Download - Ict education job trends oct 2011
New Zealand
ICT
Tertiary Education & Job Series
October 2011 [email protected]
Note:
Indicates new/significant change
Rugby World Cup
Insights Jobs [Last month ()]:
NZ Seek ICT jobs adverts for the month of October;
All NZ rose by 1% (-7%) (Up 13% on October 2010) in spite of other negative economic indicators
Auckland down 1% (-8%), Wellington up 2% (-3%) and Canterbury up a significant 9% (-12%)
Waikato experienced a 2% increase (-22%)
Trademe (all NZ) increased by 2% (2%) (Up 1.6% on September 2010)
ICT jobs in Canterbury have increased from 123 to 236 (92%) for the year to October
Pay disparity in New Zealand’s ICT sector:
Still a significant gap with women earning an average of 7.8% less than salaried men, while the average contract hourly rate for women is 12.5% lower than for men
Linked readings:
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
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Seek IT Job Trends NZ 2011
Last Year
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
-2%
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10%
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Seek ICT Job Adverts Monthly Change
October 2011
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
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Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Seek ICT Job Advert Trends Year to October 2011
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Sept2007
Jan2011
Feb2011
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1407 1353 1462
1391 1474 1484
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2662 2603
2689 2732
3000 3127
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2662 2692
Trademe IT
Seek IT
ICT Job Adverts NZ Seek & Trademe
2007 Peak before recession
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
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Auckland
Waikato
Wellington
Canterbury
Total NZ
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Oct-11 1612 57 723 236 2692
Sep-11 1629 56 707 214 2662
Aug-11 1772 72 727 242 2870
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 Year to October
2011
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
October
2010
1397
621
217
271
126
28
Auckland
Wellington
Canterbury
84%
16%
Fulltime
Contract
Doughnuts Inside=F/T
Outside=Contract/etc
Seek ICT Job Adverts Oct 2011 Full Time & Part time/Contract/Temp/Casual
Comparison by Main Regions
All NZ
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
Linux jobs in the Waikato increased 50%, while for Microsoft jobs Auckland decreased 16% and Wellington increased 20%
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
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Auckland
Waikato
Wellington
Canterbury
Total NZ
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Microsoft 236 7 114 43 430
Cisco 146 8 48 30 238
Linux 452 24 191 83 772
Seek ICT Job Adverts by Industry Certification
October 2011
Seek ICT Job Adverts Filtered by Management Certifications
Notes: • All 3 management certifications may be referenced in the same job advert.
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
29%
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ITIL
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
• Java & .NET increased by 9% & 21% respectively on September totals • PHP & C# also experienced monthly increases • C++ added to enable comparison with TOIBE index [Top five: Java, C, C++,
PHP & C#]
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700
Auckland
Waikato
Wellington
Canterbury
Total NZ
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
.NET 212 5 99 23 347
PHP 325 13 143 54 554
C++ 38 0 19 12 71
C 345 0 153 56 592
Java 356 14 159 66 613
Seek ICT Job Adverts by Programming Language
October 2011
C++ added this month for comparison with TIOBE
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
Note: Total adverts for all four languages increased by 11.5% for the month
561
522
213
284
613
554
250
344
Java
PHP
C#
.NET
Seek IT Job Adverts Comparison by Languages
Sept - Oct 2011
Inner = Sept Outer = Oct 11.5% overall increase in adverts for languages
TIOBE [The Importance of Being Earnest] Programming Community Index
for October 2011
0 5 10 15 20 25
Ada
Assembly*
Pascal
RPG (OS/400)
Lua
PL/SQL
Transact-SQL
Lisp
Delphi/Object Pascal
Ruby
JavaScript
Perl
Python
(Visual) Basic
Objective-C
C#
PHP
C++
C
*Java
Order of Popularity
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Oct-11
*Java remains the No.1 programming language in the top 20
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
Despite new version 7 release Java loses ground Java lost almost 1% of its popularity in September
C will be number one again next month, if this trend continues
Other observations;
Both Objective-C and Transact-SQL score new all time highs Assembly re-entered the top 20 Visual Basic.NET gained many places (from #39 to #25) F# had a hard time (from #23 to #46)
Note: The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings
TIOBE Programming Community Index Headline for October 2011
$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 Developer
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 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
Medium Quartile
Absolute IT Salary Report NZ Permanent Salary Data
Nov-10 to Aug-11
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
Absolute IT Salary Report NZ Percentage Change Nov-10 to Aug-11
-20.0% -15.0% -10.0% -5.0% 0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0%
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 Source: (Accessed October 2011)
Summary of [Absolute IT] Key Findings:
In the past 9 months
Software Development, Testing, Web Developers, and Managers experienced remuneration increases
Sales Execs/Account Managers, all levels of Software Architects, IT Security and Network Administration experienced remuneration decreases
*17,182 roles are permanent salaries, up by 2,643 salaries
*3,348 roles are contract/part-time/casual/Interim rates up by 340
*Corresponds with the Seek ICT job advert ratio of 80:20
ABSOLUTE IT SALARY REPORT For NZ’s ICT Industry
November 2010 – August 2011
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
Pay parity in New Zealand’s ICT sector:
Still a significant gap with salaried men earning an average of 7.8% more than women, while the average contract hourly rate for men is 12.5% higher than for women
activeTechPros IT Salary & Skills Report 2011 NZ
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IT Management Project
Management
Systems
Development
Communications Support Administration Other IT
Professionals
Total
NZ
Doll
ar
Annual Salary by Job Function and Region (NZD)
Auckland Wellington Christchurch Tauranga Hawkes Bay Taranaki Manawatu
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
ActiveTechPros IT Salary & Skills Report 2011 NZ
101
39
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45%
17%
7%
3%
3%
3% 3%
Auckland
Wellington
Christchurch
Tauranga
Hawkes Bay
Taranaki
Manawatu
Annual Salary by Job Function & Region (NZD) Number & Percentage of Respondents
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
16%
14%
9% 9%
8%
6%
4%
4%
3% 3%
Top Ten Professional Certifications
Ranking & Percentage of Respondents
2011
1 Microsoft Certified Professional
(MCP)
2 A+ Certification
3 Microsoft Certified Systems
Engineer (MCSE)
4 Cisco Certified Network Associate
(CCNA)
5 Network +
6 Microsoft Certified System
Administrator (MCSA)
7 Citrix Certification
8 Project Management (PMP)
9 IBM certification
10 HP certification
Source: (Accessed October 2011)
News Bytes
ICT Industry Confidence: (
A survey by recruitment firm Hudson finds ICT industry confidence growing 3.9 per cent to 42.7 percent, compared with national two-year low in confidence of just 27.9 per cent across all industries
ICT industry faces skills shortage: (
The Australian ICT industry is facing a shortfall of 2700 computing professionals, adding to a looming skills shortage
Retention strategies more important than ever to prevent staff from defecting to competitors. “There have already been wage increases of between five and ten per cent across the industry with evidence of 20 per cent hikes in Western Australia”
E-skills UK warns of an alarming 23 percent [33%?] fall in the number of students taking a GCSE in ICT: (
Decline in GCSE numbers was "especially concerning given the economic importance of IT to the UK economy“
"IT must be taught in a way that is relevant and inspiring to young people, that capitalises on the interests and aptitudes of young people, and that demonstrates the exciting and dynamic opportunities a career in IT offers”
Conclusion:
October has seen a small increase of 2% in Seek IT NZ advertised jobs, after a decline for two consecutive months
Java loses ground this month despite the new version 7 release [TIOBE]
Men earn more than women with median base salary rates for males at $76,500 compared to $70,500 for females; and median base hourly contract rates at $80 for males compared to $70 for females [Absolute IT]
Architects, Managers and Consultant BI/CRM are the highest paid jobs [Absolute IT]
In NZ, over the past 9 months, remuneration increases occurred for software developers, testing, web developers, and managers [Absolute IT]
Continuing predictions of ICT skills shortages for many countries, including NZ, Australia, the USA and the UK
