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  • Earnings in IT 2025: Up to £25k for a B2B senior. Who gained the most?

    Earnings in IT 2025: Up to £25k for a B2B senior. Who gained the most?

    After two years of painful correction and frozen budgets, the Polish technology sector is finally seeing a rebound. According to the latest report by Just Join IT and N-iX, the number of job offers in 2025 increased by 8.42 per cent year-on-year, exceeding 110,000 advertisements.

    However, this is not a return to the ‘El Dorado’ of mass recruitment, but an entry into a phase of mature consolidation where capital is flowing to where it can see a direct return on investment: in analytics and artificial intelligence.

    The most symbolic change took place in the technology structure. After years of undivided dominance by JavaScript, the Data category has taken over the primacy, comprising 10.78 per cent of all offerings. The dethroning of the frontend in favour of analytics, Big Data and Data Science signals a fundamental shift in business strategies.

    Companies have stopped focusing solely on building new interfaces, shifting the focus to optimising processes and learning from their resources. This trend is reinforced by the rapidly growing AI/ML segment.

    Although artificial intelligence accounts for less than 5 per cent of advertisements, this is where specialists are seeing record salary increases of 15 per cent and the volume of offers has quadrupled.

    However, the market recovery is selective and brutal for newcomers. The barrier to entry in the IT industry has reached historic highs. As many as 96 per cent of all adverts last year were aimed at seniors and mids. Juniors, with only 4.79 per cent of the market share of offers, became a statistical margin.

    Rather than investing in staff training, employers are looking for ready-made competencies that scale the effectiveness of teams from day one.

    In terms of salaries, 2025 has widened the gap between B2B contracts and employment contracts. This is most evident at the mid-level, where the earnings gap reaches 26 per cent in favour of contracts.

    B2B seniors can count on an average net salary of nearly PLN 25,000, which is attracting more and more experts to this cooperation model. Although remote working remains the standard (74 per cent of offers), managers are increasingly bold in promoting the hybrid model. The number of adverts requiring partial presence in the office increased by 29 per cent, suggesting a slow retreat from 100 per cent remote work to building an organisational culture in the ‘4+1’ or ‘3+2’ model.

    The year 2026 promises to be a time of further specialisation. The era of easy money is over, and the era of precise investment in technologies that make a real difference to companies’ bottom line has begun.

  • IT job market in Poland 2025: Offers up 68%, but seniors in short supply

    IT job market in Poland 2025: Offers up 68%, but seniors in short supply

    The first half of 2025 has seen a significant upturn in the Polish IT market. After a more difficult 2023, the technology recruitment sector is back on the upswing, with the number of job offers increasing by as much as 68% year-on-year, according to justjoin.it. A key driver of this rebound is the explosion in demand for competencies in the areas of artificial intelligence and data.

    The largest number of announcements were for specialists in the Data (9.7%), Java (9.4%) and JavaScript (8.3%) categories. There was also high demand in DevOps, Analytics and Python. AI/ML stands out – the number of offers in this group grew rapidly especially in the second quarter, reflecting the global trend of implementing solutions based on artificial intelligence.

    Poland is benefiting from growing demand as a technology hub in the CEE region. The average salary in IT was PLN 22,770 gross per month in the first half of the year – 12% more than a year earlier. Seniors in key specialisations such as Java or Security are achieving record salaries, reaching up to PLN 40,000 on an employment contract. High rates are also recorded by IT architects, DevOpsi and data specialists.

    Paradoxically, with record demand for experienced experts (52.3% of all offers), it is the juniors who dominate the number of applications – they are more than twice as active as their more experienced counterparts. Although the share of offers for beginners is still low (5.9%), numerically it has increased by 20% year-on-year. This signals that the market is not completely closed to new talent, but that expectations are rising – from knowledge of AI tools to a ready-made portfolio and high flexibility.

    The remote working landscape is also changing. For the first time, the hybrid model has overtaken fully remote in offers, with 47.1% and 46% of adverts respectively. Only 7% of employers expect an in-office presence. This may suggest that companies are beginning to look for a better balance between flexibility and team efficiency.

    All indications are that the second half of the year will bring further market consolidation around the most desirable competences and escalating competition for seniors. At the same time, it will be increasingly difficult for juniors to enter the industry, which may affect the availability of experienced staff in a few years. The Polish IT industry therefore faces the challenge not only of growth, but also of building solid foundations for future development – in a world where the pace of technological change is outpacing the pace of education and professional adaptation.