IT roles — demand and salaries

Which directions employers look for most, how much they pay by seniority, and what work formats they offer. Data from a live database of open jobs across CIS and Europe, updated daily.

Updated: 10/20/2026, 10:48:34 PM UTC

Role demand — trend

Share of each direction in the total weekly job flow (in % of jobs with a stated role).

Which directions are in demand

Top-25 directions by number of open jobs.

#	Direction	Jobs
1	IT	17,569
2	Data	16,815
3	DevOps	16,448
4	Fullstack	16,138
5	Backend	15,790
6	Architect	13,883
7	ML/AI	11,809
8	QA	8,960
9	AI Engineer	7,515
10	Security	7,089
11	Platform Engineer	5,272
12	PM	5,251
13	Frontend	4,829
14	Analyst	3,934
15	Product	3,653
16	Mobile	2,857
17	Embedded	2,382
18	Design	2,353
19	SRE	2,268
20	Analytics Engineer	1,207
21	GameDev	1,019
22	Blockchain	374
23	DevRel	328

Salary by role and level

Not published: the seniority field reflects how often it is filled in, not market levels — on live data middle comes out below junior. The axis returns when the field becomes a measurement rather than a fill-rate.

Work format by role

Remote / hybrid / office share per direction (top-20 by number of jobs with a stated format).

14,268 jobs

32%

15%

53%

Data

14,088 jobs

38%

19%

44%

Fullstack

13,534 jobs

39%

18%

43%

Backend

12,876 jobs

36%

19%

46%

DevOps

12,675 jobs

37%

23%

40%

Architect

11,390 jobs

39%

17%

44%

ML/AI

10,217 jobs

30%

20%

51%

7,592 jobs

28%

15%

57%

AI Engineer

6,661 jobs

35%

19%

46%

Security

5,975 jobs

39%

16%

44%

Platform Engineer

4,573 jobs

43%

23%

35%

4,004 jobs

39%

26%

35%

Frontend

3,662 jobs

46%

19%

34%

Analyst

3,229 jobs

35%

22%

43%

Product

2,832 jobs

40%

22%

38%

Mobile

2,393 jobs

44%

16%

40%

Embedded

1,960 jobs

11%

12%

77%

Design

1,822 jobs

46%

15%

39%

SRE

1,793 jobs

37%

20%

43%

Analytics Engineer

1,078 jobs

39%

18%

42%

GameDev

960 jobs

35%

56%

Blockchain

336 jobs

80%

15%

DevRel

303 jobs

48%

14%

39%

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How we calculate these numbers

Where the data comes from. Public sources — Telegram channels and job boards across CIS and Europe for IT.
What goes into the sample. Only live, open jobs. Non-IT directions (Sales, Marketing, HR, Support, Other) are excluded — this page is about IT roles.
Salaries. All amounts are normalised to USD/month and obvious outliers are removed. For each role × level pair we show a median only if at least 5 jobs with a salary are available.
Seniority levels. Junior / Middle / Senior / Lead / Principal — naming variants are normalised (e.g. "Mid" → "Middle").
Work format. We count only jobs with an explicitly stated format (remote / hybrid / office). "Not stated" does not enter the sample.