Why Outsourcing IT to Ukraine?
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Nowadays Ukraine is an attractive destination for IT outsourcing in Eastern Europe. Its highly skilled and talented IT specialists add advantages to the country on the world arena. As a result more and more complex software projects are implemented in Ukraine. According to statistics of Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative, an alliance of Ukrainian offshore software development, the IT outsourcing to Ukraine rose by 20% in the last few years.
Some people believe that prices in Ukraine are lower than in Europe which is quite true-wages in this country are significantly lower than in European countries. That’s why IT outsourcing in Ukraine is among the most attractive in Central and Western Europe. Foreign partners are highly interested in well-educated and talented young people which are rare treasures anywhere.
Thus, Ukraine gives many advantages and opportunities for outsource IT to Eastern Europe, like the following ones:
Good labor potential
Quality and, therefore, success of your offshore IT project directly depends on education level of an IT team. It’s not a secret that Ukraine is famous for its highly skilled specialists. Every year the number of educated youth is supplemented on 700,000 graduates (of those, an estimated 35% choose information technology related disciplines).
Similarity in culture
In all times Ukraine was close to Europe – Ukrainians actively interconnected with Europeans and thus nowadays Ukraine has a really European mentality. Ukrainians and Europeans have much in common – quite similar sense of values, believes in friendship and understanding of good work. Kiev is less than three hours away from most European cities which means by the time you get to work, Kiev have been already working for few hours. Thus, if you think of IT outsourcing, Ukraine has really professional people who see the things the way you do.
Clear and friendly laws
Ukrainian legal system is quite simple for IT outsourcing to Eastern Europe. Ukrainian IT companies will always consider your requirements. You can get full confidentiality of your information and a 100% guarantee of your intellectual property rights to the IT products developed for you in Ukraine.
Fast developing infrastructure
Ukrainian infrastructure is quite developed even for the European level. All major cities have large airports, various hotels and qualitative service. Speed of Internet is rather high. Thus, planning to entrust your outsource software development to Ukrainian specialists, you won’t have problems neither with communication nor with transportation here.
Friendly prices and fees
In spite of the quite lower labor cost in Ukraine, salaries of IT specialists are rather high here (only 3 times less than in Germany). Nevertheless, quality of outsource IT projects developed in Ukraine is very high and thus they are much cheaper tha
European projects.
Finding the right partners
It’s obvious that looking for an offshore IT implementation on your own is not as simple as it sounds. To get a stable guarantee of your projects’ properly implementation you need a reliable European partner who has a wide experience in working with Ukrainian side – like Digita26 Company. Such teamwork provides fast and cost-effective realization of your IT projects without any additional efforts from your side. Based in London, Digita26 partners with Ukraine’s leading digital production studios to help you deliver high-quality projects on time and within reasonable budgets. Most of their partners have been on the market for more than ten years, so you will be in safe hands with Digita26.
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