Download - Ict Education & Job Trends July 2011
New Zealand
ICT
Tertiary Education & Job Series
July [email protected]
Note:
Indicates new/significant change
Insights
Enrolments & Completions:
for the tertiary sector (ITPs, PTEs & Universities)
Diploma & degree EFTS enrolments are increasing
Diploma completions are increasing
Degree completions are decreasing
Jobs:
for the month of July
Auckland experienced a 5% increase in Seek ICT jobadverts
Waikato experienced a 14% increase in Seek ICT jobadverts
Overall all NZ ICT jobs advertised on Seek rose 4%[Trademe increased just 0.6%]
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Tertiary Sector ICT Enrolment Trends [Domestic & International]
2003 to 2009
Tertiary sector ICT EFTS (Equivalent Full Time Student) enrolments:
Decreased by 39% between 2003 and 2007
Increased by 20% between 2007 and 2009Source: (Accessed July 2011)
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Institutes of Technology & Polytechnics (ITP) ICT Enrolment Trends
(Certificates, Diplomas & Degree EFTS)2002 to 2011
Increase of 10% for 2011 estimated
ITP/Polytechnic sector ICT EFTS enrolments (Based on data collected by )
Decreased by 49% between 2002 and 2007
Increased by 45% between 2007 and *2011 (Still 1000 fewer EFTSenrolments in 2011 than in 2002)*Based on an estimated increase of 10% for the 2011 year
Total enrollments among U.S. computer science undergraduatesincreased 10 percent in 2010
Third straight year of increases in total enrollment
Indicates that the post “dot-com crash” decline in undergraduatecomputing program enrollments is over.
CRA Taulbee Survey
Source: – April 2011
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Tertiary Sector ICT Diploma Completion Trends [Domestic & International]
2004 to 2009
Between 2007 and 2009 diploma completions more than doubled
Source: (Accessed July 2011)
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Tertiary Sector Completion Trends ICT Bachelor [Domestic & International]
2004 to 2009
Degree completions:
Decreased 36% from 2004 to 2007 (Tracking falling enrolments)
Continue to decrease (a further 16% from 2007 to 2009)
Source: (Accessed July 2011)
IT job vacancies increased by approximately 60% over the same period [2003 to 2007] that tertiary ICT enrolments declined by approximately 40%
IT Job Advertisements2003 to 2007
Source: (Accessed July 2011)
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Seek IT Job Trends NZ2011
Last Year
Source: (Accessed July 2011)
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Seek IT
ICT Job Adverts NZ Seek & Trademe
2007 Peak before recession
Source: (Accessed July 2011)
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Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Jul-11 1837 65 891 255 3127
Jun-11 1751 57 880 229 3000
May-11 1635 59 785 184 2732
Apr-11 1516 67 825 188 2689
Mar-11 1530 68 785 144 2603
Feb-11 1559 66 800 151 2662
Jan-11 960 42 532 123 1712
Seek ICT Job Adverts NZJanuary - July 2011
Total NZ July 2010
Source: (Accessed July 2011)
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Microsoft 299 10 138 72 547
Cisco 174 4 86 27 310
Linux 556 15 243 64 901
Seek ICT Job Adverts by Industry Certification
July 2011
Wellington has the only significant monthly increase of 7% across all 3 categories
Source: (Accessed July 2011)
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PHP 393 12 156 38 608
C# 153 5 64 29 257
.NET 187 7 89 45 337
Java 425 10 169 46 657
Seek ICT Job Adverts by Programming Language
July 2011
Auckland: Experienced a 25% monthly increase in job adverts filtered on PHP Experienced a 10% monthly increase in job adverts filtered on Java Experienced an increase of 8% for the month across all 4 categories
Wellington: Experienced an decrease of 5% for the month across all 4
categories Christchurch:
Experienced an decrease of 20% for the month across all 4categories
Comment on Seek ICT Job Adverts by Programming language
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Seek ICT NZ Job Adverts PHP & Java Comparison
July 2011
News Bytes
Australia: Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association
(ITCRA) (May 2011): On the cusp of an employment skills shortage in the ICT sector The group's inaugural Skillsmatch ICT Skills Dashboard revealed; An average of 26.3 days taken to hire a new ICT employee, an
increase of six days in the past year In the same period, the number of suitable candidates for each
role has decreased from 7.7 candidates to 6.8 candidates The top five skills employers and recruiters are requesting are; Help desk experience Project management Java SQL Windows
Source: (Accessed July 2011)
ComputerWorld: Hiring process lengthening in tighter marketGood quality candidates are getting harder to source, survey finds[By David Watson | Auckland | Thursday, 23 June, 2011]
managing director Josh Comrie;
“The market today is one that has very much gone back to the one last seen
in 2007”.................“It is candidate-short.”
In-demand skill sets include senior network design, infrastructure design
and software design roles - “It is the architecture roles.”
C# and Java developers are also in demand and the Flash Flex development
toolset is also “becoming very popular”
Source: (Accessed July 2011)
News Bytes
Conclusion:
CS/ICT undergraduate enrolment trends in NZ mirror those in the USA
NZ ICT jobs advertised on Seek up 32% on this time last year
The July 2011 Seek ICT job advert figure of 3,127 is only 10% below the peak of 3,487 in September 2007 (Prior to the recession)
NZ ICT job numbers advertised on Trademe consistently above the September 2007 peak from February 2011
CS/ICT completion rates in NZ are not keeping pace with job vacancies – the skills gap is increasing, once again
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