Subscribe to our social channels to get the latest news about Hungary!
Everything you need to know about living in Hungary as a developer
Change language:
Hungary may not be the best place for people of every profession. However, for developers and people working in the IT sector, the country is a great place to live and work. This is especially true since there is a shortage of developers in the country.
In the past two years, there have been labour shortages in many areas, prog.hu writes. This has forced employers to hire more staff and implement significant wage increases. These have included the information technology sector, which has seen very significant pay rises.
IT salaries in Hungary
Although you can still earn more as a developer abroad, Hungarian wages have also increased considerably, prog.hu reports. For example, software developers can earn between HUF 600,000 (EUR 1510) and 2,000,000 (EUR 5033) depending on their skills, but database administrators can also earn between HUF 600,000 and 1,600,000 (EUR 4026). Lead developers, on the other hand, can earn up to HUF 1,250,000 (EUR 3146) – 2,000,000 per month. Full stack developers can be paid up to HUF 2,100,000 (EUR 5285) and DevOps engineers can be paid up to HUF 2,300,000 (EUR 5788).
The IT sector in Budapest
The IT sector makes up a large part – 10 percent – of Hungarian GDP, easyreadernews.com writes. The offices of Google, Microsoft, IBM and HP are located in Budapest. This means that you will not have too much of a hard time finding a workplace that suits you.