What salaries were offered by employers to IT specialists in the second half of 2019

We continue to deepen our knowledge of the salary market in Russia. The end of 2019 is approaching, which means it's time for an annual report on what salaries employers offered in their vacancies on My Circle in the past year. As in Last year, in this report we will compare salaries offered by employers with salaries from salary calculatorwhere we receive data directly from experts. Let's 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. Usually, in vacancies, the salary is indicated in the form of a range “from and to”. We took all the salaries “from”, calculated the median value and called it the “lower salary limit”, and took all the salaries “to”, also calculated the median value and called it the “upper salary limit”. Only those based on 20 or more vacancies were accepted as reliable data.

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.

For most specialties, the current median salary of specialists falls in the range between the lower and upper limits of salaries offered by employers, which means that the supply of work 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 range of salaries in vacancies, that is, the demand for such specialists is reduced, it is now more difficult to find a better-paid job. 

In marketing, the median salary of specialists is above the upper limit of salaries offered by employers, and this situation has continued for the second year in a row.


In St. Petersburg the highest salaries are offered in mobile and back-end development. We saw the same picture last year.

For most specialties, the current median salary of specialists falls within the range between the lower and upper limits 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 an 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 fork of salaries for vacancies only in back-end development, management, analytics and marketing.

Comparison of salaries by programming languages

In Moscow the highest salaries are offered to developers in Go, as well as in mobile development languages: Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C. 

For most programming languages, the current median salary of specialists falls into the fork of salaries offered by employers, the supply of work 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 range of salaries in vacancies, that is, the demand for such specialists is lower, it is now more difficult to find a better-paid job. 

In St. Petersburg the highest salaries are also offered to developers in Go, and in mobile development languages, as well as developers in Python.

There is an increased demand for Kotlin and Python developers, it is now easier to find a higher paying job here. Reduced demand for Go and Swift developers, where it is more difficult to find a more profitable job now.


In the regions the highest salaries are for mobile developers - Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin, as well as Ruby developers.

For 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 bracket offered by employers.

Key Observations:

• Moscow salaries are traditionally higher than St. Petersburg ones by 10-30% and higher than regional ones 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 in 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 report on the salaries of 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 will be able to find out the salary in any field and any technology by setting the required filters in the calculator. But most importantly, you will help the entire IT industry to understand even better how much everything costs in the current labor market. 

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Here is our payroll report for the first half of 2019 if you haven't seen it yet.

Source: habr.com