Integration Engineer (API / middleware)
Connects systems through APIs, queues and integration platforms; plenty of work in banks and large companies
- Salary 30% × 4.51.34
- AI resistance 35% × 7.02.45
- Demand 20% × 7.01.40
- Remote work 10% × 8.00.80
- Low stress 5% × 4.00.20
Salary, k PLN per month
Mixedestimate MID → SENIORmarket (SOLID.Jobs): middle half of offersmidpoint, medianjunior (derived)
- Range MID → SENIOR
- ≈17–30
- Range midpoint
- ≈23.5
- Junior Derived
- ≈11.8
- Take-home, employment (UoP) Derived
- ≈16.0
- Take-home, B2B flat-rate tax Derived
- ≈19.3
NOTE: this is NOT a junior salary! The bottom of the range = MID level (or just promoted from junior). The top of the range = an experienced SENIOR. Staff/principal/architect levels can earn above it.
Easiest transitions
Estimate2-3 roles with the shortest path from this one (overlapping skills)
Key certifications
EstimateScores 1–10
Estimate- AI resistance7/1010 = rides the AI wave, 1 = highly automatable
- Demand7/1010 = acute shortage of specialists, 1 = shrinking market
- Remote work8/1010 = fully remote is the norm, 1 = mostly on-site
- Stress6/1010 = heavy on-call / shifts / pressure, 1 = calm
- Entry barrier6/1010 = years of prerequisites, 1 = open to beginners
- Prestige6/1010 = elite reputation in the industry, 1 = underrated role; a subjective view of the title among engineers - informational, not part of the Score formula
The market in job ads
From job ads SOLID.Jobs · 13/11/2026Most common stack
requirednice to have% of this role's offers
Experience level
Junior 0%Regular 50%Senior 50%
Matching: 10 by title, 0 by category. Pay is the midpoint of each offer's range in PLN per month (B2B net, employment gross); the median and the band holding the middle half of offers are shown.
Salaries in job-board reports
From reportsNo Fluff Jobs: „Kariera w IT 2026”data for H1 2026
These are the report's figures for the whole Backend category, not for this role alone.
| Level | B2B net | Employment, gross |
|---|---|---|
| Junior | 8–10 | 7–10 |
| Mid | 18.5–22.7 | 14–18.3 |
| Senior | 23.5–28.6 | 20–26.7 |
Thousands of PLN a month: the median lower and upper bounds of the ranges in job ads. A dash means the report gives no amount because there were too few ads. Source: page 9 of the report.
No Fluff Jobs: „Rynek pracy IT w Polsce 2025/2026”data for 2025
These are the report's figures for the whole Backend category, not for this role alone.
| Level | B2B net | Employment, gross |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 20.2–25.2 | 15.1–22 |
| Junior | 7–10 | 7–9 |
| Mid | 17–22 | 13–18 |
| Senior | 22.7–28 | 18.5–25 |
Thousands of PLN a month: the median lower and upper bounds of the ranges in job ads. Year-on-year change of the overall upper median: B2B -3.1%, employment +4.8%. Source: pages 27 and 30 of the report.
Reports are shown on their own, with a link and page number. They are not averaged with SOLID.Jobs data because they measure something else: the report gives the median lower and upper bounds, SOLID.Jobs the median of the range midpoints.