The research demonstrated how many IT specialists are in Ukraine, how much they earn and how much they contribute to the budget, as well as what place Ukraine holds in the world in terms of the level of services.

Over the past four years, the Ukrainian IT market has doubled, reaching a figure of 184,700 specialists. This is evidenced by data from research by the company N-IX, reported by LIGA.tech on Thursday, November 7.

The IT sphere has become one of the main areas for the export of services in Ukraine - it brings in about $5 billion per year. According to the 2019 CEE report, the software development sector in the country grew by 19% in 2018 and continues to progress.

Here is what the Ukrainian IT industry looks like in numbers, according to data from organizations such as the World Bank, PwC, and IT Ukraine:

• There are more than 1,600 companies in Ukraine engaged in IT services;
• The talent pool of the IT sphere in Ukraine is 185,000 specialists;
• Today, more than 4,000 technology companies are operating in the market;
• More than 100 companies from the Fortune list (a ranking of large global companies by revenue - ed.) are clients of Ukrainian IT firms;
• Information and communication technologies (ICT) is the third-largest industry, accounting for 20% of all Ukrainian service exports.

 

According to HackerRank, Ukraine ranks 11th among 50 countries with the best software developers in the world. It also ranks sixth in the TopCoder ranking of the best programmers.

An annual survey of Ukrainian software developers conducted by the DOU portal shows that Java is the most popular programming language in Ukraine, followed by JavaScript, C#, PHP, and Python.

As the demand for software development services grows - both worldwide and in Ukraine - the number of technology-related job openings is also increasing. In 2018, the number of vacancies on DOU increased from 3,111 to 4,606 per month.

At the same time, the number of companies offering employment opportunities on DOU grew by 38% - from 2,419 to 3,339. The most in-demand IT specialists are Front-end, QA, and PHP specialists, as these categories account for 31% of all vacancies.

Here is how vacancies are distributed among Ukrainian IT specialists:

 

Surveys of Ukrainian IT specialists show that 67% of them live in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv.

 

According to Stack Overflow, there are about 68,500 software developers in Kyiv, which accounts for 37% of the entire Ukrainian pool of IT specialists. All major Ukrainian IT companies, including GlobalLogic, Ciklum, SoftServe, Epam, N-iX, and others, have large development centers in the capital.

Lviv is the second-largest IT hub in Ukraine. More than 20,000 IT specialists and about 317 IT companies work in the city, most of which provide software outsourcing services to clients in the USA and Western Europe.

It was previously reported that the Cabinet of Ministers came up with a new tax for IT specialists. The Prime Minister proposes creating a Human Capital Development Fund for the IT industry with a special levy.

Later, Honcharuk commented on the tax for IT specialists. Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk claims that the largest IT companies have agreed to pay an additional tax.

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