Bucharest, Cluj and Timis employ almost 70% of the IT professionals in Romania, as per ZF calculations based on data from the country’s statistics institute INS.
In the last decade, the number of IT experts surged by 167% in capital city Bucharest, by 321% in Cluj-Napoca and by 364% in Timis.
In 2021, an IT professional earned a net wage of over RON9,000 In Bucharest, of almost RON9,000 in Cluj-Napoca and of nearly RON7,800 in Timis.
However, salaries in the Romanian IT sector are low compared to the wages of IT experts across various EU countries.