Working as a software developer in Malta
What official sources say about working as a software developer in Malta: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Malta, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes software developers, earns ≈ 2,943 EUR/month (gross, 2020). To work as a software developer in Malta on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 35,394 € a year (current). Software developer is not a regulated profession in Malta.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 2,943 EUR/month (gross, 2020)
- Regulation
- Not marked regulated
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 35,394 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Malta: ≈ 2,943 EUR/month (gross, 2020), from ILO. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of software developers alone.
EU Blue Card salary threshold
Malta publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 35,394 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what software developers earn.
Regulation and recognition
Software developer is not a regulated profession in Malta.
- Recognition authority
- MQRIC handles general foreign academic qualification comparability; no profession-specific recognition authority is listed for the frozen software or data-science title.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Software developer in Malta: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 3e7723980d741e8fefc2e5f09ca96a98]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/software-developer/malta/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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