These countries are facing a lack of workforce, while the available specialists increased the service prices.
We should not forget about such factors as a specialty, education, employers, and regions.
When you compare the growth of worldwide IT spending in percentages, you will get the following results: 2015 – 5,64%, 2016 – 2,44%, 2017 – 3,04%, 2018 – 3,17% and 2019 – 2,75% according to Statista.
Qualification and language requirements, cultural similarity, time difference, service costs are usually considered while applying for programming outsourcing.
Indian developers offer service prices of $10-25/hour when Chinese ones can amount to $30-40/hour.
Therefore service prices are higher than the rest of Asia.