Software developer salaries in Bangladesh

A senior software engineer in Bangladesh earns a median of about $11,203 a year (1,380,000 BDT). Here's pay by level and stack, contractor rates, and how Bangladesh's hours line up with UK and US teams.

Senior salary: $11,203; median per year
Senior contractor: $18–$40; per hour
Overlap London: 2.5h; UTC+06:00
Overlap New York: No overlap; English: moderate

Salary by level

Level	BDT	USD	GBP
Junior (0–2 yrs)	420,000	$3,410	£2,685
Mid (3–5 yrs)	550,000	$4,465	£3,516
Senior (6+ yrs)	1,380,000	$11,203	£8,821

Annual medians. USD at the 2026-10-14 rate.

Senior salary by stack

Specialism	USD / year	Contractor / hr
Frontend	$9,635	$15–$34
Backend	$12,323	$20–$44
Mobile	$10,755	$17–$38
DevOps & Cloud	$13,444	$22–$48
Data & AI	$13,780	$22–$49

Country median adjusted by global specialism premiums (Stack Overflow 2025).

The Bangladesh developer market

About 1,882,249 developers on GitHub (2026).
English proficiency: moderate (EF EPI rank 62).
Dhaka is the dominant hub. Levels.fyi puts Dhaka software engineer total pay at BDT 609,815 (25th percentile) to BDT 1,817,254 (75th percentile), and Pathao's median package is about BDT 1.63M.
Index.dev ranks Bangladesh among the cheapest freelance markets, with a $26.83/hr average.
Salary data is thin. Paylab has 25 verified respondents and PayScale 132 profiles, so treat the figures as indicative.

Hiring from Bangladesh?

Vetted engineers at about $30/hr all-in.

Contracts, payroll and compliance handled. A senior in-house hire costs about £48/hr loaded in the UK and $82/hr in the US.

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FAQ

How much does a senior software developer earn in Bangladesh?+

The median senior software engineer salary in Bangladesh is about 1,380,000 BDT a year (about $11,203), against about $4,465 for mid-level and $3,410 for junior developers. Senior remote contractors typically charge $18–$40 an hour.

What is the time difference between Bangladesh and the UK or US?+

Bangladesh runs on UTC+06:00 in winter. A 09:00–17:30 working day there overlaps 2.5h with London and no overlap with New York.

How much does it cost to hire a developer from Bangladesh through OctogleHire?+

OctogleHire publishes one client rate: about $19/hr for a mid-level engineer and $30/hr for a senior, including vetting, contracts and payroll, with no placement fee. A comparable senior in-house hire costs about £48/hr loaded in the UK and $82/hr in the US.

Sources · Q4 2026

Method notes: Junior is PayScale's Dhaka early-career average base (about ৳420k, read from a search snippet, not a fetched page). Mid is PayScale's Dhaka mid-career average base (about ৳550k). Senior is the midpoint of the ৳80k–150k/month band in the whatisthesalary.com 2026 guide (115,000 × 12), a single secondary source with unclear methodology, so it is low confidence. Paylab's figure at 5 years of experience is BDT 73,384/month (880,608/yr), which sits between mid and senior. The senior contractor band is Arc's 2026 range. The mid band runs from Arc's remote-developer average salary converted to hourly ($41,465 ÷ 2,080 ≈ $20) to Index.dev's country average ($26.83). Arc's senior lower bound is below the mid lower bound because the sources differ. Salary basis: PayScale Bangladesh (Dhaka early- and mid-career pages, 2026). Senior from whatisthesalary.com 2026 guide.