Ukraine’s IT workers are older, increasingly female and more fluent in JavaScript

Ukraine’s IT workers are older, increasingly female and more fluent in JavaScript, according to a new study by GlobalLogic. Compared to five years ago, the female portion of the workforce has grown to 25% today, for 14% in 2015. The average IT specialist is now 28 years old – one year older than five years ago. And 41% are now married. The portion of surveyed engineers using JavaScript is now 18%, ten times the 2010 level of 1.9%. Since 2015, jobs have changed — the share of testers is up 45%, and the share of developers is down 16%. “The second half of this year will be more optimistic for the entire industry,” predicts Andrey Yavorskiy, GlobalLogic’s vice president for strategy and technologies. “Digital transformation creates a demand for developers and testers, new IT specialties.”