Frontend Engineer

Salary band

Base salary, gross annual

25th percentile

€48,000

Median

€58,000

75th percentile

€72,000

For reference: the statutory minimum wage in Germany has stood at €13.90 gross per hour since January 1, 2026 — roughly €2,410 gross a month for a full-time role at 40 hours/week. (BMAS: Mindestlohn steigt zum 1. Januar 2026 auf 13,90 Euro)

Gross fixed salary per year for a mid-level Frontend Engineer (3 to 6 years of experience) at a German SMB or Mittelstand company. Berlin, Munich and Hamburg in the SaaS/scale-up environment pull upward (68-85 k€); the classic Mittelstand and provincial locations trend lower (44-54 k€). A modern stack (React or Vue with TypeScript, a maintained design system, performance and accessibility practice) pulls upward; a legacy stack (classic jQuery, AngularJS, older CMS frontends) pulls downward. Engineering roles in Germany usually have no variable compensation component; scale-ups add VSOP/ESOP on top.

Sources: Stepstone Gehaltsdaten Frontend-Entwickler:in Deutschland 2026; Stepstone Gehaltsreport 2026; Honeypot State of Software Engineering Germany 2025; Destatis Verdiensterhebung (April 2025), Berufsgruppe 43 IKT-Berufe