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Tertiary Education & Job Series

July 2012 garry.roberton@wintec.ac.nz

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Insights

Seek ICT NZ Job Adverts for July 2012

Total job adverts;

1.6 per cent decrease for the month

Down 12 per cent on July 2011

Up 15.7 per cent on July 2010

Monthly change by region;

Auckland down 2.2 per cent

Waikato up 23 per cent

Wellington down 5.5 per cent

Canterbury up 4.5 per cent

0.5 per cent increase on Trademe IT for the month

Absolute IT Salary Report June 2011 to June 2012:

Software architect increased 14.7 per cent

Technical writer/documenter decreased 25 per cent

2007 Peak before recession

Source: (Accessed July 2012)

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Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ

Jul-11 1608 65 752 230 2742

Jun-11 1644 50 793 220 2786

May-12 1520 40 878 243 2784

Apr-12 1407 45 689 221 2438

Mar-12 1577 48 853 218 2768

Feb-12 1539 61 805 266 2753

Jan-12 1087 32 543 185 1904

Seek ICT Job Advert Trends Year to July

2012

July 2011

Source: (Accessed July 2012)

Source: (Accessed July 2012)

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Seek ICT Job Advert Trends Change for the Month of

July 2012

$0 $20,000 $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $100,000 $120,000 $140,000

Help Desk/Support

Hardware Engineer

Network Administration

Web/Multimedia Designer

Web/Multimedia…

Trainer

Data Record Management

Software Developer

Systems Administrator

Testing and Q.A

Systems Analyst

Network Engineer

Systems Integration

Software-Analyst…

IT Security

WAN/Telecommunications

Technical…

DBA Database Developer

Business Analyst

Consultant

Project Manager/Team…

Software Architect

Consultant ERP/Supply

Consultant BI/CRM

Management

Architect

Absolute IT Salary Report NZ Permanent Salary Data Comparison

June 2011 with June 2012

Medium Quartile 2012

Medium Quartile 2011

Source: (Accessed July 2012)

-30.0% -25.0% -20.0% -15.0% -10.0% -5.0% 0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0%

Help Desk/Support

Hardware Engineer

Network Administration

Web/Multimedia Designer

Web/Multimedia Developer

Trainer

Data Record Management

Software Developer

Systems Administrator

Testing and Q.A

Systems Analyst

Network Engineer

Systems Integration

Software-Analyst Programmer

IT Security

WAN/Telecommunications

Technical Writer/Documenter

DBA Database Developer

Business Analyst

Sales Exec/Account Manager

Consultant

Project Manager/Team Lead

Software Architect

Consultant ERP/Supply

Consultant BI/CRM

Management

Architect

Percentage Change

Absolute IT Salary Report NZ Percentage Change

June 2011 to June 2012

Source: (Accessed July 2012)

Absolute IT Remuneration Report

KEY FINDINGS

The base median salary has remained the same at $75,000

The median base rate per hour has remained the same at $80.00

Regional base median salary:

Wellington…………………………………………….$80,000

Auckland……………………………………………….$75,000

Christchurch and South Island Other…….$70,000

Hamilton and North Island Other………….$63,000

Software architects and developers - significant increases reported

Decreases reported for:

Business analysts

Technical writers

Testers

Systems administrators

Web/multimedia designers

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000

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Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ

Microsoft 293 11 138 68 550

Cisco 129 8 54 23 227

Linux 548 19 194 83 874

Seek ICT Job Adverts by Industry Certification

July 2012

Source: (Accessed July 2012)

Monthly change for; Microsoft:

All NZ increased………..22% Waikato increased…….118% Canterbury increased…31%

Linux:

Waikato increased……..58% Canterbury increased…36%

Cisco: Canterbury increased…77% Waikato increased……..700%

Seek ICT Job Adverts Filtered by Management Certifications

July 2012

ITIL - Waikato increased 200% Monthly decreases for: PMP

-11% for all NZ -13.5% for Auckland -15% for Wellington

Prince -11.5% for all NZ -13% for Auckland -16% for Wellington

ITIL -6.4% for all NZ -9% for Auckland

Source: (Accessed July 2012)

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Source: (Accessed July 2012)

The largest monthly increases occurred for Canterbury;

.NET……………..26%

PHP………………25%

C#..................19.4%

Java………………47.6%

All NZ;

.NET………………10.6%

Auckland

C#………………….18%

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Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ

.NET 275 7 93 53 439

PHP 429 12 144 60 663

C# 237 6 55 43 346

Java 464 11 165 62 716

Seek ICT Job Adverts by Programming Language

June 2012

33%

31%

16%

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26%

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4% 17%

Programmer/Developer

System Support

Help Desk

Network (All categories)

Mobile (Apps)

All Other Roles

Seek ICT Job Adverts All NZ by Role

July 2012

Source: (Accessed July 2012)

The only monthly increase of any significance was for System Support at 5%

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Auckland Wellington Canterbury Waikato Total NZ

TOGAF 9 10 6 0 0 16

VmWare 61 19 7 4 92

Seek ICT Job Advert Trends IT Architect July 2012

Source: (Accessed July 2012)

Absolute IT Permanent Salary for Architect (medium quartile) $115,500

Note: A growing demand for VmWare qualified applicants; All NZ up 12 per cent (same increase as for last month) Waikato up 300 per cent

Source: (Accessed July 2012)

Monthly Changes; All NZ – SQL Server up 6% Auckland - Oracle & SAP

down 7% & 8.4% respectively Canterbury - Oracle up 19.6%

& SAP up 29% 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000

Auckland

Wellington

Canterbury

Waikato

Total NZ

Auckland Wellington Canterbury Waikato Total NZ

SQL Server 208 73 43 7 343

SAP 588 228 67 14 914

Oracle 589 246 67 16 937

Seek ICT Job Adverts Filtered by DBA/Developer

July 2012

43%

42%

15%

Good News Story

The (CiH) programme works via low decile schools, to help families in greatest need to use the internet, email and basic computer skills in their everyday lives, to enhance their performance at school and at work.

Source: ( Accessed July 2012)

This chart is one of many derived from online surveys completed during the last 12 months by the CiH organisation. Computing/ICT (21%) is the most common type of further training undertaken by CiH graduates.

TechRepublic Article - 10 development technologies that refuse to die. 1. COBOL 2. VBA 3. NET WinForms 4. Flash 5. C 6. FORTRAN 7. SQL 8. ASP.NET WebForms 9. Java (Often called “the modern day COBOL”) 10. HTML

News Bytes

Source: ( Accessed July 2012)

The 10 most demanding jobs in IT - According to a survey by Emerson Network Power, a provider of datacentre infrastructure management products, they are:

News Bytes

1. Executive director/administrator

2. IT procurement

3. CIO

4. IT manager/director

5. IT operations

6. Datacentre manager

7. Engineering

8. IT security

9. Applications/software development

10. Database management

Source: ( Accessed July 2012)

News Bytes

Fascinating read about recruiting JavaScript Engineers - for those of you who have the time/inclination (Click on the source link below)

Source: ( Accessed July 2012)

Computerworld Article - Mobile applications company adopts novel way to retain skilled staff – (By Sim Ahmed | Auckland | Thursday, 5 July,

2012) (Source: Accessed July 2012)

Plenty of IT candidates in New Zealand, but skilled mobile developers with Java and Objective-C skills are lacking – (Rod

Macfarlane, co-founder of Macfarlane Engel & Associates, a development and

investment company focused on producing mobile applications)

TechRepublic Article - IT skills crisis - is it over for good? (Source:

Accessed July 2012)

The vast majority of firms in the UK have seen no evidence of an IT skills shortage and…..

The technical skills most often called for in 2011 were: SQL, C, C#, .NET and Java

IT skills crisis? How coding and cool can crack it (Source: Accessed July 2012)

The IT skills crisis is less to do with the quantity of candidates and more to do with the quality of their skills

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Dominion Post (NZ) - Wellington tech firms hiring abroad (Source: Accessed July 2012)

The IT sector is the most active area in the Wellington job market, with nearly 400 vacancies advertised on job seeker site Trade Me Jobs

"There is really a shortage of particular skills in the IT space. More Wellington employers are more keen to look overseas, which is obviously a sign we don't have enough available skills in New Zealand." (Pinnacle Recruitment Wellington manager Diana Palezevic)

IT jobs had the highest salaries of all jobs listed on Trade Me with;

IT architects paid more than $130,000

Project managers paid almost $125,000

IT managers paid more than $117,000

News Bytes

Demand for Skills

A common theme in both local and global markets points to a steadily increasing demand for programmers/developers experienced in;

Java

C/C#

PHP

.NET

SQL

Seek ICT ads for Canterbury have significantly increased this month for all languages; e.g. Java by 47.6%, and for DBA/Developer with Oracle up by 19.6% and SAP up by 29%

According to Trademe jobs the IT sector is the most active area (field) in the Wellington job market (Seek ICT job ads for Wellington decreased by 5.5% this month)

The base median salary for Wellington, according to the Absolute IT Remuneration Report, is the highest for all regions at $80,000

Conclusion