Research: how much do Ukrainian developers earn during the war, what programming languages bring the highest salaries [зима 2023] - Aroged

The Ukrainian specialized resource DOU.UA conducted a regular salary survey of IT developers in December last year, in which 6,773 specialists took part.

Despite the war, median developer salaries did not decrease. Like six months ago, the average salary is $3,400. Moreover, the compensations of Senior and above specialists even increased: Senior+$300, Team Lead+$100, Tech Lead+$365. Recall that the experts of the Djinni resource made the same conclusions.

The highest paid developers receive salaries from $9200, but there are only 1% of them. The salaries of less experienced developers have not changed much. The average salary of a junior has increased from $950 to $1,000, while for interns and middles it has remained at the same level.

Developers working with the Scala, Go, and Rust programming languages continue to receive the highest average salaries. The average salary of developers who mainly work with Scala is $5500, Go is $5200, Rust is $5000. The salary of those who chose Ruby has noticeably increased – from $4,000 in the summer to $4,500 today. Developers who speak English well can expect $1,000-2,000 higher salaries.

Currently, 88% of survey participants live in Ukraine. Another 12% went abroad after a full-scale Russian invasion, but plan to return when the opportunity arises. Developers are gradually returning to Kyiv and the Kyiv region. Now 36% of those developers who are in Ukraine live here (in the summer there were 27% of them, by the beginning of a full-scale war – 41%). In second place are Lviv and Lviv region – 21%. The number of developers in Kharkiv is still small – only 3% (in the summer of 2022 it was 2%, before the war – 14%).

JavaScript remains the programming language that Ukrainian developers use most often – 21% called it the main one. The proportion of those who most often choose TypeScript continues to grow – 16% (half a year ago – 14%, a year ago – 8%). The number of those who write in PHP is gradually decreasing – 9% (six months ago it was 10%, a year ago – 11%).

The highest average salaries are received by developers in Lviv and the region ($3750) and in Kyiv and the region ($3600). In second place are those who now live in Transcarpathia and Vinnitsa or the region ($3,300). This is followed by the Dnieper, Chernivtsi and Cherkasy ($3000). These are the regions where a large number of experienced developers now live – more than 40% of them have a Senior level and above.

Back-end and mobile development remain the most paid developer specializations. The average salary of a Back-end developer is $3,800, and a Mobile developer is $3,750. Salaries in other specializations are somewhat lower: for Embedded it is $3325, Full Stack – $3200, Front-end – $2900. The salaries of beginners are approximately the same in all specializations, while for middles and seniors they are higher in Back-end and Mobile.