Backend Engineer salary in Cork.
Live salary data from Adzuna, calibrated against Hustle Report member submissions. Updated daily.
The 25 / 50 / 75 percentile band.
25th percentile
€68,000
Median (50th)
€88,000
Calibrated estimate
75th percentile
€117,000
Percentiles describe a snapshot of advertised salaries. Real take-home depends on tax band, pension contributions and bonuses. Hustle Report members can plug their actual numbers into the in-app calculator for a precise picture.
Backend Engineer market in Cork.
Backend engineering pay tracks closely with database + distributed-systems depth. Engineers comfortable with Postgres at scale, queue-based architectures and one of Go / Rust / Kotlin earn 20-35% above the headline median. AI-integration backend work (vector stores, embeddings, eval harnesses) is the fastest-growing premium segment.
Cork specifically: Cork is Ireland's second tech hub, anchored by Apple and a strong pharma and medtech presence. Salaries sit 10-20% below Dublin for the same role; the contract market is thinner but cost of living is materially lower.
Members in this role typically add €9,800/year.
Modeled on a conservative 4 hours/week of contract work at the role's implied hourly equivalent (€49/hr). The Hustle Report Monday editorial finds the briefs and ranks them by fit so the time stays small.
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