WHAT MAKES SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE TOP REQUESTED

Just as no country could become a country without its people, so the development of software in Ukraine would not have gained popularity without Ukrainian developers. We will talk about the peculiarities of the mentality, character, and working approach of Ukrainian developers further, and in this section, we will focus on the surge of youth interest in the current topic, education, and additional courses.

If we talk about education, then most of the well-known Ukrainian universities already have IT-oriented faculties in their arsenal, which are in great demand among young people. In general, Ukrainian youth is very strongly directed to the IT sphere, this is proved by statistics, because as of 2021, Ukraine had more than two hundred and fifty IT specialists, which is more than 50 thousand more than in 2020. Perhaps for the first time, the IT industry is turning from a “niche story” that few people have heard of, into a popular field that many people want to get into. According to surveys conducted in 2021, 54% of Ukrainian high school students want to work in IT. Meanwhile, more than 80,000 students applied for the specialties of "computer science" and "software engineering" in Ukrainian universities.

It is also worth noting additional courses that help people either master the profession of a programmer or improve their skills in a particular area. Non-formal and corporate education is actively developing in Ukraine: IT schools, courses, academies, and programs of the companies themselves. According to estimates for 2022, right now, non-formal education is preparing 10-12 thousand new IT specialists per year, and in the coming years their number will increase to 20-25 thousand.

At the moment, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of Ukrainian applications that have captured the hearts of users around the world. In this section, we will highlight several projects that previously seemed only fairy tales and inventions, but Ukrainians are already using them.

The real achievement of 2019 and all subsequent years was the application, which combined all the documents of a citizen of Ukraine. Naturally, we are talking about the application "Diya", without which at the moment not a single day of Ukrainian can do. It was a real breakthrough because no one else has seen this anywhere else.

Moreover, a huge number of Internet sites for the sale of furniture, cars, apartments, and much more have created their applications, which are very high quality and in many ways revolutionary.

We must not forget that in Ukraine at the moment there is such a terrible phenomenon as war and, in order to save many lives, Ukrainian developers, together with the state, have developed applications for the general announcement of an air raid alert. These and many other applications not only work flawlessly but also save thousands of lives every day.

Ukraine is already known in the world as an IT country, and the IT industry at the moment is a large and rapidly growing part of the Ukrainian economy. In order not to seem unfounded, revenues from IT to the state budget from the beginning of 2017 to the end of 2022 almost tripled. Ukrainian developers, together with the state, have come a long way in the field of software development, but this industry is still young enough to achieve its maximum growth rates and prospects, which means that even greater changes and accomplishments are coming. Launching new projects, expanding the capabilities of existing applications, brilliant ideas, and much more, who knows where the IT industry in Ukraine will take in a few years? 

Even considering the difficult situation with the war in Ukraine, many foreign businessmen are already opening their branches here or hiring Ukrainian developers. Factors such as discussions of the situation in Ukraine in almost all news media in the world make it clear that after the victory, the demand for services from Ukraine will skyrocket. All these facts indicate that we are only at the beginning of unprecedented success. This is facilitated by the engineering talents of Ukrainian developers, the popularity of the profession, the development of educational projects, and the large capacity of the labor market.

We hope you liked this article and after reading it you learned something new about Ukraine, about software development, and of course about Ukrainian developers.

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