Unified IT Certification Authority

2023: Working to create the centre

On October 23, 2023, it became known about the decision of the Ministry of Digital Development Russian Federation to establish a single IT certification center based on LLC "" Headhunter(owns the hh.ru portal). The new platform, among other things, will be able to provide objective data on the state of the labor market in the IT sphere.

Previously, training centers Oracle, Red Hat, VMware and other foreign companies were engaged in certification of IT specialists in Russia. However, due to the current geopolitical situation, they curtailed their activities. Therefore, there was a need to create a domestic employee certification system. As of October 2023, the IT Academy, Softline, Digital Academy of T1, etc., are engaged in technological and product certification of specialists in Russia. At the end of the third quarter of 2023, the volume of the IT certification market in the Russian Federation is 200-300 million rubles, and taking into account the termination of the work of foreign centers and the growth of demand for IT workers, it may increase to 0.5-1 billion rubles by 2024.

The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation wants to establish a single certification center for IT specialists based on HeadHunter

According to the Kommersant newspaper, a single certification platform is necessary to create on its basis "a system of voluntary confirmation of skills in the IT industry, taking into account different levels of competence, regardless of the availability of specialized education." The choice of hh.ru may be due to the fact that this company has already formed "a ready-made competency card, described and verified 46 IT professions and 310 skills in them, checked salary data."

However, some market participants criticize the project. In particular, Nikolai Komlev, head of the Association of Computer and Information Technology Enterprises (APKIT), believes that centralizing the certification system for IT specialists is a losing option for the industry. And the head of the Softline Academy, Igor Morozov, says that the key to success is "the creation of an open market model in which the recognition of the issued certificates by the professional IT community will be ensured^[1]

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