Romanian freelancers are fast consolidating their position as the leading force in the global online marketplace for IT projects, beating their better known co-workers from India and the United States into second and third places in this highly competitive market.

Research by PhD student Ulan Radkevitch, published in the Outsourcing Journal, shows Romanian bidders to have won an impressive 18% market share of the online projects posted on e-marketplaces such as Rent A Coder, Elance and eWork. 

The secret of this success is no mystery. In the words of Rent A Coder CEO Ian Ippolito, 'Buyers have told me that they prefer Romanian coders because their experience was that Romanians were harder working, more reliable with deadlines, and didn't pester them with requests for payment before the job was completed'.

The Romanian IT industry employs some 40,000, and Romania's universities turn out an additional 8,000 IT graduates every year, combining a sound work ethic with solid technical and language skills. This has caused the major industry players to take notice, with Siemens, Alcatel and Motorola already setting up software developments centres in the country. 

For Ulan Radkevitch's article in full, follow the link here.
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