Practice
Software Engineering
Front-end, back-end and full-stack contractors — product engineers who ship, across Europe.
What we're seeing in the market
“European product teams stopped buying frameworks in 2026 and started buying outcomes. The contractors winning are the ones who can talk about user impact in the first interview, not the ones with the longest stack list.”
AddanEx desk — Software Engineering
Polyglot product engineers across React, TypeScript, Node, Go, Python, Java and .NET — placed into European product teams that need delivery, not theory.
Front-end, back-end, full-stack and mobile. Contract only, rate-based, hybrid the default.
2026 European Contract Benchmarks
Rate bands.
Indicative ranges based on contract placements made by AddanEx in 2025–26 across the Nordics, Benelux, DACH and UK & Ireland.
By region — rates.
Sourced 2026
| Role | Nordics | Benelux | DACH | UK & Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior FE / BE | €520–740/day | €540–760/day | €560–780/day | €580–800/day |
| Full-Stack Engineer | €580–780/day | €600–800/day | €620–820/day | €640–840/day |
| Staff / Principal | €820–1,160/day | €840–1,180/day | €860–1,200/day | €880–1,220/day |
| Engineering Lead (interim) | €920–1,300/day | €940–1,320/day | €960–1,340/day | €980–1,360/day |
Sources: TalentUp Europe 2026, Honeypot.io 2026 European Tech Salary Report, Onsiter EU rate index, Eurostat ICT wage data 2025, cross-checked against AddanEx contract placements 2025–26.
Recent placements
Amsterdam
Staff Full-Stack Engineer (12-month)
Berlin
Principal Front-End (interim)
Stockholm
Mobile Lead (9-month)
Common questions
- Which stacks do you cover?
- React/Next, TypeScript, Node, Go, Python, Java, .NET, Swift and Kotlin. We brief honestly when a stack sits outside our network.
- Do you place engineering leadership?
- Yes — interim Engineering Leads, VPs of Engineering and Heads of Platform on rate-based contracts across Europe.
Other sectors
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS, Azure and GCP architects, platform engineers and SREs across Europe.
Business Intelligence
All BI tools from DWH, ETL to front-end reports and dashboards — or full-stack. New and legacy.
Data Engineering
Snowflake, Databricks, dbt and Microsoft Fabric contract specialists across Europe.
Advanced Analytics
Analytics managers, data scientists and ML engineers — European contract only.
Cyber Security & Governance
Security architects, GRC leads and data protection specialists across regulated European industries.
SAP
SAP contractors across every module, function and role — S/4HANA transformations and BAU.
AI / ML, Data Science, Ontology and Knowledge Graphs
Applied Machine Learning, GenAI, MLOps, Data Scientists, Ontologists.
Leadership & Architecture
Interim C-level, Heads of, Enterprise and Solution Architects, Programme Managers across Europe.
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