Digital Salaries 2025: Discover What You Could Be Earning!

Silkhom, a recruitment firm specializing in IT, has published its salary guide for roles in IT and digital sectors for 2025. This report is based on data from recruitment missions conducted by Silkhom consultants. It utilizes a dataset of over 20,000 candidates evaluated from 2019 to 2025.

Below, you’ll find compensation levels for executive positions, developers, data and AI professionals, infrastructure & network specialists, as well as design and marketing roles. The report lists salaries in gross annual amounts for permanent contracts, categorized by professional experience (junior, mid-level, senior, expert) and location (Paris, major cities, and other regions).

Compensation in 2025: Top Salaries in Management and Executive Positions

Unsurprisingly, executive and management positions command the highest salaries in 2025 (see top image). Consistent with similar studies in the tech field, the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) emerges as the highest paid, with average salaries around €100,000 per year. Other high-earning roles include Information Security Managers (averaging €90,000 annually, rarely below €70,000) and Chief Operating Officers, with starting salaries for juniors at €60,000 per year in major cities, potentially exceeding €100,000 with more than five years of experience.

As detailed further below, marketing roles tend to offer less favorable salaries, with senior digital marketing managers struggling to reach €55,000 annually outside of Paris.

Salaries in Web & Mobile Development in 2025

Management roles aren’t the only ones with lucrative prospects. In web or mobile development, certain positions are also well-compensated. For example, technical architects earn more than €72,000 on average according to Silkhom, significantly higher than many high-responsibility positions. Lead JS developers (front-end, back-end, or full stack) can earn up to €60,000 annually outside Paris and up to €80,000 in the capital. Similarly, mobile developers (iOS, Android, or cross-platform) see promising career progression: starting around €35,000 annually in major cities and rising above €50,000 after five years of experience.

Mobile developers are also among the few profiles experiencing a salary increase compared to 2024. Conversely, many web development roles appear to be valued less than the previous year, particularly .Net developers (-7.3%), full stack developers (-3.6%), and technical project managers (-3.1%). This trend may be due to a normalization after recent salary spikes in these sectors due to talent shortages.

Salaries in Data and AI in 2025

Last year, Silkhom reported that AI and data sectors were among the most sought after by recruiters. In 2025, this trend continues, and roles like data engineers remain in high demand. Salary levels for various positions (data scientist, data engineer, data analyst, computer vision engineer, deep learning engineer, and image processing engineer) are quite close, ranging from €45,000 to €50,000 annually. In Paris, data roles, particularly for data scientists and data engineers, allow the most experienced professionals to reach or exceed €80,000 annually.

IT Systems and Infrastructure: Strong Salary Increases

For roles in infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, or security, the study indicates significant salary increases between 2024 and 2025: +7.2% for security engineers, +8.7% for cloud engineers, +9.4% for Linux system administrators, +12.9% for infrastructure project managers, and even +13.9% for DevSecOps! These substantial raises do not necessarily affect the highest-paid positions, such as infrastructure architects and network & security architects, who both earn more than €70,000 annually on average, while the salaries of engineers or administrators rarely exceed €50,000 annually.

Design and Marketing: What are the Salaries in 2025?

The design and marketing fields offer decent, and sometimes attractive, salaries over time. However, these compensations pale in comparison to other tech sectors. Outside of Paris, it’s common for starting salaries to be below €30,000 annually, and higher salaries seldom exceed €50,000 annually. However, the capital does offer positions where compensation can be quite lucrative for the most talented designers or marketers: up to €70,000 for UI/UX designers, up to €80,000 for traffic managers, and up to €90,000 for product marketing managers…