2026 Salary Guide
Odoo Salary Guide 2026
The fastest-growing mid-market ERP in the world is minting new roles faster than the market can fill them. Here is what Odoo skills pay in 2026.
£46,000 – £64,000
UK mid-level functional consultant
$88,000 – $121,000
US mid-level functional consultant
$253,000+
Top of the US market
£385 – £660
UK contract day rates
The Odoo market in 2026
Odoo's growth curve is the steepest in mid-market ERP, and its salary curve is following. Every new Gold and Silver partner needs functional consultants and Python developers on day one, end users increasingly hire in-house rather than depending on partners, and the pool of people with two or more Odoo implementations behind them is nowhere near big enough for either.
The technical market has been reset by OWL. Since Odoo 17, the OWL frontend framework has split developers into two tiers: those fluent in modern Odoo (Python plus ORM plus OWL) and those maintaining legacy builds. The former command 15 to 20% more, and the gap is widening with each release cycle.
Odoo pay still trails NetSuite and SAP at equivalent seniority, which is precisely why we rate it the best career-arbitrage play in ERP: version-to-version migration demand, a compounding installed base and partner channel growth mean today's mid-level Odoo consultant is being bid up faster than any comparable profile. The bands below already reflect that momentum.
Odoo pay at a glance, 2026
Annual base salary by role, United Kingdom
Functional Consultant
£46,000 – £64,000 mid-level (2–5 yrs)
Technical / Python Developer
£53,000 – £72,500 mid-level (2–5 yrs)
Solution Architect
£79,000 – £101,000 senior (5–8 yrs)
Odoo Administrator
£39,500 – £53,000 mid-level (2–5 yrs)
Implementation / Project Manager
£53,000 – £68,000 mid-level (2–5 yrs)
Practice Lead / Head of Odoo
£93,500 – £132,000 practice leadership
Odoo salaries role by role
Annual base salaries. One scale per market across the whole guide — so when a leadership bar dwarfs a support bar, that's the market talking, not the chart.
Functional Consultant
Career guide & live jobs →Configures Odoo's modular suite with Studio and native configuration, runs discovery, UAT, training. Breadth across accounting, inventory and manufacturing modules defines the senior end.
United Kingdom
- Junior (0–2 yrs)
- £31,000 – £42,000
- Mid-level (2–5 yrs)
- £46,000 – £64,000
- Senior (5–8 yrs)
- £64,000 – £82,500
- Lead / Principal (8+ yrs)
- £82,500 – £101,000
United States
- Junior (0–2 yrs)
- $60,500 – $79,000
- Mid-level (2–5 yrs)
- $88,000 – $121,000
- Senior (5–8 yrs)
- $121,000 – $152,000
- Lead / Principal (8+ yrs)
- $152,000 – $181,500
Technical / Python Developer
Career guide & live jobs →Builds custom modules in Python, extends the ORM and writes OWL components. Full-stack modern-Odoo developers are the ecosystem's scarcest technical profile.
United Kingdom
- Junior (0–2 yrs)
- £33,000 – £46,000
- Mid-level (2–5 yrs)
- £53,000 – £72,500
- Senior (5–8 yrs)
- £72,500 – £93,500
- Lead / Principal (8+ yrs)
- £90,000 – £110,000
United States
- Junior (0–2 yrs)
- $66,000 – $88,000
- Mid-level (2–5 yrs)
- $101,000 – $137,500
- Senior (5–8 yrs)
- $137,500 – $170,500
- Lead / Principal (8+ yrs)
- $165,000 – $198,000
Solution Architect
Career guide & live jobs →Designs end-to-end Odoo estates, integration landscapes and version migration roadmaps. The hire that separates partners who scale from partners who stall.
United Kingdom
- Senior (5–8 yrs)
- £79,000 – £101,000
- Lead / Principal (8+ yrs)
- £101,000 – £126,500
United States
- Senior (5–8 yrs)
- $143,000 – $176,000
- Lead / Principal (8+ yrs)
- $176,000 – $214,500
Odoo Administrator
Career guide & live jobs →Owns Odoo inside an end-user business: module management, user provisioning, reporting, change requests. A fast-growing seat as in-house adoption spreads.
United Kingdom
- Junior (0–2 yrs)
- £28,500 – £38,500
- Mid-level (2–5 yrs)
- £39,500 – £53,000
- Senior (5–8 yrs)
- £53,000 – £68,000
United States
- Junior (0–2 yrs)
- $55,000 – $71,500
- Mid-level (2–5 yrs)
- $75,000 – $99,000
- Senior (5–8 yrs)
- $99,000 – $126,500
Implementation / Project Manager
Career guide & live jobs →Runs Odoo implementations end to end, usually several concurrent mid-market projects. Odoo-specific delivery experience beats generic ERP PM backgrounds on every shortlist.
United Kingdom
- Mid-level (2–5 yrs)
- £53,000 – £68,000
- Senior (5–8 yrs)
- £68,000 – £86,000
United States
- Mid-level (2–5 yrs)
- $97,000 – $126,500
- Senior (5–8 yrs)
- $126,500 – $159,500
Practice Lead / Head of Odoo
Career guide & live jobs →Runs an Odoo partner practice or in-house capability with P&L ownership, in the channel where practice-building experience is at its scarcest.
United Kingdom
- Practice leadership
- £93,500 – £132,000
United States
- Practice leadership
- $187,000 – $253,000
What's moving Odoo pay
Partner channel expansion
New Odoo partners open monthly in both markets, and each needs delivery staff immediately. Partner accreditation requirements keep demand for certified consultants permanent.
The OWL reset
Odoo 17+ moved the frontend to OWL. Developers fluent in the modern stack are a minority of the pool and price accordingly.
Version migration treadmill
Annual releases and a fast-moving base create constant upgrade work, keeping experienced consultants busy and their market rate moving.
Skills that pay a premium
| Skill or credential | Typical uplift |
|---|---|
| OWL framework fluency (Odoo 17+) | +15–20% |
| Odoo Studio + Python combined skillset | +8–12% |
| Version migration delivery (e.g. 15→17+) | +8–12% |
| Manufacturing (MRP II) module depth | +5–10% |
Where the money is
United Kingdom
London leads on volume and pays 10 to 15% over the regional median, with active partner markets in Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh. The UK channel is adding partners quarterly, and certified consultants rarely stay on the market longer than a fortnight.
United States
New York, the Bay Area, Austin, Atlanta and Chicago lead, but Odoo's customer base is geographically scattered and remote roles are the norm, so the bands here apply effectively nationwide. We see Odoo pay tracking developer scarcity rather than ERP norms, which is why it behaves unlike the rest of this site.
More on hiring in each market: ERP recruitment in the UK · ERP recruitment in the USA
Odoo contract rates in 2026
United Kingdom · day rate
£385 – £660
United States · hourly
$85 – $155
Senior Python/OWL contractors and migration specialists price at the top of these ranges and above.
Using this guide
If you're hiring
What does an Odoo hire really cost?
The cheapest thing about a good hire is the salary. Under-offer an Odoo role and you buy three months of empty desk, a re-run search — and usually a higher price second time round. We'll benchmark the role free before you go anywhere near the market, on a permanent or contract basis.
Brief us on the role →If you're job hunting
Are you paid what you're worth?
Find your role and level above. Add whichever premiums you genuinely hold. That's your number — and if your current package sits under it, well, now you know. Browse our live Odoo jobs or send us your CV for a confidential salary check.
Upload your CV →How we benchmark these numbers
Simple, really: we watch what offers actually close at — our own placements first, cross-checked against the published benchmarks — and we print that. Which lands our bands roughly 10% above the typical advertised median, deliberately. Adverts open low; candidates say yes higher up. Budget from the median and you'll meet your shortlist again in three months, at someone else's offer stage.
Odoo salary FAQs
What is the average Odoo consultant salary in the UK in 2026?
A mid-level Odoo Functional Consultant in the UK earns £46,000 to £64,000 in 2026. Senior consultants earn £64,000 to £82,500, and practice leads earn £93,500 to £132,000 and above.
What does an Odoo developer earn in 2026?
A mid-level Odoo Python developer earns £53,000 to £72,500 in the UK and $101,000 to $137,500 in the US. Senior full-stack developers with OWL fluency earn £72,500 to £93,500 UK / $137,500 to $170,500 US.
Why do OWL skills increase Odoo salaries?
Odoo 17 moved the frontend to the OWL framework, and only a minority of the developer pool has production OWL experience. That fluency currently adds 15 to 20% over functional-only or legacy-stack peers, and the gap is widening each release.
Is Odoo a good career move compared with NetSuite or SAP?
Odoo pay still trails NetSuite and SAP at equivalent seniority, but it is rising faster than either: partner channel growth, version migration demand and in-house adoption are bidding up experienced consultants year on year. Two delivered implementations make you a sought-after profile.