IT functions (we think this is Healthcare or social services
changing); Data and analytics
Job Roles

Energy or utilities
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• b) foreign companies are increasingly using Portuguese Internet

Government or public administration
IT Services companies (it’s happening);
Education and training
Security
• c) foreign companies are increasingly setting up tech
Salary

Marketing
teams and IT Centres in Portugal to extend their IT Travel
capacity (this one we’re sure of). Research - academic or scientific
Motivators

Real estate
& Perks

Government and Public administration continue with a Nonprofit

pretty low number here, clearly indicating a need for a 0% 5% 10%

stronger bet in IT as a way to increase digitalization.

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Demography

What’s the size of the

company you work for?
Remote

25%
Portugal has a lot of tech professionals
Work

working for companies having up to

100 employeers (around 38% of total

Employment

20%
respondents).
Type

• But bear in mind that around a lot

15%
of these ‘less than 100 employees’
Employer
Company

companies are startups, not old plain

brick’n’mortar businesses (take a peek 10%

at next page).
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5%
Salary

0%
Less than 10 - 19 20 - 99 100 - 499 500 - 999 1000 - 4.999 + 5.000
10 employees employees employees employees employees employees employees
Motivators
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Demography

What’s the type of

organisation you’re
4.32%
currently working for? 4.80%
32.94%
Remote
Work

7.36%
This chart looks a lot like last year’s

report, with minor changes.

Employment

Consulting Business
• Outsourcing and Scale-Ups have
Type

reduced their proportion the most. Corporate

9.58%
• On the other hand, SMEs (<250 Nearshore
Employer
Company

employees) and Startups have

Outsourcing
increased their share of the pie.

Scale-up
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• But overal changes don’t seem be

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statistically significant, meaning no

10.51% SME - Small or Medium Enterprise

structural changes here.

Startup (new business venture)
Salary
Motivators

30.57%
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EMPLOYER COMPANY
Demography

What’s the location of the company you Portugal / International working company
work for? (Portugal vs International) distribution by Employment Type
Remote

• Portuguese tech professionals working for companies abroad

Work

is trending up.
Employment
Type

22.08%
Employer
Company

Contractor
Job Roles
Tech &

Permanent
Employee
77.92%
Salary

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%

Motivators
& Perks

Portugal Other Countries

Portugal Other Countries
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EMPLOYER COMPANY
Demography

In which continent are the companies In which country are the companies
respondents work for located? respondents work for located?
(International companies only) (International companies only)
Remote
Work
Employment

USA
Type

Europe
UK

Germany
Employer

North America
Company

France

Netherlands
South America
Switzerland
Job Roles

Spain
Tech &

Middle East

Ireland

Other Brazil
Salary

Belgium

0% 20% 40% 60%

Israel
Motivators

Canada
& Perks

Other

0% 5% 10% 15% 20%

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Demography

What is the professional

category respondents
Full-Stack Developer
identify with? (Job Role)
Remote

Back-End Developer
Work

Technical Team Leader

Not surprisingly Full-stack + Back-End + Front-End
Front-End Developer
Developer are (still) in the top places of this list,
Employment

Project Manager
totalling around 49% (41% in 2020).
Data Scientist/Data Engineer
Type

• These are the more standard roles, and also the Product Owner/Product Manager

most searched profiles by companies. Mobile Apps Developer

Company
Employer

UX/UI Designer
• ‘Managerial’ roles (Technical Team Leader, Project
CTO
Manager, Product Owner/Product Manager, Scrum
Solutions Architect
Master, CTO) sum up to 25% (23% in 2020), denoting
Job Roles

Business Applications (BI/CRM/ERP)

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a good structuring of IT teams in Portugal.

DevOps Engineer
• The other job role categories haven’t had dramatic
Quality Assurance/Testing
changes from last year’s report, with UX/UI
Salary

Maintenance & Support

Designer having the biggest drop.
Scrum Master
Motivators

SysAdmin Engineer
& Perks

Computer & Network Security

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%

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Demography

Most popular languages

JavaScript
SQL
And the winner continues to be, without surprise,
HTML/CSS
Remote

JAVASCRIPT Java
Work

C#
TypeScript
• This language remains the world’s most popular as Python
Bash/Shell/PowerShell
Employment

well as one of the most versatile tools a developer

PHP

might have. Kotlin

C++
Type

Ruby
• HTML/CSS and SQL are also naturals here, as tech Go
Swift
stacks used everywhere.
VB.NET
Company
Employer

• The more ‘standard enterprise’ languages (JAVA, C#) VBA

Groovy
still make a go at the top rank, showing its heavy Scala
R
usage not only in large companies but also in some
Job Roles

Objective-C
Tech &

Visual Basic 6
smaller organizations. Python is still a challenger, but
Dart

looses the ‘revelation growth’ trophy to Typescript. Elixir

Perl
Rust
• The rest of the chart shows some year-on-year
Salary

Matlab
WebAssembly
stability, worth mentioning Go, Swift and VB.Net
Lua

passing the ‘C’ psychological barrier. Coffee Script

Motivators

Assembly
& Perks

Clojure
Haskell

0% 5% 10% 15%
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Demography

Most popular frameworks

.NET has beaten JQuery!

Remote
Work

.NET
• The old and wise ‘king of frameworks’ was dethroned by the Big
jQuery
Corp friendly contender (exaggerating here, obviously).
Employment

React

• But React has grown and will probably beat both top rankers next Angular/Angular.js
Type

year, aided by its ‘cousin’ Angular. Spring

Vue.js
• Javascript-based frameworks (including JQuery) continue to
Company
Employer

dominate the market, with almost 60% representativeness. Express

Laravel
• Frameworks like Spring, Laravel, Ruby on Rails or Django are pretty
Ruby on Rails
much following the trends of the languages they are built to.
Job Roles
Tech &

Django

• And we have a new contestant: Outsystems, still at a low rank, but Flask

with a huge growing potential.

OutSystems
Salary

• Please keep in mind that frameworks’ popularity tends to be a lot Drupal

more volatile than programming languages, so result are always Ember.js

Motivators

highly debatable. Meteor

& Perks

0% 5% 10% 15%
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Demography

Salary per Gender

Remote

The gender pay gap still persists. This years report show
Work

men earn, on average, 16% more than women.

Female
• The good news is this gap’s value was 23% last year.
Employment

• It’s a positive sign, and we hope this difference

Type

diminishes progressively more.

I prefer not to say
• Also of notice is the increase in gap between the ‘I
Company
Employer

prefer not to say’ gender category to the other two. We

hope the Data Science Challenge we proposed to the

tech community will help bring more light on this. Male

Job Roles
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20K 25K 30K 35K

Salary
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Demography

Salary by Employment Type Salary variation in last 12 months

by Employment Type
• Contractors earn on average 54% more (!) than Permanent Employees.
Remote

This is stable from previous year’s report.

Work
Employment
Type

Contractor Contractor
Company
Employer

Permanent Permanent
Job Roles

Employee Employee
Tech &

25K 30K 35K 40K 45K 50K 0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
Salary
Motivators

Decreased more than 15% [-15%, -5%] [-5%, 0%] Hasn’t changed
& Perks

[0%, 5%] [5%,15%] Increased more than 15%

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Demography

Perceived Fairness in Remuneration

by Employment Type
Remote
Work

Who would tell working as a Contractor or Freelancer brings a

higher sense of fair salary treatment?

Employment

• Usually this employment type has been associated with Contractor

Type

insecurity, high-risk and a lot of trouble.

• Apparently this is changing, and it starts to become a clear

Company
Employer

option for those Tech professionals who want to strip off

Permanent
corporate shackles and make their own path, earning more and Employee

having a higher degree of work flexibility.

Job Roles
Tech &

• Not everything is sweet and blue, for sure, but the rewards are

clear enough for talent. 0% 25% 50% 75% 100%

Salary

1 - Not at all 2 3 4 5 6 7 - Totally satisfied

Motivators
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Demography

Salary per Education Level

Remote

Having a PhD is starting to compensate more and more. Doctoral degree

Work

• University drop-outs continue to do fairly well, and Basic

Masters degree
Education respondents are clearly a surprise. Might this
Employment

be a data glitch? Bachelor degree

Type

• On the lower side the ‘Trade / technical / vocational

University drop out
training’ category is still last in the rank. Is this
Company
Employer

correlated to the work quality of these tech Trade/technical/

vocational training
professionals, or is there some kind of payment

prejudice here? High School Education

Job Roles
Tech &

Basic Education

Total Average
Salary

20K 25K 30K 35K 40K 45K

Motivators
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Demography

Salary by Residing Area Salary variation in last 12 months

per Residing Area
• Residing in or near Lisbon pays on average 18,4% more
• Porto, North and Centre had a higher percentage of salary raises.
Remote

salary than the total average.

Work
Employment

Lisbon Metropolitan Area Centre

Type

Porto Metropolitan Area

Porto Metropolitan Area
Other
Company
Employer

South Lisbon Metropolitan Area

Centre
Azores and Madeira
Azores and Madeira
Job Roles
Tech &

North North

Total Average
South

25K 27K 29K 31K 33K 35K 37K 39K

Salary

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%

Motivators

Decreased more than 15% [-15%, -5%] [-5%, 0%] Hasn’t changed
& Perks

[0%, 5%] [5%,15%] Increased more than 15%

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Salary by Job Role

CTO

The old way of thinking you, as a developer, need Technical Team Leader
Remote

to go for management positions if you want to earn Solutions Architect

Work

more is (re)confirmed by this chart. Product Owner/Product Manager

Scrum Master
Employment

• Being a solo developer hero without any other

Project Manager
responsibilities, comfortable as it might be, will,
Type

Mobile Apps Developer

generally speaking, limit your salary progression. Time

to sharpen your soft skills and try new challenges. SysAdmin Engineer

DevOps Engineer
Company
Employer

• SysAdmin Engineers and UX/UI Designer had a very

UX/UI Designer
positive bump on average salaries. Mobile dev and
Back-End Developer
DevOps are paying well.
Job Roles

Data Scientist/Data Engineer

Tech &

• On the downside, Full-stack developers saw a Front-End Developer

substancial decrease on the average salary (it’s Business Applications (BI/CRM/ERP)

average, don’t forget). Business Applications Quality Assurance/Testing

Salary

continues to decrease average salary (suits and ties Maintenance & Support

are probably out of fashion). Full-Stack Developer

Motivators

Computer & Network Security

& Perks

Total Average

25K 35K 45K 55K 65K

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Demography

Salary by Job Role vs CTO

Employment Type Technical Team Leader

Solutions Architect
Remote
Work

Product Owner/Product Manager

The high difference between Contractors

and Permanent Employees average salary Scrum Master

Employment

(+43,2%) can be seen in more detail here. Project Manager

Mobile Apps Developer

• Job Roles with higher differences are
Type

SysAdmin Engineer
Mobile Developer (+91,6%), Solutions
DevOps Engineer
Architect (+71,4%) and Full-stack
Company
Employer

Developer (+67%). UX/UI Designer

Back-End Developer
• There’s only one Job Role category where
Data Scientist/Data Engineer
Job Roles

the average salary is lower for Contractors

Tech &

Front-End Developer
than for Permanement Employees:
Business Applications (BI/CRM/ERP)
‘Product Owner/Product Manager’.
Quality Assurance/Testing
Salary

Maintenance & Support

Note: due to a low number of cases, to prevent values
with low statistical confidence, some Job Role values for Full-Stack Developer
Motivators

Contractors are not show.

Computer & Network Security
& Perks

Total Average

20K 30K 40K 50K 60K 70K

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Salary by Remote/Office Job Salary by Work Situation During Covid-19

(independently of pandemic situation) Pandemic, for Full Office Job only
Remote

• Oh yeah, Full Remote Jobs (not just because of Covid-19) pay on average • It seems companies that enforce employees on Full Office Work even
Work

more 35,4% than Full Office Jobs. amidst this pandemic pay worse. (Bad) culture at work?
Employment
Type

Full Office Job

Full Office Job
Company
Employer

Flexible Remote
Flexible Remote
Job Roles
Tech &

Full Remote
Full Remote
Salary

25K 26K 27K 28K 29K 30K

25K 30K 35K 40K
Motivators
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Salary per Portugal / International Salary per working company continent

working company (for International Companies Only)
Remote

• It seems working for companies outside Portugal has a

Work

33% prize on average salary.

Employment
Type

North America
Company
Employer

International

Europe
Job Roles

Middle East
Tech &

Portugal

South America
Salary

20K 25K 30K 35K 40K 20K 30K 40K 50K

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Salary for Job Role vs Work Experience

Technical Job Roles 0 - 3 years 3 - 6 years 6+ years
(for Permanent Employees only)
19,936€ (+7.1%) 32,130€ (-0.3%) 41,200€ (+4.8%)
Mobile Apps Developer
[18K€ - 22K€] [25K€ - 40K€] [31K€ - 51K€]
Remote
Work

Variations in percentage relative to 2020 Report 20,696€ (-4.2%) 29,538€ (-1.1%) 36,751€ (-1.7%)
Back-End Developer
[18K€ - 23K€] [25K€ - 34K€] [30K€ - 44K€]
Managerial Job Roles 0 - 3 years 3 - 6 years 6+ years
18,056€ (-24.3%) 31,618€ (-1.9%) 35,793€ (-17.5%)
Employment

DevOps Engineer
[17K€ - 19K€] [28K€ - 36K€] [27K€ - 45K€]
43,125€ (+43.8%) 63,477€ (+25.5%)
CTO *
[30K€ - 56K€] [44K€ - 83K€] 19,750€ (+9.1%) 22,727€ (+6.7%) 35,346€ (+11.9%)
Type

UX/UI Designer
[15K€ - 24K€] [20K€ - 25K€] [25K€ - 46K€]
23,750€(-1.7%) 32,738€ (+0.4%) 46,103€ (+3.8%)
Technical Team Leader
[21K€ - 26K€] [29K€ - 36K€] [33K€ - 59K€] 18,306€ (-7.8%) 26,359€ (-9.2%) 35,053€ (+10.4%)
Front-End Developer
[17K€ - 20K€] [23K€ - 30K€] [28K€ - 42K€]
Company
Employer

Product Owner/ 15,833€ (-0.0%) 25,119€ (-19.3%) 44,273€ (+6.2%)

Product Manager [15K€ - 17 K€] [23K€ - 28K€] [31K€ - 58K€] 21,535€ (-5.8%) 28,750€ (-14.3%) 34,038€ (-14.5%)
Data Scientist/Data Engineer
[20K€ - 23K€] [25K€ - 33K€] [24K€ - 44K€]
16.833€ (-30.9%) 25,259€ (+2.0%) 40,701€ (+11.5%)
Project Manager
[16K€ - 18K€] [22K€ - 28K€] [28K€ - 53K€] SysAdmin Engineer 20,500€ (+28.1%) 24,500€ (+8.9%) 33,214€ (+12.8%)
Job Roles

[18K€- 23K€] [23K€ - 26K€] [25K€- 42K€]

35,000€ (-2.3%) 40,071€ (-8.5%)
Tech &

Scrum Master *
[30K€ - 40K€] [29K€ - 51K€] 17,866€ (-12.1%) 24,821€ (-7.3%) 31,581€ (-8.2%)
Full-Stack Developer
[17K€ - 19K€] [21K€ - 28K€] [25K€ - 38K€]
* not enough datapoints for a good statistical degree of confidence
Business Applications 16,786€ (-8.0%) 25,000€ (+8.6%) 31,524€ (-4.6%)
Salary

(BI/CRM/ERP) [16K€ - 18K€] [23K€ - 27K€] [26K€ - 37K€]

20,833€ (+11.7%) 23,289€ (-15.3%) 30,789€ (+4.3%)

Quality Assurance/Testing
[18K€ - 23K€] [21K€ - 25K€] [25K€ - 37K€]
Motivators

16,136€ (-10.6%) 24,583€ (+4.6%) 28,750€ (+7.8%)

Maintenance & Support
& Perks

[15K€ - 17K€] [19K€ - 30K€] [23K€ - 34K€]

Computer & Network Security 19,643€ (-9.8%) 27,500€ (-4.3%) 28,750€ (-14.0%)
[19K€ - 21K€] [24K€ - 31K€] [25K€ - 32K€]
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Salary for Job Role Job Roles 6+ years

(for Contractors only) CTO 77,867€ (49€/h) [56K€ - 100K€]

Remote

DevOps Engineer 67,200€ (42€/h) [63K€ - 71K€]

Work

Note 1: Contractors salary data don't

have enough datapoints for Work Technical Team Leader 66,311€ (41€/h) [46K€ - 86K€]
Employment

Experience lower than 6+ Years, and

Mobile Apps Developer 66,100€ (41€/h) [46K€ - 86K€]
also for some Job Roles.
Type

Note 2: Annual Contractors Project Manager 56,152€ (35€/h) [40K€ - 73K€]

salary values were calculated by

Company
Employer

UX/UI Designer 51,000€ (32€/h) [36K€ - 66K€]

multiplying the hour value rate

reported by the respondents by 10

Full-Stack Developer 49,492€ (31€/h) [41K€ - 58K€]
months by 160h monthly work hours
Job Roles

[rate x 10 months x 160 h/month] 44,800€ (28€/h) [35K€ - 55K€]

Tech &

Back-End Developer

Data Scientist/Data Engineer 43,886€ (27€/h) [39K€ - 49K€]

Salary

Front-End Developer 39,723€ (25€/h) [33K€ - 46K€]

Business Applications 39,360€ (25€/h) [31K€ - 48K€]

Motivators

(BI/CRM/ERP)
& Perks

Product Owner/ 38,550€ (24€/h) [27K€ - 50K€]

Product Manager
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Salary variation by Job UX/UI Designer

Role in the last 12 months Back-End Developer

Front-End Developer
Remote

42% of total respondents stated they hadn’t Full-Stack Developer

Work

a salary change in the last 12 month (up Data Scientist/Data Engineer

from 36% in the last report). Quality Assurance/Testing

Employment

CTO
• Around 6% of respondents had their pay
Technical Team Leader
Type

reduced.
DevOps Engineer

Mobile Apps Developer

• 2020 brought the pandemic, and with it
Company
Employer

Scrum Master
a lot of uncertainties for both tech talent
Maintenance & Support
and companies. This might have had an
Product Owner/Product Manager
negative impact on salary raises.
Job Roles

Business Applications (BI/CRM/ERP)

Tech &

• Regarding the different Job Roles, the top 3 Solutions Architect

categories with more people having salary Project Manager

raises are Mobile Apps Developer, Quality Computer & Network Security
Salary

Assurance/Testing and Scrum Master. SysAdmin Engineer

• Worst Job Role categories are Project 0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
Motivators

Manager and SysAdmin Engineer, with less

& Perks

than 40% of respondents with a salary raise. Decreased more than 15% [-15%, -5%] [-5%, 0%] Hasn’t changed

[0%, 5%] [5%,15%] Increased more than 15%

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Salary per Company Internet

Industry Cloud-based solutions or services

Healthcare or social services

Data and analytics

Remote

Even though Consulting and Software

Work

Transportation
Development are the company industries with Telecommunications

more respondants, these companies are also in Retail or ecommerce

Employment

Media, advertising or entertainment

the lower ranks of the average salary.
Software as a service (saas) development
Type

• These are mostly ‘IT Services’ companies, Energy or utilities

Financial and banking

usually developing low tech solutions for
Information technology
Company
Employer

other companies, and most of the times

Security
fighting for man/hour rates over the existing Marketing

projects. This naturally brings both project Travel

costs and salaries down. Government or public administration

Job Roles
Tech &

Consulting

• On the other hand, still on the segment of Manufacturing

companies providing solutions for other Software development - other

Education and training

Salary

companies, we have Cloud-based solutions,

Real estate
Data and Analytics and SaaS high on the
Web development or design
average salary spectrum. We’d hypothesize Research - academic or scientific
Motivators

these categories are trending over more

& Perks

Nonprofit

Total Average
‘traditional’ IT Companies, and need to fight
20K 22,5K 25K 27,5K 30K 32,5K 35K 37,5K
more for tech talent, thus paying more.
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Salary per Company Size Salary per Company Type

• Salary values rise, on average, with the number of • Scale-ups are all the rage, and Outsourcing doesn’t seem

employees, with steep differences below 20 employees too attractive.

Remote
Work

and over 1.000 employees.

Employment

More than 5.000 employees

Scale-up
Type

1000 - 4.999 employees

Corporate
Company
Employer

500 - 999 employees Startup (new business venture)

100 - 499 employees Nearshore

Job Roles
Tech &

20 - 99 employees Consulting Business

10 - 19 employees SME - Small or Medium Enterprise

Salary

Less than 10 employees Outsourcing

Motivators

Total Average Total Average

& Perks

25K 27,5K 30K 32,5K 35K 25K 30K 35K 40K

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Salary Variation by
company type
Remote

Again, Scale-ups are booming, with Scale-up

Work

72% of respondents stating they had a

salary raise. Startup (new business venture)

Employment

• Following the line of lower salaries,

SME - Small or Medium Enterprise
Type

company types with more salary

downgrades are Outsourcing (7,5%)

Outsourcing
Company
Employer

and Consulting Business (7,1%).

Again, not a good prospect for those

Corporate
company types in terms of talent

attraction.
Job Roles
Tech &

Consulting Business

Nearshore
Salary

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%

Motivators
& Perks

Decreased more than 15% [-15%, -5%] [-5%, 0%] Hasn’t changed

[0%, 5%] [5%,15%] Increased more than 15%

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Salary Fairness Perception

by Company Type
Remote

Startup (new business venture)

When it comes to salary fairness perception,
Work

Startups and Scale-ups rank on the top.

Scale-up
Employment

• This might mean the salaries are good or

have increased, or that people feel really

SME - Small or Medium Enterprise
Type

well working in these companies (or a

combination of all of the above reasons).

Corporate
Company
Employer

• Facts are facts, and perceptions count as hell

when attracting and retaining top talent. Nearshore

• Running the risk of generalizing, it seems

Job Roles
Tech &

Outsourcing, Consulting Business and Consulting Business

Nearshore companies may be at the

bottom of the choices of the Tech Talent Outsourcing

Salary

Pool. They need to step up their employee

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
satisfaction game if they want to compete
Motivators

with other companies.

& Perks

1 - Not fair at all 2 3 4 5 6 7 - Totally fair

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Salary per Language

Go, Perl and Kotlin are the top 3 paying

40K
Remote

languages. VBA and PHP translate to

Work

low wages.

• Mobile dev languages (Kotlin, Swift

Employment

35K
and Objective-C) are in a very good
Type

salary moment.

• But you know what else: all of these

30K
Company
Employer

still make way more than the average

worker of other industries. Tech is

good for your wallet.

25K
Job Roles
Tech &

• If you’re a company, understand that

languages matter. Choose the ones

you’ll use wisely. A sign of the times.

20K
Salary

Go

Perl

Kotlin

Lua

Elixir

Scala

Objective-C

Swift

Ruby

Coffee Script

Rust

Groovy

Python

Bash/Shell/PowerShell

Dart

Matlab

Java

WebAssembly

C++

TypeScript

C#

VBA

JavaScript

VB.NET

Assembly

SQL

HTML/CSS

PHP

Visual Basic 6
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Salary per Framework

36K

As development frameworks go, there is

34K
Remote

one clear winner: Ruby on Rails. Rails has

Work

not lost its charm.

32K

• On second place, Drupal is an

Employment

interesting contender, followed by 30K

Type

Ember.js, apparently the most well paid

28K
Javascript based dev framework.
Company
Employer

• The widely used React comes in fourth 26K

place, followed by a plateau of most of

the other frameworks under scrutiny. 24K

Job Roles
Tech &

22K

20K
Salary

Ruby on Rails

Drupal

Ember.js

React

Spring

Flask

Express

Django

Meteor

.NET

Angular/Angular.js

Vue.js

jQuery

OutSystems

Laravel
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Average Salary per

Remote/Office,
Contractor/Permanent
Remote

Employeer and PT/ Contractor

Work

Remote Job

International Company
Employment

Contractor Full
The combination Contractor + Remote Job +
Type

Office Job

International company tops, not surprisingly,

the salary rank.

Company
Employer

Permanent Employee
• Worth noting that Permanent Employees Remote Job

working remotely for an international

Job Roles

company fares on 2nd place.

Tech &

Permanent Employee
• On the downside, the worst salary Full Office Job

combination is Permanent Employee with a

Salary

Full Office Job in a Portuguese company.

20k 30k 40k 50k 60k
• A lot to debate over this simple chart.
Motivators
& Perks

International Company Portuguese Company

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Demography

Job Motivators Work life balance

Career growth opportunities

Work Life Balance keeps its #1 place in

Remote

Compensation and benefits

Work

the Motivator ranking, clearly showing

Flexible schedule
a strong preference over more ‘material’
Employment

aspects like Career Growth Opportunities Company culture

and Compensation and Benefits (even Being autonomous

at work
Type

though these are obvisouly very relevant).

The technologies
I’m working with
Flexible Schedule, Culture and Autonomy
Company
Employer

Training/Development
are also highly valued topics. programs at work

Remote working
On the downside, impact, variety and
Environmentally friendly/
freedom to chose the projects to work on
Job Roles

responsible work practice

Tech &

are clearly less valuable to the IT crowd. How widely used or impactful the
product/service I work on is

Versatility/Variety of projects
Salary

Freedom to choose the

clients and/or projects

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%

Motivators
Motivators
& Perks
Perks

1 - Not important 2 3 4 5 6 7 - Very important

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Demography

Jobs Perks Computer/ Office

equipment allowance

Health benefits

This year’s big surprise is the rise to the #1

Remote

Parental leave
Work

position of Computer / Office equipment

allowance (was #4 last year). Annual bonus

Employment

• It’s fairly possible this has something to Professional development sponsorship

do with the pandemic context, and tech

Type

Long-term leave
professionals having gone to work from

their homes. Child care

Company
Employer

• Same as last year, Stock Options are Education sponsorship

clearly a no-go for tech professionals.

Meals allowance/Company provided
meals or snacks
Companies, please don’t assume
Job Roles
Tech &

everyone wants to be a shareholder. Transportation benefit

• Remaining perk categories remained more Stock options or shares

or less the same.

Salary

Fitness or wellness benefit

(ex. gym membership)

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%

Motivators
Motivators
& Perks
Perks

1 - Not important 2 3 4 5 6 7 - Very important

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Demography

Report Data Sheet

• A total of 4.050 tech professionals responded to this survey (2.578

Remote

in 2020). Of these, only 3.540 were considered for producing the

Work

results in this report, the ones residing in Portugal and that were not

‘Students’ or ‘Not working right now’ (2.556 in 2020).

Employment

• The respondants are both Landing.Jobs users and other Tech

Type

Professionals.

• This survey was open to the public from 07/January/2021 to 14/

Company
Employer

February/2021.

Methodological notes:
Job Roles

• Annual Contractors salary values were calculated by multiplying the

Tech &

hour value rate reported by the respondents by 10 months by 160h

monthly work hours [rate x 10 months x 160 h/month];

Salary

• Some charts or tables don’t present values for combinations of

dimensions resulting in a low number of cases, to prevent under- For inquiries or comments about this survey, or to obtain the base
Motivators

sampling bias; data, please reach us at [email protected].

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