How Much Does a Foreign Engineer Make in Japan in 2019? blog.gaijinpot.com

Understaffing and Japan’s tourism boom are creating openings – even for the inexperienced – in IT engineering jobs for foreigners.
Job titles for engineering positions in Japan include software engineer, process engineer, project engineer, R&D engineer, sales engineer, web engineer (front-end, back-end, full-stack) and service engineer–just to name a few.
Since all industries that produce services, systems or mechanical products require engineers, there is a multitude of engineering jobs out there.
The IT industry in Japan offers the highest average salaryIn our article “What is the average salary in Japan in 2019,” we saw that the IT/communications industry offers the highest average annual income in Japan.
Average annual incomes for different engineering positions in JapanJob Title Earnings (¥) Programmer 2.37 million System engineer 3.14 million Database engineer 4.28 million Network engineer 3.73 million Security engineer 3.14 million CISSP engineer 3.71 million Robot engineer 5.01 million AI engineer 5.70 million Blockchain engineer4.56 millionIt gives the current top-earning programming language as Scala, followed by Python, then Swift.