Turnovers and salaries continue to move upwards in IT&C industry, shows Mercer study

The Romanian IT&C field continues the favorable trend of past years, both as far as the turnover and the salaries of employees in this sector are concerned, according to the findings of the latest Mercer survey.

In 2014, the revenues of IT&C companies grew by 13 percent compared to the previous year. This positive trend is expected to continue by the end of 2015.

This year’s forecast shows a 14 percent growth in the turnovers in the industry.

The Mercer survey which is dedicated to the salary growth in the first half of the year shows that salaries in the IT&C sector have grown on average by 4.5 percent.

This percentage will hold true also for 2016 salaries as well.

The value of the salary increase covers the 2.2 value of the inflation, a trend which is present we find in nearly all countries in the region.

The higher demand for specialists in this sector has generated fierce competition on the labor market. For this reason, benefit packages are becoming more and attractive, as revealed in the IT&C salary survey carried out by Consulteam.

Apart from the salary, the benefit packages also include less usual benefits such as in-house coffee, fresh fruit and vegetables and soft drinks, modern headquarters, catering or chef for lunch, parties and team buildings, investment into CSR projects selected by the employees.

These are on top of more usual benefits such as medical subscriptions, meal tickets, training programs and so on.

At regional level, apart from Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca is more and more present in the IT&C employers attention. Even though salaries in Bucharest still differ from the ones in the other cities, this gap is becoming smaller and smaller. For instance, the salary of a Java developer in Bucharest is 18 percent higher than in Cluj-Napoca.

“Following an analysis of salaries in Bucharest, a Java developer can earn a gross salary between EUR 900- EUR 2,400, depending on seniority,” says Oana Botolan Datki, SEE Managing Partner, Consulteam.

The survey looked at salaries of developers of programming languages such as Java, .Net, C++, PHP and others.

Otilia Haraga

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