Half of the ads sit inside the yellow box. The dashed line is the legal minimum.
What the software engineer ads show
Offers for software engineer jobs in Metro Manila are spread wide: the upper-quarter line (₱92,500) is 6.2 times the lower-quarter line (₱15,000), with the median (₱55,000) near the middle of that band. A quarter of the ads offer ₱15,000 or less, below the NCR minimum wage of ₱16,421 a month. Ads bunch on one figure: ₱15,000 to ₱15,999 alone accounts for 28% of them.
Same job, other places
Same scale on every row · median and middle half · ₱ per month
Who is hiring and what they offer
Employers with at least 10 software engineer ads that state pay · 12 months to October 2026 · median and middle half · ₱ per month
Top 8 of 16 employers by number of ads. Ads without an employer name are left out. The same company can appear twice when boards spell its name differently. All employers
Jobs that state the pay
Sorted by pay. The link opens the employer's own posting.
“Agency” means a staffing firm — you'd work at a client company. We never republish the ad; the link opens the original. How we read a salary line
Questions people ask
How much do software engineer jobs pay in Metro Manila?
In October 2026, the median advertised pay for software engineer in Metro Manila was ₱55,000 a month. Half of the 445 postings that stated pay offered between ₱15,000 and ₱92,500.
Is ₱55,000 a month good pay in Metro Manila?
It is 3.3 times the NCR minimum wage (₱16,421 a month at 755 pesos a day). This is advertised pay before deductions, not take-home.
Magkano ang sweldo ng software engineer sa Metro Manila?
Ang median na sweldo na nakasulat sa mga job ad noong October 2026 ay ₱55,000 kada buwan. Ang kalahati ng 445 job ads ay nag-aalok ng ₱15,000 hanggang ₱92,500.
Where do these numbers come from?
From 993 job postings across 9 Philippine job boards in October 2026, of which 45% stated a salary. Duplicates are removed and groups under 10 postings are not shown. The original ads are linked, never copied.
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