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!

1. Salary, Job benefit and
trending in Vietnam IT industry
VIETNAM - 2017
https://topdev.vn/

2. executive summary
Nguyen Huu Binh
CEO 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 finding 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!

3. Content Table
A short summary of salary, job benefits and technology
advancement in this year
Statistics about developer salary in Vietnam categorized by
their 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
Introduction
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Skills - Technology
Salary
Job Benefits
Trending
Future goal
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4. 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
1505,500+ 70,000+
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5. Job Demand In IT Industry
Growth significantly over the 5 years
The 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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6. 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
CEO
Manager
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7. 2
Skills – 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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8. Top programming languages Search on
Topdev.vn
java
php
android
ios
.net
37%
19%
11%
9%
8%
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9. Top programming languages and Salary
Programming 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
Perl
Xamarin
Symfony
Swift
Scala
Objective-C
Ruby
Bootstrap
Python
ASP.NET
C++
HTML5
Node.js
React Native
C#
React JS
PHP
JavaScript
CSS
SQL
Java
$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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10. 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 Python
Ruby
C++ ASP.NetSwift C Objective-C
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11. 3
Salary
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 developer
has the highest
income
6-20%$1,160 MOBILE
The highest
average salary for
experienced
developers
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The percentage of
salary growth rate

12. Salary based on experience
The highest pay that HR can offer for developers (the data was collected in the
first half of 2017)
Fresh graduate
Lower than 2 years
experience
After one year of working, their
earning will rise significantly.
5%
position
Senior
More than 2 years
experience
Mainly are Tech Architects and
software developers.
75%
position
Manager
More than 5 years
experience
It 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
experience
There 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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13. Salary based on Job task
The 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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14. Top 5 Skills get the highest pay rate
IT 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/Android
Big Data
Ruby
Python
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15. 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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16. Salary increase rate
How 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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17. Things can help improve salary
Near the end of the year is the best opportunity for asking a raise
First do your best at job
With 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
Outstanding
performance
11%
15%
34%
38%
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18. 4
Job 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.
learning
Opportunities
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 stress
and be creative.
Salary and
bonus
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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19. According to the data, the salary for developers will keep
increasing 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 performance
3. Friendly work environment
1. Mordern infracstruture
2. Career advance
3. Flexible Working time
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20. 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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21. 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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22. 5
Training
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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23. Most common training courses
What training courses that your company is offering?
About 25% developers got their training programes from their companies
English 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%
English
IT skills
Taking exam
for Certificate
Leading
skills Manager
skills
Others
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24. 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 attention
from Tech companies
60% of the companies willing to pay higher with extra benefits for developers who have a PMP certificate.

25. An online site for
sharing information
about technology and
the mindset behind it.
Medium
Online 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.io
Get 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.vn
An informative Tech
blog just for
developers with
various of sections,
suitable for any level.
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26. 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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27. 6
The 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
DOCKERReact Native
It has become one
of the hottest trends
for developers this
year
One of the most
popular choices for
Mobile developers
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28. 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 JS
Phalcon
Symfony
Django
Ruby On Rails
Spring
Code Igniter
12%
15%
16%
15%
10%
5%
1%
1%
5%
4%
6%
10%
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29. Mobile Development trends in 2017
Mobile Native Platforms10% 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
iOS
28%
3%
13%
6%3%
13%
34%
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30. IT Trends around the world
Cloud platformt
Infrastructure, 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 Things
The technology with connectivity is the
new leading trending in 2017
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31. Skills relate to Cloud Platform
The reality of
Cloud platform
Cloud 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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32. What you need to know
Benefit
Developers 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.
Certificate
54% of companies are willing to pay
higher salary for developers who have
specific certificates which relate to their
job position.
Lead the trending
Laravel is one of the top web
frameworks that IT companies are using
in 2017, especialy in Vietnam.
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33. This report was made and published by Topdev
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