Kyiv Outsourcing Forum 2017 --- ROMAN HAPACHYLO «Global Tech Talent Market Overview»

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Global Tech Talent
Market Overview
EPAM Global TA Team – Roman Hapachylo Sr. TA Manager

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APAC– Tech Talent

4. CHINA – CHALLENGES & PLAYERSCHINA – CHALLENGES & PLAYERS
List of Key Players
•Baidu
•Alibaba
•Tencent
•JD.com
•LeTV
•Xiaomi
Source: Deloittee CN - Technology Industry hiring report; Morgan McKinley - Global Trend Report 2015 - IT Development and Testing
CHALLENGES
•Many IT Development & Testing professionals being attracted
away from large multinational companies into fast-growing
internet enterprises.
•Thousands of new internet startups currently recruiting and
willing to pay outrages package.
•IT security - a further growth area in 2017
•Lack of qualify individuals, especially in FinTech
•Unwilling to Relocate
•There are hundreds of new internet startups currently
recruiting and professionals joining these companies can
double or even triple their previous salaries.
•Talent Pool remain local with low level of English skill set

5. SINGAPORE – CHALLENGES & PLAYERSSINGAPORE – CHALLENGES & PLAYERS
Source: Morgan McKinley - Global Trend Report 2015 - IT Development and Testing; Robert Walters Global Salary Survey; KPMG -
2016 Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey, Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices
List of Key Players
•Tata
•BirlaSoft
•Computer Sciences Corp.
•HCL
•GrapeCity
•Fujitsu
CHALLENGES
•Brutal talent war among FinTech talents as most
projects are from banks and fund houses
•Contracting opportunities are more readily
available = lower staff retention rate
•Demand increased with infrastructure-related and
enterprise resource planning skills, IT security and
digital professionals in end-user organizations
•Many financial services moving towards Agile
development or a hybrid Agile model without
enough talent pool to supply
•Tightening the rules on hiring foreign talents

6. INDIA – CHALLENGES & PLAYERSINDIA – CHALLENGES & PLAYERS
Source: India Mobile Talent 2016 Report by Belong; India Times; The Towers Watson 2015 Asia Pacific Salary Budget Planning Report
List of Key Players
•Tata
•Infosys
•Wipro
•HCL
•TatvaSoft
•Icreon
CHALLENGES
•Over half of the talents in India are picked up by
internet , Saas and e-commerce companies
•Low retention rate, tech talents takes new job
every 1.5 years in average
•Well funded Tech giants started wage war due to
short talent supply
•Most works are enhancements and maintenance
which are hardly exciting for passionate developers
•Rising inflation to make hiring more costly

7. INDIA – DATAINDIA – DATA
Source: Monster Monthly Employment Index, Indian IT and ITeS Industry Analysis, IBEF
At USD 143 billion, India is
the world's largest
global sourcing
destination, with 56%
share globally. Around 3.7
million people directly
employed by the IT industry.
16,000 firms:
•1,000+ GIC/MNCs
•4,200+ tech startups
Availability of skilled English speaking workforce has been a
major reason behind India’s emergence as a global
outsourcing hub.
• India added around 5.8 million graduates to the talent
pool during FY2015
• Growing talent pool of India has the ability to drive the
R&D and innovation business in the IT-BPM space

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Source: India IT-BPM Industry Talent Demand and Supply Report 2016, Kotak Institutional Equities Research,
Monster Monthly Employment Index, India 2016
In Highest Demand
• Data Scientists
• Automation
• Embedded Software Engineers
• Digital Transformation
• IOT
• Java
• Web Development
• Database Management
Rising Demand
• Mobile
• Cloud
• Analytics (Hadoop)
• Cyber security
The IT sector which was facing the brunt of
extensive job cuts, charted a positive trend in
July 2016, witnessing 51% year-on-
year (Y-o-Y) growth over
June in online hiring
Top IT companies have hired
67,450 employees in fiscal
2015-16 up 10.3% YoY,
the report said adding TCS
accounted for 51% of tier 1
IT hiring in 2015-16 as it
hired 34,000 employees.

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You will face relatively lower demand when hiring in New Delhi,
Mumbai, and Pune (India)
* Regional data wasn’t available for Hong Kong or Singapore, and isn’t complete for China
High Demand
Saturated
Hidden Gems

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Web design and project management are the most common skills in
this group
Top Skills

13. North America – Tech Talent

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15. Most of this talent resides in the US but you’ll face less
competition when hiring in Canada
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UNITED STATESUNITED STATES
General Region
Overview
• Competitive market with not only strong technical resources, but business/strategic savvy
candidates.
• Engineers vary from junior out of good schools to very senior seasoned.
• Even during market crash, high unemployment numbers, etc. attaining quality technology
professionals remains challenging.
• Technology is such a focus from government down, we see success in those areas where other
industries fall (Financial services, O&G, etc.)
Key Challenges
and Players
• Though market may seem saturated with candidates, the quality of the candidate available is
the real issue.
• Candidates within specific “hot” technologies are few and far between at the “star” level.
• Job saturation has lead to a generous spike in compensation for key technologies (JS,
Python, etc) that companies need to keep up with in order to pull quality people from
quality companies.
•Strong benefits
and
differentiators
compare to Other
Countries/Regions
• For US – there are pockets of high-level talent geographically – major cities, and major
technology leader hubs are a great place to find qualified talent. (Mountain View, CA – New
York, NY – Seattle, WA – San Fran, CA) Where successful startups live, so does the talent.
• Large market
• Focus on technology in education in last decade is helping with quality of talent. Schools
moving towards teaching development versus Network/Vanilla IT education in the last
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The most common job titles are ‘Project Manager’ and
‘Software Engineer’
Top Job Titles Seniority Distribution

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IBM and Microsoft are the top employers of this talent pool
Top Employers

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21. Western Europe and UK – Tech Talent

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WE Overview
Quantity of Engineers: 1,842,491

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Lloyds, RBS, and IBM are the top employers of this talent – In the UK, banking/consulting
will be your biggest talent peer
Top Employers

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Although London has the highest supply, you’ll face much higher competition
when hiring in that market (UK and CH)
High DemandSaturated
Hidden Gems

25. Eastern Europe and CIS – Tech Talent

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PolandPoland
General Region
Overview
• Quantity of Engineers: 129,525
• Seniority of Engineers: 32% - 6-10 yrs of experience, 33% - 10+yrs of experience
• Medium Age: 27-33
• Other interesting Facts: Tenure in one position – 1-2 years. Ca. 40% of IT sector based in
Krakow, Poland's “Silicon Valley”.
Key Challenges
and Players
• Key companies who looking for IT talents: Luxoft, SII, IBM, CISCO, Intel, Sabre, Capgemini,
Comarch, Nokia, Google, Akamai, SoftServe, HP, Motorola, BBH, UBS
• Current Challenges which block grow faster: High demand among all competitors (especially in
Java, Front-end, .NET, QA), limited talent pool within niche technologies (experts need to be
relocated), competing with start-ups (preferred by some candidates), candidates high SE
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Strong benefits
and
differentiators
compare to Other
Countries/Regions
• Advantages of Country: Attractive location to relocate, well known from R&D Centers/ IT
Outsourcing (especially Krakow). Great knowledge base – majority of prestigious IT universities
located in Krakow/Gdansk/Katowice/Wroclaw. Political & economical stability. Openness for
multicultural work environment. Rapid growth of ICT sector in Tri-City.
• Strong Areas of Technology: Java, .NET, SW Testing, Business Analysis & Project Management
• Market changes during last 3 years: Increased number of start-ups across PL. High demand on
Front-end (in past Java was the main focus). Visible increase of IT students & graduates pool.
• Key Differentiators: Economical and political stability, ICT sector continuous growth, increasing
IT graduates pool, favorable VISA/relocation arrangements & conditions.

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RussiaRussia
General Region
Overview
• Quantity of Engineers (total IT): 300 000-400 000 people
• Seniority of Engineers: Junior 44%, Senior 29%, Manager 17%, Top 10%
• Medium Age: 30 – 40 years 38%, 20 – 30 years 31%
Key Challenges
and Players
• Key companies who looking for IT talents: Mail.ru, Abby, Kasperskiy, Epam, Grid Dynamics,
Netcrecker, Luxoft, T-Systems, Sberbank Technology, Rostelecom
• Current Challenges which block grow faster: the outflow of labor to EU and USA (political and
economical reasons); High salary expectations starting from junior positions; Competitive market in big
cities, Ru soft development (to replace foreign alternatives)
• Other: High market requirements to bonuses level, work environment and infrastructure
Strong benefits
and
differentiators
compare to Other
Countries/Regions
• Advantages of Region/Country. Strong Areas of Technology: Average salary of specialist is lower than in EU and
USA; good level of high education; Additional software development and testing education organized by IT companies
partnering with Universities and with each other; High level of expertise
• How Market is changed during last 3 years: Wages rose in RUR but fell in USD; Market demand on QA Automation,
DevOps and Javascript specialists grow fast, demand on software dvlt professionals of Russian government own
companies has been growing each year (for example, Sberbank Technology – 6,5K developers country-wide),
Companies open additional branches in EU and LA and share risks

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BulgariaBulgaria
General Region
Overview
• Quantity of Engineers – 22000
• Seniority of Engineers – from D1 to D5
• Medium Age - 32
• Other interesting Facts – EU citizenship, good level of English language, cultural fit to EU norms
Key Challenges
and Players
• Key companies who looking for IT talents – VMWare, SAP Labs, SoftServe, Luxoft
Strong benefits
and
differentiators
compare to Other
Countries/Regions
• Advantages of Bulgaria. Strong Areas of Technology – part of EU, currency tied to EURO, lowest taxes in
EU. Good market concentration in software development especially in Java, C#, C/C++, PHP
• How Market is changed during last 3 years. – Due to the financial crisis no significant changes on the
market
• Key Differentiators – Good market concentration is software development, higer technical level of the
candidates with good soft skills and English language level, lowest level of labor cost in EU

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HungaryHungary
General Region
Overview
• Quantity of Engineers: ~20,000+ software engineers
• Seniority of Engineers: Less than 2 years ~2,000; 3 to 5 years ~3,500; 6 to 10 years ~5000; More than 10
years ~7,000
• Medium Age: 32
• Other interesting Facts: in every year there are about 6000 new students at Universities of IT, but this
number is decreasing
Key Challenges
and Players
• Key companies who looking for IT talents: IBM, ITSH, MSCI, evosoft, Prezi, LogMeIn, NNG, Ericsson,
AdNovum
• Current Challenges which block grow faster: lack of IT professionals
• Other: sometimes lack of English knowledge
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Strong benefits
and
differentiators
compare to Other
Countries/Regions
• Advantages of Region/Country. Strong Areas of Technology: educated, experienced IT professionals mostly
in the field of Java, .NET development
• How Market is changed during last 3 years: huge competition for IT professionals
• Key Differentiators: according to a study we are on the 5th place having the most talented programmers
• Other: Hungary was one of the first European countries to adopt computer programming classes into their
education system.

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BelarusBelarus
General Region
Overview
• Quantity of Engineers: ~38,000+ software engineers
• Seniority of Engineers: Less than 2 years ~48 %; 3 to 5 years ~22%; 6 to 10 years ~30%;
• Medium Age: 30
• Other interesting Facts: in every year there are about 6000 new students at Universities of IT, but this
number is decreasing
Key Challenges
and Players • Key companies who looking for IT talents: EPAM; Wargaming.net;Itransition Group; IBA Group; Issoft;
Exadel;iTechArt Group; ScienceSoft; Godel Technologies Europe; SaM Solutions; Current
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Strong benefits
and
differentiators
compare to Other
Countries/Regions
• Advantages of Region/Country: Almost 1000 IT companies, 150+ in HTP (High Tech Park)
• Revenue 1+bln USD, about 90% - outsource, 70% - export
• HTP provide unique on BY business market conditions – lower taxes for employees (9% vs 13%) and
companies
• Avg. salary in IT is about 1350$ (median)

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On a country level, you’ll face relatively lower competition when
hiring in Ukraine and Russia
High DemandSaturated
Hidden Gems

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Top employer of this talent pool EE and CIS
Top Employers

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Web-design skills are the most common within the group of
skills you’re looking for
Top Skills

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IT Migration EE and CIS

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Current Top and Fastest Growing Skills

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Summary
1. Global Tech Talent Market is lacking Frontend and DevOps skill’s
2. China will not become Key player on market as soon as fix internal issues.
3. Migration of Tech Talent increase year by year.
4. Ukraine is quite competitive regarding High Demand skillset compare to Global Leaders.
5. Ukraine has lowest competition rate : demand vs supply in EE.
6. Bulgaria has the lowest Taxes for employees in EU.
7. No Offshore, Onshore – Global Village

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16,000
20,000
1,500
5,000
6,000
180,000
Students Graduate per year
Java Engineers
Big Data Specialists
Business
Intelligence (BI) Specialists
SAP Specialists
2020 Software Engineers Forecast
LOREM
IPSUM DOLOR
LOREM
IPSUM DOLOR
100,000+
Engineers
IT Market Overview – UAIT Market Overview – UA

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IT Market Overview – UAIT Market Overview – UA
Talent Distribution between Locations (%) Top 25 Companies with 22,000 Employees Distribution
27 y.o. Median age