The number of employees in the top 50 IT-companies in the period from August 2022 to January 2023 decreased by 5.3% to 92.4 thousand due to relocation in foreign offices of companies and legalization abroad, such research results were published on the DOU website on Monday.
According to him, most companies have up to 25% of their Ukrainian team members abroad.
“As the companies explained, the reduction, with some exceptions, does not mean a reduction in the number of specialists in the company. The IT specialists moved abroad to work in other offices of their own companies, they legalize there and stop paying taxes in Ukraine,” reads the text of the research.
Its authors recall that before the full-scale war, in January 2022, 50 largest IT-companies employed 100.3 thousand people, and in January 2021 – 76.3 thousand people.
It is noted that mostly companies began to actively legalize abroad it is technical specialists. If in the first half of 2022 the number of technical specialists was kept at the same level, in the second half there is a clear negative trend: minus 4.6 thousand specialists. The total number of technical specialists in the top 25 IT companies in January 2023 was 57.9 thousand compared to 62.5 thousand in January 2022.
In the five largest companies (Epam Ukraine, SoftServe, GlobalLogic Ukraine, EVOPLAY, Luxoft) the number of specialists decreased by 3.3 thousand in the second half of 2022, according to the study.
In particular, in company Epam Ukraine which occupies the first step in DOU rating, the number of working specialists decreased on 1260 persons in the first half-year of 2022 and 1225 in the second – to present 11,375 thousand persons (working in Ukraine or continuing to pay taxes in Ukraine even in case of moving abroad). The number of technical specialists of the company decreased by 9% to 10.4 thousand people. It is noted that some of the company’s specialists left Ukraine to escape the war and remain there. Jobs for EPAM in Ukraine today are few, because the need for specialists will be covered mainly through bench – internal specialists of the company, the material says.
The number of employees in Ukraine SoftServe (2nd place) decreased by 164 people in the first half of 2022 and by 1468 people in the second half – to 9.45 thousand people. The company has 22% fewer technicians (7,393). These changes are also explained by relocation: about 2 thousand SoftServe specialists moved abroad after the start of the full-scale invasion. Some of them returned, but many of them still stay abroad and now legalize in other locations of the company. Also, according to the DOU, there is some optimization going on, but not a massive one.
The share of women in Ukrainian IT has tripled over the past 10 years and stands at 24% as of August 2022, the press service of GlobalLogic reported, based on an internal study of the company.
“According to GlobalLogic, 1,769 women work with the company in Ukraine, which is more than a quarter of all specialists. The average age of specialists is 33 years, but among IT specialists there are also women over the age of 60,” the company said.
According to GlobalLogic statistics, 81% of women in the IT field have technical specialties.
Most of the respondents started their career in the industry as a trainee or junior position, but now they have a professional level of senior, lead or even AVP (junior vice president).
According to the report, a third of the top leadership positions at GlobalLogic are held by women.
IT company “GlobalLogic Ukraine” is the largest software developer in Ukraine. It has offices and more than 4.5 thousand specialists in Kyiv, Kharkov, Lvov and Nikolaev.
Law, philology and IT specialties are traditionally in the highest demand among applicants to Ukrainian universities, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Serhiy Shkarlet said.
“In 2020-2022, in the structure of the state order, much attention is paid to engineering high-tech specialties, that is, professions of the future. But traditionally, the most active specialties in terms of demand are law, philology and IT specialties,” Shkarlet said on the air of the national telethon on Thursday afternoon .
At the same time, the minister noted that today there is also a significant demand for the specialty “psychology” (11,000 applications have already been submitted) and “pedagogy” (9,000 applications).
International IT outsourcer Sii Group in January joined the Ukrainian division of Sii Ukraine to the Polish Sii Poland and announced large-scale growth of the company in Ukraine.
“In order to diversify the candidates’ resource pool and increase competitiveness, Sii Poland decided to expand and invest in Ukraine. The contract has been finalized in November 2021. The company intends to hire dozens of engineers in the coming months. We decided to make an investment on the Ukrainian market because it has huge potential,” the company quoted Gregoire Nitot, CEO of Sii Poland, Sweden, and Ukraine as saying.
The company stressed that more than 200,000 highly qualified IT specialists work in Ukraine, which makes it an attractive place for investment.
“Our goal is to make Sii Ukraine a large delivery center, just like Sii Poland is today. We hope to hire hundreds of engineers and open new offices in many Ukrainian cities,” Nitot said.
Sii Poland informed the Ukrainian IT media DOU that they plan to hire 2,000-3,000 employees, mainly IT specialists, and open offices in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Dnipro and other cities.
Sii Ukraine was opened in 2006. Currently, the company employs about 30 specialists, working in the office located in Odesa.
A merger of the subsidiary with Sii Poland is connected with dozens of open IT positions, but also back office specialists in Ukraine.
Sii Group was founded in 1979. The company employs 13,000 people worldwide and has opened 88 locations. The company is a global business partner in the field of IT, engineering, digital technologies and business process outsourcing (BPO) services. Its Sii Poland division is considered the largest Polish IT service provider.
The most in-demand specialists in 2021 were specialists in sales, IT, banking and investment, marketing, advertising and PR, as well as transport and logistics, according to a study by the expert-analytical center grc.ua. “The search for personnel during the year has more than doubled,” Ruslana Berezovska, head of the expert-analytical center grc.ua, said.
In particular, vacancies in sales, IT, banking and investment, marketing, advertising and PR, transport and logistics increased from 91% to 174%.
At the same time, specialists in insurance, top management, law, sports, fitness and beauty industries, government service and non-profit organizations were not in demand in 2021.
According to the study, the leaders in the largest number of vacancies are Kyiv city, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv, and Kyiv regions.
The top five spheres with the highest average wages included: IT and communication (UAH 54,000), top management (UAH 43,600), consulting (UAH 26,200), construction and real estate (UAH 24,800), and civil service (UAH 23,100).
The top five spheres with the lowest average wages included: tourism and restaurants (UAH 13,200), healthcare (UAH 13,000), initial career (UAH 12,200), working staff (UAH 11,900), and administrative staff (UAH 10,700).
Sitronics Telecom Solutions Ukraine LLC (Kyiv) changed its name to Seeton Group LLC, rebranded and starts operating in the markets of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
According to a message of the Ukrainian system integrator, circulated on Thursday, the company will focus on priority sectors where the IT component is most in demand: telecommunications and banking, industry, energy, agro, retail – and will strengthen cooperation with the public sector.
The new strategy envisages both intensification of activities in Ukraine and expansion of presence in the countries of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
Earlier in the same year, Sitronics changed its owner, in connection with which it revised its development strategy and lines of business. Also, a full-fledged rebranding was carried out, during which the company changed its name to Seeton, changed its visual style and revised its philosophy: mission, values and principles of work.
Expanding its technological activities in system integration, Seeton develops IT consulting. The company is actively working in the field of information security, business intelligence, servers, data storage systems and directly in consulting, helping companies and organizations, based on analytics and forecasting, comprehensively solve problems and plan the implementation of IT projects.
“Now we are entering the international market and will be able to apply the experience of working in Ukraine in other countries that are also on the path of digitalization,” Bohdan Khoroschak, director of Seeton, quoted by the press service.
At the same time, it is noted that in the next few years Seeton intends to invest in the development of employee competencies, expansion of the team and intensive training of specialists on existing and new products.
The second area of investment is business development abroad. Seeton has already opened a representative office in Azerbaijan, where it is conducting new projects with its first clients, and is planning further development in the Caspian region and in the neighboring countries of Ukraine.
As reported, in October 2020, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine allowed relatives of owner of NEQSOL Holding Nasib Hasanov, who is a 100% beneficiary of the second largest Ukrainian mobile operator Vodafone Ukraine, to acquire 100% of Sitronics Telecom Solutions Ukraine LLC.
Sitronics Telecom Solutions Ukraine provides services in the Ukrainian market for technological solutions, structured cabling systems, networks and IT optimization expertise.
