IT and freelance labour market in Russia
A live report on 9,246 posts, 29 September 2026 – 29 October 2026, recalculated every 15 minutes. Pay offered in published Russian-language vacancies and freelance orders: hh.ru, Habr Career, the state portal «Работа России», freelance boards and Telegram channels.
Pay is in Russian roubles a month (₽92 ≈ $1 at the reference rate).
Key findings
- The median monthly pay in Russian-language vacancies that state it is ₽135,000.
- 34.8% of vacancies state the pay.
- Data science and ML vacancies offer the most: a median of ₽345,000.
- Senior roles are offered 3.2 times as much as Junior ones: ₽258,000 against ₽81,000.
- 24.5% of vacancies allow remote work; their median is ₽218,000 against ₽124,000 on site.
- 5.9% of vacancies mention AI; they offer ₽188,000 against ₽130,000 in the rest.
- The median freelance order budget is ₽4,000; 46.1% of orders state one.
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Pay by role
Vacancies in roubles that state the pay, a month. The role comes from the vacancy title.
median middle half of posts (25th to 75th percentile)
By seniority
median middle half of posts (25th to 75th percentile)
By programming language
median middle half of posts (25th to 75th percentile)
Location and remote work
median middle half of posts (25th to 75th percentile)
24.5% of vacancies allow remote work. Median: ₽218,000 remote, ₽124,000 on site.
Skills
median middle half of posts (25th to 75th percentile)
AI in vacancies
Neural networks, LLMs, GPT, Cursor, Copilot or machine learning appear in 5.9% of vacancies.
median middle half of posts (25th to 75th percentile)
Who hires most
Freelance order budgets
46.1% of orders state a budget, for the whole project.
median middle half of posts (25th to 75th percentile)
International remote vacancies
English-language vacancies from international boards and company career pages (3,805): a median of $54,000 a year (n = 403). They stay out of the main figures above.
Where the data comes from
Where the pay was read: post text — 1,477, the board's budget — 833, vacancy page markup — 411.
How to cite
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openradar, “IT and freelance labour market in Russia”, 29 September 2026 – 29 October 2026. https://openradar.fun/en/research
- Methodology: sources, how pay is read, what is left out.
- Vacancies and orders (CSV), without texts or contacts.
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