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Backend Engineer Salary in United States
Median salary, percentile ranges, top skills, and AI automation risk.
USD 152k
median annual salary
USD 115k
25th pctl
USD 181k
75th pctl
DIRECT
Source: H1B_LCA
Backend Engineer Salary by Country
🇺🇸United States
USD 152kDIRECT
🇨🇭Switzerland
CHF 145kDIRECT
🇬🇧United Kingdom
GBP 96kESTIMATED
🇳🇱Netherlands
EUR 87kDIRECT
🇩🇪Germany
EUR 84kESTIMATED
🇫🇷France
EUR 64kESTIMATED
Sources: H1B LCA · BLS OEWS · ONS ASHE · Destatis · CBS · Eurostat
Backend Engineer Skills by Demand
GCP
16%
Backend Development
13%
PostgreSQL
0%
Microservices
8%
Devops
5%
NoSQL
4%
Agile
3%
Software Development
3%
Software Engineering
3%
Go
46%
AI Exposure
74/100
Composite score from Eloundou 50% · Microsoft 30% · Felten 20%
resistant (6)
AgileCollaborationCommunicationDistributed SystemsMicroservicesProblem Solving
neutral (28)
AWSAzureBackend DevelopmentCI/CDCloud ComputingDevopsDockerGCPGitGoHTML/CSSJavaJavascriptApache KafkaKubernetesLinuxNode.jsNoSQLPostgreSQLPythonReactScalaSoftware DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringSoftware TestingSQLTerraformTypescript
vulnerable (2)
DocumentationREST APIs
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