Growing Software Development Industry in Pakistan

Pakistan is relatively new to the global software development industry and faces several challenges as compare to competitive developed software house in global market. But now Pakistan’s software industry is emerging and providing tremendous opportunities for growth and advancement. Pakistan is becoming a major contributor to the growing global outsourcing of software services and products.

Currently a majority of software house in Pakistan are trying to implement improved marketing strategies, quality assurance systems and develop their project management capabilities for focusing on export markets. Software house on International level are willing to relocate their software development departments in Pakistan because of country’s rapidly growing software development and hiring cheaper outsourcing companies in Pakistan as compare to their local country.

According to Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) Pakistan's IT / Software industry is contributing at USD $2.8 billion in the global software development market. A large number of multinational certified companies have their software house in Pakistan. Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi are the business center of Pakistan. Islamabad is the capital state, Lahore is known as "Boston of Pakistan" and Karachi is known as "New York of Pakistan”.

These major cities, from business point of view, have cost-effective and most talented experienced software engineers, web developers and designers, infrastructure and operational cost as compare to other cities in Pakistan.