REUTERS
The largest growth in the number of specialists was recorded in the city of Kyiv and Kyiv region.
The number of IT specialists registered as individual entrepreneurs in Ukraine grew by 22% in 2019, up to 183,000 people from 151,000 in 2018.
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The largest growth in the number of specialists was recorded in the capital city of Kyiv and Kyiv region, namely by almost 11,000 IT individual entrepreneurs more year-over-year (y-o-y); by 4,400 people more in Kharkiv region, and by 3,500 people more in Lviv region, according to a study of the Ukrainian DOU specialized web portal about the IT industry in Ukraine, with reference to the state register of legal entities, individual entrepreneurs and NGOs.
According to the study, Volyn, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Poltava regions showed the highest growth rates in the number of IT individual entrepreneurs, where the number of specialists grew by 25%.
As of today, about 30% of such individual entrepreneurs are registered in Kyiv and Kyiv region, DOU said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, according to DOU, the number of job openings at jobs.dou.ua, a job search service in the IT sector, decreased from 4,996 to 2,992 in April, or by 36% y-o-y.
UNIAN memo. DOU is a Ukrainian web portal about the IT industry with its own job search service.