Bengaluru offers the highest average salary to software engineers in India, at around ₹35 lakh, with Ahmedabad ranking at the other end with an average salary of ₹9 lakh. The gap between the two cities is nearly four times. Hyderabad and Delhi-NCR offer average salaries of ₹30 lakh and ₹21 lakh, respectively. Pune and Mumbai pay just below ₹20 lakh.