Q1 2022 in IT. Increase in the number of job offers and higher earnings – a summary of No Fluff Jobs

The demand for the services of IT specialists, including those holding non-programming positions, is growing year by year, which is confirmed by the data from No Fluff Jobs. The portal decided to compare the first quarter of 2022 in the industry to the same period last year. According to his analysis, in the case of job offers, the increase was significant and amounted to over 47%. What’s more, employees could count on higher wages. The upper median of earnings in the case of B2B contracts was PLN 21,000. PLN net + VAT. It’s about 12 percent. more than in the first quarter of the previous year.

Earnings go up

According to Gartner, global spending on IT services this year will reach nearly USD 4.5 billion. Thus, compared to 2021, they will be slightly over 5% higher. According to No Fluff Jobs, this is already reflected not only in the greater number of job offers for IT professionals (compared to the first three months of 2021 with the same period in 2022), but also in the amount of earnings offered to them.

According to the portal, the median of the salary range in the first quarter of this year in the case of a B2B contract amounted to 15-21 thousand. net + VAT (PLN 13.4-18.4 net + VAT in 2021). This means that the lower band was 10% higher than in the previous year, and the upper band was 12% higher. In turn, those who decided to be employed on the basis of a contract of employment could count on salaries between 10.7 and 17 thousand. PLN gross. So in this case the lower band was bigger by over 6%, and the upper band – by almost 12%.

At No Fluff Jobs, we have been publishing payroll reports in the IT industry for 3 years. Year after year, we record increases in both earnings and the number of job offers. Companies are still vying for the best talent while the workforce gap is widening. The IT market is therefore favorable to specialists and specialists in this sector

–says Tomasz Bujok, CEO of No Fluff Jobs.

Non-programming positions in IT. More popularity and higher earnings

The IT industry is constantly evolving and needs specialists with many competences. Positions that were not so popular a few years ago have recently become very important in the industry, including Project and Product Management. The medians of the lower and upper salary ranges in the case of the first category in 2021 oscillated between 14-18.6 thousand. PLN net (+ VAT) for B2B and 11-15.2 thousand. PLN gross for an employment contract. In the first quarter of 2022, it was already 14.1-20 thousand. PLN net (+ VAT) for B2B and 11.3-17.1 thousand. PLN gross for an employment contract.

The growing popularity of non-programming related specializations is noticeable. The first quarter of 2022 in the context of earnings growth belonged to Project and Product Managers and Managers, who could count on the spreads reaching the mythical 20,000 in IT. zloty. A year ago, the median of the upper salary brackets for these categories oscillated between 15 and 18 thousand. zloty. The growth is therefore considerable. The median of the upper salary brackets in the case of a B2B contract soared by slightly over 2,000. PLN net + VAT

– says Tomasz Bujok, CEO of No Fluff Jobs.