Salary, Job benefit and trending in Vietnam IT industry

VIETNAM - 2017

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executive summary

Nguyen Huu BinhCEO TopDev.vn

According to our most recent statistics, Vietnam is starting to have a switch from outsourcing to product development. As a result of this trend, developers want to advance their career by being more innovative. Skilled developers spend very little of their time searching for jobs on websites but instead of �nding it through online communities, events and social networks.

I've realized there's changing in IT recruitment in many regions, a lot of IT companies have also changed their games as there is an increasing in developer recruiting. Recently, more and more companies have been moving their development department to Vietnam.

In this quarter, we have been partnering with hundreds of top IT recruiters and conducting a deep research with thousands of developers in our database in order to understand their needs. Let's explore!

Content Table

A short summary of salary, job benefits and technologyadvancement in this year

Statistics about developer salary in Vietnam categorized bytheir skills

How IT companies retain and employ skilled Developer

As a recruiters, these are the technology and recruitment trend that you don't want to miss.

Which career path is the best for you? Let’s find outTech and skills that are popular in the IT community

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Skills - Technology

Salary

Job Benefits

Trending

Future goal

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Introduction

Because of the fast change of IT industry, we decide to we conducted this survey from 2 different perspectives, HR and Developer who are working in IT industry.

Source

From 2nd January to 15th June of 2017, we has conducted a survey to collect thousands of answers from Developer and HR specialist in IT community. On the other hand, we also use the data from Topdev, which has built up for more than 3 years, to achieve the highest credibility and accuracy.

Developers IT Recruiters Analyzed data

150 5,500+ 70,000+

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Job Demand In IT Industry

Growth significantly over the 5 yearsThe growth rate is still increasing without a sign of slowing down and it is expected to reach the demand for 350,000 developers before 2018. However, there is only 200,000 is available in the market right now, which marks a shortage of human resource supply in the market.

2012 2013 2014 2015 20172016

7,567 jobs

8,250 jobs 9,405 jobs 12,550 jobs 18,230 jobs

+11% +14% +35% +45%+++

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Job Demand – Based on statistics

Approximately 60% of the IT jobs require Senior level In the past 15 years, IT industry is all about outsourcing. However, there is a shift as more technology companies focus on developing their own products and offering innovative services. As a result, the demand for higher skill level and experience developers also jumping in recent years. Based on the data from 250 business customers of TopDev, the IT HR and headhunter prefer developers with more than 2 years experience.

city position company type

59%39%

2%

75%

5%

1%9%

48%41%

11%

Other

Product

Outsourcing

Experienced

Fresh graduate

HCM

Danang

Hanoi

CEOManager

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2Skills – Technology

With an advance in technology from different categories such as mobile app, front-end, back-end, NodeJS, ReactJS, React Native, and Unity,…. Companies are most likely to hire developers who can use JavaScript and its Frameworks.

Javascript

JavaScript and its frameworks still get the most attention from the IT community. Moreover, not only JavaScript has become a “must-have” requirement for front-end developers but it also plays an important role in back-end and mobile development. We believe that this trend will remain unchanged in the future.

JAVA Top choices for developers

JAVASCRIPT Expected to become more popular

AI/ML Most demanded in Job requirements

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Top programming languages Search on Topdev.vn

java

php

android

ios

.net

37%

19%

11%

9%

8%

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Top programming languages and SalaryProgramming languages that are on the top list of HR

hiring and their salary offer

Percentage based on the data that was collected in the first half of 2017

Beside JavaScript, C# also gets a lot of attention from IT companies because of the rising of window apps and websites in recent years.

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

SASS

Drupal

PerlXamarin

SymfonySwift

ScalaObjective-C

RubyBootstrap

PythonASP.NET

C++HTML5

Node.jsReact Native

C#React JS

PHPJavaScript

CSSSQLJava

$933$1,057$1,186

$942$1,251$1,190$1,208$1,870

$1,190$570$1,140

$903$1,109

$971$1,219$1,170

$1,037$1,037

$910$1,070

$820$1,100

$1,161

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Which Language has the highest demand in 2017?

the demand for JavaScript is still rising!Beside JavaScript, C# also gets a lot of attention from IT companies as the rising in window apps and websites in recent years.

JavaScript PHP C#0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Java PythonRuby

C++ ASP.NetSwift C Objective-C

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3Salary

More than 60% HR specialists are willing to offer up to $1,160 for developers who have more than 2 years experience. According to the survey result, the average increase rate of developers salary will be around 6~20% in 2017, with the Objective-C developers have the highest pay.

Sources of Data

Based on the result from developers who participated in the survey and the data collected from TopDev, we have analyzed and identified the top most important skills that affect the pay rate for developer.

Mobile developerhas the highestincome

6-20% $1,160 MOBILE The highest average salary for experienced developers

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The percentage of salary growth rate

Salary based on experienceThe highest pay that HR can offer for developers (the data was collected in the

first half of 2017)

Fresh graduateLower than 2 years

experienceAfter one year of working, their earning will rise significantly.

5%position

SeniorMore than 2 years

experienceMainly are Tech Architects and software developers.

75%position

ManagerMore than 5 years

experienceIt is really difficult for HR to find a suitable manager with the appropriate skills for their company.

9%position

CEO and higher positions More than 10 years

experienceThere is no surprise that the candidates from this segment are the hardest to find.

1%position

$350-$520 $980-$1,530 $2,300-$2,840$750-$812

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Salary based on Job taskThe highest salary that 80% of developers in the survey

claimed to get paid by their company

Did you know?Full-stack developers are encouraged to sharpen their specialty in project management, team working and decision making. Furthermore, developers who can use English fluently will have 1,5 to 2 times higher in salary compare to the others with the same level of skills.

QA/QC Engineer

Software Developer

Infrastructure & Networking

Big Data - Machine Learning

Project/Product Manager

Team Leader

$820

$930

$1,070

$1,325

$1,412

$2,721

$0 $500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000

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Top 5 Skills get the highest pay rateIT companies are willing to pay 80% higher for developers who are

experienced with programming languages below:

$719 $820 $950 $1,212 $1,325

JS(react,node,angular)

iOS/AndroidBig Data

RubyPython

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Salary Satisfaction

Are developers happy with their salary? The amount of negativity is almost 3 times higher comparing to the developers who are satisfied. Moreover, developers, who are unsatisfied with their jobs, are also looking for other opportunities.

11% 35%

54%35%

11%

Acceptable

Satisfied

Unhappy

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Salary increase rateHow much companies planned to increase for their

developers salary in 2017?

More than 2/3 companies are planning to rise employees’ salary offer

41%

28%

7%

15%

4% 5%

Increase 6-10%

Increase 11-20%

Increase 20%

Unplanned

Remain the same

Increase 1-5%

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Things can help improve salaryNear the end of the year is the best opportunity for asking a raise

First do your best at jobWith the rapid change of technology development, the race between companies for acquiring skilled developers is highly competitive which results in a rise for developer salary. However, outstanding performance is still the top reason that helps developers to receive a rise in salary.

Get new skills

New company policies

Get promoted

Outstandingperformance

11%

15%

34%

38%

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4Job Benefits

The IT industry is one of the highest competitive markets. Therefore, to retain skilled employees, attractive salary and other benefits play the key factors.

How important are Job benefits to Employee?

Based on the survey, employee has higher commitment when the company has suitable employee benefit policies. Most of the companies offer various benefits for their developers such as an upgrade for their technology grears/equipment, pay for events ticket, free health care programs and holidays.

learningOpportunities

Challenging projects with innovative technologies. Company has skilled leaders, managers and opportunity to get advanced training

Infracsture

Office with good working equipment and recreational facility for employee is a big plus. Open space with entertaining environment to help employee to relieve stressand be creative.

Salary andbonus

The 13th month salary is always considered the top priority benefits for developers. Bonus for outstanding performance, shared revenue are common tatics that companies use to attract skilled developers.

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According to the data, the salary for developers will keepincreasing in the further.

Benefit – What Developers really need?

Financial support

Transportation

Workplace and workstation

Female friendly environment

Family support

Flexible HR policies

Work at home

Business trip

Healthcare program for employee

Office benefit

Bonus/Monetary reward

Carrer advance

Balance between work and personal life

Flexible working time

Company culture

Day-off policies

Opportunity to advance in skills

Workplace environment

100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Top benefits that developers want

Top benefits that companies offer

1. Career advance and learning oppoturnity 2. Bonus/Reward based on performance3. Friendly work environment

1. Mordern infracstruture 2. Career advance3. Flexible Working time

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Looking for a Job in 2017?

42%of developers said that they are willing to accept new offer from another company if it has better salary and benefits.

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How do developer feel about their job benefits?

According to the survey, developers are more satisfied with the job benefits than their salary however it is still low.

are you satisfied with the benefit that company offer? Most of IT employees are still not happy with the benefits of their companies. In other words, this is an opportunity for HR specialist to impress and attract skilled developers to their companies.

26% 30%

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5Training

Only 25% of the developers have certificates. Most of them want to learn a specific programming language to advance their own career. More over, developers are still learning by themselves from different sources.

Certificates

In IT industry, the certificate is considered not as important as the developer skills and experiences. Still, in order to improve their employee knowledge and skills, many companies give their support policies for developers to get important certificates such as Agile Process, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.

Self-study

The must-have skill of Developers

Certificate

There are many certificates that will be benefical to the developers

Bilanguage

English and Japanese are the two popular choices for developers in Vietnam

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Most common training coursesWhat training courses that your company is offering?

About 25% developers got their training programes from their companiesEnglish is still at the top while IT skills and taking exam for certificate are the most common training programs for employee. So, which training programs is the most valuable?

31% 30% 25% 24% 22% 7%

EnglishIT skills Taking exam

for CertificateLeadingskills Manager

skillsOthers

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45%Project

Management Professional (PMP) has

the highest rate.

41%Cisco

an certificate in Network & Security with global

recognition.

39%Agile

With Srum Master and Product Owner becoming more and more important, Agile also become one of the well-know certificate.

32%Microsoft

MCSA/MCSE includes Cloud Platform, Web

applications, Infrastracture, SQL

server...

21%Amazon Web Services

Amazon Certified Solution Architect –

Many people consider it as a must-have

certificate for developers

Project Management Professional certificate gets the highest attentionfrom Tech companies60% of the companies willing to pay higher with extra benefits for developers who have a PMP certificate.

An online site for sharing information about technology and the mindset behind it.

MediumOnline IT courses website that are usually free or low price is a wonderful place for IT beginner.

Udemy With thousands of daily viewers sharing their stories related to IT.

Techstacks.ioGet access to one of the biggest online libraries for IT and technology.

GitHub

5 golden sources for learning about IT

Do you really want to improve your skills?Not only famous foreign Websites, the Vietnamese blogs such as techtalk.vn, Viblo or toidicodedao are great places for Developers to share their own story and knowledge. Especially, Techtalk.vn often helds tech-events with many well-know IT specialists.

Techtalk.vnAn informative Tech blog just for developers with various of sections, suitable for any level.

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How do developer learn new technology?Which method did developers use to learn for themselves?

10%

31%76%

49%

31%

how do you upgrade yourself?

Join short-term learning courses

Go to IT events

Learn from Gihub – Stackoverflow

Download Ebook

Learning from online courses

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6The new Trending

Web Framework and mobile platform get the most attention in the IT industry this year. Therefore, developers will certainly always looking for update news about them.

Mobile programing

Native is still at the top of the game. However, Xamarin (Microsoft) and React Native (Facebook) are becoming much more popular.

Laravel the Top Web framework

DOCKER React Native It has become one of the hottest trends for developers this year

One of the most popular choices forMobile developers

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TOP Web Frameworks

LARAVELLaravel has become one of the most popular web-frameworks in Vietnam, as a result from its large amount of PHP users. Coming with its latest version, Laravel allows developers to develop a website quickly with flexibility in optimization.

Angular JS

ReactJS

JQuery

Laravel

Others

Vue JSPhalcon

Symfony

Django

Ruby On Rails

Spring

Code Igniter

12%

15%

16%

15%

10%

5%1%

1%

5%

4%

6%10%

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Mobile Development trends in 2017

Mobile Native Platforms 10% of the job on TopDev is for mobile developers. Due to its great features, native is still getting a lot of attention from the IT community.

Android

Xamarin

React Native

IonicPhonegap

Others

iOS28%

3%

13%

6%3%13%

34%

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IT Trends around the world

Cloud platformtInfrastructure, Provisioning, Runtime, Orchestration, Application Development are all moving to cloud platform

JavaScript It is already on every website and the language starting to appear in backend and mobile.

Docker

Network security

Create, execute, and run app on laptops, data center, or cloud by using container.

Data protection, data security and services relate to manage network, protect from hacker.

Big Data Data analytic, data mining and data visualization are becoming more popular

Internet of ThingsThe technology with connectivity is the new leading trending in 2017

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Skills relate to Cloud Platform

The reality ofCloud platformCloud platform offers different services based on the user requirement and allows them to expand when needed. The technology is used widely in different stages of business such as infrastructure, development & execution, optimized technology and services of a company.

In the near future, cloud platform will play an important factors in IT development and business.

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What you need to knowBenefitDevelopers are always looking for opporturnities to build up their career paths, salary and workplace culture are also important factors that can affect their decisions.

Job Demand

JavaScript is the most required skill and the hottest keyword for searching in IT community.

‘Hot’ IT SkillsSalary

At its highest in the recent years, the number of users on Topdev has doubled just in 2 years.

The salary growth rate is quite positive in 2017. A software developer can earn up to $2,500/month if he has the skills that the companies are looking for.

Certificate54% of companies are willing to pay higher salary for developers who have specific certificates which relate to their job position.

Lead the trendingLaravel is one of the top web frameworks that IT companies are using in 2017, especialy in Vietnam.

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