Software developers get highest salaries in Ukraine

As of April 2021, software developers got the highest average salaries in Ukraine.

That is according to the job search website rabota.ua.

Read alsoAverage wage in Ukraine: Latest statsA JavaScript developer, in particular, may claim a monthly salary of about UAH 95,000, or US$3,410.

Average monthly salaries as the following:

UAH 95,000 for senior JavaScript developers;

UAH 95,000 for senior Front-End developers;

UAH 95,000 for senior HTML developers;

UAH 90,000 (US$3,230) for senior Java developers; and

UAH 90,000 for JavaScript developers.

Average wage in Ukraine

The average wage in the capital city of Kyiv is UAH 16,000 (US$574), according to rabota.ua.

Residents of the cities of Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhia are paid UAH 14,000 (US$501), UAH 13,500 (US$485), and UAH 11,500 (US$413) on the average, respectively.

Background

• The unemployment rate in Ukraine in the second quarter (Q2) of 2020 increased by 1.3 percentage points (pp) to 9.9% from 8.6% reported in Q1 2020, which in absolute terms numbered 1.7 million people.
• The unemployment rate in Q4 2020 rose by 0.6 pp against Q3 2020, from 9.5% to 10.1%, with the actual number of officially unemployed citizens being 1.8 million.
• The Cabinet's macroeconomic forecast for the next three years projects the unemployment rate for the population aged 15 to 70 at 9.2% in 2021, 8.5% in 2022, and 8% in 2023.
• In 2021, the unemployment rate is expected to decline, averaging 9.1%, according to the National Bank's inflation report published in April this year.