Software Engineering salaries in Colombia
The median senior Software Engineering salary in Colombia is COP 150,000,000 per year, with the market band from COP 108,000,000 to COP 192,000,000 (magneto365.com, 2026-09-03).
By seniority
lead (Low quality data)
- Median
- COP 240,000,000
- per month
- COP 20,000,000
This level publishes a median only; no percentiles are available.
Only a floor figure is published for this cell; the stored value is that floor, and the true market center is likely higher. Shape d: floor only, upper bound suppressed by the source. Published statement: FAQ on trabajaconmigo.info tech salary guide says a lider tecnico o CTO earns over 20 million COP per month; page quotes millones de pesos mensuales for roles. Personal blog citing Michael Page 2026 guide and BeBee without reproducing their bands, no method or sample, so Low. Gross shown by worked example (10M gross to 8.2M net). Overlaps it-executive family at CTO level; CISO over 25M monthly appears on the same page.
senior (Low quality data)
- P25
- COP 108,000,000
- Median
- COP 150,000,000
- P75
- COP 192,000,000
- per month
- COP 12,500,000
About COP 12,500,000 per month at the median.
p50 is the midpoint of the source's published span; the span endpoints are stored as p25 and p75 and are wider than quartiles. SPAN shape: published low to high range endpoints, not percentiles. Published role: Desarrolladores de software senior (published as senior with accent on page), ranked 4 in the Magneto365 ranking, table column headed Rango salarial mensual aproximado, 9 million to 16 million COP per month, oriented to 2026, no attributed study (opaque method, hence Low). Gross not stated; treated as gross per Colombian monthly convention. Same-cell alternatives seen on fetched pages: UNIR magazine (published 17 June 2026) senior developer 5+ years earns 7,000,000 or more monthly, up to 15,000,000 or more, monthly basis explicit; La Republica (25 Sep 2024) citing Deel Salary Insights (500,000+ contracts): Colombian developers hired by foreign companies average USD 49,700 per year, near USD 98,000 per year in specialized roles, annual USD, foreign-employer niche.
Sources for these numbers
- https://trabajaconmigo.info/guia-de-sueldos-en-tecnologia-colombia/
- https://www.magneto365.com/co/blog/profesiones-mejor-pagadas-colombia
- https://unir.edu.co/revista/ingenieria-y-tecnologia/desarrollador-software/
- https://www.larepublica.co/alta-gerencia/desarrolladores-que-trabajan-para-empresas-extranjeras-ganan-us-49-700-anuales-3960107
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