Thailand Software Development Resource Data

Executive Summary

• Labor Rate & Quality• Lower operating costs • Teamwork & Strong software developers skills• Thais work well with other country offices

Executive Summary

Executive Summary

• Around 117 universities and 415 Vocation education through out Thailand• Number of graduation in IT 45,000 – 50,000 per year• Increasing number of IT graduates• Local Communities:

• IASA (International Association Software Architect),

• Thailand SPIN (Thailand Software Process Improvement Network)

• PMI (Project Management Institution)

• IT engineering in industry 80,000• Turnover less than 11%

Resources

Thailand Software Industry Overview

Value and growth rate of computer software industry between 2006 – 2009 and forecast of 2010

2006 - 2009 Average of growth rate of 2006-2009 is 10.6%/year

2009 Value is 64,365M (BHT)Growth rate is 2.3%

Thailand SWOT (Outsider Point of View)

• Adaptable workers• Culture/Open Society• Location Advantage• Multimedia and Creativity• Reasonable infrastructure inside the

country• Reasonably inexpensive to conduct

business from• Pro-business environment

• Strong government support• Strong regional and global alliances• Large untapped regional market

potential• Aggregate ICT Talent from Indochina

for scale• Attraction of global talent to live in

Thailand• Government work / mega projects• Animation• Mobile applications• Telecom deregulation• Management / Discipline

• Lack of recognition as ICT player-nation / no regional IT firm or brand

• Limited scale of workforce / English language skills• Lack of early stage technology investment capital /

startup culture• Frequent changes in ICT ministry (5 leadership

changes in 3 years)• Immigration policies for expats / talent intake

• Lower labor cost countries• Corruption / lack of transparency• Shortage of ICT – trained talent• Plans but not enough actions (Portal

critique

Strength

Weakness

Opportunities

Threat

Thailand Salary Benchmark 2009

Average Annual Salary by IT Skills and Years of Experience (BHT)

IT Skills Year of Experience

< 5 years 5-10 years > 10 years

Application Development 356,744 693,407 1,030,620

Web Development 317,799 666,611 -

Servers/Networking 329,074 666,602 1,076,083

System Administration 338,627 640,900 1,008,549

Operating Systems 299,700 678,267 1,105,724

Desktop/Software 298,210 687,828 1,057,315

IT Security 381,010 707,473 1,026,188

Database Management 323,902 653,199 1,017,085

Consult/Business Services 447,152 780,464 1,142,188

Enterprise Applications 368,186 - 1,072,704

Infrastructure Management - 790,487 1,034,108

Thailand Salary Benchmark 2009

Average Annual Salary by Job Function and Years of Experience (BHT)

Job Function Year of Experience

< 5 years 5-10 years > 10 years

IT Management 556,750 822,694 1,106,383

Project Management 429,483 724,987 1,013,241

System Development 319,953 534,669 661,687

Communications 358,605 558,184 738,533

Support 261,590 481,707 691,881

Administration 367,524 555,625 864,311

Other IT Professionals 449,471 714,717 1,289,216

OVERALL 360,874 651,722 996,139

Labor Rate & Quality

Thailand IT Development Salary 2008/2009

Position Exp. Year Min. Salary (BHT) Max. Salary (BHT)

Programmer 2 20,000 28,000

Web Designer 2 20,000 28,000

Software Engineer 2-3 25,000 35,000

Business / System Analyst 3-5 35,000 45,000

System Administrator 2-3 22,000 30,000

Database Administrator 3 28,000 35,000

Software Tester/Software QA 3-5 30,000 50,000

Project Manager 4 50,000 60,000

IT Manager 5-7 60,000 75,000

Example International Companies in Thailand

Company No Magic Asia Limited Thomson Reuter Software (Thailand) TRSTL

Product & Services Producing MagicDraw UML Tool and MagicDraw Plugins,

Thomson Reuters Software’s development centers

Staff >30 > 1500+

Customer JP Morgan, Reuters, DHL, Cisco Systems, Verizon Wireless, etc.

Merrill Lynch, ABN AMRO,HSBC,…

Reason invested in Thailand • Strong support from the Royal Thai Government in software industry• Thai IT labors attentive to details ensuring high quality software products• Low-cost service advantage over competition• Thais receptive to skill transfer with their aptitude in learning

• Labor Rate & Quality• Lower operating costs • Good Infrastructure• Good Living environment• Teamwork & Strong software developers skills• Thais work well with other country offices

Success # 1 rated UML tool / MagicDraw enjoys the popularity among software developers, thanks to the high quality product development provided by our Thai talents.• JDJ Award in Best Database Tool• Productivity Award in Design Tools• JDJ Best Java Modeling Tool & Best Team Development Tool

TRSTL is the largest development center among its main software development centers namely Beijing, Chicago, London and Paris, of Thomson Reuters. TRSTL was the 42nd organization globally, the first in Southeast Asia to achieve CMMI Level 5 certification.

Government Supporting

Government organizations and associations

• Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA)• National Electronic and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)• Software Park Thailand• Association of Thai Computer Manufacturing (ATCI)• Association of Thai Software Industry  (ATSI)• Thai Software Export Promotion Association (TSEP)

Why Thailand?

Summary

• Thailand has a high number of well educated IT specialists.• It is easy to travel to many major destinations in the world from

Bangkok.• Infrastructure is good and labor cost is fairly low compared to other

countries.• The presence of high-quality universities• Strategic Access to Asia & FTAs• Business environment, open society• Liberal investment regimes & generous investment incentives• Healthy ICT industry with strong government support• Business opportunities for foreign partners• Looking for partners for ICT providers