Poland facing shortage of 100,000 IT specialists
Poland is currently facing a shortfall of 50,000 IT specialists, a figure that is set to rise to 100,000 in the next decade, according to a new report.
The number of offers posted on online job listings was 13% higher in the second quarter of the year compared with the first quarter, according to the report published by inhire.io, a platform matching IT specialists with technology companies.
According to Puls Biznesu, around 25% of them were looking for Java Script programmers, 22% for Java developers, and 15% for Python professionals. Candidates frequently participate in many recruitment processes at the same time, according to Devire, a Polish job service, and receive three or four offers from different organisations.
Polish IT talent is being picked up by foreign corporations, which is contributing to the shortfall. According to the report, 48 percent of them had gotten at least one job offer from a company based outside the country in the previous year.
Demand for IT expertise has increased as more work became remote during the pandemic. As a result, the profession saw the second-largest nominal year-on-year wage gain among Polish occupations in February, with an average increase of 503 zloty (€110).
Poland has sought to recruit foreign expertise to fill a void in its home market. According to a research published in April, Belarusian ICT specialists now make up about 10% of the country's population. In Belarus, another two-fifths of such workers indicated they were considering relocating.
According to the new data, there are 600,000 such job openings across the European Union. The global deficit of IT specialists presently stands at roughly 40 million, according to Daxx.com, a Dutch IT employment service, and is anticipated to reach 85.2 million by the end of the decade.
