Last week, we shared our latest tech talent insights report for Wroclaw. For new greenfield projects in Poland and the location research on where to build the team, it often comes down to one of three locations: Warsaw, Krakow, or Wroclaw. We can give arguments for and against each city, but ultimately, the decision should be made based on the availability of skill sets.
As we did for Wroclaw, we exported three tables: the Top 100 Largest Employers, the Top 100 Most Common Skills, and the Top 100 Fastest Growing Skills for 42 software development-related roles in Krakow, and we compared this data with one year ago.
State of the Krakow Talent Pool (March 2025):
- Talent pool: 22043 profiles
- Growth: +220 in the last 12 months
- Gender: 83% male, 17% female
- Job changers: 2967 changed jobs in the last 12 months
- Average Length of Service: 2.1 years
- Open for new opportunities: 5500 profiles
- Open roles: 1844 on LinkedIn
Columns:
- Professionals: Total number of professionals from the chosen talent pool within the company.
- 1y growth: Comparison of the differences in the talent pool within the company compared to 12 months ago.
- Job posts: The current number of job openings on LinkedIn for this talent and company
- Attrition: The percentage of tech talent who left the company over 12 months
| Company | Professionals | 1y growth | Job posts | Attrition |
| Motorola Solutions | 654 | +1,2% | 34 | 6,9% |
| EPAM Systems | 649 | -6,9% | 30 | 13,1% |
| Comarch | 541 | -1,3% | 12 | 12,9% |
| Ericsson | 376 | -1,1% | 6 | 6,3% |
| Nokia | 320 | -1,8% | 10 | 14,6% |
| Aptiv | 297 | +0,3% | 42 | 18,9% |
| IBM | 283 | +70,5% | 29 | 5,8% |
| UBS | 244 | +18,4% | 12 | 4,4% |
| Luxoft | 218 | -8,4% | 67 | 12,3% |
| Sabre Corporation | 217 | 0,0% | 0 | 4,1% |
| Cisco | 204 | +2,5% | 4 | 7,4% |
| HSBC | 194 | +14,1% | 8 | 6,0% |
| Splunk | 178 | +30,9% | 22 | 5,7% |
| Software Mansion | 175 | +21,5% | 0 | 10,0% |
| 175 | +49,6% | 41 | 4,1% | |
| Ocado Technology | 162 | -1,8% | 0 | 4,9% |
| Qualtrics | 161 | +36,4% | 9 | 12,2% |
| Akamai Technologies | 156 | +1,3% | 0 | 4,5% |
| Sabre Poland | 144 | -3,4% | 7 | 16,4% |
| Kaseya | 131 | +2,3% | 32 | 21,6% |
| GlobalLogic | 130 | -9,1% | 91 | 27,1% |
| Grid Dynamics | 127 | +8,5% | 0 | 14,8% |
| Hitachi Energy | 120 | +1,7% | 3 | 2,5% |
| Schibsted Tech Polska | 114 | -3,4% | 4 | 6,9% |
| Grand Parade | 111 | +8,8% | 12 | 4,7% |
| GPC Global Technology Center | 110 | +155,8% | 39 | 5,2% |
| NOVOMATIC Technologies Poland | 109 | +1,9% | 6 | 7,4% |
| j-labs software specialists | 108 | -3,6% | 10 | 13,6% |
| Tesco Technology | 107 | +23,0% | 4 | 3,1% |
| Relativity | 102 | +22,9% | 29 | 8,6% |
| Alior Bank SA | 101 | +13,5% | 0 | 4,2% |
| Sii Poland | 100 | 0,0% | 5 | 14,0% |
| ABB | 99 | +1,0% | 7 | 4,1% |
| Capgemini | 92 | +10,8% | 10 | 11,4% |
| Zendesk | 86 | +28,4% | 17 | 7,8% |
| Motorola Solutions | 83 | +22,1% | 0 | 7,9% |
| GlobalLogic Poland | 78 | +6,8% | 0 | 14,6% |
| Pegasystems | 77 | 0,0% | 13 | 14,3% |
| Software Mind | 77 | -18,1% | 13 | 21,1% |
| SoftServe | 75 | -7,4% | 0 | 19,2% |
| StoneX Group Inc. | 67 | +48,9% | 9 | 16,1% |
| Samsung Electronics | 67 | +9,8% | 0 | 1,6% |
| Allegro | 66 | -7,0% | 0 | 11,7% |
| Ailleron | 65 | 0,0% | 0 | 10,8% |
| Avenga | 64 | 0,0% | 0 | 6,3% |
| Brown Brothers Harriman | 63 | +10,5% | 9 | 10,0% |
| Revolut | 63 | +8,6% | 11 | 11,6% |
| VirtusLab | 62 | -20,5% | 0 | 22,9% |
| Backbase | 61 | +17,3% | 6 | 3,5% |
| Luxoft Poland | 60 | -1,6% | 48 | 21,5% |
| Guidewire Software | 56 | 0,0% | 2 | 7,1% |
| Remitly | 55 | +19,6% | 7 | 7,9% |
| SmartRecruiters | 52 | +6,1% | 0 | 4,0% |
| Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company) | 51 | 0,0% | 0 | 0,0% |
| CAE | 49 | -31,0% | 1 | 23,3% |
| InPost | 49 | +22,5% | 1 | 6,7% |
| SolarWinds | 47 | +11,9% | 1 | 2,2% |
| Volvo Cars | 47 | +135,0% | 8 | 0,0% |
| Spyrosoft | 47 | -13,0% | 0 | 19,8% |
| Exadel | 44 | -12,0% | 0 | 17,0% |
| AVSystem | 43 | +7,5% | 0 | 2,4% |
| Autodesk | 42 | +27,3% | 14 | 5,3% |
| OpenX | 42 | -2,3% | 5 | 11,8% |
| GFT Technologies | 40 | -13,0% | 0 | 20,9% |
| Kitopi | 39 | -15,2% | 1 | 21,2% |
| DataArt | 39 | -2,5% | 0 | 12,7% |
| IG Group | 39 | -2,5% | 7 | 25,3% |
| zooplus | 39 | -2,5% | 0 | 5,1% |
| Miquido | 38 | -32,1% | 0 | 38,3% |
| Medius | 37 | +19,4% | 2 | 0,0% |
| ESET | 37 | +8,8% | 1 | 14,1% |
| E80 Group | 37 | -7,5% | 0 | 13,0% |
| Andersen Lab | 37 | -9,8% | 0 | 20,5% |
| Cornerstone OnDemand | 36 | -5,3% | 0 | 18,9% |
| Ericpol | 36 | -2,7% | 0 | 2,7% |
| Apptio, an IBM Company | 35 | +9,4% | 0 | 23,9% |
| Fitech Automation | 35 | 0,0% | 0 | 0,0% |
| LTIMindtree | 33 | -15,4% | 2 | 19,4% |
| u2i | 32 | +6,7% | 0 | 6,5% |
| IGE+XAO is now ETAP | 31 | +3,3% | 0 | 0,0% |
| Ringier Axel Springer Tech | 31 | 0,0% | 0 | 3,2% |
| BNP Paribas Bank Polska | 30 | +36,4% | 0 | 0,0% |
| VISIONA | 30 | +3,4% | 0 | 10,2% |
| Sigma Software Group | 29 | -3,3% | 0 | 10,2% |
| Asseco Poland | 29 | -3,3% | 0 | 10,2% |
| Intellias | 29 | -12,1% | 1 | 32,3% |
| Grape Up | 29 | +7,4% | 0 | 7,1% |
| intive | 28 | -15,2% | 0 | 29,5% |
| OEC | 27 | -6,9% | 2 | 10,7% |
| SpotOn | 27 | +12,5% | 1 | 11,8% |
| Accenture | 27 | +3,8% | 0 | 22,6% |
| FLYR | 26 | +4,0% | 1 | 23,5% |
| Merit Automotive Electronics Systems. | 25 | -3,8% | 0 | 15,7% |
| Tronel | 25 | -3,8% | 0 | 3,9% |
| Appliscale | 25 | -7,4% | 0 | 15,4% |
| AGH University of Krakow | 25 | +25,0% | 0 | 4,4% |
| SALESmanago | 24 | -25,0% | 0 | 21,4% |
| HID | 24 | +9,1% | 0 | 0,0% |
| ELEKS | 23 | +21,1% | 0 | 4,8% |
| Clari | 22 | +144,4% | 6 | 6,5% |
We notice an even split between companies growing and companies declining in headcount. Software outsourcing companies are mostly losing talent while product companies gain.
The following table displays the top 100 skills that the 22000 profiles share, the number of open roles for these skill sets in Krakow and the percentage of men and women who possess these skills.
| Skills | Professionals | % of total | Job posts | Female | Male |
| Git | 11 585 | 52,6% | 362 | 17% | 83% |
| JavaScript | 9 185 | 41,7% | 1 043 | 16% | 84% |
| SQL | 8 704 | 39,5% | 342 | 16% | 84% |
| Java | 7 743 | 35,1% | 948 | 15% | 85% |
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | 6 862 | 31,1% | 284 | 19% | 81% |
| Python (Programming Language) | 6 349 | 28,8% | 1 070 | 16% | 84% |
| Linux | 5 602 | 25,4% | 436 | 12% | 88% |
| Docker Products | 5 601 | 25,4% | 255 | 11% | 89% |
| HTML | 5 461 | 24,8% | 532 | 19% | 81% |
| Cross-platform Development | 5 322 | 24,1% | 0 | 14% | 86% |
| Subversion | 5 116 | 23,2% | 5 | 13% | 87% |
| Maven | 4 898 | 22,2% | 123 | 13% | 87% |
| TypeScript | 4 882 | 22,1% | 165 | 17% | 83% |
| Spring Framework | 4 655 | 21,1% | 192 | 12% | 88% |
| Kubernetes | 4 644 | 21,1% | 472 | 11% | 89% |
| React.js | 4 540 | 20,6% | 310 | 18% | 82% |
| C++ | 4 526 | 20,5% | 192 | 14% | 86% |
| Scrum | 4 425 | 20,1% | 214 | 17% | 83% |
| Redux.js | 4 274 | 19,4% | 46 | 17% | 83% |