Ukraine has emerged as a significant player in the IT sector, ranking 20th globally for outsourcing services with over 200,000 IT professionals and a projected revenue of $5 billion in 2020. Major cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Dnipro boast robust educational systems and competitive salaries, catering to international clients and housing numerous tech startups. The country's investment landscape is also growing, with Ukrainian startups attracting considerable foreign investment and achieving notable successes, such as Grammarly becoming a unicorn.

1. Ukraine:
Tech talents,
Startups, Investments

2. Why Ukraine?
Why Ukraine?
Why Ukraine?
According to the rating of the independent resource
Kearney, in 2019, Ukraine is 20th in the top of all
countries that provide outsourcing services and has
already won the trust companies like Google,
Samsung, Microsoft, Snap, Crytek, SoftServe, Ubisoft,
Oracle and others.
Ukrainian IT industry grows up to 25% year over
year.
There are more than 4,000 IT companies, in the
StartupBlink ranking Ukraine has taken 31st place.
The number of IT professionals has grown to
200,000+ in 2019.
According to experts’ predictions, revenue in the
IT industry will amount to $5 billion in 2020.
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3. Ukraine is preceded by countries with an objectively low level of the economy, as well as countries with an extremely large
population (like India and China). Experienced recruiters note precisely Ukrainian specialists for offering a highly optimal
“price-quality” ratio.
Ukrainian IT specialists request is in the range of $25–50 ,
while the rate of their colleagues from countries with a high
standard of living (the USA, Japan, Germany, Australia, Canada,
etc.) can be up to $100/h;
It is also worth noting that the number of service
companies has reached 2000 and over 50% of specialists are
involved in outsourcing and outstaffing.
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4. A colossal breakthrough was made in the Ukrainian sphere of education: 402 universities and colleges actively train
specialists in various technical areas, the number of graduates in IT field is more than 30,000 year by year.
70% of Ukrainians have a secondary or higher education,
pre-graduate students become sought-after promising
candidates for top Ukrainian and foreign IT companies.
There is also a sweeping tendency to open IT academies
that nurture high-class experts in the most complex and
popular industries in six months or a year. The most popular
technologies are Java (26,3%), C#(15,4%), JavaScript(13,8%),
PHP (13,1%), and Python (8%) likewise Ukraine ranks 1st
globally by the number of Unity3D game developers and C++
engineers.
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5. Ukrainian IT companies are increasingly focusing their business interests on foreign customers - ones from the United
States, Western Europe, Australia, Canada, etc. For this reason, the typical issues that the majority of teams accustomed
to local interactions experiences during the remote cooperation should not arise with Ukrainian experts;
The GlobalOutsourcing 100 included 18 Ukrainian tech
companies in the ranking of the best IT services suppliers and
we rank 8th, according to skillvalue, among the top countries
with the best programmers
According to the Kearney Index, the country’s investment
attractiveness and availability have significantly improved, so it
went up by 13 positions over the last 2 years and reached the
top 20th in 2019.
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Kyiv is considered an IT capital of Ukraine with the most
developed infrastructure of specialists. In big part,
Shevchenko Kiev National University alone is responsible
for such a recognition, graduating about 3000 future IT
specialists in 2019.
There are more than 50 international R&D
offices of international enterprises and around
65,500 developers.
According to salary statistics, it is also a place with
the highest rates in Ukraine (take at least Software
Engineers - juniors average is $850, $2200 for middle SE,
while Seniors can earn $4,000 or more).
Kyiv has a low cost of living
and holds 173rd place out
of 209 world cities ranking, in general, Kyiv is an ideal city
from which you can begin your search for your offshore
engineering hub.
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7. Kharkiv is a city of students and the second largest city in
Ukraine, 300k students per
almost 1.5 million citizens.
There are 38 higher educational institutions that
provide high-quality technical education. FYI the Kharkiv
National University of Radio Electronics “marked” a record
number of graduates who received diplomas in IT
specialties: 2,800 people.
The USA
is the largest export market for Kharkiv IT
companies, as it constitutes almost 65% of all
450 service
companies in the region.
As for salaries, the average monthly rate of junior SE
is $850, while top specialists can earn $3,500.
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8. Lviv specialists stand out among the crowd with their
“European” format of thinking and is the largest city in the
western Ukraine with the population of over 800,000
people
There are around 340 companies and local IT
specialists, not only distinguished by a consistently high
level of knowledge and an extensive set of skills, but also
by the creativity that many of their colleagues, who seek
to “conquer” the global technological community with
another startup, may lack. And this is not surprising, while
they’re living among the UNESCO heritage.
Lviv is well known for its developed IT-cluster, so the
rates are pretty high - juniors average is $700, middles is
$2000, while Seniors earn $3,700
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9. Odesa is, perhaps, the top Ukrainian city in terms of the
number of startups, ranks 2 in Ukraine and 235 globally,
based on the strength of its startup ecosystem.
In Odessa, all the IT venues, business centers, and
coworking spaces are well located – a 15-min distance
from one another so it’s perfect IT hub located on the
Black Sea shore.
The city’s strong educational system ensures a
constant inflow of new talent into the sector (ONPU
graduated 1,915 students with IT-related diplomas in
2019) the total number of tech-graduates scored 3000
specialists.
And the salaries here are much more modest
compared to the previous cities: juniors average is $700,
middle - $1750, senior - $3,400.
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10. Dnipro has long been known throughout Ukraine as the
key centre of the nuclear, arms, and space
industries and now for Oles Honchar and Polytechnic
Universities IT graduates.
There are 30 higher educational establishments
with over 2,000 tech-graduates every year.
According to IT Dnipro Community about 16,000 IT
specialists work in the region, half of the developers work
in the industry from 3 to 10 years, so the city has a lot of
experienced IT talents.
The average salary of an IT specialist in Dnipro and
the region is $1,650. Revenues are distributed on average
as follows: Junior – $700;
Middle – $1,700;
Senior –
$3,300.
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Ukrainian IT industry grows up to 25% year over year. In
2018, the Ukrainian IT industry raised over $323 million in
total and scored 57 points out of 100 on the Global
Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic
Forum.
As for 2019, Ukraine scored 6 points and ranked 64
among 190 economies in the ease of doing business,
according to the World Bank rating
Ukrainian startups closed more than 25 public deals
with foreign venture funds and accelerators, and it’s also
worth mentionin’ +1 Ukrainian unicorn - Grammarly.

12. If we talk about some earlier Ukrainian startups
that managed to demonstrate their worth around
the world, we can’t but mention
The RetargetApp startup which accumulated
$1,5 million in investments;
A fintech startup MyCredit which got $3 million
from TAS group;
The meds selection & delivery service
Liki24.com which gathered $1 million;
An educational online platform IT Mate
academy which drew in $580 000 in investments
for further development.
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