Seventy-three per cent of IT employees in Bulgaria think they can have a full professional career, without leaving the country.

This was the result of research, ordered by the Bulgarian association of software developers (BASD), held in September by Market Links agency.
The results were published on the website of BASD, Dnevnik daily said.

Fourteen per cent of respondents said a professional development was only possible abroad and 13 per cent did not have an opinion.

The research was done among 272 software developers, between 18 and 52 years-old, which worked mostly in companies specialising in programming products.

Sixty-five per cent had a university degree, 30 per cent was still studying, and the remaining five per cent were outside the educational system. Thirty-five per cent had studied at the Sofia University, 17.5 per cent at the technical university in Sofia, 2.7 per cent at the university in Veliko Turnovo and 2.3 per cent university of national and world economy (UNSS).

Forty-one per cent studied Informatics, 19 per cent Computer Systems, 12 per cent Software Technology and sever per cent Mathematics.

Almost all, 98 per cent of respondents, worked in Sofia.