Berlin tech salaries — real ranges, 2026.

Berlin tech salary data is fragmented. There's no single authoritative source. We triangulate four:

1. Public salary reports — StepStone Gehaltsreport (opens in a new tab) and EU-Startups (opens in a new tab) reporting. (Honeypot's State of European Engineering report, listed here previously, is no longer a source — Honeypot shut down on 1 January 2025.)
2. Self-reported data on Levels.fyi (opens in a new tab) — particularly useful for Big Tech and well-known scaleups with multiple data points.
3. Glassdoor (opens in a new tab) base-pay distributions — the median is reliable; we use 25th–75th percentile as our band edges.
4. Ampli jobs board observations — when Berlin employers post salary ranges directly in job descriptions, we record them.

We weight self-reported and observed data more heavily than Glassdoor. We exclude outliers (Big Tech Berlin offices paying SF rates skew the high end; agencies and non-tech employers with engineering titles skew the low end).

These ranges describe typical offers. Top performers and people at hot/late-stage scaleups will land above the top of band; agency, freelance-to-perm, and non-tech employer engineering roles will often sit below.