Poland’s tech-recruitment scene has an unusually public face. The best-known names here are not quiet agency headhunters. They are community builders, bloggers and conference speakers who shaped how hiring is done across the country.
Below you will find both sides of that market: the leading IT recruitment agencies in Poland and the individual recruiters worth knowing, plus what agencies charge and what Polish developers earn.
Top IT recruitment agencies in Poland
Most of the recruiters profiled below either run or represent these firms. If you are choosing an agency rather than an individual, start here:
| Agency | Known for |
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Antal PolandWarsaw | The country’s largest specialist recruiter, covering IT alongside finance and engineering, led for two decades by Artur Skiba (profiled below) |
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Bee TalentsPoznań | Tech recruitment boutique known for candidate experience work with startups and scaleups |
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Next Technology ProfessionalsWarsaw | Family-run IT recruitment and outstaffing firm publishing widely cited Polish salary reports |
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Sowelo ConsultingKraków | IT recruitment and RPO for clients hiring across the EU |
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DevsDataWarsaw / New York | Boutique with a strong reputation for hard-to-fill engineering and data roles in Poland and the US |
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MotifeKraków | Helps international companies open Polish tech hubs, recruitment included |
 EchoGlobalLondon · Tallinn · Lviv | That is us. We recruit senior engineers across Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe, with first CVs in days rather than weeks. |
Typical terms in the Polish market: contingency fees of 15 to 25 percent of a candidate’s annual gross salary, with executive searches and RPO engagements priced separately. Most agencies offer a replacement guarantee of 3 to 6 months.
The recruiters to know in Poland
And the recruiters themselves. Each entry covers who they are, what they’re known for, and where to follow them.
- Kasia Tang
- Artur Skiba
- Grzegorz Deszczka
- Katarzyna (Kasia) Michalak
- Piotr Jabłoński
- Jakub Babij
- Olga Żółkiewicz
- Karolina Latus
- Maja Gojtowska
- Aleksandra Pszczoła
- Zyta Machnicka
- Agnieszka Ciećwierz
- Jacek Krajewski
- Karolina Kołosowska
- Urszula Zając-Pałdyna
- Tomasz Sołtys
- Aleksandra Skrok
- Dominik Jurek
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Kasia Tang
Kasia has spent over a decade in sourcing and social recruiting, and built the institution around it: she founded the Recruitment Open Community Polska, the country’s largest recruiter community, and has 27,000+ LinkedIn followers to go with it.
Her line is that “sourcing is more than finding profiles,” and she backs it up by training recruiters in advanced techniques, writing a bilingual blog, and authoring a sourcing book, “Super Source Me.” She’s a regular on the international conference circuit, where she tends to connect the Polish recruiting scene to global practice.
- Linkedin: Kasia Tang
- X (Twitter): @Kasia_Tang
- Website/Blog: kasiatang.com
Artur Skiba
Artur has run Antal Poland as CEO for over 20 years, long enough to have shaped the country’s whole recruitment market rather than just one agency.
Under him, Antal helped bring niche recruitment and executive search into Poland’s IT and finance sectors, became one of the first Polish recruitment firms to list on a stock exchange, and expanded abroad.
He sat on the board of SAZ (the Association of Employment Agencies) and still represents Poland at events like Shared Services & Outsourcing Week Europe. He’s not a hands-on recruiter anymore, but he posts steadily on talent trends, outsourcing, and leadership.
- Linkedin: Artur Skiba
- X (Twitter): @SkibaArtur
Grzegorz Deszczka
Grzegorz goes by “Rekruter z Brodą” (“Recruiter with a Beard”), and the brand fits the content: blunt, funny posts about what IT hiring is actually like, which have grown his LinkedIn following past 25,000.
He’s been named a Top LinkedIn Voice in Poland for recruitment, and away from the feed he coaches other recruiters and runs workshops on using the platform and on personal branding.
- Linkedin: Grzegorz Deszczka
Katarzyna (Kasia) Michalak
Kasia made her name as a tech recruiter at Bee Talents, the Poznań agency, where candidate experience was her calling card, and she has the hardware to show for it: the 2016 “Best Recruitment Consultant in Poland (Permanent Hires)” award from the Perły HR competition.
She later moved into a Head of Sales & Training role, turning that recruiting experience into client advice and recruiter training.
She speaks at events like SourceCon Europe and has had writing featured on ERE.net, usually on closing the gap between developers and the people hiring them.
- Linkedin: Katarzyna Michalak
- X (Twitter): @kasia_zora
Piotr Jablonski
In recruitment, the hidden job market is where real opportunities lie. It’s about knowing how to navigate the networks beyond the obvious.
Piotr was one of the first recruiters in Poland to take LinkedIn seriously for employer branding, and a 30,000-strong following followed.
With 10+ years behind him, he’s worked agency-side and now runs independently through his career-advisory blog (Career PRO / cvexpert.pl), coaching professionals on the “hidden job market” and strategic moves between jobs.
His posts on candidate experience and recruitment’s quieter corners are a big part of why he’s a fixture in Polish HR circles, and he still spends time mentoring newer recruiters.
- Linkedin: Piotr Jabłoński
Jakub Babij
Jakub built his reputation in Poland’s recruitment scene the hard way, co-leading high-volume and hard-to-fill tech hiring at companies like Eaton and Intel, and was often named alongside Piotr Jabłoński among the country’s recruitment influencers.
He’s since pivoted into well-being, founding Mindfulness Inside and training as a psychotherapist. The throughline is consistent: he wrote early and often about recruiter mindfulness and candidate empathy, and still nudges HR toward treating people better.
- Linkedin: Jakub Babij
Olga Zolkiewicz
Olga works across employer branding, candidate experience, and internal communications, helping companies look like places worth joining. She runs HR training workshops, speaks at meetups, and writes the How2HR blog (how2hr.pl) on modern HR and recruitment hacks.
She’s also comfortable on camera, giving a behind-the-scenes look at HR life across LinkedIn and Instagram, which earned her the description “HR-owiec in the world of new technologies.”
- Linkedin: Olga Żółkiewicz
- X (Twitter): @OlgaZolkiewicz
Karolina Latus
Karolina wears several hats at once: C-level IT headhunter and trainer at the agency CRAFTS, founder of the “HR na Deser” meetup series, and community manager for ROC Polska.
Around five years into IT recruitment (and longer in HR), she’s open about wanting to “reshape the world of HR,” and freelances on the side doing recruitment-process consulting and training.
Between the corporate work and the grassroots community organizing, she’s a recognizable push toward a more collaborative Polish tech recruitment scene.
- Linkedin: Karolina Latus
- X (Twitter): @KarolinaLatus
Maja Gojtowska
Maja’s specialty is candidate and employee experience, with a background in HR communication.
She runs the well-read Gojtowska.com blog, wrote a 2019 book on candidate experience, and built a large, highly engaged LinkedIn audience that earned her a “Top Voice” tag (Forbes Women called her a “LinkedIn Master”).
Her recurring argument is simple: treat candidates at least as well as you treat customers. She also trains and facilitates, including design-thinking work for HR teams.
- Linkedin: Maja Gojtowska
- X (Twitter): @MajaGojtowska
Aleksandra Pszczola
Ola founded and runs Bee Talents, one of Poland’s leading tech-recruitment agencies, out of Poznań. Her path there is unusual: she started in tech back in 2010 building a mobile app, then built a 40-person recruitment firm instead.
Today she consults startups and enterprises alike on hiring strategy and employer branding, speaks and mentors on team building, and talks openly on LinkedIn (and with outlets like Startup Poland) about running the business.
That focus on transparency is a big part of why Poland reads as a hub for high-quality IT recruitment.
- Linkedin: Aleksandra Pszczoła
- X (Twitter): @olapsz
Zyta Machnicka
Zyta has spent 14+ years on employer branding, early enough to be one of the people who introduced the discipline to Poland. She founded the EB and talent-communication hub Lightness, co-founded the EBMASTERS community, wrote a book on candidate experience, and runs CandidateExperience.pl.
As Lightness CEO she’s delivered over 200 educational projects, and her message across LinkedIn, YouTube, and the blog rarely changes: any company can become a better employer if it treats recruitment like marketing.
- Linkedin: Zyta Machnicka
- X (Twitter): @ZytaMachnicka
Agnieszka Ciecwierz
Agnieszka comes at recruitment from organizational psychology, and co-founded Sigmund Polska, a firm built around competency assessment and talent management.
She’s written three books on recruitment and HR, teaches recruiters to hire on competencies and data rather than gut feel, and has had her LinkedIn profile singled out by MyCompany Polska magazine.
She also works the policy side, collaborating on labor-market research featured in PARP materials, and is unusually vocal about recruiters investing in their own growth and well-being.
- Linkedin: Agnieszka Ciećwierz
Jacek Krajewski
Jacek’s angle is gamification: how to use game mechanics in pre-onboarding and assessment to keep candidates engaged. Over 13+ years across HR and tech he’s worked at GoldenLine and HR-tech firms like Lightness, spoken widely, and run a long-running LinkedIn Q&A series, #ZapytajJacka (“Ask Jacek”).
He’s contributed to HR magazines and later moved into tech project roles, which sharpened the technical half of his perspective on modernizing how companies hire.
- Linkedin: Jacek Krajewski
Karolina Kolosowska
Karolina sits at the intersection of recruiting and HR media: she’s HR Manager at Just Join IT, one of Poland’s top IT job boards, and edits the helloHR online magazine.
Five-plus years into HR (four in tech), she’s hard to miss, producing content, organizing events, and mentoring, while posting practical LinkedIn advice on sourcing IT talent and building workplace culture.
Running the helloHR community keeps her wired into a wide network of Polish recruiters and candidates.
- Linkedin: Karolina Kołosowska
Urszula Zajac-Paldyna
Ula writes the popular blog “HR na obcasach” (“HR in High Heels”), where recruitment tips sit next to labor-law explainers and candid career stories, usually delivered with humor.
An HR generalist who’s done both agency and corporate stints, she now lectures, speaks, and turns up in the media, covering everything from sourcing to candidate communication.
Her followers know the “100 ideas a minute” energy, and a lot of younger Polish HR professionals treat her as a starting point.
- Linkedin: Urszula Zając-Pałdyna
Tomasz Soltys
Tomasz has headhunted in IT for over 17 years, working independently under the brand Rekruter.it and offering the full stack of recruitment support, from hiring strategy and direct search through training a client’s own HR team.
He counts more than 900 completed projects across IT, technical, and pharmaceutical roles, in Poland and beyond. He labels himself, half-jokingly, a “Pragmatic IT Recruiter” on GitHub and LinkedIn, and the pragmatism is the point: he optimizes for quality hires made efficiently.
- Linkedin: Tomasz Sołtys
Aleksandra Skrok
Aleksandra recruits for IT outsourcing at Devire, one of the bigger players in Poland’s recruitment and outsourcing market, and posts consistently on tech hiring to an audience of around 9,000 on LinkedIn.
Based in Warsaw, she sits right in Devire’s IT delivery engine, which makes her a useful contact for candidates eyeing product, outsourcing, and enterprise tracks.
- Linkedin: Aleksandra Skrok
Dominik Jurek
Dominik co-founded Next Technology Professionals with his brother Piotr and has grown it into one of Poland’s recognised IT recruitment and outsourcing firms, working with clients across Poland and Western Europe.
The agency runs both classic IT recruitment and outstaffing, and publishes its own reports on Polish IT salaries and hiring trends, which get cited around the Polish tech scene.
A family firm competing with listed agencies is a rarity in this market, and the Jurek brothers have kept it growing on service quality rather than scale.
- Linkedin: Dominik Jurek
What do IT specialists earn in Poland?
Fees only make sense against salaries, so here is the current shape of the market. Mid-level developers in Poland typically earn 15,000 to 25,000 PLN per month on B2B contracts, and senior engineers 25,000 to 35,000 PLN, with Warsaw and Kraków at the top of the range. Rates in high-demand specialisations such as DevOps, data engineering and security run higher still.
Employment-contract salaries run roughly 20 to 30 percent below B2B rates because of employer costs and paid leave. For a deeper breakdown by city and seniority, several of the agencies above publish annual salary reports for the Polish market.
Wrap Up
While these individuals offer valuable industry expertise, deep networks, and a track record of working with startups and tech firms in Poland, their services often come at a premium price tag or with limited availability.
For fast-moving teams seeking a more responsive and cost-effective alternative, EchoGlobal Tech can be an option. Contact us today!
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