IT and Technology Executive salaries in United Arab Emirates
The median executive IT and Technology Executive salary in United Arab Emirates is AED 810,000 per year, with the market band from AED 660,000 to AED 1,080,000 (jobxdubai.com, 2026-08-30).
By seniority
executive (Medium quality data)
- P25
- AED 660,000
- Median
- AED 810,000
- P75
- AED 1,080,000
- per month
- AED 67,500
About AED 67,500 per month at the median.
Derived from verified Dubai enterprise recruiter bands: JobxDubai AED 60k-140k/month for technology executives, RFS HR AED 600k-1.44M/year, live LinkedIn posting AED 55k-75k (docs/RESEARCH/analyzer-report.md). A GulfTalent CTO page (n=15, updated Aug 2026) reports lower crowd figures of AED 18k/36k/78k; the enterprise recruiter bands were preferred as the higher-quality signal.
lead (Low quality data)
- P25
- AED 60,000
- Median
- AED 228,000
- P75
- AED 540,000
- per month
- AED 19,000
About AED 19,000 per month at the median.
Closest published lead-level title is Technology Director (band sits between IT Manager and CTO). GulfTalent UAE page, updated Aug 2026, n=16 (small sample, hence Low).
senior (Medium quality data)
- P25
- AED 42,000
- Median
- AED 114,000
- P75
- AED 414,000
- per month
- AED 9,500
About AED 9,500 per month at the median.
GulfTalent UAE public salary page, Information Technology Manager, updated Aug 2026, n=94. P25/P50/P75 mapped to published lowest/average/highest.
Sources for these numbers
- https://jobxdubai.com/salaries-2026/chief-technology-officer-cto-technology-executive-leadership-salary-dubai-2026
- https://rfsonhr.com/job-descriptions/technology/chief-technical-officer/
- https://www.gulftalent.com/uae/salaries/technology-director
- https://www.gulftalent.com/uae/salaries/information-technology-manager
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