+8% all over Russia

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Salaries have grown in almost all programming languages. The most noticeable growth was among developers in Kotlin (+16%), to 290,000 ₽, C (+14%) to 180,000 ₽, salaries in Swift and Elixir also grew by 11%.

Decrease

Salaries decreased only for Objective-C programmers – by 10%, to 342,000 ₽, and Ruby – by 11%, to 250,000 ₽.

IT Salaries by Company

Avito paid IT specialists the most in the first half of 2024 — a median of 351,000 ₽. Raiffeisenbank, T1 Holding, Innotech, and VK were also in the top five.

Freelance and Individual Entrepreneurship

To the salaries of IT specialists in companies, we add the salaries of freelancers and individual entrepreneurs. Compared to the second half of 2023, the salaries of the former increased by 19% and amounted to 95,000 ₽. But the salaries of individual entrepreneurs decreased by 16% – they receive an average of 169,000 ₽.

Methodology

This is our fourteenth IT salary survey. You can see previous reports here:

The report for the first half of 2024 is based on data from 41,594 specialists. We indicate the amounts that specialists receive in hand in rubles, minus all taxes. To make the data more accurate, we specifically cut off the 1% of the highest and 1% of the lowest salaries.

We wrote more about how to use the salary calculator and how salaries are calculated in this help article.

Briefly about the main thing

• The median salary in the IT market is now 151,666 ₽, which is 8% more than in the second half of 2023.

• The median salary of IT specialists in Moscow is 200,000 ₽, in St. Petersburg – 165,000 ₽, in the regions – 135,000 ₽.

• The most significant increase was seen in the salaries of sales specialists – by 33%, to 120,000 ₽, content specialists – by 26%, to 102,000 ₽, testers – by 20%, to 127,000 ₽, and designers – by 19%, to 95,000 ₽.

• The salary of software architects remains the highest among developers – 388,000 ₽ (+8%), HTML layout designers receive the least – 66,000 ₽ (+10%).

• Among developers, the salaries of 1C Programmers increased the most over the first half of the year – by 18%, to 180,000 ₽.

• The highest paying programming languages ​​are Objective-C, Elixir, Scala, Golang and Kotlin, while the lowest paying is C.

• If we talk about how the salaries of developers have changed in the context of programming languages, then the most noticeable increase was in the salaries of Kotlin developers – by 16% to 290,000 ₽, and C (+14%) to 180,000.

• IT specialists earn the most at Avito (351,000 ₽), Raiffeisenbank (340,000 ₽) and T1 Holding (315,000 ₽).

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