About the Harvey Nash Technology Survey 2016.The survey was conducted between 14th July 2015 and 26th October 2015 with 2,959 technology professionals from 36 countries taking part. A wide range of people contributed, including software engineers (ten per cent), technology project managers (ten per cent) and developers (seven per cent), and c-level technology leaders (nine per cent). For more information visit www.harveynash.com/techsurvey

DEMOGRAPHICS

CAREERS

SECURITY

SKILLS

Switzerland

Australia

Ireland

Global Average

United Kingdom

Germany

United States

Sweden

Poland

62+38+T62%

55+45+T55%

48+52+T48%

43+57+T43%

40+60+T40%

39+61+T39%

37+63+T37%

35+65+T35%

15+85+T15%

55+45+T55%

64+36+T64%

29+71+T29%

35+65+T35%

26+74+T26%

24+76+T24%

21+79+T21%

12+88+T12%

6+94+T6%

% of technology workers from overseas:

Ongoing shift to permanent hiring: 71% now in full time employment, 65% in 2014, 62% 2013, 58% in 2012

War for Talent: 32% of technologists report 10+ headhunter enquiries in past year

HARVEY NASH TECH SURVEY 2016 KEY FINDINGS

Technology hiring managers report skills shortage in 2015, up from 51% last year

feel they are integrally important to future of organisation (up from 41% last year and 38% in 2013)

Good Pay now most important reason for leaving role (for 77%), 61% last year of technologists moved

job in past 12 months; also 39% in 2014, 38% in 2013, 46% in 2012

62% of technologists willing to innovate despite increasing security risk, up from 59% last year

US technologists most worried about over-regulation of tech innovation (61%) compared to 42% in Europe and 50% in Asia-PAC

Skills shortage most intense in Europe (56% of all technology hiring managers report

shortage); US 51%, Asia-PAC 37%

44% of hiring managers think skills shortage will get worse in future

53+47+T53% 45+55+T45%

39+61+T39%

Developer

Software Engineer

Design UX/UI

Architecture

Database Engineer

Web Developer

Testing

Project Management

CIO/CTO

% respondents with 10+ headhunter enquiries per year:

56% personally hacked last year (UP from 52% in 2014)but...39% of companies were hacked last year (DOWN from 46% in 2014)

STAY OR GO

Total number of respondents:

2,959