Top 50 IT companies of Ukraine: EPAM exceeds the mark of 8,000 specialists

Portal DOU has published another ranking of the largest IT companies in Ukraine. According to the data, in 2019, the total number of employees of all companies from the ranking increased from 58,000 to 67,000 people.

EPAM Ukraine, the leader of the ranking, has exceeded its staff by 1,700 people and passed the mark of 8,000 specialists for the year. Also, four new product companies appeared in the rating, three of which are Ukrainian ones.

Here you can see the top 20 companies of the rating (and the full list you can find here):

The product companies that are new in the ranking are Ajax Systems – 800 specialists and 27th position, PMLAB – 621 (35th), Megogo – 456 (50th), plus one foreign company – WIX.com – 533 specialists and 41st position.

If to analyze the dynamics of growth of the 5 largest companies of the Ukrainian IT market, we can get the following diagram:

According to the authors of the research, 11 out of 50 companies from the ranking opened new offices both in Ukraine and abroad last year. 45 companies out of 50 have offices in Kyiv, 23 – in Lviv, 21 – in Kharkiv. In 23 Ukrainian cities, there are offices of at least one of the companies from the ranking.

Rated companies’ plans for staff expansion for the next six months look the following way:

10% of companies out of 40 plan to relocate from 20 to 50 specialists this year, another 28% – up to 20 specialists, but a lot of companies (62%) do not plan to do it.

Earlier, AIN.UA published the DOU-ranking of companies as of January 2019.