Ukrainian IT abroad: Poland and Spain are among the top countries for relocation, but «net» salaries are only 8% higher than in Ukraine
The DOU website has conducted a salary survey of 2622 Ukrainian IT professionals currently working abroad. The full report is available at linkWe will briefly summarize the main indicators.
Portrait of a Ukrainian video game developer by DOU — 26-year-old Kyivan without a wife and children, but with a PlayStation
Website DOU surveyed 900 Ukrainian video game developers about their salaries, age, location, and game preferences, and based on their answers created a portrait of an average game specialist. In general, this is a 26-year-old Kyiv resident without a wife and children, but with a PlayStation.
The 10 largest IT companies in Ukraine earned ₴56.48 billion in a year, but revenue grew by only 1%
According to by the Opendatabot 2025 indexThe total revenue of the top ten largest IT companies in Ukraine amounted to ₴56.48 billion, with growth of only one percent.
Happiness Index in Ukrainian IT: tech leaders and analysts rejoice, while RnD engineers need support
Skylum and VP Team conducted a study (via dev.ua) and compiled the happiness index of Ukrainian IT employees — based on factors, that affect their level of satisfaction (including salaries and bonuses), as well as the reasons why specialists change jobs.
ISACA report: 73% of IT workers suffered from stress and burnout, with deadlines and high workload among the reasons
According to the latest ISACA report (via TechRadar), about three-quarters of IT workers (73%) have experienced work-related stress and burnout — the vast majority of them are young professionals.
Developers spend only 16% of their working time on coding, the rest is spent on background and operational tasks
The latest analyst report IDC (via InfoWorld) shows that the vast majority of developers’ efforts in 2024 were spent on background and operational tasks, while coding took only 16% of the total working time.
The most popular programming languages in Ukrainian IT: TypeScript has overtaken JavaScript, and the shares of C# and Java continue to fall
The DOU website has published its annual rating of programming languages based on a survey of about 7,500 Ukrainian IT professionals.
TOP-5 Ukrainian IT companies that hired juniors most often in 2024 (DOU survey)
In 2024, over 30 Ukrainian IT companies, surveyed by the DOU site, hired 2,970 juniors in the field — for comparison, back in 2022 the figure was a thousand higher, but about 40 enterprises participated in the survey then.
12% of IT professionals in Ukraine work two jobs, — DOU survey
About 12% of Ukrainian IT pros (out of 13,000 surveyed by DOU website) have a side gig — and that number has significantly increased compared to last year.
Ukrainian IT professionals have chosen 25 most desirable companies to work for: Grammarly leads among seniors, while juniors choose mono
DOU website surveyed Ukrainian IT professionals and found out which companies they would most like to work for.
The average salary in Ukraine «increased» to ₴21,946. The largest increase is in IT (+37,7%), while the education sector lags behind
According to State Statistics Service, the average salary of full-time employees in Ukraine in the third quarter of 2024 increased by 22.3% to ₴21,946.
Gamers in Ukrainian IT: game designers and sysadmins play the most, and PCs are the most popular device
Website DOU surveyed Ukrainian IT professionals about their gaming preferences and favorite gaming platforms, and found out, among other things, how the situation differs by specialty (interesting spoiler: those who play have a higher median salary).
An IT specialist from EPAM was detained in Zakarpattia on a «attempt to cross the border» — he says he has a reservation and came on vacation
The court ruled that the «case had incorrectly formulated the» charge and sided with the IT specialist.
Ukrainian robot_dreams has launched a contest for «coders» — giving $1000 for the «weirdest» one-line code
Ukrainian educational platform robot_dreams launched a contest for «shitcoders», in which the winner will be offered a cash prize for the strangest one-line code.
Aytiv residents are to be banned from using sole proprietorship and simplified taxation system
Yuriy Gaidai, Senior Economist at the Center for Economic Strategy reportedThe Ukrainian IT industry is concerned that the use of the simplified taxation system may be restricted. This idea was born at a working group discussing the tax bill. They were considering protecting the «Diia City» regime from IT specialists switching to the third group…
Exports of Ukrainian IT services have fallen to the lowest level since the beginning of the war
In August 2024, the export of Ukrainian IT services amounted to $507 million. This is $38 million (or 6.97%) less than in July of this year ($545 million). Thus, August demonstrated the lowest export of IT services from Ukraine in the first eight months of 2024.
The number of «closed» sole proprietorships in Ukrainian IT grew by 157%, while new registrations — fell by 20%
According to YouControl (via Highload) the Ukrainian IT industry shows a decline in the registration of new sole proprietorships — in the summer, for example, the total number decreased to 9.1 thousand (a 21% drop compared to a year ago and a 48% drop compared to 2021).In June-August 2023, IT specialists registered 11.6 thousand individual…
«Where is IT in the war?»: Ukrainian IT specialists have donated ₴39 billion to the Armed Forces since February 2012
Also The IT industry paid ₴68+ billion in taxes over the same period.
85% of Ukrainian IT professionals use artificial intelligence in their work — most often juniors and executives
Profile resource of DOU analyzedhow Ukrainian IT professionals use artificial intelligence — it turned out that the most active users were beginners and managers, although the vast majority of respondents are still wary of the technology.
IT-specialist from Zaporizhzhia equipped an observation post «in his apartment» to detect air defense and HIMAR movement
Now the IT specialist is detained by the SBU — he faces up to 8 years in prison.
The average salary in Ukraine has increased to almost UAH 21 thousand. IT employees receive the most
The State Statistics Service has released a new report on the average salary of officially employed workers in Ukraine. According to the report, the average salary in the second quarter of 2024 in Ukraine increased to UAH 20,964.
A portrait of a Ukrainian IT professional by DOU: A 30-year-old married Kyiv resident who donates $180 to the Ukrainian Armed Forces every month
Profile resource of DOU analyzedhow Ukrainian IT professionals live and work in 2024, and created an average portrait of a specialist.
IT specialist from Zakarpattia sold IP addresses to Russians to pretend to be Ukrainians on the Internet
An enterprising IT specialist from Zakarpattia sold unique IP addresses registered in the region to Russians so that they could pretend to be Ukrainian residents and spread pro-Russian views and propaganda on the Internet.
An EPAM IT specialist was detained at the border — he was trying to swim across the Dniester to get to Moldova
The IT specialist was fined UAH 3.4 thousand and ordered to pay UAH 600 in court fees.
Residents of «Diia.City» paid ₴8.4 billion in taxes in 2024 — Monobank, Favbet Tech, and EPAM are in the top
In the first 6 months of 2024, residents of «Diia.City» contributed more than ₴8.4 billion to the Ukrainian budget, almost as much as in the entire last year (₴8.5 billion).
Ukrainian IT professionals go abroad: -2.4 thousand specialists in the top 50 Ukrainian IT companies in six months
The specialized resource DOU has compiled a rating of the top 50 largest Ukrainian IT companies in the first half of 2024. It was not the best period for the Ukrainian IT industry, which continues to lose specialists.
Vacancy of a system administrator at the Antarctic station «Academician Vernadsky» — a universal specialist is needed
The Ukrainian Antarctic station «Akademik Vernadsky» has announced a recruitment for the 2025-2026 expedition. Among other things, a system administrator is required.
Computer — my weapon. 86 candidates apply for one military IT vacancy
The demand for IT professionals in the Ukrainian Defense Forces continues to grow. According to Lobby X, a recruitment agency, the number of published IT vacancies for military structures has reached 318 since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. This figure is significantly higher than March data, when there were 224 vacancies.
Ukraine is the second largest country in Central and Eastern Europe by the number of artificial intelligence companies
Roosh Investment Group, AI HOUSE, the largest Ukrainian AI community, and the Ministry of Digital Transformation have researched the Ukrainian AI ecosystem — here are the main points from the report report.
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