In the conditions of the modern labour market, there is a need to determine the relevant competencies of the future specialist, IT specialist in particular. Currently, for more successful professional activities of a modern IT specialist, such competencies are important: professional and so-called “soft-skills”, namely interpersonal and communicative skills. The research purpose is to determine the relevant/significant and irrelevant/insignificant basic professional, interpersonal and communicative competencies of an IT specialist using the questionnaire method. The questionnaire analysis is practical for compiling modern educational programs and designing innovative methods in the field of information technology training.

This work is carried out within the framework of the Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan grant project “Developing and implementing the innovative competency-based model of multilingual IT specialist in the course of national education system modernization”.