The Ministry of Digital Development announced the creation of a platform to validate the skills of IT specialists

According to the document, the experiment “to provide software developers with the opportunity to voluntarily confirm competencies” will last from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026.

“This initiative was developed at the request of the IT community. Our goal is to provide citizens with a free tool to confirm their own level of competence in various IT skills,” explained the Ministry of Digital Development.

All Russian IT specialists will be eligible to participate, regardless of their skill level and workplace. To do this, they must register on the competency verification platform, take a test and complete practical tasks. The platform operator will be one of the organizations that submitted a proposal to carry out the experiment.

Developers will be able to receive a certificate of IT competency in their personal account on Gosuslugi. The Ministry of Digital Development emphasized that no one will see the personal data of the participants. “If a specialist wishes, he can send this certificate to his potential employer or simply prove his strength in the profession,” the department said.

In early November, Kommersant wrote that the Ministry of Digital Development is working on creating a system to confirm the competencies of IT developers, citing market sources. The ministry then informed the publication that they were developing approaches for such a system together with companies and had so far only received an offer from the company HeadHunter (owner of the hh.ru service).