The IT industry is running away from competition. Earnings already reach PLN 29,000
According to the latest salary report by Sedlak & Sedlak, quoted by "Puls Biznesu", positions related to new technologies are invariably at the top of the best-paid professions in Poland. Programmers, cloud engineers and big data specialists can count on earnings of up to PLN 29,000 per month.
Among specific professions, the following stand out:
Embedded programmer – PLN 27,500 gross,
Back end programmer – PLN 27,129 gross,
Cloud engineer – PLN 26,500 gross,
Product owner – PLN 25,750 gross.
The names of these positions may sound exotic to many people - this is the result of narrow specialization and the influence of the English language on modern professional nomenclature.
The end of the era of encyclopedists. Only narrow specialization counts
Just a few decades ago, higher education and extensive knowledge were the key to professional success. Today, as specialists emphasize, what matters most is specific, narrow specialization. This change results from the growing role of artificial intelligence, which is increasingly taking over repetitive and routine tasks.
Currently, there is a clear division into two directions of career development:
Highly qualified experts – people with advanced competences, specializations and scientific titles,
Professionals and craftsmen – specialists in manual work whose professions are difficult to automate.
Artificial intelligence does not take jobs, but it eliminates jobs for juniors
Not long ago, there were fears that robots and artificial intelligence would take over entire professions. Today it is clear that AI primarily eliminates specific tasks, not entire professions. This means that companies are less and less likely to need employees with general skills - both in office and technical positions.
The demand for the so-called juniors, i.e. people with basic knowledge in a given field.
"I used to need sixty juniors for a given project, and today I need eleven," says the manager of the IT team, quoted on Internet Radio RMF24 by labor market expert Krzysztof Inglot.
The statistics are inexorable - in Poland, as many as 3.6 million people work in professions most exposed to automation and the impact of artificial intelligence. This means that every fifth employee may have to retrain or acquire a new specialization in the coming years.
"Golden hands" wanted. Nowadays, having a profession in your hand gives you financial independence
Not only experts in new technologies can count on high earnings. Highly qualified professionals such as plumbers, electricians, carpenters and mechanics are also in great demand on the labor market. Salaries in these professions can reach up to PLN 20,000-30,000 per month.
If I am a great carpenter, I will earn twenty or thirty thousand zlotys - emphasizes the expert.
Occupations that require dexterity, experience and manual skills are difficult to automate. Robots, although increasingly advanced, are not yet able to replace "handymen" in many everyday works.
Polish universities are falling behind. It's time for a great comeback of vocational schools
The rapid pace of changes in the labor market poses serious challenges to the Polish education system. Universities are still far away in world rankings, and vocational education has been marginalized for years.
When it comes to universities in Poland, we have a problem because we see this principle here. (...) There are eight Chinese universities in the top ten world universities. This shows that we have a lot of work to do, notes Krzysztof Inglot.
Currently, more and more experts draw attention to the need to rebuild vocational education and adapt teaching programs to the requirements of the modern labor market. Experts emphasize that automation and robotization will not soon replace manual work specialists.
