According to the Ministry of Digital Transformation, Ukraine’s IT industry accounts for one in every eight dollars of exports. In the first eight months of 2026 IT services exports amounted to $4.46 billion.
Market size, jobs and taxes
Today the Ukrainian IT market is valued at $7.85 billion and the sector provides more than 800,000 direct and indirect jobs. For 2025 IT accounted for 3.2% of Ukraine’s GDP.
IT companies paid 50.5 billion in taxes. The sector multipliers are: every 1 hryvnia generated in IT creates another 1.09 hryvnia in related sectors; one IT specialist supports 2.29 jobs in adjacent fields; and the overall economic multiplier is 3.75.
Export structure and indicators for the first eight months of 2026
Computer services make up 42% of Ukraine’s services exports and are the largest component of services exports. Overall, in the first eight months of 2026 IT services exports amounted to $4.46 billion.
That is 12.5% of total exports of goods and services. Total exports for the period amounted to $35.80 billion.
Diia. City: residents, taxes and defence tech
Today Diia. City brings together more than 4,700 technology companies and over 218,000 IT specialists. Named residents include MacPaw, Ajax Systems, SoftServe, Intellias, Nokia, Visa and Rakuten Viber; among the residents are also more than 11 unicorn companies.
Since its inception, residents have paid over 109 billion hryvnia in taxes, of which 43.9 billion was paid in the first nine months of 2026. Around 500 defense tech companies operate in the space; the largest of these have raised over $200 million in investments in the past 1.5 years, and overall the companies in the cluster represent more than 80% of Ukraine’s technology sector.
