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1. Stepan Veselovskyi
Lviv IT Cluster CEO
LVIV IT RESEARCH

2. IT Research Project is highly
representative & unique analytical
study of the entire Lviv IT market.

3. Lviv in brief

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Everage salary in
other Lviv industries
$202*
* - Source: Department of Statistics in the Lviv region
Lviv in brief
$151*
In 2014 Now 2015
IT salary
$1350*
Median salary in Lviv IT in 2015

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Lviv IT industry turnover
$280 M—$300 M
2.7% of Lviv GRP
1.3% of Lviv region GRP
Lviv IT industry turnover in 2015, based on expert
assessment and IT directors survey
Lviv in brief
Lviv city budget
$180,64 M*
Planned Lviv budget
revenues for 2015
$186,05 M*
Planned Lviv budget
expenditures for 2015
* - Source: Financial Policy Department of
the Lviv City Council
TAX $ 12,403 M*
Tax payments that will go to Lviv and Lviv
region budget from IT industry in 2015
* - Source: expert assessments, the IT Research survey
results, a request for public information to SFS by NACE
and analytical modeling

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IT Directors survey
90%
84.6%
92.3%
10% to 20%
83.3%
$10 K—$100 K
IT Directors rated Lviv as a good
environment to do business
Assess the situation of IT industry in Lviv as
favorable
Believe that the current situation before the
end of 2015 will even improve
Average growth plans of Companies in 2015
Plan to invest or reinvest funds this year in
order to expand the Company activities
Range of planned (re)investments
Lviv in brief

7. IT in Lviv

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IT specialists in Lviv
From 13513
to 15155
IT specialists
7567—8487 3188—4830
Software engineers
Freelancers and
IT departments workers
of other industries
2%
2,3%
6%
of resident
population in Lviv
IT families constitute Lviv
population structure
of all working
Lviv population

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388*
IT companies
Legal entities,
based on statistics
IT in Lviv
* - Source:
Department of
Statistics in the Lviv
region
187
88,4%
3,2%
8,4%
Outsourcing
Outstaffing
Product
IT companies in Lviv
4 Big 16 Medium 97 Small 70 Micro
150-300 employees 10-110 emloyees 3-7 employees400+ employees

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32*
6307*
IT Cluster Member Companies
Employees in IT Cluster Member Companies
* - Info was last clarified on Sep 24th 2015
IT in Lviv
IT Cluster

11. www.it-bpo.lviv.aIT in Lviv
IT graduates in
2013—2014
academic year
IT students in
2014—2015
academic year
12232
Students of IT specialties are
currently studying
5528
Will be IT ready till the end
of 2015 (students of 4-6th
year of education)
3555
III-IV level of accreditation:
bachelors – 1687
specialists – 879
masters – 989
4106
Annual IT
graduates
551
I-II level of accreditation

12. IT specialists portrait

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Specialist portrait
77%
23%
18—30
years old
26
median age
$1350
Monthly income
4 years
of general
experience in IT
2 Years
in current
IT company

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Specialist portrait
56%
Software engineer
48.3%
Higher education in IT
specialties and exact science
71.4%
Don't have their
own appartment
26.9%
Live in their own
appartment
1.7%
Have their
own house
18.7%
Work on their
IT startup
48,6% rent
appartments
22,8% live
with parents

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Positions and salaries
$3644
$3464
$2550
$1700
$1500
$1500
$1370
$700
$700
$678
$595
Solution architect
Tech lead
Team lead
Automation QA
Software engineer
Project manager
Business analyst, requirements manager
Manual QA
System administrator
Human resources manager
UI-UX specialist
IT specialists portrait
7.5%
5.0%
7.0%
7.5%
12.0%
10.0%
12.6%
15.0%
15.0%
13.6%
15.0%
In
half
a
year
(+)

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More about Lviv IT
3384L
IT specialists portrait
870* 3% 3 of 10
of coffee
all Lviv IT people
drink during a day
Big Macs can buy an
average IT specialist
on his monthly
salary
From his salary
an average IT
specialist donates to
Ukrainian Army
Lviv IT specialists
have never been
abroad
VISA
* - Big Mac Index for Ukraine is $1,5

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Upgrade yourself
72.6%
17.6%
13.8%
86.4%
50.9%
72.5%
Upgrade their skills and knowledge constantly through
additional education (English classes in the Company, online courses etc)
Mentioned Java as programming language they would like
to master
Would like to master Python
Don't take part in hackathons
Have no certificates confirming the level of competence
Visit conferences and community meetings
IT specialists portrait

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Technical data about Project
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5
41
400
56
200+ h
Expert interviews
Consultants
IT directors poll: face to face interviews
IT specialists poll: representative online survey via
google form; maximum margin of error 4,8% at 95%
confidence level
Statistical queries
Data research

19. We did I.T.