How much do Costa Blanca tech firms really pay?

Honestly, no: nobody can hand you a trustworthy role by role salary grid for tech work in Alicante province, because no official body publishes detailed pay data at that level. What you get instead are serious macro figures and crowd sourced estimates (Glassdoor, Indeed) built on samples too thin to trust. That said, the verified facts are useful on their own: tech accounts for just 3.6 percent of jobs in the province, three employers genuinely recruit here (PLD Space in Elche, FacePhi and Bit2Me in the Alicante area), and any pay bracket you read online should be treated as a rough hint, never a promise. Here is the honest picture, with no invented numbers.

If you are chasing money raised by local companies rather than the wages they pay, that is a separate story: we already mapped the Alicante startup funding rounds, PLD Space included.

Is there a reliable tech salary grid for the Costa Blanca?

No, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. There is no official statistic giving an average salary per role for tech in Alicante province specifically. The only figures out there come from crowd sourced platforms, and at the level of a single company the samples are often tiny. For FacePhi, Glassdoor lists declared salaries ranging from 18,134 euros a year for an admin role to 159,895 euros for a marketing director, with roughly 40,000 euros a year around the middle for a back end developer (based on 62 reports, so an order of magnitude, not gospel). For PLD Space, Glassdoor shows a 27,000 to 30,000 euros a year band for an engineer, while Indeed shows zero usable reports for the same employer: two contradictory sources on one company, which tells you everything about how fragile this data is. We would rather say that plainly than dress up a bracket as if it were solid.

At national level, aggregators (Indeed, Glassdoor, Talent.com, updated through 2026) put the average software developer salary in Spain between 27,500 and 32,320 euros gross a year, with a typical range of 24,325 to 39,400 euros depending on experience, and senior profiles (five years and up) reaching 48,000 to 80,000 euros. Those are national averages, not Alicante numbers: they give you a sense of scale, not a local job offer. Regionally, a Fundacion ivie and Fundacion Lab report (September 2025) put the pay premium for digital jobs at 37 percent above other work in the Comunitat Valenciana, against 50 percent nationally. So yes, tech pays better than average here too, just with a narrower gap than in Madrid or Barcelona.

How big is the tech sector in Alicante province?

Small, and that is the first reality check before anyone dreams of a Silicon Costa Blanca. According to the Fundacion Cotec report (Mapa del Empleo Tecnologico en Espana 2026, reported by Alicante Plaza on 23 March 2026), technology work made up only 3.6 percent of total employment in Alicante province in 2025, versus 7.3 percent in Valencia province and 6.9 percent nationally. The province still added 1,295 new tech affiliations between 2024 and 2025, but its growth since 2015 (up 0.7 of a point in its share of total jobs) trails far behind the national pace. One more figure from the same report: only 31 percent of the province's tech roles are held by women.

The fair takeaway: the Costa Blanca is creating real tech jobs in absolute terms, but it is not catching up with Spain's big hubs. That does not mean nothing is happening here, quite the opposite.

Which companies are actually hiring in tech near you?

Three names keep surfacing once you dig, and all three check out. PLD Space, the private rocket maker based in Elche, is by far the biggest identified tech employer in the area: 460 staff in October 2025 (TodoAlicante), with a stated target of around 90 extra hires in 2026. In March 2026 the company confirmed a new factory and capability centre at Porta d'Elx, aiming to double its workforce towards a thousand jobs by mid 2028 (Forbes Espana, El Espanol). A telling detail flagged by El Espanol in February 2025: PLD Space struggles more to recruit technicians (welders, CNC operators, GNC specialists) than engineers, which is why its head of people and culture, Jose Andres Sanchez, launched an in house Academy to draw in vocational training profiles. If you hold a trade qualification rather than a degree, that is worth knowing.

FacePhi, a biometrics and identity verification specialist, has kept its head office and R and D team in Alicante since it was founded in 2006 (Marsamar building, Avenida Mexico), with roughly 120 people on site. It is listed on the BME Growth market. Bit2Me, a cryptocurrency platform started in 2014 in Santa Pola before moving to Elche, still keeps its registered office in Elche even though its operational centre has shifted towards Castellon, with extra offices in Barcelona and Madrid; the company employs more than 250 people across all sites. Finally, the Parque Cientifico de Alicante (linked to the University of Alicante) brings together around fifty tech companies, with more than a thousand former students employed in its ecosystem and two firms (Golden Owl, Mediterranean Algae) on the APTE Top 100 Startups 2025 list.

Is Genially really an Alicante company?

No, and it is worth clearing up a mix up you sometimes hear. Genially, the interactive content tool often cited as a Spanish edtech success, was founded in 2015 (2014 by some accounts) by Juan Rubio, Chema Roldan and Luis Garcia, with a head office in Cordoba (Plaza Ramon y Cajal, Ronda de los Tejares offices), not in Alicante. The company claims roughly 140 to 155 staff and a heavily remote setup, but none of its official sources mention any base in Alicante province. Better to rule it out clearly than to keep a common confusion alive.

Where should an English speaking jobseeker look?

In practice, three concrete routes. First, the employers' own careers pages (pldspace.com/careers for PLD Space, or the jobs page of the Parque Cientifico de Alicante at pca.ua.es). Second, the mainstream Spanish job boards (InfoJobs, Tecnoempleo, Indeed Spain), where Alicante province regularly lists tech openings, especially in aerospace and software. A practical note for non Spanish speakers: many technical roles list English as a working language, but the job ads themselves are usually in Spanish, so a basic reading level helps. Third, if you are leaning towards freelancing or remote work for a foreign employer, our digital nomad visa guide and our guide to becoming autonomo in Spain cover the status and paperwork to sort before you start invoicing from here.

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FAQ: tech jobs and salaries in Alicante province

Is there an official tech salary grid for Alicante?
No. Neither the INE nor any regional body publishes a per role, per province average for the sector. The only public data is either macro (the sector's share of total employment, from Fundacion Cotec) or crowd sourced and self declared (Glassdoor, Indeed), with samples too small to treat as a reference.

Which tech company is hiring most on the Costa Blanca right now?
PLD Space in Elche, by a wide margin: 460 staff at the end of 2025, around 90 hires planned for 2026, and a target close to a thousand jobs by mid 2028 with its future Porta d'Elx factory.

Does Genially count towards Alicante's tech employment?
No: its head office is in Cordoba, not in Alicante province. We only mention it to cut short a widespread confusion.

Does tech pay better than average in the Comunitat Valenciana?
Yes, but less than in the rest of Spain: a 37 percent pay premium for digital jobs in the region against 50 percent nationally, per the Fundacion ivie and Fundacion Lab report of September 2025.

Sources: Fundacion Cotec, Mapa del Empleo Tecnologico en Espana 2026, via Alicante Plaza (23 March 2026); TodoAlicante (8 October 2025) and El Espanol (2 to 3 March 2026, 23 February 2025) on PLD Space; Forbes Espana (March 2026); official FacePhi and Bit2Me sites, Alicante Plaza and Emprendedores.es on Bit2Me's history; Glassdoor.es (FacePhi and PLD Space declared pay, 2025 to 2026); Indeed Spain (software developer pay, updated June 2026); Xataka and Wikipedia (Genially head office, Cordoba); Fundacion ivie and Fundacion Lab, digital economy report for the Comunitat Valenciana (September 2025). Figures gathered in late July 2026 and confirmed in early August 2026, and subject to change.

Information verified in August 2026. The Daily Costa Blanca is an AI-assisted publication with human review.