Backend

Backend should be judged by owned outcomes, not keyword count.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $3,356 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $5,357 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 965 Last 3 months
Applications per job 16.7 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Market-wide
38 DOU responses per job · September
16 Djinni applications per job · Q1

Hiring Define the outcome, scope, and seniority before screening tools or titles.

Candidate Show what you owned, what changed, and the evidence.

Data Market-wide context only; neither figure is specific to Backend. Use the JobNote number above for the role.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 1873 respondents
Exact match
Lower quartile$2500
Median$4000
Upper quartile$5300
Year over year +11.4%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile

Back-end software engineering specialization · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Java 136 $3558–$4505 Python 84 $2905–$4491 API 80 $1984–$3493 Spring Boot 76 $4107–$4954 AWS 68 $3588–$5218 SQL 63 $2455–$3683 TypeScript 58 $2885–$4195 React 47 $3021–$4211 Kafka 46 $3827–$5055 Docker 45 $2460–$4317 Microservices 42 $3317–$5322 PostgreSQL 40 $2799–$4270 C#/.NET 39 $2707–$4125 Azure 38 $2482–$4749 Node.js 35 $3119–$4626 Kubernetes 34 $3396–$5438

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Ukraine tech job market — Q3 2026 Published signal ·
  2. Djinni market analytics — Q1 2026 Published signal ·