The largest community-based tech talent report about Portugal
Salary Remote work Relocation Work across borders Programming languages & frameworks Career drivers Perks
- The biggest career drivers for tech professionals in Portugal are salary & benefits, work-life balance and career progression.
- In-site is decreasing: only 6% go to the office every day, 44% work in a hybrid mode, and 50% in full remote.
- 18% of tech professionals in Portugal are working remotely for a company in another country.
- 48% of tech professionals don't want to leave Portugal.
- 24,4% want to relocate to another continent because of salary and quality of life.
- Full-stack, Back-end and Front-end developers represent roughly half of all developers (51.4%).
- The gender pay gap is much higher in management roles (58% in 2024 to 36% in 2025) than in development roles (26.3% in 2024 to 25.3% in 2025).
- Contractors earn, on average, 28% more in gross annual salary than full-time employees, but this gap has reduced a lot since 2023 (58.1%).
- Scale-ups and Startups continue to pay higher salaries than all other company types (+17.3%) but IT professionals working in Scale-ups had a reduction of -4.9% in their average salaries since last year.
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