February edition of the ICT Education & Job Trends

1. New Zealand
ICT
Tertiary Education & Job Series
February 2012
garry.roberton@wintec.ac.nz
Note:
Indicates
new/significant
change

2. Insights
 ICT Jobs
 NZ Seek ICT jobs adverts for the month of February are 3.4% up on
the same month last year
 The Waikato has experienced a 48% increase in ICT jobs advertised
on Seek compared with last month
 Absolute IT opens an office in Hamilton - engaged to find ICT
professionals for 30 roles in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty
regions [ ]
 ICT Salaries
 According to the Robert Walters salary survey for permanent staff
in Auckland
 A .NET/Java developer with 0 to 2 years experience can expect
to earn up to $60,000
 A project manager with 5+ years experience can expect to earn
up to $135,000

3. Seek & Trademe
ICT Job Advert Trends
2007 Peak All NZ
before
recession
3500
3000
2500
Trademe IT
2000
No.of Jobs
Seek ICT
1500
1000
500
0
Sept 2007 Jan 2012 Feb 2012
Month & Year
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

4. Seek ICT Job Adverts
All NZ
Monthly Trends
3000
2753
2500
2000
No. of Job Adverts
1904 2012
2011
1500
2010
1000
500
0
Jan Feb
Month
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

5. Seek ICT Job Adverts
Year to February
2012
Total NZ
Canterbury February
2011
Wellington
Waikato
Auckland
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Feb-12 1539 61 805 266 2753
Jan-12 1087 32 543 185 1904
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

6. Seek ICT Job Advert Trends
Change for the Month of
February 2012
50%
45%
40%
35%
Percentage Change
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

7. Seek ICT Job Adverts
by Industry Certification
February 2012
Linux continues to dominate the NZ market.
Total NZ
Canterbury
Wellington
Waikato
Auckland
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Microsoft 256 3 108 52 443
Cisco 140 4 39 21 213
Linux 522 15 216 89 871
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

8. Seek ICT Job Adverts Filtered
by Management Certifications
February 2012
300
250
200
27%
PMP
46%
150 Prince
ITIL
100 27%
50
0
Auckland Wellington Canterbury Waikato Total NZ
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

9. Top Ten Professional Certifications
Ranking & Percentage of NZ Respondents
2012 ActivTechPros Report
1 Microsoft Certified Professional
(MCP)
2 A+ Certification
2% 2%
2%
4% 17% 3 Microsoft Certified Systems
Engineer (MCSE)
4% 4 Network +
5 Cisco Certified Network Associate
9% (CCNA)
6 Project Management (PMP)
17% 7 Citrix Certification
9%
8 HP certification
11%
9 Certified Information Systems
Security Professional (CISSP)
10 Lotus Professional Certification
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

10. Seek ICT Job Adverts by
Programming Language
February 2012
Java continues to dominate NZ ICT job market for programmers/developers with PHP a close second.
Total NZ
Canterbury
19%
35%
Wellington
14%
Waikato
32%
Auckland
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
.NET 233 5 98 47 402
PHP 398 12 181 71 683
C# 185 4 69 45 315
Java 434 12 214 78 758
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

11. – Feb 2012
 The most sought-after development skills remain Java and .Net,
and, within .Net, relatively new technologies such as SharePoint and
Silverlight [Josh Comrie, managing director of recruitment firm
Potentia]
 According to Adam Roi, senior consultant at Robert Half;
 The existing high demand for .Net developers will increase
 The release of the .Net 3.5 framework in 2008-2009 was a huge
success for Microsoft and was a catalyst for the growth in
senior .Net developer roles
 Two areas in which Java is used extensively are integration
development and in development work in the financial services
sector
[Refer also to extracts from ComputerWorld article “ICT Job Space 2012” referred to in
the ]

12. TIOBE [The Importance of Being Earnest]
Programming Community Index
for February 2012
February Headline: All time low for Basic, all time high for VB.NET
Java
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
(Visual) Basic
Python
Perl Feb-11
Language
JavaScript Feb-12
Delphi/Object Pascal
Ruby
Lisp
Transact-SQL
Pascal
Visual Basic .NET
PL/SQL
Logo
Ada
R
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Order of Popularity
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

13. Comparison by Role
Seek ICT Job Adverts
February 2012
25% 24%
Programmer/Developer
System Support
20% 24%
Help Desk
7%
Network (All categories)
All Other Roles
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

14. Robert Walters NZ Salary Survey
Permanent Salary [IT]
2011
Chief Iinformation Officer/CTO
Programme Manager
Manager - IT Operations
Project Manager [5+ year's exp]
Manager - Development
Security Specialist [3+ year's exp]
Solution Architect - Infrastructure
Developer - .Net, Java [6+ year's exp]
Project Manager [3 - 5 year's exp]
Database Admin [6+ year's exp]
Manager - Testing
ERP Functional Consultant
Business Analyst [6+ year's exp]
Project Manager [1 - 2 year's exp]
Database Admin [2 - 5 year's exp] Wellington [Max]
Position [Wellington]
Manager - Service Desk
Business Analyst [4 - 6 year's exp] Wellington [Min]
Developer - .Net, Java [3 - 5 year's exp]
Security Specialist [1 - 3 year's exp]
Systems Admin [3 - 6 year's exp]
Quality Analyst [QA]
Tester [1 - 3 year's exp]
Systems Admin [1 - 3 year's exp]
Service Desk/Desktop/Apps Support [3 - 5…
Business Analyst [1 - 3 year's exp]
Developer - .Net, Java [0 - 2 year's exp]
Service Desk/Desktop/Apps Support [1 - 3…
$0 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

15. Robert Walters NZ Salary
Survey
Permanent Salary [IT]
Chief Iinformation Officer/CTO
Programme Manager
Manager - Development
Project Manager [5+ year's exp]
Solution Architect - Applications
Solution Architect - Infrastructure
Security Specialist [3+ year's exp]
Manager - Testing
Manager - IT Operations
Project Manager [3 - 5 year's exp]
Position [Auckland]
ERP Functional Consultant
Auckland [Max]
Business Analyst [6+ year's exp]
Database Admin [6+ year's exp]
Auckland [Min]
Developer - .Net, Java [6+ year's exp]
Systems Admin [3 - 6 year's exp]
Project Manager [1 - 2 year's exp]
Business Analyst [4 - 6 year's exp]
Tester [3 - 5 year's exp]
Manager -Service Desk
Database Admin [2+ year's exp]
Business Analyst [1 - 3 year's exp]
Systems Admin [1 - 3 year's exp]
Developer - .Net, Java [3 - 5 year's exp]
Help Desk/Desktop/Apps Support [3 -…
Tester [1 - 3 year's exp]
Developer - .Net, Java [0 - 2 year's exp]
$0 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

16. Global Salary Survey [NZ]
Outlook for 2011:
 Market becoming increasingly candidate short as more roles are created
 Permanent market to remain steady throughout 2011 due to;
 Continual growth and rebuilding of teams
 Replacement of headcount lost through natural attrition
 High demand for professionals with cloud computing experience as
businesses look at ways to move their core functions (such as storage
requirements, servers and security) to the ‘cloud’
 Business intelligence and social networking experience sought-after
 Senior business analysts in demand
[Accessed February 2012]
Did this match the outcomes/your experience in 2011?

17. Active Tech Pros
Annual Salary [NZD] by Job Function and NZ Region
2012 Report
$160,000
$140,000
$120,000
$100,000
NZ Dollar
$80,000
$60,000
$40,000
$20,000
$0
IT Management Project Systems Communications Support Administration Other IT Total
Management Development Professionals
Auckland Wellington Christchurch Tauranga Hawkes Bay Whakatane Manawatu Dunedin
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

18. Annual Salary by Job Function & Region (NZD)
Number & Percentage of Respondents
Reporting Year 2011
2% 2%
2%
5%
Auckland
1 1
1
5%
Wellington
2
Christchurch
2
Tauranga
7% Hawkes Bay
3
18 42%
Whakatane
Manawatu
Dunedin
9
21%
Note: very low respondent numbers.
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

19. US IT salaries rise, bonuses get bigger
 The average wage for tech and engineering pros climbed 2% to US$81,327 last
year from $79,384 in 2010
 Stiffer competition/demand for tech pros and the skills they have continues to
grow, which contributed to the salary gains
 Workers lucky enough to get bonuses saw an even bigger boost as the average
bonus amount rose 8% to $8,769. The percentage of tech pros receiving bonuses
climbed to 32% in 2011, compared with 29% in 2010 and 24% in 2009
 The industries most likely to pay out bonuses in 2011 were telecom, hardware,
banking, utilities/energy and software
 While the national unemployment rate is roughly 8.5%, the unemployment rate
among tech professionals is [just] 3.6%
 "The labour market for tech professionals is tighter than many other industries.
That's indicative of the skills tech pros have and their strategic importance to
their organizations." [Tom Silver, a senior vice president at ]
Source: (Accessed February 2012)

20. News Bytes
Hudson [Recruitment Specialists] Survey
 27 per cent of NZ ICT employees got a pay rise of more than 10 per cent last
year
 Statistics NZ's Labour Cost Index showed a national increase in salaries and
wages in the private sector of 2 per cent
[ ]
Industries of the future [Career Advice]
 Globally, commentators list health, leisure, hospitality, education, finance and
insurance, the internet, IT and green jobs, with an emphasis on the field of
science, engineering and mathematics
 Telecommunications will see growth as cellphones are used for everything
from GPS, music…….
 Digital storage is another huge area for growth, as is internet security and
cloud computing
 A recent report forecasts a shortage by 2018 in the USA of 19,000 data
scientists and 1.5 million data-savvy managers and analysts
[NZ Weekend Herald Career Article – 11 Feb, 2012]

21. News Bytes
Hot Jobs for 2012 [Career Advice]
Top Five Jobs in the IT Industry
 Software developer
 Business analyst
 Project manager
 Business intelligence consultant
 Systems/network engineer
[NZ Herald Career Article – 25 Jan, 2012]

22. Conclusion
 Programming Languages
 Java remains No.1 in the TIOBE top 20
 Jobs
 The future remains extremely bright for prospective ICT
employees in a wide range of well paid jobs/positions
 Salary
 Start on $40,000 per year as a new graduate and within 5
years there is the potential to be earning $100,000 per year