Аннотация:The topic of employees’ competitiveness introduces new issues into the era of digital transformation. Employees should not only to possess the necessary digital competencies, but to improve them, as well as to acquire additional digital competencies to increase their competitiveness. There is a methodology for assessing the level of digital competencies that allows tracing the dynamics of digital competencies level in the Russian Federation since 2015 till 2018 both in the country as a whole and at the regional level. However, this technique does not answer the question of what kind of digital competencies employees should improve or acquire. The aim of our study is to identify the universal (if it is possible) digital competencies of IT and telecom employees, the concentration on which will allow to increase the competitiveness of employees. We analysed the vacancies of Vladivostok as a city in the Far East, which rating is above the average for the Russian Federation in terms of digital competencies.