FEATURES OF INRORMATION TECHNOLOGIES MARKET’S DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The field of information technologies is developing rapidly both in Ukraine and abroad. Over the last decade, the new technologies’ introduction speed and improvement of information resources have gained significant scale all over the world. The demand and structure of the IT services market is changing at a significant pace, in turn, the companies that offer them must adapt to the new requirements just as quickly, which has a deep impact on both the labor market and the market of educational services in the world and in Ukraine in particular. Thereby it is making global changes in the functioning of goods and services markets, transforming the labor market and the educational sphere in general. The change in the external conditions of the functioning of IT enterprises and the Pandemic became a further impetus for the development of IT services throughout the world, and in Ukraine in particular. The purpose of the article is to review the features of the development of the information technology market in Ukraine and to identify key trends in its transformation. To achieve the goal, the following methods were used: systematic and complex analysis, comparison and grouping, graphical and tabular methods, abstract logical method. The article analyzes the export-import ratio of services in the field of telecommunications, computer and information services, determines the demand for which IT products increased as a result of the Pandemic; the factors that restrain the development of further interaction between Ukrainian and foreign producers of IT services are considered; the main trends of the further development of the IT services market of Ukraine are defined.