Software Engineering salaries in Kenya
The median lead Software Engineering salary in Kenya is KES 6,900,000 per year, with the market band from KES 5,400,000 to KES 8,400,000 (maxishr.com, 2026-08-31).
By seniority
lead (Medium quality data)
- P25
- KES 5,400,000
- Median
- KES 6,900,000
- P75
- KES 8,400,000
- per month
- KES 575,000
About KES 575,000 per month at the median.
MaxisHR Kenya Salary Survey 2026 senior band for the software engineer senior/lead track: 450k-700k monthly gross; endpoints used as p25/p75, midpoint 575k as p50. Zaajira 2026 engineering manager bands (mid 350k-520k, senior 600k-1,000k) overlap the upper half of this range.
senior (Medium quality data)
- P25
- KES 3,840,000
- Median
- KES 5,220,000
- P75
- KES 6,600,000
- per month
- KES 435,000
About KES 435,000 per month at the median.
Zaajira Kenya Salary Guide 2026 (published March 2026, offer data from the Zaajira hiring platform) senior bands: frontend 320k-480k, full-stack 340k-520k, backend 350k-550k; envelope endpoints used as p25/p75 and the midpoint 435k as p50. MaxisHR Kenya Salary Survey 2026 (500+ employers) senior software engineer band 220k-400k corroborates the lower half of the range for the broader market.
Sources for these numbers
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