These are the latest statistics that you shouldn’t miss regarding Vietnam software engineers:
- Gender distribution
- Educational degrees and international IT certifications: PMP, MCSE, CISM, CISA, etc. Vietnam software developers hold
- Which cities in Vietnam attract most of its software engineers to settle?
- Their English skills
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Gender ratios of Vietnam software developers
According to a national software developer survey in 2021, the vast majority of software developers in Vietnam are of the male gender, accounting for 92.5 percent of all respondents. Female developers amounted to only 7.85 percent of all respondents, demonstrating the male-dominating reality of the software development market in Vietnam.
Their degrees pathways
Roughly 95 percent of Vietnam software developers have a bachelor or higher degree in computer science, software engineering, or another engineering field. Formal education has played a vital role in the career paths of IT professionals in Vietnam. Despite that, there has been an upward trend of Vietnam software engineers obtaining education through boot camps or MOOCs. These programs teach students how to code and apply code to workplace projects, which are considered equally important as fundamental knowledge.
International IT certifications
Popular software developers certifications among respondents are:
- CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor
- CISM – Certified Information Security Manager
- PMP – Project Management Professional
- MCSE – Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering
Half of surveyed Vietnam software developers earned more than 5 IT certifications, followed by ones having 3-4 certifications (nearly 40 percent).
Vietnam software engineers’ locations
Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi are the top tech talent hubs in Vietnam, with 55.1 percent and 34.2 percent of Vietnam software engineers taking part in the survey answering they work in these two cities, respectively.
English abilities of software engineers in Vietnam
Roughly third-quarter of participations are in intermediate levels or higher, which are as 3 times as the rate of software developers whose English are elementary proficiency. There are still some software engineers who don’t know English, however, this accounts for just 4 percent of the whole respondents.
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