IT Workers No Longer in Vogue: High-Tech Labor Market Begins to Cool

The labor market in Russia's IT sector has begun to cool: specialist salaries are growing slower than inflation, and the number of vacancies is declining. The decline in demand for IT specialists is driven by the redistribution of tasks among employees and the active implementation of automation. This signals structural changes in the high-tech sector, where companies are optimizing their headcount and revising their hiring approaches.