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

Hiring volume moved to 236 tracked postings across 108 companies in June, with Software Engineer the most contested role and SQL the most widely requested skill.

Tracked Requisitions
236 ▲ 100% MoM
Active postings this month
Hiring Organizations
108 ▲ 100% MoM
Companies recruiting
Flexible Work
75%
Postings offering remote or hybrid
Salary Disclosure
8%
20 of 236 postings
Hiring by seniority
202 classified postings
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202 postings
Junior 19 · 9%
Mid 102 · 50%
Senior 81 · 40%
Seniority stated in 86% of 236 tracked postings · 34 not classified
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Moniepoint Inc.
Most Active Employer
Moniepoint Inc.
15 Open Requisitions
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

SQL

127 postings across 65 companies
65
companies
02

Agile Methodologies / SDLC

118 postings across 64 companies
64
companies
03

Python

98 postings across 60 companies
60
companies
04

CI/CD

112 postings across 59 companies
59
companies
05

AWS

88 postings across 52 companies
52
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.

Software Engineer

Junior 0 Mid 8 Senior 12 Not stated 5

Backend Engineer

2× senior per junior posting
Junior 5 Mid 7 Senior 10 Not stated 1

Full Stack Engineer

1.7× senior per junior posting
Junior 3 Mid 10 Senior 5 Not stated 1

Data Analyst

Junior 0 Mid 9 Senior 1 Not stated 4

Data Engineer

Junior 0 Mid 6 Senior 5 Not stated 1
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 2 disclosed salaries — below the publishing threshold.
Mid Indicative
₦325,000
₦247,000 – ₦593,750 middle 50%
Based on 8 postings
Senior Not enough data
Not enough data
Only 4 disclosed salaries — below the publishing threshold.
Pay was disclosed in 8% of postings this month (20 of 236).
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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.

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Not enough disclosed salaries yet

A role is only ranked once at least 5 postings publish a salary.

Competition

Who you are hiring against

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

Software Engineer
Turing (Turing Enterprises, Inc.) 3 roles
Company Not Listed 2 roles
Gloopro Procurement Systems Limited 2 roles
Quidax Technologies Limited 2 roles
Credit Direct Finance Company Limited 2 roles
Backend Engineer
Yiino 3 roles
Moniepoint Inc. 2 roles
Company Not Listed 2 roles
Kuda Bank 2 roles
Chowdeck 2 roles
Full Stack Engineer
Company Not Listed 4 roles
Strivolabs 2 roles
Innov8 Hub 1 role
Triax Technologies 1 role
Odixcity Consulting 1 role
Data Analyst
Company Not Listed 3 roles
Kuda Bank 2 roles
Lumos Global 1 role
Growvelt 1 role
Renmoney Microfinance Bank Limited 1 role
Data Engineer
Chowdeck 2 roles
Moniepoint Inc. 1 role
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc 1 role
Black Pen Recruitment 1 role
HireMango 1 role
New to the hiring market this month
Company Not Listed 25 Moniepoint Inc. 15 Turing (Turing Enterprises, Inc.) 10 Kuda Bank 9 Chowdeck 8
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.

Software Engineer

26 postings
Must-have
CI/CD 54% SQL 50%
Nice-to-have
Agile Methodologies / SDLC 46% AWS 46% Microservices 42% PostgreSQL 38% Docker 38% Python 35%
Rare
PHP 19% Spring Boot 19% MongoDB 19% Linux 19% Laravel 19% Node.js 15%

Backend Engineer

24 postings
Must-have
AWS 63% SQL 58% Agile Methodologies / SDLC 58% Microservices 54% CI/CD 50%
Nice-to-have
Python 46% Node.js 42% MySQL 42% PostgreSQL 38% Microsoft Azure 38% MongoDB 33%
Rare
GraphQL 17% Go 17% Linux 17% PHP 17% Spring Boot 13% System Design 13%

Full Stack Engineer

20 postings
Must-have
JavaScript 70% Node.js 55% PostgreSQL 50% React 50%
Nice-to-have
Agile Methodologies / SDLC 45% CSS 45% Python 40% CI/CD 40% Vue.js 35% TypeScript 35%
Rare
MongoDB 15% Linux 15% Microsoft Azure 15% ASP.NET Core 15% GraphQL 15% Angular 15%

Data Analyst

15 postings
Must-have
SQL 87% Power BI 73% Python 60% Tableau 53%
Nice-to-have
Google Analytics 47% MySQL 33% R 27% Agile Methodologies / SDLC 27% Pandas 27% PostgreSQL 20%
Rare
A/B Testing 7% BigQuery 7% CRM 7% NumPy 7% MongoDB 7% HubSpot 7%

Data Engineer

13 postings
Must-have
SQL 92% AWS 69% Python 69% CI/CD 62% PostgreSQL 62% BigQuery 54%
Nice-to-have
Microsoft Azure 46% Airflow 38% Microservices 38% dbt 38% Agile Methodologies / SDLC 31% MySQL 31%
Rare
Docker 15% Terraform 15% GitLab CI 15% Java 15% GitHub Actions 15% Scala 15%
What Talent Expects

Workplace & Geography

Work model
Remote 21% Hybrid 54% On-site 25%
Top locations
Remote 22
Lagos, Nigeria 18
Lagos 11
Nigeria 5
Abuja, Nigeria 5
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Methodology & Sample Confidence

Compiled from 236 tracked postings and 108 companies. Seniority figures cover 86% of postings (202 of 236). 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.