According to a recent Emerging Europe report looking at the IT landscape across the region, the total number of IT professionals employed in the sector across the 23 countries of is 1,990,000. This figure is expected to reach 2,090,000 by the end of 2021. Poland has the highest number of IT professionals, 440,500 in 2019, followed by Ukraine with 289,200. Across the region the average gross salary in IT amounted to 1,583 euros in 2019, with Slovenia paying its IT workers the highest amount, and Georgia the lowest. The lowest gap between the average salary in the economy and the average salary in IT is also in Slovenia – 31 per cent, while in Belarus IT salaries are 191 per cent higher than the average in the economy.