Remote Work Salaries in New Zealand [2025-2026]
Average remote salaries across 39 job categories for workers in New Zealand — all shown in NZD.
Software Engineering
NZ$90,000 – NZ$130,000
mid-level / yr
Full-Stack Development
NZ$88,000 – NZ$125,000
mid-level / yr
Front-End Engineering
NZ$85,000 – NZ$120,000
mid-level / yr
Back-End Engineering
NZ$90,000 – NZ$130,000
mid-level / yr
Product Management
NZ$108,000 – NZ$152,000
mid-level / yr
Digital Marketing
NZ$68,000 – NZ$96,000
mid-level / yr
Design
NZ$78,000 – NZ$112,000
mid-level / yr
Data Science
NZ$96,000 – NZ$138,000
mid-level / yr
DevOps / SysAdmin
NZ$100,000 – NZ$142,000
mid-level / yr
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
NZ$115,000 – NZ$165,000
mid-level / yr
Mobile Engineering
NZ$88,000 – NZ$125,000
mid-level / yr
Customer Success
NZ$72,000 – NZ$102,000
mid-level / yr
Data Analysis
NZ$82,000 – NZ$118,000
mid-level / yr
Cybersecurity
NZ$100,000 – NZ$142,000
mid-level / yr
Cloud Engineering
NZ$105,000 – NZ$150,000
mid-level / yr
Business Development
NZ$82,000 – NZ$118,000
mid-level / yr
Finance
NZ$80,000 – NZ$118,000
mid-level / yr
UI/UX Design
NZ$82,000 – NZ$120,000
mid-level / yr
Machine Learning
NZ$118,000 – NZ$168,000
mid-level / yr
Social Media
NZ$62,000 – NZ$90,000
mid-level / yr
Virtual Assistant
NZ$55,000 – NZ$80,000
mid-level / yr
Game Development
NZ$80,000 – NZ$118,000
mid-level / yr
Technical Writing
NZ$75,000 – NZ$108,000
mid-level / yr
E-commerce
NZ$72,000 – NZ$105,000
mid-level / yr
Growth Marketing
NZ$75,000 – NZ$112,000
mid-level / yr
IT Support
NZ$62,000 – NZ$88,000
mid-level / yr
No-Code / Low-Code
NZ$72,000 – NZ$108,000
mid-level / yr
Translation / Localization
NZ$60,000 – NZ$88,000
mid-level / yr
Solutions Architecture
NZ$125,000 – NZ$178,000
mid-level / yr
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
NZ$115,000 – NZ$162,000
mid-level / yr
Video Production
NZ$62,000 – NZ$92,000
mid-level / yr
Community Management
NZ$65,000 – NZ$95,000
mid-level / yr
Data Engineering
NZ$184,800 – NZ$260,400
mid-level / yr
UX Research
NZ$151,200 – NZ$210,000
mid-level / yr
Content Strategy
NZ$120,960 – NZ$176,400
mid-level / yr
SEO / SEM
NZ$104,160 – NZ$159,600
mid-level / yr
Recruiting
NZ$114,240 – NZ$168,000
mid-level / yr
QA Engineering
NZ$142,800 – NZ$201,600
mid-level / yr
Blockchain / Web3
NZ$218,400 – NZ$319,200
mid-level / yr
About these salary figures
Salaries are shown in NZD. Live listing data (green) comes from actual NZD job postings on Kerja-Remote. Country market data (blue) is sourced from local salary surveys (Jobstreet, SEEK, Kalibrr, ITviec, and others) in NZD — not converted from USD. Market estimates (grey) are worldwide benchmarks adjusted for New Zealand as a last resort. Data refreshes hourly.