NZ ICT Trends in tertiary enrolments, job vacancies, and salaries.

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

2. 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

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

4. Seek ICT Job Advert
Monthly Trends
2010 - 2012
3500
3000
2500
No. of Job Adverts
2000
2012
1500 2011
2010
1000
500
0
Jan Feb Mar April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
Month
Source: (Accessed July 2012)

5. Seek ICT Job Advert Trends
Year to July
2012
Total NZ
Canterbury July
2011
Wellington
Waikato
Auckland
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000
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
Source: (Accessed July 2012)

6. Seek ICT Job Advert Trends
Change for the Month of
July 2012
25.0%
20.0%
15.0%
Percentage Change
10.0%
5.0%
0.0%
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
-5.0%
-10.0%
Source: (Accessed July 2012)

7. Absolute IT Salary Report NZ
Permanent Salary Data Comparison
June 2011 with June 2012
Architect
Management
Consultant BI/CRM
Consultant ERP/Supply
Software Architect
Project Manager/Team…
Consultant
Business Analyst
DBA Database Developer
Technical…
WAN/Telecommunications Medium Quartile 2012
IT Security
Software-Analyst… Medium Quartile 2011
Systems Integration
Network Engineer
Systems Analyst
Testing and Q.A
Systems Administrator
Software Developer
Data Record Management
Trainer
Web/Multimedia…
Web/Multimedia Designer
Network Administration
Hardware Engineer
Help Desk/Support
$0 $20,000 $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $100,000 $120,000 $140,000
Source: (Accessed July 2012)

8. Absolute IT Salary Report NZ Architect
Percentage Change Management
Consultant BI/CRM
June 2011 to June 2012 Consultant ERP/Supply
Software Architect
Project Manager/Team Lead
Consultant
Sales Exec/Account Manager
Business Analyst
DBA Database Developer
Technical Writer/Documenter
WAN/Telecommunications
IT Security
Software-Analyst Programmer
Systems Integration
Network Engineer
Systems Analyst
Testing and Q.A
Systems Administrator
Software Developer
Data Record Management
Trainer
Web/Multimedia Developer
Web/Multimedia Designer
Network Administration
Hardware Engineer
Help Desk/Support
-30.0% -25.0% -20.0% -15.0% -10.0% -5.0% 0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0%
Percentage Change
Source: (Accessed July 2012)

9. 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

10. Seek ICT Job Adverts
by Industry Certification
July 2012
Total NZ
Monthly change for;
Canterbury Microsoft:
All NZ increased………..22%
Waikato increased…….118%
Wellington
Canterbury increased…31%
Linux:
Waikato increased……..58%
Waikato Canterbury increased…36%
Cisco:
Canterbury increased…77%
Waikato increased……..700%
Auckland
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Microsoft 293 11 138 68 550
Cisco 129 8 54 23 227
Linux 548 19 194 83 874
Source: (Accessed July 2012)

11. Seek ICT Job Adverts Filtered
by Management Certifications
July 2012
350
29%
42%
300
250 29%
200 PMP ITIL - Waikato increased 200%
Prince Monthly decreases for:
ITIL  PMP
150  -11% for all NZ
 -13.5% for Auckland
 -15% for Wellington
100  Prince
 -11.5% for all NZ
 -13% for Auckland
50  -16% for Wellington
 ITIL
 -6.4% for all NZ
0  -9% for Auckland
Auckland Wellington Canterbury Waikato Total NZ
Source: (Accessed July 2012)

12. Seek ICT Job Adverts by
Programming Language
June 2012
Total NZ 20%
33%
16%
Canterbury
31%
Wellington
The largest monthly increases
occurred for Canterbury;
Waikato  .NET……………..26%
 PHP………………25%
Auckland
 C#..................19.4%
 Java………………47.6%
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 All NZ;
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ  .NET………………10.6%
.NET 275 7 93 53 439
Auckland
PHP 429 12 144 60 663
C# 237 6 55 43 346  C#………………….18%
Java 464 11 165 62 716
Source: (Accessed July 2012)

13. Seek ICT Job Adverts All NZ
by Role
July 2012
4%
17%
23%
Programmer/Developer
System Support
Help Desk
22% 26%
Network (All categories)
Mobile (Apps)
8%
All Other Roles
The only monthly increase of any significance was for System Support at 5%
Source: (Accessed July 2012)

14. Seek ICT Job Advert Trends
IT Architect
July 2012
Total NZ
Waikato 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
Canterbury Absolute IT Permanent Salary for Architect (medium quartile) $115,500
Wellington
Auckland
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Auckland Wellington Canterbury Waikato Total NZ
TOGAF 9 10 6 0 0 16
VmWare 61 19 7 4 92
Source: (Accessed July 2012)

15. Seek ICT Job Adverts
Filtered by DBA/Developer
July 2012
Total NZ
15%
43%
Waikato
42%
Canterbury
Wellington Monthly Changes;
 All NZ – SQL Server up 6%
 Auckland - Oracle & SAP
Auckland down 7% & 8.4% respectively
 Canterbury - Oracle up 19.6%
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 & SAP up 29%
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
Source: (Accessed July 2012)

16. 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.
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.
Source: ( Accessed July 2012)

17. News Bytes
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
Source: ( Accessed July 2012)

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

19. 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)

20. News Bytes
 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

21. News Bytes
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

22. Conclusion
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