The profile resource DOU.UA haspublished a new rating of the largest Ukrainian IT companies (TOP 50 largest IT companies in Ukraine) by the number of employees and analyzed their growth dynamics in the first half of 2022. We have selected the most important from the study of the current state of IT in Ukraine.
- In January, the total number of IT specialists in the top 50 for the first time reached 100 thousand, but in the first half of the year it decreased by 3%, and as of the end of July, 97.6 thousand specialists work in the 50 largest companies in Ukraine. In the first half of 2022, almost half of the staff decreased. At the same time, the number of specialists in the top 25 companies decreased by 800 people – now 77 thousand specialists work there.
- There are two new companies in the July ranking – Room 8 Group (on the 30th line) and airSlate (on the 32nd). Rating of the 50 largest IT companies in Ukraine by the number of specialists as of July 2022:
- There have been changes in the big five – Ciklum for the first time in 10 years was outside the top five companies, and Evoplay took its place. The latter made it into the top five for the first time due to strong growth over the past year (by almost 1.5 thousand specialists since July 2021). For several years now, EPAM has continued to maintain the status of the largest IT company in Ukraine, but over the past six months it has shown the largest decline (minus 1,260 specialists). Softserve, which ranks second with 10,918 employees, lost 164 specialists over the same period. On the 3rd and 4th places – GlobalLogic and Luxoft.
- More than 60% of companies said they did not stop hiring in Ukraine after February 24, but the same percentage confirmed a reduction in hiring, taking into account pre-war plans, by more than 20% in February-July 2022.
- The decrease is observed among non-technical specialists, while the number of technical specialists in the top 25 even slightly increased by almost 100 people.
- In January-July of this year, Ajax Systems grew most actively – by 800 specialists. It can be recalled that in spring and summer Ajax opened new locations both in Ukraine and abroad ( the first foreign plant in Turkey ), entered the markets of Mexico and North America. Evoplay and Genesis also actively expanded – by 366 and 200 specialists, respectively.
- At least 30 companies opened new offices in the first half of 2022. Among the Ukrainian locations, new offices appeared in Uzhgorod, Khmelnitsky, Lvov, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnitsa, Ternopil. Of the foreign locations, Poland has become the most popular – 15 largest companies have opened offices in Krakow, Poznan, Bydgoszcz, Gdansk, Lodz, and Warsaw.
- 16 companies reported closing physical offices in Ukraine. Kharkiv suffered the most – 13 companies closed their offices there. Another 8 companies are in Kyiv. In addition, offices were closed in Odessa, Kherson, Dnipro, Sumy, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr.
- Only two companies saw their hiring rates rise in the first half of the year, and in almost half they were down 20-50% compared to pre-war plans.
- As for relocation, it all depends on the size of the company: the larger it is, the more employees have gone abroad. Most of the service companies in the rating noted that they were losing customers or were forced to freeze projects.
- In general, companies have modest plans for expansion in the second half of the year – more than half of the companies plan to grow by less than 200 specialists. The companies also do not plan to actively relocate specialists in the next six months.
