We continue to deepen our knowledge of the salary market in Russia. The end of 2019 is nearing, which means it's time for the annual report on what salaries in the past year were offered by employers in their vacancies at My Circle. As in the previous year , in this report we will compare the salaries offered by employers with the salaries from the salary calculator , in which we receive data directly from specialists. Compare salaries for the main IT specialties and programming languages - separately for Moscow, St. Petersburg and other regions.
Methodological explanation
When calculating salaries offered by employers, we use data from vacancies posted on My Circle for the last six months, from May to October 2019 inclusive. Typically, in vacancies indicate salary in the form of a range of "from and to." We took all salaries “from”, calculated the median value and called it the “lower limit of salaries”, and took all salaries “from”, also calculated the median value and called it the “upper limit of salaries”. For reliable data, only those that were based on 20 or more vacancies were taken.
Comparison of salaries by major specialties
In Moscow, the highest salaries are offered in mobile and desktop development. We saw the same picture last year.
In most specialties, the current median salary of specialists falls into the range between the lower and upper boundaries of salaries offered by employers, which means that the job offer is approximately equal to the demand for it.
The exception is desktop development and support, where employers offer a salary that is higher than the current one, which means there is an increased demand for such specialists, it is now easier for such specialists to find a higher-paying job.
In management and design, the median salary of specialists is equal to the upper limit of the salary fork in vacancies, that is, the demand for such specialists is reduced, now it is more difficult to find a higher-paying job.
In marketing, the median salary of specialists is higher than the upper limit of salaries offered by employers, and this situation has been going on for the second year in a row.
In St. Petersburg, the highest salaries are offered in mobile and backend development. We saw the same picture last year.
In most specialties, the current median salary of specialists falls into the range between the lower and upper boundaries of salaries offered by employers.
The exception is testing, where employers offer a salary that is higher than the current one.
In the regions, the highest salaries are offered in mobile and desktop development. We saw the same picture last year.
In many specialties, we see increased demand from employers: the current median salary of specialists is lower than the lower salary offered by employers.
The current salaries of specialists fall into the salary fork at vacancies only in the backend development, management, analytics and marketing.
Comparison of salaries by programming languages
In Moscow, the highest salaries are offered to developers on Go, as well as in mobile development languages: Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C.
In most programming languages, the current median salary of specialists falls into the salary offered by employers; the job offer is approximately equal to the demand for it.
The exceptions are 1C and PHP, where the median salary of specialists is equal to the upper limit of the salary fork in vacancies, that is, the demand for such specialists is reduced, now it is more difficult to find a higher-paying job.
In St. Petersburg, the highest salaries are also offered to developers on Go, and in mobile development languages, as well as developers in Python.
Increased demand is observed for the developers of Kotlin and Python, it is now easier to find a higher paying job. Reduced demand is for Go and Swift developers, it’s more difficult to find a more profitable job here.
In the regions, the highest salaries for mobile developers are Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin, as well as for Ruby developers.
In all programming languages, except for Objective-C, we see an increased demand for specialists: the current median salary of developers is lower than the salary plug offered by employers.
The main observations:
- Moscow salaries are traditionally higher than St. Petersburg by 10-30% and above regional by 20-40%.
- Mobile development (Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C) is now the highest paid specialization in all regions.
- Go is the highest paid programming language in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
- In the regions we see an increased demand for specialists of almost all IT specialties, it is now easier for them to switch to more profitable work.
- In Moscow, there is a reduced demand for managers, designers and especially marketers; it is now more difficult for them to switch to more profitable work.
We are preparing another big salary report for IT specialists for the second half of 2019 , and we ask you to help us with this - share information about your current salary in our salary calculator .
After you do this, you can find out salaries for any field and any technology by setting the required filters in the calculator. But the most important thing is that you will help the entire IT sector to better understand how much that costs in the current labor market.
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Here is our salary report for the first half of 2019, if you have not seen it yet.