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July 2026 Nigeria Tech Hiring Report: Talent Competition, Salaries & Pipeline

Hiring volume cooled to 199 tracked postings in July, though Full Stack Engineer and Agile Methodologies / SDLC stayed in strong demand.

Tracked Requisitions
199 ▼ 16% MoM
Active postings this month
Hiring Organizations
111 ▲ 3% MoM
Companies recruiting
Flexible Work
61%
Postings offering remote or hybrid
Salary Disclosure
13%
25 of 199 postings
Hiring by seniority
196 classified postings
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196 postings
Junior 20 · 10%
Mid 101 · 52%
Senior 75 · 38%
Seniority stated in 98% of 199 tracked postings · 3 not classified
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Fastest Rising Demand
Figma
+55% MoM
Moniepoint Inc.
Most Active Employer
Moniepoint Inc.
15 Open Requisitions
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Cooling Demand
Threat Intelligence
-93% MoM Shift
Demand Breadth

Where the talent market is tight

Ranked by how many distinct companies ask for each skill. Broad demand means harder to hire for; concentrated demand means a few players dominating.

01

Agile Methodologies / SDLC

110 postings across 67 companies
67
companies
02

SQL

93 postings across 62 companies
62
companies
03

Python

77 postings across 56 companies
56
companies
04

CI/CD

83 postings across 50 companies
50
companies
05

AWS

75 postings across 42 companies
42
companies
Seniority Pipeline

Where the pipeline is thin

Posting mix per role. A wide senior-to-junior gap means the market is not growing its own supply for that role.

Full Stack Engineer

1.4× senior per junior posting
Junior 5 Mid 16 Senior 7

Software Engineer

10× senior per junior posting
Junior 1 Mid 7 Senior 10 Not stated 1

Backend Engineer

4× senior per junior posting
Junior 1 Mid 7 Senior 4 Not stated 1

Data Analyst

0.5× senior per junior posting
Junior 2 Mid 7 Senior 1

QA Engineer

1× senior per junior posting
Junior 2 Mid 5 Senior 2
Compensation

Monthly Salary Bands

Median advertised pay with the middle 50% range. Bands are only published when at least 5 postings disclosed a salary.

Junior Not enough data
Not enough data
Only 3 disclosed salaries — below the publishing threshold.
Mid Medium confidence
₦250,000
₦225,000 – ₦325,000 middle 50%
Based on 17 postings
Senior Indicative
₦187,500
₦126,250 – ₦312,500 middle 50%
Based on 6 postings
Pay was disclosed in 13% of postings this month (25 of 199).
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Pay leadership

Highest Paying Roles

Roles where you are most likely to lose a candidate on price. Ranked by median advertised pay, with the middle 50% range so you can see how wide the band actually is.

01

Backend Engineer

NGN 250,000 · NGN 200,000–NGN 300,000

02

Full Stack Engineer

NGN 237,500 · NGN 187,500–NGN 306,250

03

Software Engineer

NGN 225,000 · NGN 125,000–NGN 250,000

Bands are widened to a three-month window when a role publishes fewer than 5 disclosed salaries this month. Only NGN postings are included.

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Competition

Who you are hiring against

Companies posting the same roles, ranked by volume this month.

Full Stack Engineer
Company Not Listed 8 roles
CreativeMansion Digital Enterprise 3 roles
Tezza Business Solutions Ltd 2 roles
FIND Services 1 role
Elevare Human Solutions Ltd. 1 role
Software Engineer
Moniepoint Inc. 2 roles
SavannahTech 1 role
Joble 1 role
Sophia ERP Limited (SEL) 1 role
GDI Innovations Limited 1 role
Backend Engineer
Moniepoint Inc. 2 roles
Tezza Business Solutions Ltd 1 role
Kuda Bank 1 role
UI Realty Group 1 role
Integrated Software Data Solutions Limited (ISDS) 1 role
Data Analyst
FairMoney 1 role
Renmoney Microfinance Bank Limited 1 role
Dangote Industries Limited 1 role
Unique Pharmaceuticals Limited 1 role
Dragnet Solutions Limited 1 role
QA Engineer
Versavvy Limited 1 role
Palmpay 1 role
Moniepoint Inc. 1 role
Beacon Power Services 1 role
AIQ 1 role
New to the hiring market this month
Heirs Technologies 7 Tezza Business Solutions Ltd 5 CVSpan 4 CreativeMansion Digital Enterprise 4 Duplo 4
Job Spec Intelligence

What to put in the listing

Skills bucketed by how often they appear in postings for the same role. Use it to separate requirements from nice-to-haves.

Full Stack Engineer

28 postings
Must-have
JavaScript 64% Git & GitHub 61% TypeScript 54% Agile Methodologies / SDLC 54% MySQL 50% Node.js 50%
Nice-to-have
CSS 46% CI/CD 39% Laravel 36% SQL 36% MongoDB 36% Python 32%
Rare
GraphQL 18% Tailwind CSS 18% Payment Gateways 18% SEO 18% Next.js 18% Vue.js 18%

Software Engineer

19 postings
Must-have
None reached 50%.
Nice-to-have
Python 47% Java 47% Docker 42% Agile Methodologies / SDLC 42% AWS 42% CI/CD 42%
Rare
Linux 16% Grafana 16% Apache Kafka 16% GitHub Actions 16% Django 16% Google Cloud (GCP) 16%

Backend Engineer

13 postings
Must-have
CI/CD 85% PostgreSQL 77% AWS 62% Docker 62% SQL 62% Python 62%
Nice-to-have
Git & GitHub 46% Node.js 46% MongoDB 38% MySQL 38% Redis 38% Java 38%
Rare
JWT authentication 15% RESTful API design 15% ASP.NET Core 15% React 15% Angular 15% Linux 15%

Data Analyst

10 postings
Must-have
SQL 100% Google Analytics 70% Agile Methodologies / SDLC 60% Python 60% Power BI 60% Pandas 50%
Nice-to-have
R 30% Machine Learning 30% Jupyter 20% A/B Testing 20% MySQL 20%
Rare
AWS 10% Google Cloud (GCP) 10% Hadoop 10% System Design 10% JavaScript 10% Generative AI 10%

QA Engineer

9 postings
Must-have
Agile Methodologies / SDLC 89% SQL 78% CI/CD 67%
Nice-to-have
GitHub Actions 44% JavaScript 44% Jenkins 33% Postman 33% Git & GitHub 33% Docker 33%
Rare
Datadog 11% Insomnia 11% Power BI 11% Google Analytics 11% AWS 11% TypeScript 11%
What Talent Expects

Workplace & Geography

Work model
Remote 23% Hybrid 38% On-site 39%
Top locations
Remote 27
Lagos, Nigeria 24
Lagos 16
Nigeria 16
Victoria Island, Lagos 4
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Methodology & Sample Confidence

Compiled from 199 tracked postings and 111 companies. Seniority figures cover 98% of postings (196 of 199). Salary bands use the median and middle 50% of disclosed pay, and are only published when at least 5 postings disclosed a salary. No applicant, application-flow or time-to-hire figures are included, because the platform does not capture them.