💡 Why it matters: Millions of farmers around the world and a growing number of agritech startups need tools for market prices, weather alerts, farm loans and delivery. These need people who understand both code and farming.
🌍 Around the world
- Nigeria: Nigeria has millions of smallholder farmers and a growing number of agritech startups.
💰 What it can pay
🇳🇬 Nigeria
- Starting out
- ₦1.8M – ₦4.5M
- Mid-career
- ₦5M – ₦12M
- Senior
- ₦12M – ₦28M
≈ ₦417k – ₦1M a month mid-career. Indicative estimate by Incusim.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Closest UK job profile: Software developer. Typical starter to experienced salary. National Careers Service, 2026
🇺🇸 United States
Closest US category: Software developers. Median pay; low and high are the 10th and 90th percentiles. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025
🇨🇦 Canada
Closest Job Bank occupation: Software Developer. Hourly wage low/median/high x 2,080 hours. Job Bank (Government of Canada), 2023-2024
Yearly pay before tax. UK, US and Canada figures come from the official sources named on each card. Nigeria has no official salary survey, so those are our indicative estimates. Real pay depends on the employer, the place, your skills and experience.
🛠️ What you actually do
- Build mobile apps and USSD services that farmers can use on basic phones
- Connect sensors that track soil moisture, weather and crop health
- Talk to farmers to learn what problems they really face
- Test products in real farms and fix what does not work
- Work with designers, agronomists and business teams
⚡ Skills you'll need
- Coding
- Problem solving
- Empathy for users
- Teamwork
- Farm knowledge
Get ready at school
🇳🇬 Nigeria
- Coding bootcamp, then join an agritech startup as a junior developer
- Self-taught builder with a portfolio of farm-related apps
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Software developer apprenticeships (Level 4 and degree level)
- Self-taught or coding bootcamp, building a portfolio
🇺🇸 United States
- Coding bootcamps and internships at agritech companies
- Self-taught with a portfolio of projects
🇨🇦 Canada
- Co-op programs that mix study with paid work terms
- Coding bootcamps and a portfolio of projects
🗺️ Your path to this career
- 1Study Mathematics and Agricultural Science in school
- 2Learn to code online and build a small farm-helper app
- 3Take a Computer Science or related degree, or a bootcamp
- 4Join an agritech startup as an intern or junior developer
- 5Grow into a senior engineer, product lead or founder
⏰ A day in the life
You start the day checking whether the farm-price app is running well. Then you code a new feature that sends rain alerts by text message, test it with a few farmers on a call, and fix the bugs they find.