Six Reasons to Work with A Ukrainian IT Company

• Top-quality IT specialists
• Great quality to price ratio
• Highly capable companies
• Excellent English
• Cultural understanding and flexibility
• Location and time zone

Ukraine is a common choice for companies that outsource software development, including complex projects.

Europe needs more software specialists than it has. According to Eurostat, the EU had more than 10 million ICT specialists in employment in 2025, against a target of 20 million by 2030. Every year, thousands of graduates of specialised universities and courses join Ukraine's developer workforce, which covers iOS and Android as well as JavaScript, Java, C#, Python and many other technologies.

Top Quality IT Specialists

Well-known tech founders with Ukrainian roots include:

• Jan Koum, born in Kyiv, co-founder of WhatsApp and a former member of Facebook's board of directors (he left the board in April 2018).
• Max Levchin, co-founder of the PayPal international payment system.

Great Quality to Price Ratio

Ukrainian IT development offers a competitive ratio of quality to price. The government supports the IT sector with favourable conditions for specialists, including low tax rates.

Highly Capable Companies

Ukrainian software companies provide the full range of services: web and mobile development, UI/UX design, QA and R&D. Ukraine has also produced startups that grew into global businesses or were bought by large tech companies:

• Google bought Viewdle – a facial recognition company.
• Snapchat has Looksery –  a real-time facial modification app.
• Samsung has an R&D institute in the country, Samsung R&D Institute Ukraine.
• GitLab is a DevOps platform. Dmitriy Zaporozhets started the project in 2011, and he and Sid Sijbrandij incorporated the company in 2014. GitLab went public in 2021 and has more than 2,500 team members.
• Preply is an edtech platform that uses machine learning to match learners with tutors. It was founded in 2012 by Dmytro Voloshyn, Kirill Bigai and Serge Lukianov, and in January 2026 it raised $150 million in a Series D round at a $1.2 billion valuation.
• Grammarly checks spelling, grammar and vocabulary, and its AI assistance helps non-native speakers write clear English. It was created in 2009 by Max Lytvyn, Alex Shevchenko and Dmytro Lider. The company raised $110 million in 2017, $90 million in 2019 and $200 million in 2021, received $1 billion in financing from General Catalyst in 2025, and renamed itself Superhuman in October 2025.

Excellent English

English is widely spoken by developers in Ukraine, and Ukrainian IT companies help their developers keep improving it.

Cultural Understanding and Flexibility

At Go Wombat we aim for long-term relationships with clients and adapt to the needs of each project. Developers are open to suggestions and keep improving their skills through courses.

Location and Time Zone

Ukraine suits clients who want a long-term relationship with a dedicated team, and many of them come from the USA, the UK and the EU. At Go Wombat we work with companies from all over the world. Ukraine is in a European time zone, so our developers' working hours overlap with those of European clients. Civil flights to and from Ukraine have been suspended since Russia's full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022. Besides our offices in Dnipro and Ivano-Frankivsk, Go Wombat has offices in Tallinn, Estonia (our administrative HQ) and Valencia, Spain.