it job market in ukraine 2015: overview & trends
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IT job market in Ukraine 2015 Overview & Trends
Max IschenkoDOU.ua
DOU.ua 100k dev community
djinni.co 7000 contacts/mo
DEVELOPERS
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
Outsourcing & ODC
Product
Startups
Other 8
4.5
28.5
58.9
Source: http://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/ survey
Outsourcing dominatesCompared to 2014: Product +2.4 p.p., Outsourcing –2.3 p.p.
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%
English knowledge
Source: http://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/ survey
Elementary
Intermediate
Fluent 40.2%
38.6%
21.2%
More demographics
Source: http://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/ survey
27Median age
86,5% 13,5%
Sex ratio
(91,7% & 8.3% in 2013)years
Cities
http://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/demography/
86% of developers live in just 5 cities.
47% live in Kyiv alone.
Cities
http://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/demography/
Kyiv 46.6%
Kharkiv 16.2%
Lviv 9.9%
Dnipropetrovsk 7.9%
Odessa 5.5%
JOBS
July—September’2015 (jobs.dou.ua)
• 745 companies posted 3,400 jobs on jobs.dou.ua in last 3 months
• 70% of these companies are <80 ppl, 15.7% are 81-200 and 8.7% are 800+ employees
• 10% of jobs are for relocation/remote
• average job posting gets 6 applicants (same as 1 yr ago)
• 13% of jobs mention salary level; 70% of jobs posted in English
• 50% of the jobs are in Kyiv, 12% Kharkiv, 7% in Lviv, Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk each
Let’s analyze 3400 jobs from 745 companies
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/
Source: DOU.ua
PM QA Junior Middle Senior Lead
162
659
311
115
311
133
Jobs & Applicants. Jobs posted
Source: DOU.ua
PM QA Junior Middle Senior Lead
4.15.48.6
27
2224
Jobs & Applicants. Applicants per job
Source: djinni.co
Hires by title
PHPJavaScript
.NETJava
QAAndroidPython
RubyiOS
SysadminPM
Others
Searches by title
.NETPHP
JavaScriptJava
QAAndroid
iOSPython
C++Ruby
HTMLSysadmin
PMOthers
.NET, iOS and C++ are harder to hire
Frontend
PHP
.NET
Java
QA
UX/Design
iOS
Android
C++
Python
Ruby
0 3.5 7 10.5 14
2014 2015
Source: jobs.dou.ua
50% of the jobs are in Kyiv
Source: jobs.dou.ua
Kyiv
Lviv
Kharkiv
Dnepropetrovsk
Odessa 97
113
201
102
948
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%
Junior
Middle
Senior
Lead 740
2,793
1,139
363
50% of jobs require 3+ years of experience
Source: jobs.dou.ua
5% of jobs are for relocation
SALARIES
• 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
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
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 DjinniFall 2013 — Fall 2015
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
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
Average salary by job title (Kyiv)
PHPJava
Frontend.NET
QAPython
AndroidiOSPM
C++ $1,800$2,460
$2,056$1,850
$2,424 $1,881
$2,475 $1,738
$2,400 $2,070
Source: djinni.co
2016 SPECULATIONS
dou.ua jobs.dou.ua
Hard to justify #зрада
• 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!
Все буде добре
