New Zealand

ICT

Tertiary Education & Job Series

August 2011garry.roberton@wintec.ac.nz

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Indicates new/significant change

Insights Enrolments:

NZ ICT diploma & CS bachelor degree female participation rates in2009 ( ) were 23% & 28% respectively

USA - among the member schools, the share of bachelor’sdegrees in CS granted to females rose to 13.8% in 2010, an increaseof 2.5 percentage points over 2009

Europe – female participation rates in CS & CE sitting at 28% in 2009

Jobs:

NZ Seek ICT jobs adverts for the month of August;

Auckland down 4%, Wellington down 18% and Canterburydown 5%

Waikato experienced an 11% growth rate, the secondconsecutive increase of significance (14% last month)

All NZ fell by 8% (Down 2% same period 2010)

Trademe (all NZ) decreased by 9% (Up 5% same period 2010)

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ICT Diplomas Domestic EFTS

by Age & Gender, 2009

Source: (Accessed August 2011)

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28%

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CS Bachelor DegreesDomestic EFTS

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Distribution by Gender

Note: Evidence suggests that the female participation rate is consistent here in NZ and rising slightly in the USA.

Source: (Accessed August 2011)

Source: (Accessed August 2011)

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Seek IT Job Trends NZ2011

Last Year

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Seek ICT Job Adverts Monthly Change for August 2011

Monthly Change

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Seek ICT Job Advert Trends January - August

2011

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2007 Peak before recession

Source: (Accessed August 2011)

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ICT Job Adverts NZ Seek & Trademe

Source: (Accessed August 2011)

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Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ

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 NZJanuary - August 2011

August

2010

Source: (Accessed August 2011)

Waikato & Canterbury experienced an increase in Linuxadverts of 60% and 11% respectively for the month

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Microsoft 281 5 118 59 484

Cisco 174 2 86 27 310

Linux 535 25 168 72 817

Seek ICT Job Adverts by Industry Certification

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Seek ICT Job Adverts Filteredby Management Certifications

Note:All 3 management certifications may be referenced in the same job advert.

New for August 2011

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

MCDST MS Certified Desktop Support Technician

Server+

MCTS Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration

MCTS Windows Vista, Configure

MCITP Server Administrator

MCSA MS Certified System Administrator

CompTIA Security+

MCITP MS Certified IT Professional

CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate

MCITP Enterprise Administrator

MCSE MS Certified Systems Engineer

VoIP/Telephony

Project+

VMware Certified Professional

ITIL® v3 Foundation

ITIL v2 Foundation

CCNP Cisco Certified Network Professional

CCDA Cisco Certified Design Associate

CISSP Cert Info Sys Security Professional

PMP® Project Management Professional

TechRepublic Certifications & Salary Report2011

Salary

(Accessed July 2011)

Source: (Accessed August 2011)

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Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ

PHP 376 19 120 43 564

C# 145 7 59 24 239

.NET 178 15 66 28 290

Java 410 21 133 50 623

Seek ICT Job Adverts by Programming Language

August 2011

Waikato experienced a doubling of job adverts for Java & .NET for the month. Job adverts for PHP increased 50%.

82%

18%

Prog/Dev [Java]

Prog/Dev Other Languages

Seek ICT Job Adverts for Java Programmer/Developer

August 2011

44%

39%

17% Java

PHP

C#

Seek ICT NZ Job Adverts Top 3 Languages

August 2011

Source: (Accessed August 2011)

Revised for August 2011 - C# now included

TIOBE Programming Community Index Headline for August 2011:

F#, a new functional programming language available in the latestversion of Microsoft's Visual Studio (2010), has entered the top 20 forthe first time

Source: (Accessed August 2011)

27%

24%

7%

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18%

Programmer/Developer

System Support

Help Desk

Network (All categories)

All Other Roles

Seek ICT Job Adverts by Role [August]

Source: (Accessed August 2011)

New for August 2011

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

Help desk

Trainers

Web design

Database

Networking & systems

Programming & development

Testers

Business analyst

Security

Telecommunications

Functional consultant

Management

Architects

Project management

Sales & pre-sales

Trademe IT Salary Information by Role

Jan-June 2011

Median pay

(Accessed August 2011)

Observations

The top 3 salaries by roles, according to a recent Trademe Survey, are:

Sales & Pre-sales

Project Management

Architects

The top 5 salaries by certification, according to a recent TechRepublic survey, are:

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Cert Info Sys Security Professional (CISSP)

Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA)

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

ITIL v2 Foundation

A Selection of the Hottest Jobs in Information Technology, according to CIO, are:

Java & .NET Developer Project Manager Data Modeller Software Implementation Analyst Database Administrator IT Security Manager Business Continuity Manager Applications Architect RFID Systems Engineer

News Bytes

( Accessed August 2011)

News Bytes

According to the latest (NZ) Hudson Report for the July-September Quarter:

Hiring intentions in the information technology sector (31.4%) are at the highest level in over six years

More than half of employers (56.2%) surveyed plan to increase permanent headcount

The industry is thriving in the lower North Island, up 18.6pp compared to the first quarter of 2011

The temporary/contracting hiring intentions for the information technology sector are at the highest level (31.4%) for nearly six years

(Accessed August 2011)

Conclusion:

The challenge for both the ICT industry and tertiary institutions is tocontinue to find ways to make a career in ICT more attractive to the femalecohort

: Innovations in Practice Quote:“The under-representation of females in ICT studies and careers results not onlyin a massive loss of talent for ICT companies and economies, but also in atechnology divide that perpetuates disadvantage among women in general andwomen of low socio-economic status in particular.”

NZ ICT jobs adverts compared with August 2010;

Seek up 24%

Trademe up 18%

Next months edition will include a section on the current state of the Australian ICT job market