*EU IT Jobs Digest – Week 21, 2026*
Good Morning Everyone! Hope you have a awesome start to your Week!
The clearest shift this week is away from volume hiring in generalist roles and toward compliance-heavy, production-owned work. SOC analyst demand is down in several markets (Germany -9% YoY in Berlin/Munich/Hamburg, Ireland -14% in Dublin, Finland -6% in Helsinki–Espoo, Poland -9% in Warsaw/Kraków, Lithuania -9% in Vilnius/Kaunas), while incident response, detection engineering, OT/ICS security, and product/AppSec are growing (Germany OT/ICS +18%, Belgium OT +27%, Ireland cloud IR +22%, Poland IR/threat hunting +18%, Finland Product Security +18%). Pay tracks that shift: mid-level OT security engineers in Bavaria/Baden-Württemberg are landing €78k–€105k base plus 10–15% variable, and incident response leads in Brussels are at €80k–€105k.
Cloud and DevOps budgets are back, but hiring is moving to platform engineering, FinOps, and SRE with explicit on-call, not “cloud developer” or broad DevOps generalists. Germany platform/cloud infra postings are up 14% YoY in Frankfurt/Munich with Senior Platform Engineer offers at €90k–€120k, and banks are pulling DevOps/SRE in-house (+11% YoY) at €95k–€125k with on-call pay stated upfront more often than 2024–2025. The same pattern shows up across the Nordics and CEE: Finland platform roles +22% (pay €68k–€92k), Denmark DevOps/SRE +15% with on-call comp listed in 28% of ads (up from 11%), and Prague pager-duty SRE demand +19% with pay at 140,000–190,000 CZK/month.
Data and AI hiring is growing where governance and productionization are the point, not “data scientist” or research titles. France analytics engineering is up 12% YoY while data scientist ads are flat (Paris €52k–€70k for Analytics Engineer), Poland ads mentioning dbt/semantic layers/metric stores are up 24% while “data scientist” is down 8% (20,000–32,000 PLN/month), and Sweden’s governance-heavy data roles are up 13% with lineage/catalog mentions at 34% (from 22%). AI growth is strongest in applied ops and governance: Netherlands AI postings +16% with senior MLOps at €90k–€125k, Luxembourg AI roles +22% with validation leads at €110k–€145k, and Romania postings for LLM+RAG/vector DB are up 29% with applied ML at 20,000–35,000 RON/month.
— Key Takeaways —
- SOC analyst hiring is down in multiple hubs (Germany -9% YoY, Dublin -14%, Finland -6%, Poland -9%, Lithuania -9%) while incident response, detection engineering, and OT/ICS security rise (Belgium OT +27%, Germany OT +18%, Ireland cloud IR +22%).
- Germany is paying for depth over volume: OT security engineers in Bavaria/Baden-Württemberg are landing €78k–€105k base plus 10–15% variable, and Senior SRE offers cluster at €95k–€125k in Frankfurt-area banks as permanent hiring rises ~11% YoY.
- Platform engineering is the cloud hiring default in DACH and Benelux: Germany platform/cloud infra postings +14% with €90k–€120k base in Frankfurt, and Belgium cloud infra +12% with Kubernetes/Terraform/FinOps keywords in 41% of ads (up from 29%).
- On-call is being priced explicitly again: Denmark lists on-call compensation in 28% of SRE ads (up from 11%), Vienna SRE roles show explicit on-call in 44% of listings, and Spain is using €3k–€8k stipends to cap base growth.
- FinTech headcount is rebounding where compliance tooling is the product: Amsterdam FinTech +13% (senior compliance engineering €85k–€115k plus 10–20% bonus), Luxembourg FinTech +15% with AML/KYC/risk terms in 48% of postings, and Milan FinTech +12% led by AML and identity verification.
AT Austria
Vienna DevOps hiring stabilises, but SRE roles grow as on-call becomes non-negotiable
Austria’s DevOps/SRE job ads were flat year-on-year in Q1 2026, but SRE-specific postings in Vienna and Linz rose 14% as firms formalise reliability targets and incident response. Employers are filtering harder on production ownership: Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana, and IaC appear in 62% of SRE listings, and explicit on-call requirements show up in 44%. Salary bands in Vienna: €70k–€90k for DevOps engineers, €90k–€120k for SREs with pager duty and strong Linux networking depth.
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000239812/devops-sre-jobs-oesterreich-wien-linz-2026-05-09
Austria accelerates hospital digitisation, increasing HealthTech demand for integration and IAM specialists
HealthTech hiring in Austria rose 11% year-on-year in Q1 2026, concentrated around Vienna, Salzburg, and regional hospital groups implementing EHR upgrades and interoperability projects. The most requested skills are HL7/FHIR integration, identity and access management, and clinical workflow tooling, with security requirements increasingly embedded in tenders. Salary ranges: €65k–€85k for integration engineers and €85k–€115k for senior health IT architects, with higher total comp in Vienna for roles tied to major hospital programmes.
https://www.diepresse.com/6289412/gesundheits-it-oesterreich-spitaeler-digitalisierung-jobs-2026-04-16
Austria’s software engineering market cools in junior roles, holds for embedded and Java in Graz and Linz
Software engineering postings in Austria fell 7% year-on-year in Q1 2026, with the biggest drop in junior web roles in Vienna, while embedded and enterprise Java hiring held steady in Graz and Linz. Employers are raising the bar on German proficiency and domain experience, especially in automotive suppliers and industrial automation. Typical base salaries: €52k–€65k for junior/mid web developers in Vienna, €70k–€95k for embedded C/C++ engineers in Graz, and €75k–€105k for senior Java engineers in Linz.
https://kurier.at/wirtschaft/karriere/software-developer-jobs-oesterreich-2026-wien-graz-linz/403018745
BE Belgium
Brussels cybersecurity hiring shifts to OT and incident response as NIS2 deadlines bite
Belgian employers increased postings for SOC analysts and incident responders by 18% year-on-year in Q1 2026, with the sharpest growth in Brussels and Antwerp. OT security roles (IEC 62443, SCADA hardening) are up 27%, driven by ports, utilities, and manufacturing preparing NIS2-aligned controls. Typical base salary ranges: €58k–€75k for mid-level SOC, €80k–€105k for incident response leads in Brussels.
https://www.lecho.be/tech-et-medias/cybersecurite/bruxelles-nis2-booste-les-recrutements-soc-ot-2026-05-06/10691234.html
Belgian cloud roles rebound, but budgets favor FinOps and platform engineering over lift-and-shift
Cloud infrastructure job ads in Belgium rose 12% in Q1 2026, concentrated in Brussels, Ghent, and Leuven, after a flat second half of 2025. Demand is moving from migration engineers to platform teams: Kubernetes, Terraform, and FinOps keywords appear in 41% of cloud postings, up from 29% a year ago. Senior platform engineers are landing €85k–€110k base in Brussels, with 10–15% annual bonus more common in multinationals.
https://www.tijd.be/tech-media/cloud-infrastructuur/belgische-cloudjobs-2026-finops-platform-engineering-brussel-gent/10690577.html
Belgium’s data hiring tilts to governed BI and EU-compliant analytics in pharma and retail
Data & analytics hiring in Belgium grew 9% year-on-year in Q1 2026, with Leuven (pharma) and Antwerp (retail/logistics) leading the increase. Employers are prioritising governed BI and data quality: SQL, Power BI, dbt, and data catalog tools show up in 53% of postings, while “GenAI analytics” appears in only 14%. Mid-level analytics engineers typically see €60k–€78k base, while data governance leads are landing €90k–€115k in Brussels-area corporates.
https://trends.levif.be/a-la-une/tech-inno/belgique-emploi-data-analytics-gouvernance-pharma-retail-2026-04-22/
FR France
France’s data market favors analytics engineers over pure data scientists
Data analyst and analytics engineering postings grew about 12% YoY, while “data scientist” ads were broadly flat, especially in Île-de-France. Typical compensation for Analytics Engineer is €52k–€70k in Paris and €45k–€62k in Toulouse, with dbt and modern BI stacks appearing in a majority of listings. Employers are pushing for end-to-end ownership from ingestion to metrics definitions, not model demos.
https://www.latribune.fr/technos-medias/data-analytics-emploi-analytics-engineer-dbt-france-2026-05-08-1012235.html
France’s software hiring slows in Paris, holds steady in Lyon and Nantes
Paris postings for backend and full-stack roles dropped roughly 7% YoY, while Lyon and Nantes remained flat as mid-market firms continue replacement hiring. Senior Java/TypeScript roles in Paris are commonly offered at €58k–€75k base, versus €50k–€68k in Lyon, with fewer equity packages outside startups. Interview loops are lengthening, with more take-home tests and stronger emphasis on system design for seniors.
https://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/hightech/emploi-ingenieurs-logiciel-paris-lyon-nantes-2026-05-14-2078912
French healthtech hiring concentrates on compliance and interoperability talent
Healthtech job ads rose around 10% YoY, but hiring is skewed toward interoperability, security, and regulatory delivery roles rather than pure product engineering. Paris and Lille employers are paying €60k–€85k for senior profiles with HL7/FHIR and HDS hosting knowledge, and demand for ISO 27001 experience is rising. Projects are driven by hospital digitisation and reimbursement reporting requirements, not consumer wellness apps.
https://www.franceinfo.fr/internet/healthtech/emploi-healthtech-fhir-hds-recrutement-2026-05-10_6578921.html
DE Germany
German banks expand internal DevOps, cut dependency on SIs
Large banks in Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, and Stuttgart reduced new system-integrator contracts and increased permanent DevOps/SRE hiring by about 11% YoY. Senior SRE offers cluster at €95k–€125k base, with on-call compensation more often stated upfront than in 2024–2025. Key filters are Kubernetes operations, observability stacks, and incident command experience under regulated change-management.
https://www.boersen-zeitung.de/banken-finanzen/devops-sre-hiring-banken-frankfurt-2026-05-06/2f9a3f1a-0b9e-11ef-9a4b-3b6b8a9d4c21
Cloud budgets are back, but Germany hires platform engineers over app teams
Frankfurt and Munich postings for platform engineering and cloud infrastructure roles increased around 14% YoY, while generic “cloud developer” ads stayed flat. Typical offers for Senior Platform Engineer range €90k–€120k base in Frankfurt, with higher packages in regulated firms that need audit-ready landing zones. Terraform, Kubernetes, and FinOps experience are now explicitly listed in more than half of new cloud infra ads.
https://www.heise.de/news/Cloud-Arbeitsmarkt-2026-Platform-Engineering-statt-Feature-Teams-100129882.html
Germany’s cyber hiring shifts from SOC volume to OT security depth
Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg job ads for SOC analyst roles fell about 9% year-on-year, while OT/ICS security postings rose roughly 18%, driven by manufacturing and utilities. Mid-level OT security engineers are landing €78k–€105k base in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, with 10–15% variable pay increasingly common. Employers are filtering harder on IEC 62443 and incident response in hybrid environments, not just SIEM operation.
https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/arbeitsmarkt-ot-security-ics-soc-jobs-deutschland-2026-05-12/100128745.html
IE Ireland
Irish data analytics jobs concentrate in product teams as pure BI roles thin out
Across Dublin, Limerick, and Waterford, data & analytics postings were flat YoY in Q1 2026, but the mix changed: analytics engineering and product analytics rose 18% while traditional BI developer roles fell 12%. Salaries for analytics engineers now sit at €70k–€95k mid-level and €95k–€120k senior, with SQL + dbt + Snowflake named in over half of adverts. Hiring managers are filtering harder on experimentation, instrumentation, and stakeholder-facing skills, not just dashboarding.
https://www.businesspost.ie/tech/2026/05/13/irish-data-analytics-hiring-product-analytics-dbtsnowflake/
Ireland’s cloud infrastructure roles rebound, but spending moves from migration to cost control
Cloud infrastructure hiring in Dublin and Galway rose 11% YoY in April 2026, driven by FinTech and pharma shifting budgets to FinOps, platform engineering, and Kubernetes operations. Senior cloud engineers are seeing €95k–€125k base, but new “cloud cost optimization” roles cluster at €80k–€105k and require tagging, unit economics, and chargeback skills. AWS remains dominant in listings, but Azure demand grew to 39% of postings in enterprise IT, up from 34% a year earlier.
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/careers/2026/04/29/ireland-cloud-infrastructure-jobs-rebound-finops-platform-engineering
Dublin cybersecurity hiring shifts from SOC headcount to cloud incident response
Job postings for SOC analyst roles in Dublin fell 14% YoY in Q1 2026, while cloud security and incident response roles rose 22% as firms consolidate monitoring into MSSPs. Mid-level IR engineers are landing €75k–€95k base, with on-call adding €5k–€12k in regulated sectors. Cork is growing faster than Dublin for security engineering roles (+9% YoY) but at slightly lower bases (€68k–€88k).
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/2026/05/07/dublin-cybersecurity-hiring-shifts-from-soc-to-cloud-incident-response/
LU Luxembourg
Luxembourg banks reopen FinTech hiring, but roles are compliance-heavy and risk-led
FinTech-related hiring in Luxembourg rose 15% year-on-year in Q1 2026, driven by bank transformation programmes and payments modernisation in Luxembourg City. Job descriptions increasingly blend product and compliance: AML/KYC, transaction monitoring, and model risk management appear in 48% of FinTech postings, up from 35% in 2025. Salary ranges: €75k–€95k base for product owners in payments, €95k–€130k for senior risk-tech leads, often with 15–25% bonus in larger institutions.
https://paperjam.lu/article/fintech-recrutement-luxembourg-banques-aml-k/2026-05-13
Luxembourg enterprise IT shifts spend to managed services as internal headcount growth stalls
Enterprise IT teams in Luxembourg are slowing permanent hiring, with internal headcount growth estimated at 2% in early 2026 versus 6% a year earlier, while managed service contracts expand. Demand is strongest for vendor management, ITIL, and service integration roles, especially in Luxembourg City and Esch-sur-Alzette. Senior service delivery managers are seeing €95k–€125k base, while L2/L3 workplace and identity specialists cluster around €60k–€85k depending on on-call and languages.
https://delano.lu/article/luxembourg-enterprise-it-managed-services-hiring-2026-04-30
Luxembourg tightens AI deployment rules for regulated firms, pushing demand for AI governance roles
AI & automation roles in Luxembourg are growing from a small base, up 22% year-on-year in Q1 2026, with the largest jump in governance and validation roles for regulated entities. Listings referencing “model governance”, “auditability”, and “human-in-the-loop” increased to 31% of AI postings, reflecting pressure to align with EU AI Act obligations and sector expectations. Typical base salaries: €85k–€115k for AI governance specialists and €110k–€145k for senior validation leads in Luxembourg City.
https://www.wort.lu/wirtschaft/ki-governance-regulierte-branchen-luxemburg-jobs-2026-03-27/10684412.html
NL Netherlands
Dutch enterprise IT shifts from ERP upgrades to identity and endpoint consolidation
Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Eindhoven enterprises are increasing hiring for identity, endpoint management, and IT service management roles, with postings up about 9% YoY. Typical offers for Senior IAM Engineer range €75k–€100k base, with higher ranges in Randstad multinationals. The work is driven by tool consolidation and audit pressure, not large greenfield transformations.
https://www.computable.nl/artikel/nieuws/enterprise-it/2026/05/07/nl-arbeidsmarkt-enterprise-it-iam-endpoint-consolidatie.html
Netherlands: FinTech hiring rebounds, but compliance tech wins the headcount
Amsterdam FinTech postings increased about 13% YoY, with the strongest growth in AML tooling, transaction monitoring, and risk data engineering. Senior compliance-focused engineering roles are offering €85k–€115k base, often with 10–20% bonus in regulated firms. Pure consumer payments roles are recovering more slowly as margins tighten and cost controls remain in place.
https://fd.nl/financiele-markten/1512345/fintech-arbeidsmarkt-amsterdam-aml-compliance-tech-2026-05-15
Netherlands: AI job ads rise, but MLOps and governance beat pure model research
AI-related postings grew roughly 16% YoY, with most demand in MLOps, data governance, and model monitoring rather than research scientist roles. Amsterdam and Delft employers are paying €90k–€125k for senior MLOps engineers, especially where models touch customer decisions and need audit trails. Requirements increasingly include MLflow or similar tooling, CI/CD for models, and clear documentation for regulators and risk teams.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/05/13/ai-arbeidsmarkt-nederland-mlops-governance-vraaggroei-a4198765
DK Denmark
Danish healthtech hiring moves from pilots to integration work in Region Hovedstaden
HealthTech job ads increased 12% YoY, but most net-new roles were integration and interoperability focused rather than new app builds. Copenhagen-area employers asked for HL7/FHIR and identity/consent patterns in 31% of postings, with typical salaries at DKK 55k–75k/month and a clear preference for Danish-language stakeholder work in clinical settings.
https://ing.dk/artikel/sundhedsteknologi-2026-flere-it-job-men-fokus-paa-fhir-integration-i-hovedstaden
Denmark’s enterprise IT budgets shift to ERP and identity, not new apps
Enterprise IT hiring was flat overall, but ERP and IAM roles rose 10% YoY as large employers prioritized consolidation over greenfield development. Copenhagen and Billund saw more demand for SAP S/4HANA, Entra ID, and service management, with base pay typically DKK 52k–72k/month and fewer contractor extensions beyond 6–9 months.
https://borsen.dk/nyheder/it/danske-virksomheder-2026-erp-iam-hiring-fremfor-nye-apps
Copenhagen SRE hiring grows again as on-call becomes a retention problem
DevOps & SRE postings in Denmark rose 15% YoY, concentrated in Copenhagen and Aarhus, with on-call compensation now explicitly listed in 28% of ads (up from 11%). Typical base salaries for SREs ran DKK 60k–85k/month, but teams with 24/7 coverage reported higher churn and more demand for incident automation and toil reduction.
https://www.version2.dk/artikel/danmark-2026-sre-devops-jobvaekst-oncall-loen-toil
EE Estonia
Tallinn DevOps hiring pivots to SRE: incident management and observability drive offers
Estonian DevOps & SRE openings rose 16% YoY in Tallinn and Tartu, but titles increasingly specify SRE and on-call ownership. Mid-level SRE packages commonly land at €4,000–€6,200 gross/month, with premium demand for Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and incident command experience in high-traffic consumer platforms.
https://www.aripaev.ee/tehnoloogia/2026/05/15/tallinn-sre-tooturg-2026-observability-oncall-palgad
Estonia’s AI hiring shifts from LLM demos to production automation inside enterprise teams
AI & automation roles in Estonia grew 23% YoY, but demand moved from “prompt engineer” postings to ML platform, evaluation, and automation engineering in enterprise settings. Employers in Tallinn are paying €4,500–€7,000 gross/month for candidates who can ship retrieval systems, run offline/online evaluations, and handle data privacy constraints in regulated domains.
https://www.err.ee/1609345678/eestis-kasvab-ai-tooturg-2026-llm-tootmises-automatiseerimine-ettevotetes
Enterprise IT in Estonia resumes upgrades: ERP modernisation pulls architects from startups
Enterprise IT vacancies rose 10% YoY as logistics, energy, and public-sector suppliers restart ERP and identity modernisation programs after 2025 delays. Tallinn-based solution architects and IAM specialists are seeing €4,800–€7,500 gross/month, and firms are offering retention bonuses to stop migration back to product startups.
https://majandus.postimees.ee/2026/05/09/eesti-enterprise-it-erp-moderniseerimine-iam-arhitektide-puudus
FI Finland
Helsinki cyber hiring shifts from SOC headcount to product security
Finnish cybersecurity hiring rose 9% YoY in Helsinki–Espoo, but SOC analyst postings fell 6% as MDR and automation reduced L1 demand. Product Security Engineer roles grew 18% and AppSec roles 14%, with typical base salaries at €72k–€98k and higher bands for cloud-native threat modeling.
https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/helsinki-kyberturva-rekrytointi-siirtyy-socista-tuoteturvaan-2026/3f2c1a10-0f8b-4b5e-9b8d-7b4d2b0c6e21
Finland’s cloud roles polarize: fewer generalists, more platform engineers
Cloud & Infrastructure postings in Finland were flat YoY, but platform engineering roles increased 22% in Helsinki, Tampere, and Oulu. Employers asked for Kubernetes, IAM, and FinOps in 47% of cloud ads, and base pay clustered at €68k–€92k for Platform Engineers versus €55k–€72k for traditional sysadmin-to-cloud roles.
https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/suomen-pilvityot-2026-platform-engineer-kysynta-kasvaa/6a9b2d5e-2a4c-4c3a-9d7c-1b4a9c2f3d10
Tampere and Espoo lead Finland’s AI hiring, but demand narrows to applied ML
AI & Automation job ads in Finland rose 16% YoY, with the strongest growth in Tampere (+21%) and Espoo (+18%). Fewer roles were research-oriented: only 12% mentioned “PhD” versus 19% a year ago, while applied ML for forecasting, personalization, and document automation dominated, typically paying €75k–€110k base.
https://www.hs.fi/talous/art-2000011679821.html
LV Latvia
Remote work in Latvia stabilises: ‘EU-only’ hiring replaces fully global contracts
Remote-first listings in Latvia held steady at around 38% of IT vacancies, but “work from anywhere” language dropped 12 percentage points since mid-2025. Employers are shifting to EU-only employment to simplify payroll and security controls, while compensation for remote roles in Riga is converging with hybrid roles within a 3–6% band.
https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/ekonomika/2026/05/06/attalinata-darba-tirgus-latvija-eu-only-ligumi-it-nozare.a554321
Latvia’s FinTech hiring rebounds in payments and AML tech after 2025 freeze
FinTech job ads in Latvia rose 19% YoY, driven by payments, merchant risk, and AML automation teams in Riga. Product-aligned engineers and data analysts with transaction monitoring experience are seeing €3,500–€5,700 gross/month, while compliance tech roles increasingly require hybrid legal-tech profiles rather than pure engineering.
https://www.finanses.lv/tehnologijas/2026/05/12/latvija-fintech-darba-tirgus-2026-maksajumi-aml-automatizacija
Riga software teams tighten hiring: fewer juniors, more backend reliability work
Latvian software engineering postings fell 8% YoY, with the steepest drop in junior roles (down 22%) while mid-level backend and reliability-focused positions rose 9%. In Riga, typical mid-level Java/Go backend offers cluster at €3,000–€4,800 gross/month, and take-home tests are being replaced by paid trial tasks to reduce candidate drop-off.
https://www.db.lv/zinas/2026/05/08/riga-programmesana-pieprasijums-junior-kritums-backend-reliability-518234
LT Lithuania
Cloud spend in Lithuania lifts platform engineering pay, but only for Kubernetes-heavy roles
Cloud & infrastructure postings in Lithuania rose 14% YoY, led by Vilnius-based banks and shared service centres standardising on Azure and Kubernetes. Platform engineers with Terraform + AKS/EKS now commonly see €4,200–€6,300 gross/month, while classic Windows admin roles stayed mostly flat at €2,200–€3,200.
https://www.15min.lt/verslas/naujiena/technologijos/lietuva-2026-05-03-cloud-platform-engineering-atlyginimai-augimas-1014-2234567
Kaunas and Vilnius data jobs move from dashboards to data contracts and governance
Data & analytics vacancies in Lithuania increased 11% YoY, but BI developer demand dipped 6% as companies consolidated reporting stacks. Roles emphasising data quality, data contracts, and governance grew 31%, with mid-level data engineers typically offered €3,800–€5,800 gross/month and stronger preference for Databricks or Snowflake experience.
https://www.delfi.lt/verslas/technologijos/2026/05/14/lietuvoje-auga-data-engineering-ir-duomenu-valdysena-poreikis.d?id=95500123
Vilnius cybersecurity hiring shifts to detection engineering as MSSPs absorb SME demand
Lithuanian job boards tracked a 17% YoY rise in cybersecurity vacancies in Vilnius and Kaunas, but SOC analyst listings fell 9% while detection engineering and threat hunting roles grew 28%. Typical offers moved to €3,200–€5,200 gross/month for mid-level security engineers, with 24/7 SOC work increasingly routed through MSSPs serving manufacturing and retail SMEs.
https://www.vz.lt/technologijos/2026/05/10/vilnius-kibernetinis-saugumas-detection-engineering-poreikis-auga-2026
SE Sweden
Sweden’s data hiring shifts to governance as EU AI Act work ramps up
Data & Analytics roles grew 13% YoY, but the fastest-growing titles were Data Governance Lead (+26%) and Analytics Engineer (+19%) across Stockholm, Malmö, and Uppsala. Ads mentioning lineage, catalog, and data quality controls increased to 34% (from 22%), and typical monthly salaries landed at SEK 58k–75k for governance-heavy roles.
https://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.792345/sverige-datajobb-2026-governance-ai-act
Stockholm software hiring returns, but senior bands tighten
Software Engineering postings in Sweden rose 11% YoY, driven by Stockholm and Gothenburg, while junior roles stayed scarce at 8% of ads. Median base offers for Senior Backend Engineers clustered at SEK 62k–78k/month, down 3–5% from 2025 peaks once equity is excluded, with more companies pushing “title inflation” instead of pay.
https://www.di.se/digital/stockholm-mjukvarujobb-2026-seniorloner-pressas-nar-hyrstoppen-biter/
Swedish fintech hiring stabilizes, with compliance engineering now a core track
FinTech hiring in Stockholm stabilized after 2025 cuts, with postings up 4% YoY and a clear split between payments infrastructure and compliance automation. Roles combining engineering with AML/KYC tooling grew 17%, and base pay typically ranged SEK 65k–90k/month for senior profiles, with fewer fully-remote contracts than in 2022–2023.
https://www.breakit.se/artikel/43102/fintech-jobben-2026-aml-kyc-compliance-engineers-stockholm
HR Croatia
Croatia’s DevOps hiring rebounds as employers reintroduce on-call and SRE discipline
DevOps & SRE vacancies rose 19% since February, with Kubernetes, Terraform, and incident management showing up in over 60% of listings. Employers in Zagreb now advertise explicit on-call compensation in 41% of roles, and salary bands typically land at €45k–€65k gross/year for DevOps engineers and €60k–€80k for SRE leads.
https://www.netokracija.com/devops-sre-poslovi-hrvatska-kubernetes-terraform-oncall-place-2026-05-08
Croatia pushes hospital IT upgrades, creating a short-term spike in healthtech integration roles
HealthTech hiring increased 14% quarter-on-quarter, focused on HL7/FHIR integration, IAM, and endpoint hardening for hospital networks in Zagreb, Rijeka, and Osijek. Contractors are being offered €350–€550/day for integration and security work, while permanent roles for clinical systems engineers sit around €2,800–€3,700 net/month depending on on-site requirements.
https://lider.media/biznis-i-politika/healthtech-u-hrvatskoj-bolnice-it-modernizacija-hl7-fhir-poslovi-2026-05-15
Croatia’s software engineering market tilts to maintenance and platform work over greenfield apps
Zagreb and Split postings for new product build teams fell 12% year-on-year, while demand for platform modernisation, refactoring, and legacy replacement rose 17%. Mid-level Java/.NET roles cluster at €2,400–€3,300 net/month, and senior full-stack roles reach €3,800–€4,800 net/month in enterprise vendors and nearshore delivery centers.
https://www.poslovni.hr/tehnologija/hrvatska-it-trziste-software-engineering-platform-modernizacija-place-2026-05-12
CY Cyprus
Cyprus fintech hiring cools for product engineering, holds for risk and payments tech
FinTech headcount growth in Cyprus slowed to 3% year-to-date, down from 8% in the same period last year, with fewer openings for generalist backend engineers. Demand remains for payments integrations, AML tooling, and risk data pipelines; senior fintech engineers are advertised at €65k–€85k gross/year, but equity is increasingly replaced by cash bonuses of 5–10%.
https://www.stockwatch.com.cy/en/article/fintech/fintech-jobs-cyprus-payments-aml-risk-hiring-salary-ranges-2026-05-06
Cyprus cloud roles concentrate in Limassol as AWS and Azure migrations accelerate
Cloud & Infrastructure job ads in Limassol increased 21% since January, driven by managed services and iGaming platforms moving workloads to AWS and Azure. Typical ranges for cloud engineers sit at €38k–€55k gross/year, while cloud architects cluster at €60k–€78k, with on-call allowances now stated in 34% of adverts.
https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/05/14/limassol-cloud-infrastructure-jobs-aws-azure-migration-salaries-2026-05-14
Cyprus cybersecurity hiring shifts from SOC volume to GRC and cloud security
Nicosia and Limassol employers cut open SOC analyst roles by 9% quarter-on-quarter, while GRC, ISO 27001, and cloud security engineer postings rose 18%. Median advertised pay moved to €2,400–€3,200 gross/month for mid-level security roles, with Russian/Arabic language requirements appearing in 22% of fintech-adjacent listings.
https://inbusinessnews.reporter.com.cy/article/2026/05/09/it-labour-market-cyprus-cybersecurity-grc-cloud-security-hiring-2026
GR Greece
Athens software engineering demand rebounds in product teams, not agencies
In Athens and Thessaloniki, product-led firms increased software engineering hiring by an estimated 14% year-on-year, while agency/outsourcing postings fell around 5% as budgets tightened. Typical base salary ranges are €32k–€45k for mid-level backend (Java/Node/.NET) in Athens and €45k–€65k for senior engineers, with higher offers for high-traffic systems and strong testing practices.
https://www.kathimerini.gr/economy/technology/562522345/ellada-agora-ergasias-software-engineering-athina-thessaloniki-2026-05-09/
Greece’s fintech hiring shifts to compliance tech and fraud analytics ahead of new EU reporting pressures
Athens-based fintechs and payment providers increased hiring for AML, transaction monitoring, and fraud analytics roles by an estimated 16% year-on-year, while ‘growth engineering’ roles slowed. Salary ranges cluster at €38k–€55k for AML/fraud analysts with SQL and €55k–€85k for senior risk and compliance tech leads, with frequent requirements for real-time detection pipelines and model monitoring.
https://www.naftemporiki.gr/finance/tech/1742334/fintech-stin-ellada-proslipseis-se-fraud-analytics-kai-compliance-tech-2026-05-03/
Greek DevOps roles consolidate: fewer ‘jack-of-all-trades’, more SRE and observability specialists
Greek employers reduced broad DevOps job ads and increased SRE/observability postings by an estimated 19% year-on-year, with Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and incident management appearing in over half of senior ads. Athens salary bands trend around €40k–€55k for mid-level DevOps and €55k–€80k for senior SRE, with a clear premium for Kubernetes operations at scale.
https://www.capital.gr/technologia/3869121/sre-kai-observability-allazoun-tis-proslipseis-devops-stin-ellada-2026-04-24/
IT Italy
Italy’s enterprise IT turns into SAP and Microsoft consolidation work, not greenfield builds
Enterprise IT hiring in Italy was up 5% YoY in April 2026, concentrated in Milan, Turin, and Bologna as large firms rationalize ERP and collaboration stacks. SAP S/4HANA migration roles are commanding €60k–€85k for seniors, while Microsoft 365 and endpoint management specialists sit at €45k–€65k, with contractors earning €450–€650/day in Lombardy. Employers are increasingly asking for change-management and process mapping, reflecting transformation work rather than new product development.
https://www.corriere.it/economia/lavoro/26_maggio_03/italia-enterprise-it-sap-s4hana-microsoft-365-domanda-salari-8b2f1c2a.shtml
HealthTech hiring grows in Northern Italy, driven by interoperability and clinical data platforms
HealthTech postings in Italy increased 16% YoY in Q1 2026, with hotspots in Milan, Verona, and Padua tied to regional digital health procurement and hospital modernization. Demand is strongest for interoperability (HL7/FHIR), secure integration, and data platform roles; salaries range €50k–€80k for engineers who can work with clinical workflows and privacy constraints. Fully remote roles remain limited, with hybrid common and on-site requirements still standard for hospital-adjacent vendors.
https://www.wired.it/article/2026/04/18/healthtech-italia-assunzioni-fhir-hl7-dati-clinici-milano/
Milan fintech hiring returns, but compliance tech roles beat pure product roles
FinTech job postings in Milan rose 12% YoY in Q1 2026 after a muted 2025, with the strongest demand in AML automation, transaction monitoring, and identity verification. Mid-level engineers in compliance-heavy FinTech are seeing €55k–€75k base, while product-focused app teams commonly sit at €45k–€65k. Rome remains smaller but is picking up vendor-side roles tied to banking modernization projects, especially around APIs and data quality.
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/2026-05-08/fintech-milano-assunzioni-aml-regtech-salari
MT Malta
Malta cybersecurity hiring rises in iGaming: SOC tooling and identity controls drive new roles
iGaming operators and service providers increased cybersecurity hiring by an estimated 15% year-on-year, with the strongest growth in IAM, SIEM content engineering, and vulnerability management. Salary ranges commonly sit at €40k–€55k for security analysts and €55k–€80k for senior IAM/SIEM specialists, with more roles requesting experience with regulated incident reporting and third-party risk.
https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/business/tech/2026-05-07/malta_igaming_cybersecurity_jobs_growth_iam_siem_salaries
Malta’s AI hiring stays small but pays: data scientists move into applied ML for compliance-heavy sectors
AI/ML vacancies in Malta remain limited in volume, but postings grew an estimated 9% year-on-year, concentrated in iGaming, payments, and reg-tech. Typical advertised base salaries are €45k–€65k for applied data scientists and €65k–€90k for senior ML engineers, with frequent requirements for model governance, explainability, and production monitoring rather than research-heavy profiles.
https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2026-04-30/local-news/malta-ai-jobs-applied-ml-compliance-roles-salaries-6736251234
Malta’s enterprise IT market tightens: more Microsoft stack admins, fewer generalists
Malta-based employers increased demand for Microsoft 365, Intune, Entra ID, and Windows endpoint management, with enterprise IT admin postings up an estimated 12% year-on-year in Sliema and Valletta. Advertised salaries typically run €28k–€40k for sysadmins and €40k–€55k for senior Microsoft administrators, with higher offers when security baseline hardening and automation (PowerShell) are included.
https://timesofmalta.com/article/malta-enterprise-it-hiring-microsoft-365-intune-entra-id-salaries-2026-05-14.1123456
PT Portugal
Portugal’s data market tightens around analytics engineering, not ‘pure’ BI
Employers in Lisbon and Porto increased demand for dbt, Snowflake, and modern data stack skills, with analytics engineering roles up an estimated 22% year-on-year, while classic BI developer postings stayed roughly flat. Advertised salaries commonly sit at €40k–€60k for mid-level analytics engineers and €60k–€85k for senior data roles, with strong premiums for Python plus data modelling and governance experience.
https://observador.pt/2026/05/06/emprego-ti-em-portugal-analytics-engineering-supera-bi-em-procura-e-salarios/
Lisbon cybersecurity hiring shifts to blue-team roles as managed SOC demand rises
Portuguese MSSPs and mid-market firms in Lisbon and Porto increased hiring for SOC analysts, incident responders, and detection engineers by an estimated 18% year-on-year, while standalone pentest postings grew slower at ~6%. Typical advertised base salaries moved to €38k–€55k for SOC L2 in Lisbon and €55k–€75k for senior detection/IR, with more roles asking for SIEM engineering and KQL/Sigma content writing.
https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/empresas/tecnologias/detalhe/ciberseguranca-em-portugal-socs-impulsionam-contratacoes-em-lisboa-e-porto-2026-05-12
Portugal’s cloud roles tilt toward platform engineering as AWS/Azure migrations hit the ‘cost control’ phase
Across Lisbon, Braga, and Porto, cloud job ads shifted from migration-heavy titles to platform engineering and FinOps, with about 1 in 4 postings explicitly mentioning cost optimisation tooling (FinOps, CloudHealth, native billing APIs). Salary bands clustered at €45k–€65k for cloud engineers and €65k–€90k for platform leads, with Kubernetes and Terraform listed in over 60% of cloud infrastructure ads.
https://www.dinheirovivo.pt/empresas/tecnologia/emprego-cloud-em-portugal-platform-engineering-e-finops-ganham-peso-2026-04-29.html
SI Slovenia
Slovenia’s AI hiring concentrates in applied automation, not research, with SMEs leading demand
AI & Automation roles increased 22% year-to-date, mainly for LLM integration, process automation, and customer-support tooling rather than pure ML research. Advertised salary bands cluster at €3,500–€5,000 gross/month for applied AI engineers and €5,500–€7,000 for tech leads, while 48% of roles require production experience with MLOps or evaluation frameworks.
https://siol.net/digisvet/posel-delo/slovenija-ai-avtomatizacija-llm-integracije-zaposlovanje-place-2026-05-07
Slovenian enterprise IT budgets move from ERP rollouts to identity, network refresh, and endpoint control
Enterprise IT postings rose 11% since January across Ljubljana, Maribor, and Celje, driven by IAM rework, network segmentation, and device management consolidation. System administrator roles sit at €2,400–€3,200 gross/month, while senior enterprise engineers and IT service owners reach €3,800–€5,200, with ITIL and vendor management explicitly requested in 37% of adverts.
https://www.delo.si/gospodarstvo/tehnologija/slovenija-enterprise-it-iacm-omrezja-endpoint-poslovi-2026-05-13
Slovenia’s data hiring shifts from dashboards to governed pipelines and quality controls
Ljubljana job ads for Data & Analytics roles grew 16% year-to-date, but BI-only positions declined 7% while data engineering and data quality roles rose 23%. Median advertised pay is €3,200–€4,300 gross/month for data engineers and €4,500–€5,800 for analytics leads, with data governance and lineage tools appearing in 28% of listings.
https://www.finance.si/it-trg/delo-v-sloveniji-data-engineering-governance-place-2026-05-10/9023412
ES Spain
Madrid and Barcelona push AI automation hires into operations, not research labs
AI & automation roles in Spain grew 19% YoY in Q1 2026, with Madrid taking the largest share but Barcelona showing the fastest growth in applied LLM roles (+27%). Most listings are for automation in customer support, QA, and internal tooling; pure research roles remain a small minority and are heavily PhD-weighted. Salary bands cluster at €45k–€70k for applied ML engineers and €60k–€90k for senior LLM platform roles, with English requirements appearing in roughly two-thirds of postings.
https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2026-05-10/espana-acelera-la-contratacion-en-ia-automatizacion-pero-para-roles-aplicados.html
Spain’s software engineering pay stays uneven as Valencia grows but lags Madrid
Software engineering hiring rose 8% YoY nationally in April 2026, with Valencia and Málaga outpacing Madrid in volume growth but not compensation. Typical backend salaries are €40k–€60k in Valencia and €45k–€70k in Madrid, while senior full-stack roles top out around €85k outside the capital unless tied to US-led teams. Employers are increasingly using level-based frameworks and coding exercises to cap negotiation ranges, especially in marketplace and delivery platforms.
https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2026-05-06/espana-salarios-software-madrid-valencia-malaga_3882147/
Spain’s DevOps market tightens: fewer ‘generalists’, more SRE with reliability metrics
DevOps & SRE postings in Spain declined 6% YoY in Q1 2026, but SRE-labelled roles increased 13% as employers split build pipelines from production reliability. Barcelona SRE salaries are holding at €55k–€85k, while Madrid is closer to €60k–€90k for candidates with SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and Terraform. Companies are explicitly reducing 24/7 on-call exposure, offering additional €3k–€8k stipends rather than inflating base pay.
https://www.expansion.com/economia-digital/tecnologia/2026/04/22/mercado-devops-sre-espana-madrid-barcelona-slos.html
BG Bulgaria
Bulgaria’s fintech hiring pivots to compliance tech and payments resilience
Fintech headcount growth slowed, but hiring shifted toward fraud, AML tooling, and high-availability payments engineering after multiple PSP outages across the region. Sofia fintech postings show a 22% YoY increase in roles mentioning “AML automation” or “transaction monitoring,” with senior payments SRE/engineering salaries advertised at 9,000–13,500 BGN gross/month.
https://www.dnevnik.bg/tekhnologii/2026/05/09/fintech-bulgaria-aml-fraud-payments-resilience-hiring-2026/
Sofia software engineering hiring rebounds, but mid-level saturation holds wages down
Software engineering vacancies in Sofia rose 11% YoY in Q1 2026, led by Java and .NET maintenance-heavy roles in enterprise products. Mid-level salary offers are largely unchanged at 5,000–7,500 BGN gross/month, while senior backend roles pushed to 8,500–12,000 BGN as teams try to retain people who can own legacy modernization.
https://www.capital.bg/tehnologii/2026/04/30/sofiia-software-engineering-naznachavane-java-dotnet-zaplati-2026/
Bulgaria’s data jobs consolidate around analytics engineering and BI cost control
Data & analytics vacancies were up 7% YoY, but pure data scientist roles declined as companies consolidate into analytics engineering and dashboard rationalization. Plovdiv and Sofia employers increasingly ask for dbt, Power BI, and FinOps-style metric governance, with analytics engineer pay commonly listed at 6,500–10,500 BGN gross/month depending on cloud stack.
https://www.investor.bg/ikonomika-i-politika/332/a/data-analytics-engineering-powerbi-dbt-zaplati-bulgaria-2026-05-02/
CZ Czech Republic
Czech software engineering hiring shifts to embedded and safety-certified stacks
Brno and Ostrava increased demand for C/C++, AUTOSAR, and functional safety experience by 16% YoY, driven by automotive and industrial automation programs. Typical senior embedded offers now sit at 150,000–200,000 CZK gross/month in Brno, with contract day rates commonly 9,000–12,000 CZK for short delivery cycles.
https://www.lupa.cz/aktuality/cesko-programatori-embedded-autosar-funkcni-bezpecnost-2026-05-08/
Czech enterprise IT budgets go to ERP modernization, not new headcount
Prague-based enterprises report shifting spend from internal support teams to SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Dynamics migrations, with implementation partners hiring while in-house FTE grows flat. ERP program managers and solution architects are being priced at 160,000–220,000 CZK gross/month, and project durations are stretching from 12–18 to 18–30 months due to testing and data migration load.
https://www.cio.cz/clanky/erp-modernizace-v-cesku-2026-s4hana-dynamics-vice-projektu-nez-fte/
Czechia’s DevOps market tightens: fewer junior roles, more SRE with incident ownership
Prague postings requiring pager duty, error budgets, and SLOs rose 19% YoY, while junior DevOps roles slipped 11% as companies standardize CI/CD and managed Kubernetes. SRE pay in Prague is concentrating at 140,000–190,000 CZK gross/month, with Brno typically 10–15% lower for similar scope.
https://www.hn.cz/c1-67498230-sre-a-devops-v-cesku-2026-mene-junioru-vice-oncall-prague-brno
HU Hungary
Hungary’s cybersecurity pay spread widens as SOC talent exits to remote EU roles
SOC analyst and incident response hiring stayed flat YoY, but advertised salaries moved up 9–12% for shift-based roles due to churn to remote positions in Austria and Germany. Budapest SOC L2 pay clusters at 1.6–2.2M HUF gross/month, while senior IR and detection engineering is posted at 2.6–3.8M, with on-call increasingly paid as separate allowances.
https://www.hwsw.hu/hirek/2026/05/06/kiberbiztonsag-soc-fizetes-ber-2026-magyarorszag-budapest.html
Hungarian AI hiring shifts from “prompting” to production ML engineering and governance
AI/ML postings in Hungary increased 18% YoY, but most growth is in MLOps, model monitoring, and data governance rather than research roles. Budapest and Szeged listings increasingly specify Python, feature stores, and EU AI Act readiness, with ML engineer salaries commonly advertised at 2.3–3.6M HUF gross/month depending on on-call and cloud stack.
https://www.vg.hu/tech/2026/05/14/mesterseges-intelligencia-allasok-mlops-governance-eu-ai-act-magyarorszag-2026
Budapest cloud hiring tightens as GCCs compete for senior platform engineers
Budapest job ads for cloud and infrastructure roles rose 14% YoY in Q1 2026, with the biggest lift in Azure platform engineering and network automation. Senior cloud engineers are now routinely advertised at 2.4–3.4M HUF gross/month, up from 2.1–3.0M a year ago, driven by German and US captive centers bidding against local consultancies.
https://www.portfolio.hu/uzlet/20260422/budapest-felho-infrastruktura-allasok-2026-q1-azure-platform-mernok-683211
PL Poland
Poland’s cybersecurity hiring pivots from SOC headcount to incident response
Warsaw and Kraków postings for incident response and threat hunting rose 18% YoY, while entry-level SOC analyst roles fell 9% as MSSPs push automation and consolidation. Mid-level IR salaries moved to 22,000–30,000 PLN gross/month in Warsaw, up roughly 7% YoY, with on-call premiums becoming standard in banks and telcos.
https://www.pb.pl/technologie/cyberbezpieczenstwo/polska-rynek-pracy-incident-response-vs-soc-2026-05-06-1219345
Poland’s data market rewards analytics engineers, not ‘generic data scientists’
Kraków and Warsaw saw a 24% YoY increase in ads mentioning dbt, semantic layers, and metric stores, while postings explicitly labeled “data scientist” dropped 8%. Analytics engineering roles are clustering at 20,000–32,000 PLN gross/month, with higher bands in fintech and retail where GA4 migration and attribution rebuilds are underway.
https://www.money.pl/gospodarka/analityka-danych-w-polsce-rosnie-popyt-na-analytics-engineer-2026-05-14-7049923412345678a.html
Poland’s cloud spend keeps rising, but platform teams are merging into ‘product ops’
Large employers in Wrocław, Gdańsk, and Warsaw reduced standalone cloud platform headcount by 6% YoY, while roles blending FinOps, platform engineering, and governance grew 21%. AWS and Azure architects with cost-optimization scope are landing 28,000–40,000 PLN gross/month in Warsaw, with many offers tied to cloud savings targets.
https://www.rp.pl/it-i-telekomunikacja/art40491231-chmura-w-polsce-rosnie-ale-zespoly-platformowe-sie-lacza-2026-04-29
RO Romania
Romania’s AI hiring concentrates on applied LLM ops, not research labs
Demand in Bucharest, Iași, and Timișoara is shifting to roles that productionize LLMs: evaluation, prompt/agent testing, vector search, and governance, with postings up 29% YoY for “LLM” plus “RAG” or “vector database”. Salary bands for applied ML engineers are clustering at 20,000–35,000 RON gross/month, with a growing split between model integration work and data platform prerequisites.
https://www.startupcafe.ro/ai/romania-llm-rag-jobs-2026-05-10.htm
Romania’s healthtech hiring rises in interoperability and security-by-design
Cluj and Bucharest healthtech employers increased hiring for HL7/FHIR integration, identity management, and audit logging by 17% YoY as hospital digitization projects move from pilots to scaled rollouts. Product-facing engineers with FHIR and cloud compliance exposure are seeing offers of 16,000–26,000 RON gross/month, with contractors filling gaps in integration testing and data mapping.
https://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-sanatate-2026-04-23-healthtech-romania-angajari-fhir-hl7-securitate.htm
Romania’s fintech hiring cools in payments, heats up in fraud and risk analytics
Bucharest and Cluj postings in payments engineering fell 7% YoY, while roles in fraud detection, AML tooling, and risk data pipelines rose 23% as regulators and card schemes push stricter controls. Mid-senior fintech engineers are landing 18,000–28,000 RON gross/month in Bucharest, with fraud/risk specialists often adding 10–15% on top.
https://www.zf.ro/business-hi-tech/fintech-romania-2026-angajari-frauda-aml-risk-22218456
SK Slovakia
Slovakia’s DevOps/SRE market tightens as on-call premiums return
DevOps and SRE postings increased 16% YoY, with the strongest demand in Bratislava and Košice for Kubernetes operations and observability. Employers are explicitly adding on-call compensation again, and senior SRE roles are advertised at 5,000–7,800 EUR gross/month, up about 8% YoY, while mid-level roles remain stuck near 3,500–5,000 EUR.
https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/9xKQp2s/devops-sre-slovensko-2026-kubernetes-oncall-zamestnanie-bratislava-kosice/
Slovakia expands digital health hiring, with Bratislava leading EHR integration roles
HealthTech hiring rose 13% YoY, concentrated in EHR integration, interoperability, and security-adjacent engineering for hospital networks. Bratislava listings increasingly ask for HL7/FHIR and integration platforms, with integration engineers commonly posted at 4,200–6,800 EUR gross/month as public and private providers compete for the same small talent pool.
https://tech.sme.sk/c/23398145/healthtech-slovensko-2026-ehr-integracia-hl7-fhir-bratislava-praca.html
Bratislava enterprise IT hiring rises on SAP S/4HANA and Identity migrations
Enterprise IT job ads in Bratislava grew 9% YoY, driven by S/4HANA program waves and IAM consolidation across shared-service centers. SAP basis and authorization roles are commonly posted at 4,200–6,500 EUR gross/month, while IAM engineers (Entra ID, SailPoint) cluster at 4,800–7,200 EUR as firms struggle to replace contractors with permanent staff.
https://www.trend.sk/technologie/2026-05-07/bratislava-enterprise-it-sap-s4hana-iam-migracie-trh-prace-2026
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