BULGARIA EXPORTS A STAGGERING USD 1 BILLION OF IT SERVICES
Bulgarian software industry exported goods and services worth over USD 1 billion last year, the whole sector generates about 6% of the country's GDP. This is indicated by the White Paper on a New High-Tech Industrialization 2015-2025 which will be released within a week. The authors are leading economists , financiers, engineers, scientists and experts from Bulgaria and abroad.
Over BGN 2,300 is the average monthly salary in the software industry in Bulgaria, which is about three times the average salary in the country.
50% of native IT industry is export oriented , with more than 90% of exports going to Western Europe, the USA and Canada.
According to the authors of the book, the annual growth of the software industry is 10% and three -quarters of all software companies in the country are owned by the Bulgarians.
Moreover - some of the biggest Bulgarian IT companies have even developed a network of subsidiaries in developed countries.
Labor productivity in this sector has made a significant annual growth of 20%.
" A certain impetus to the development of software engineering is the gradual conversion of Bulgaria in an outsourcing position for leading companies from developed countries. Currently the country is the number one destination for providing outsourcing services in Central and Eastern Europe and number 17 in the world by total of 50 countries analyzed by the consulting firm aT Kearney.
Between 12,000 and 15,000 people are currently employed in the IT sector. According to analysts, the Bulgarian IT sector will need some 22,000 specialists in 2015.
Копирано от standartnews.comBulgarian software industry exported goods and services worth over USD 1 billion last year, the whole sector generates about 6% of the country's GDP. This is indicated by the White Paper on a New High-Tech Industrialization 2015-2025 which will be released within a week. The authors are leading economists , financiers, engineers, scientists and experts from Bulgaria and abroad.
Over BGN 2,300 is the average monthly salary in the software industry in Bulgaria, which is about three times the average salary in the country.
50% of native IT industry is export oriented , with more than 90% of exports going to Western Europe, the USA and Canada.
According to the authors of the book, the annual growth of the software industry is 10% and three -quarters of all software companies in the country are owned by the Bulgarians.
Moreover - some of the biggest Bulgarian IT companies have even developed a network of subsidiaries in developed countries.
Labor productivity in this sector has made a significant annual growth of 20%.
" A certain impetus to the development of software engineering is the gradual conversion of Bulgaria in an outsourcing position for leading companies from developed countries. Currently the country is the number one destination for providing outsourcing services in Central and Eastern Europe and number 17 in the world by total of 50 countries analyzed by the consulting firm aT Kearney.
Between 12,000 and 15,000 people are currently employed in the IT sector. According to analysts, the Bulgarian IT sector will need some 22,000 specialists in 2015.
