If you are looking for a tech job in Germany, two things about the market are worth knowing before you start: most in-country roles are in Berlin, and most roles do not tell you the pay.
We counted on October 6, 2026, across the tech companies we track, as distinct roles (one role posted in ten cities counts once). 212 open tech roles are located in Germany. Another 89 are remote roles whose restriction lets you work from Germany. Together that is 301 roles at 82 companies.
For scale, the same count for the UK is 855, and for the Netherlands 213. Germany has about a third of the UK's tech roles on our board.
Berlin, then Munich, then almost nothing
Of the 212 roles located in Germany:
| City | Roles |
|---|---|
| Berlin | 143 |
| Munich | 41 |
| Bochum | 6 |
| Frankfurt | 2 |
| Hamburg | 0 |
| Cologne | 0 |
(A role can name more than one city.)
Two thirds of the roles located in Germany are in Berlin. Hamburg, the second-largest city in the country, has none on our board right now. That says as much about which companies we track (international tech companies, mostly) as it does about Hamburg, but if those are the companies you want to work for, the map is very lopsided.
Berlin roles also often sit next to other European offices. The same roles frequently list London, Belgrade, Warsaw, Prague or Madrid as alternatives.
Who is hiring
| Company | Roles open to Germany |
|---|---|
| Grafana Labs | 22 |
| SumUp | 17 |
| JetBrains | 15 |
| Vercel | 11 |
| GetYourGuide | 11 |
| N26 | 11 |
| Distribusion | 11 |
| Planet Labs | 10 |
| Parloa | 10 |
| Wolt | 8 |
Some of these are Berlin-based companies (N26, GetYourGuide, Distribusion, Parloa). Others, like Grafana Labs and Vercel, mostly hire remotely and include Germany in a list of countries they can employ you in.
The posts are in English
We looked for German-language postings and found essentially none. No role title on the list is in German, and only 2 of the 301 roles mention German as a requirement, both sales-facing defence or pre-sales roles in Berlin.
So on this slice of the market, the postings rarely ask for German. What matters more is being in the right city, or on the right list of countries.
The pay gap is a transparency gap
Now the pay. Across all open tech roles on our board, 56% publish a salary. For roles located in Germany, it is 16% (33 of 212).
Remote roles that include Germany do better (42% publish), probably because many of them come from US companies used to publishing bands. Across all 301, about a quarter (79) show pay. Where they do, the median midpoint is about $141,000 a year in US dollars. With so few roles publishing, treat that as a rough guide, not a market rate.
That may change. The EU Pay Transparency Directive was due to be written into national law by June 2026, and it requires employers to tell candidates the starting pay or its range before the interview. Until that shows up in the job posts themselves, expect to ask.
The rest of the picture
Remote within a region: 136 roles (45%). Hybrid: 121 (40%). Onsite: 40. Remote from anywhere: 4.
203 are senior, 88 mid-level and only 10 junior (3.3%, below the 4.6% across the board).
The stack leans infrastructure: Python 104, AWS 76, Kubernetes 67, Go 50, Java 43, then Docker, GCP and Terraform.
If you are job hunting in Germany
Start in Berlin, or with companies that list Germany as a remote country. Outside those two, our board has very little.
Do not filter yourself out for weak German. Almost none of these posts ask for it.
Ask for the range early. Most posts will not tell you.
Look at the remote lists too. Remote roles that include Germany publish pay far more often (42%) than roles located there.
You can filter remoet.dev/jobs by country (a country also finds roles that only name one of its cities), and an agent can do the same without an account.
What this does not cover
Our board tracks about 760 hiring tech companies, mostly international ones, so this is not the whole German job market: plenty of German Mittelstand and enterprise roles never appear here. Salaries on our board are normalized to US dollars, and only a handful keep the original euro figure, so we have not quoted euro ranges. Everything is as of October 6, 2026.
If you are working in tech in Germany and this does not match what you see, especially outside Berlin, tell us in Discord.
