IT Market Snapshot Q2 2020

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Michał Gąszczyk
CEO inhire.io
Michał Gąszczyk, CEO inhire.io

Here is the third edition of our quarterly IT Market Snapshot report. The previous quarter report was produced during an ongoing pandemic and, for most of us, working from home. This time, we decided to focus our report purely on data, because we know this is the most important for you. We resigned from comments because after talking to hundreds of customers, we noticed that everyone’s situation is slightly different, and everyone has a different view of the current market situation. Have a pleasant reading!

Assumptions

The report concerns only job offers from broadly understood IT (programming, administration, IT project management, business intelligence, maintenance of IT systems).

Most of the analysis is based on the upper salary ranges because:

  • The median salary range (ie the difference between the upper range and the lower range) for B2B contracts is approx. PLN 5,000, and on average the upper range constitute approx. 150% of the lower range.
  • Candidates seeing such a large spread focus their expectations to the upper range - this is the observation of own recruitment conducted by our team, as well as the feedback of our clients.
  • Feedback from customers - “The middle of the bracket says nothing. To meet the requirements of our hiring managers, we must move around the upper one to attract top talent”
Metodologia
Maximum value Upper quantile - 25% of the data is greater than this value Median - 50% of the data is greater than this value Lower quantile - 25% of the value is less than this value Minimum value

Executive Summary

It looks like everything is slowly returning to normal.

In the previous report, we have written that the SARS-CoV-2 virus would undoubtedly affect the economy, we only did not know how much and what impact it would have on the IT sector.

Today, looking at the market situation, we see an increase in the number of job offers compared to Q1 2020, which may be a positive tune.

What is certain is that junior job offers have disappeared from the market, which is also confirmed by data from the career offices of technical universities (-55% of offers compared to the same period in 2019). The financial expectations of candidates for senior positions, however, have not changed due to the high demand for candidates who may have a real impact on project work in companies.

Offers for juniors have almost vanished from the market.
More and more companies publish salary in their job offers
The order of the cities with the largest number of offers is the same as in the previous quarter.
The proposed earnings are sometimes lower than in the previous quarter by as much as 10%.
The most popular programming languages in the offers are unchanged (JavaScript, Java, Python, TypeScript, PHP and C #).
80% of companies publish 3 or fewer job offers simultaneously.
Despite the fact that the number of published job offers almost did not increase, the number of publishing companies increased by 10%.

Are salaries included in IT offers?

Compared to Q1 2020, we see an increase in offers with provided salary by 3%. This is a very positive trend as it is another quarter of increases in this aspect. More and more companies realize that IT offers are counted in thousands, so candidates have a real choice, so it seems completely natural that they focus more on offers that inform them in advance about the potential remuneration.

Offers with salaries vs without salaries
Offers with salaries vs without salaries - chart
Offers with salaries
Offers without salaries
Offers with salaries vs without salaries - pracuj.pl
Offers with salaries vs without salaries - pracuj.pl - chart
Offers with salaries
Offers without salaries

In the case of the market leader, 10% of job offers in the categories „IT Administration” and „IT Software Development” have information about the salary, which is an increase of 100% compared to the previous quarter. This is most likely due to the promotion of those IT-targeted offers with salary included.

IT announcements in major cities

Distribution of the number of job offers in individual cities

Number of offers in cities
Q1 2020
Number of offers in cities - chart
Q2 2020
Number of offers in cities - chart

Do you earn the most in Warsaw?

Average rates in individual cities (the size shows the number of offers)
Q1 2020
Average upper rate for an contract of employment
Average upper rate for a B2B contract
Average rates in individual cities - chart

For B2B contracts, the average level of the upper range is the highest in Warsaw and amounts to PLN 16,847. Companies from Krakow offer slightly less: 16 330 PLN.

For contracts of employment, the average upper range is the highest in Kraków and amounts to PLN 15,473. In Gdynia, earnings offered under a contract of employment are not much lower. Here, however, the number of job offers is significantly smaller.

Professionals in Łódź, Katowice and Poznań are less well-paid, where the CoE and B2B range are several thousand PLN less than the cities with the highest rates

For B2B contracts, the average level of the upper range is the highest in Warsaw and amounts to PLN 17,227. Companies from Krakow offer little less: PLN 16,441.

For contract of employment, the average upper limit is the highest in Kraków and amounts to PLN 14,014. In Gdynia in the previous quarter, earnings for B2B contracts were comparable to Krakow, but in this quarter they decreased by approximately 10% to PLN 15,599.

We also see a decline in earnings for both B2B and UoP contracts in all other cities shown in the graph.

Average rates in individual cities (the size shows the number of offers)
Q2 2020
Average upper rate for an contract of employment
Average upper rate for a B2B contract
Average rates in individual cities - chart

The demand for seniors is increasing

Share of job offers depending on experience
Q1 2020
Share of job offers depending on experience Q1 2020 - chart
Q2 2020
Share of job offers depending on experience Q2 2020 - chart
Junior
Mid
Senior

Język programowania vs zarobki

The most popular programming languages

The most popular programming languages
Q2 2020
The most popular programming languages - chart

There are no significant changes in the programming language category over the course of the quarter. According to other reports, JavaScript is the programming language most desired by employers. Java is right behind it. Python, Typescript and PHP are in the next places. In keeping with all the trends, Python is gaining ground.

The most popular programming languages
Q1 2020
The most popular programming languages - chart

Programming languages vs salaries

Compared to the previous quarter, we see a decline in the offered salaries, e.g. for Scala, a decrease of almost 10% compared to the previous quarter. We know from conversations with our clients that companies that offer higher salaries have recorded much more organic applications in recent months, e.g. through their career websites. This is where we see the reasons for the decline in salaries offered on job boards.

Average maximum ranges by programming languages
Average maximum ranges by programming languages - chart

„Highest paid” keywords - Big Data wins

Invariably, Big Data technologies are the best paid offers available on the market. In the previous quarter, Apache Flink, an enterprise Apex technology, was ranked number one in this field. Hadoop and Spark returned to the top of the list this quarter.

The best paying technologies appearing in job offers
The best paying technologies appearing in job offers - chart

Experience vs salaries

Salary dependent on experience

Wynagrodzenie w zależności od doświadczenia - junior - chart
Wynagrodzenie w zależności od doświadczenia - mid - chart
Junior
Mid
Senior
Wynagrodzenie w zależności od doświadczenia - senior - chart

Sample salaries dependent on the role

On the basis of the chart (comparing it with data from Q1 2020), we can still see an almost complete disappearance of junior offers.

We can also see that for backend seniors specializing in Java, the upper range of salaries has decreased.

Upper salary ranges for a B2B contract in Warsaw depending on the role
Upper salary ranges for a B2B contract in Warsaw depending on the role
 - chart
Junior
Mid
Senior

Does company size matter?

Which companies offer higher rates?

Number of job offers
Average upper range for a B2B contract
Średnia górne widełki na umowę B2B, a liczba ogłoszeń - chart

There is a relationship between the rates offered and the size of the company, but it is small. An interesting relationship, however, occurs in the case of the salaries offered and the number of parallel job offers. It turns out that the more companies publish, the more they pay, as illustrated in the chart on the right.

It can be seen that companies publishing 1 job offer versus companies publishing 8 or more job offers simultaneously may differ by as much as PLN 5,000 when it comes to the average upper range.

Compared to the previous quarter, we can also observe an almost complete disappearance of offers with salaries significantly exceeding the market average.

How many job offers are companies posting?

What percentage of companies publish a given number of offers at the same time
What percentage of companies publish a given number of offers at the same time - chart

Remote work vs salaries

There is one difference to the previous report - the rates are going down. As in the previous quarter, the salaries for stationary offers are similar to the salaries for remote offers, but are lower than in the previous quarter.

Q1 2020
Jaki % firm publikuje daną liczbę ofert jednocześnie - chart
Q2 2020
Jaki % firm publikuje daną liczbę ofert jednocześnie - chart
Junior
Mid
Senior

Salary vs specialization

Android Developers

Upper salary ranges for Android Developers in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław
Upper salary ranges for Android Developers in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław  - chart
Junior
Mid
Senior

iOS Developers

Upper salary ranges for iOS Developers in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław
Upper salary ranges for iOS Developers in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław - chart
Junior
Mid
Senior

DevOps

Upper salary ranges for DevOps in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław
Upper salary ranges for DevOps in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław 
 - chart
Junior
Mid
Senior

FrontEnd Developers

Upper salary ranges for FrontEnd Developers in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław
Upper salary ranges for FrontEnd Developers in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław - chart
Junior
Mid
Senior

Testing Automation / QA

Upper salary ranges for Testing Automation / QA in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław
Upper salary ranges for Testing Automation / QA in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław - chart
Junior
Mid
Senior

Data Sources

The data comes from:

78980.86% (vs 7831)
job offers published by
24319.8% (vs 2214)
companies as of 1 July 2020 on the following websites:

www.inhire.io
www.pracuj.pl - categories: „IT - Administration”, „IT - Software Development”
www.nofluffjobs.com
www.justjoin.it

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