Outsourcing in Ukraine for IT industry - for and against

The practice of transferring hostilities to another country is currently very popular, especially in areas where remote work is generally acceptable. For businesses employed in IT technology, one of the most successful options for such outsourcing is Ukraine. The issue of development was repeatedly considered, including in specialized editions, such as the article "Nearshoring in Ukraine". So why is Ukraine regarded as possible "about shore" for soft developers?



Positive sides
The IT sector of Ukraine continues to develop actively without paying attention to crisis and pandemia. Moreover, during the decline of many industries, technology exports in 2020 grew more than 20%. More international companies focus on the country, seeing the following advantages:

• High quality of education and the presence of a large number of truly skilled developers and engineers who work qualitatively in western terms of pay;
• Traditionally, Ukrainians have no propensity to permanent job change – in the presence of good labor conditions, they are smooth years working in the same company, which greatly reduces the costs of searching and preparation of new frames;
• Information technology is quite popular with the perspective of professional career created by many clusters to develop both professional and personal;
• The growth of demand for specialists pulls the growth and proposal of appropriate frames — the market is not yet saturated, has many reserves for further growth.

Recently, many offices of leading IT companies are opened in Ukraine, but developing their own startups, the country is quite rapidly involved in general information space, taking part in the major projects of the industry.

Disadvantages
However, there are some circumstances that continue to hold some companies from outsourcing in Ukraine:

• primarily — the language of international communication, the first — English, knows inadequately, sometimes even programming specialists possess it not quite free for communication;
• corruption manifestations, unfortunately, in Ukraine are still quite common, despite the fact that the struggle with this phenomenon is declared almost decades.
• Sometimes the political situation becomes unstable, however, all manifestations of the national position in Ukraine usually take place quite peacefully, unlike the same France or the United States, without the beat of vitrines, etc.

Development of the information industry in Ukraine allows for prediction that the level of interest in outsourcing will only grow. Principal experts are: startnearshoring.com/knowledge/it-nearshoring-in-europe/. We are waiting to open new offices.