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Post-Pandemic Growth, Skills Gap, and 17 Resumes per Vacancy in Kazakhstan’s IT Market

New research by Ranking.kz shows that Kazakhstan’s IT labor market is expanding rapidly but facing growing mismatches between available skills and employer demand.
Also, the Bureau of National Statistics reports that the number of specialists in “computer programming, consulting, and related services” has more than tripled in recent years. Notably, in 2020 IT employment increase by 76.7 percent (from 6,900 to 12,100 workers).
There are 19,500 officially registered programmers, developers, and AI specialists as of June 2025.
According to 2024 survey by Kolesa Group, the median IT specialist is a 26-year-old male with three to five years of experience, working in fintech as a mid-level data analyst, earning approximately 700,000 tenge ($1,300) per month, and having switched jobs twice.
IT headcount of international companies rose by 17 to 37 percent between 2021 and 2024. Meanwhile, the share of employees aged 26-30 increased by 15 percentage points.
Another problem is competition for jobs. There are just 580 vacancies on the national electronic labor exchange list and 9,700 resumes in the “IT and telecommunications” category (nearly 17 applicants per position). The highest disparity, with 655 resumes for just four openings, was in the Mangystau region. Then followed Almaty (1,500 candidates for 133 roles) and Astana (1,000 applicants for 124 positions).
The main criterion is work experience: one to five years of experience is required for 61 percent of vacancies, and more than five years for 8 percent. Junior specialists can apply for only 31 percent vacancies. Meanwhile, only 22.9 percent of job seekers are senior-level, and 48 percent are entry-level.
As Ekaterina Rehert, founder of DataBoom, said, everyone from small businesses to multinationals, use AI today. It raises the bar for employees, making basic tools no longer enough.
The data by Kolesa Group shows the rise of IT salaries by 40 percent between 2021 and 2024. An even steeper increase was reported by the Bureau of National Statistics: salaries in programming and consulting grew by 2.5 times, reaching 1.2 million tenge in Q2 2025. The growth of wage gap between IT professionals and the national average attained 1.7 times in 2020 and 2.8 times in 2025.
The highest salaries (1.6 million tenge or $2,900 per month) belonged to machine learning engineers, then followed data scientists (1.1 million) and data warehouse specialists (1.08 million). The salary of Big Data professionals in finance attained 986,300 tenge, while it is just 177,600 tenge for similar roles in the public sector.
As The World Economic Forum forecasts, by 2030, approximately 22 percent of jobs will undergo transformation, 170 million new roles will appear and 82 million will vanish. Automation and digitalization will reshape nearly 39 percent of job skills. The roles of Big Data specialists, fintech engineers (+92%), AI and ML experts (+83%), software developers (+57%), and data analysts (+41%) will undergo the fastest growth.

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A salary of 85,000 dinars is real for half of workers in Serbia

The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia reported that the median net salary for July 2025 equals to 85,000 dinars. It means that 50 percent of employees earn up to that sum.

Notably, gross salaries grew up by 11.1 percent nominally, or 6.4 percent in real terms, in the period from January to July 2025, compared to the same period last year. Meanwhile, the average net salary increased by 11 percent nominally, or 6.3 percent in real terms.
Generally, the rise of the average gross salary for July 2025 was 11.4 percent nominally, and 6.2 percent in real terms, compared to the same month of the previous year. At the same time, the average net salary increased by 11.5 percent nominally, or 6.3 percent in real terms.
As for the lowest net salaries, they equaled to 57,686 dinars in July.
Employees in the public sector earned the average net salary that amounted to 112,662 dinars in July.

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Agreement between Kazakhstan and Qatar will regulate labor migration

As Kazinform News Agency reports, an intergovernmental Kazakhstan-Qatar Agreement on the regulation of employment of Kazakh workers in Qatar was ratified by the Kazakh Majilis.
According to Labor and Social Protection Minister Svetlana Zhakupova, the sides signed the agreement on February 14, 2024 during the Kazakh President’s visit to Qatar. It’s purpose is to ensure legal and social protection of the citizens of Kazakhstan in Qatar. They established the following clear procedures for this purpose: Selection (receiving applications from the Qatari side, informing the public through the Centers for Employment and Migration); Hiring of Kazakhstani citizens and determination of their rights when employed in Qatar (conclusion of an employment contract based on a standard agreement). The standard employment contract for hiring workers from Kazakhstan in Qatar is defined by an annex to the agreement. Any changes to its provisions from the employer’s side are impossible. According to the standard employment contract, the employer must provide the employee with: Accommodation or a housing allowance; Free transportation to and from the workplace, or a transportation allowance; Medical care in accordance with the laws of Qatar; Airfare coverage at the beginning and end of the employment contract, including for the employee’s annual leave. Ratification of the agreement by Qatar came into force on November 29, 2024.
A ratification of Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan agreement on mutual protection of investments by President Tokayev was mentioned earlier.

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