The document summarizes trends in Ukraine's IT job market and developer salaries from 2014-2015. It finds that the number of developers grew 20% to around 75,000 in 2014 and salaries have remained stable when adjusting for currency devaluation, ranging from $1,000-$3,000 depending on role, experience, and location. The majority of IT jobs and developers are concentrated in a few major cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv. Most companies employing developers have fewer than 80 employees.

1. IT job market
in Ukraine 2015
Overview & Trends
Max Ischenko
DOU.ua

2. DOU.ua
100k dev community
djinni.co
7000 contacts/mo

3. DEVELOPERS

4. 75,000 in 2014 (+20% growth)
Source: DOU.ua
90,000 developers
in IT/tech

5. 2011
2012
2013
2014
2015 22,900
21,332
18,655
15,184
10,596
Source: http://jobs.dou.ua/top25/
~23k Developers
work for Top 25 employers

6. Outsourcing & ODC
Product
Startups
Other 8
4.5
28.5
58.9
Source: http://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/ survey
Outsourcing dominates
Compared to 2014: Product +2.4 p.p., Outsourcing –2.3 p.p.

7. Years of experience
Source: http://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/ survey
<1 year
1-3 years
3-5 years
5+ years 26.9%
20.1%
29%
24%

8. English knowledge
Source: http://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/ survey
Elementary
Intermediate
Fluent 40.2%
38.6%
21.2%

9. More demographics
Source: http://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/ survey
27
Median age
86,5% 13,5%
Sex ratio
(91,7% & 8.3% in 2013)years

10. Cities
http://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/demography/
86% of developers
live in just 5 cities.
47% live in Kyiv alone.

11. Cities
http://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/demography/
Kyiv 46.6%
Kharkiv 16.2%
Lviv 9.9%
Dnipropetrovsk 7.9%
Odessa 5.5%

12. JOBS

13. July—September’2015
(jobs.dou.ua)
Let’s analyze
3400 jobs
from 745 companies

14. July—September’2015
(jobs.dou.ua)
6 applicants
for 1 average job posting

15. Number of jobs grew 60%
Number of applicants grew ~3x
0
1250
2500
3750
5000
Sep'13 Nov Jan Mar May Jul Sep'14 Nov Jan Mar May Jul Sep'15
Job postings Applicants
http://jobs.dou.ua/trends/

16. Source: DOU.ua
PM QA Junior Middle Senior Lead
162
659
311
115
311
133
Jobs & Applicants.
Jobs posted

17. Source: DOU.ua
PM QA Junior Middle Senior Lead
4.1
5.4
8.6
27
22
24
Jobs & Applicants.
Applicants per job

18. Source: djinni.co
Hires by title
PHP
JavaScript
.NET
Java
QA
Android
Python
Ruby
iOS
Sysadmin
PM
Others
Searches by title
.NET
PHP
JavaScript
Java
QA
Android
iOS
Python
C++
Ruby
HTML
Sysadmin
PM
Others
.NET, iOS and C++ are harder to hire

19. Frontend
PHP
.NET
Java
QA
UX/Design
iOS
Android
C++
Python
Ruby
2014 2015
Source: jobs.dou.ua

20. 50% of the jobs are in Kyiv
Source: jobs.dou.ua
Kyiv
Lviv
Kharkiv
Dnepropetrovsk
Odessa 97
113
201
102
948

21. July—September’2015
(jobs.dou.ua)
70% of companies are
< 80 employees
<80
81-200
201-800
801+ 8.7%
5.6%
15.7%
70%

22. Junior
Middle
Senior
Lead 740
2,793
1,139
363
50% of jobs require
3+ years of experience
Source: jobs.dou.ua

23. July—September’2015
(jobs.dou.ua)
70% of jobs
posted in English

24. 5% of jobs
are for relocation

25. SALARIES

26. • only 13% of job postings on jobs.dou.ua mention
salary level
• DOU.ua does salary surveys twice a year,
5000+ participants – https://github.com/imax/dou-salaries
• Djinni tracks actual hires, incl. salary expectations
‣ jobs.dou.ua/salaries
‣ djinni.co/salaries

27. Source: DOU.ua
$1,000
$1,500
$2,000
$2,500
$3,000
Dec'11 May'12 Dec'12 May'13 Dec'13 May'14 Dec'14 May'15
Frontend senior Java middle QA
Salaries stay put*
* If you ignore UAH currency crash

28. Source: djinni.co
$0
$875
$1,750
$2,625
$3,500
2013'2 2014'1 2014'2 2015'1 2015'2
5+ years 2-5 years <2 years
Average hire on Djinni
Fall 2013 — Fall 2015

29. Average salary by city
Kyiv
Lviv
Kharkiv
Dnepropetrovsk
Odessa
(remote) $2,166
$1,723
$1,500
$1,613
$1,650
$2,180
Source: djinni.co

30. Average salary by work exp. (Kyiv)
7 years or more
5-7 years
3-5 years
1,5 to 3 yrs
less than 1,5 years $1,360
$1,488
$2,204
$2,538
$3,028
Source: djinni.co

31. Average salary by job title (Kyiv)
PHP
Java
Frontend
.NET
QA
Python
Android
iOS
PM
C++ $1,800
$2,460
$2,056
$1,850
$2,424
$1,881
$2,475
$1,738
$2,400
$2,070
Source: djinni.co

32. 2016 SPECULATIONS

33. dou.ua jobs.dou.ua
Hard to justify #зрада

34. • Continued exodus to Poland/EU: 30%
• Mass exodus, lay-offs, salaries falling: 1%
• Increase to ~10% flat tax rate: 70%
• Effective tax rate at 20% or higher: 30%
• Big tech company opening R&D office: 40%
• Another $150MM+ exit: 50%
BONUS: make your bets!

35. Все буде добре

36. max@dou.ua
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