ICT Education & Job Trends for the month of April 2012

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

2. Insights
 ICT Jobs in April 2012
 NZ Seek ICT jobs adverts decreased 14% on March figures
 NZ Seek ICT jobs adverts are down 9% on the same month last year,
while up 32% on April 2010
 Demand holding up in Canterbury
 Government cuts impacting Wellington demand and/or contracts
finished? [Down 24% on last month]
 Industry Challenges
 Serious concerns in the UK about the way children in schools are
being taught information technology
 Lack of publicity making it difficult to hire skilled IT people in
Hamilton
 Global shortage of IT knowledge/skills including;
 Java
 .NET
 C++

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

4. Seek ICT Job Advert
Monthly Trends
2010 - 2012
3000
2500
2000
2012
No. of Job Adverts
2011
1500 2010
1000
500
0
Jan Feb Mar April
Month
Source: (Accessed April 2012)

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

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

7. Seek ICT Job Adverts
by Industry Certification
April 2012
Monthly change for;
• Microsoft – decreased 36% for Wellington [Wellington +22% last month]
• Cisco - decreased 7.5% for all NZ [All NZ +7% last month]
• Linux – increased 5% for Canterbury [All NZ -6%]
Total NZ
Canterbury
Wellington
Waikato
Auckland
0 200 400 600 800 1000
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Microsoft 225 5 85 36 371
Cisco 134 3 34 22 210
Linux 505 10 173 67 783
Source: (Accessed April 2012)

8. Seek ICT Job Adverts Filtered
by Management Certifications
April 2012
250
28%
200
44%
150 PMP
Prince
ITIL 28%
100
Monthly change for all NZ;
• PMP decreased 23%
50 • Prince decreased 21%
• ITIL decreased 16%
0
Auckland Wellington Canterbury Waikato Total NZ
Source: (Accessed April 2012)

9. News Bytes
The 10 best IT certifications: 2012 ( – Accessed April 2012)
By March 26, 2012, 6:34 AM PDT
1. Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) [21 job adverts]
2. Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) [4 job adverts]
3. VMware Certified Professional (VCP) [7 job adverts]
4. Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCNA) [43 job adverts]
5. Certified SonicWALL Security Administrator (CSSA)
6. Project Management Professional (PMP) [156 job adverts]
7. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) [20 job adverts]
8. Apple Certified Support Professional (ACSP)
9. CompTIA’s Network+ / A+
10. CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician
• With an aging population, U.S.-based IT pros (in particular) should consider
earning credential
Note: [] current job adverts on Seek ICT for all NZ

10. Seek ICT Job Adverts by
Programming Language
April 2012
Total NZ
17%
36%
Canterbury
14%
Wellington
33%
Waikato
Monthly change for all NZ;
Auckland  .NET decreased 22%
 PHP decreased 4%
 Canterbury countered
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700
the trend with a 26%
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ increase
.NET 210 2 59 32 310
 C# decreased 16%
PHP 400 9 132 54 610
 Java decreased 6%
C# 169 1 39 36 251
Java 423 6 170 54 665
Source: (Accessed April 2012)

11. TIOBE [The Importance of Being Earnest]
Programming Community Index
for April 2012
April Headline: Java and C swap places at the top of the TIOBE index
C
Java
C++
Objective-C
C#
PHP
(Visual) Basic
Python
Apr-11
JavaScript
Language
Perl
Apr-12
Ruby
PL/SQL
Delphi/Object Pascal
Visual Basic .NET
Lisp
Pascal
Ada
Transact-SQL
Logo
NXT-G
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Order of Popularity
Source: (Accessed April 2012)

12. TIOBE Programming Community
Index for April 2012
April Headline: Java and C swap places at the top of the TIOBE index
 Java's long term downward trend line finally crosses C's stable
(almost flat) popularity line.
 Java is not expected to decline much further due to the popularity
of the Android platform
 Looking at the extrapolation of moving averages for both languages
C is able to remain number one for at least another couple of
months
 Other interesting moves this month
 The entrances of Visual FoxPro (#42), Scala (#45) and Alice
(#48) in the top 50.
 Programming languages Eiffel, PL/I and Tcl are out of the top 50
Source: (Accessed April 2012)

13. Seek ICT Job Adverts by Role
April 2012
19% 23%
Programmer/Developer
5%
System Support
Help Desk
22% 25%
Network (All categories)
6%
Mobile (Apps)
All Other Roles
Monthly change for all NZ – demand for;
 System Support decreased 17%
 Network (All categories) decreased 14%
Source: (Accessed April 2012)

14. Seek ICT Job Advert Trends
IT Architect
April 2012
TOGAF qualified architect salary range $130k to $150k
Total NZ
Waikato
Canterbury
Wellington
Auckland
0 20 40 60 80 100
Auckland Wellington Canterbury Waikato Total NZ
VCAP 0 0 0 0 0
TOGAF 9 4 8 0 0 12
VmWare 60 9 8 3 87
Note: a large monthly increase in job adverts for VmWare;
 Auckland – increased by 53
 Canterbury & Waikato – zero last month
Source: (Accessed April 2012)

15. Seek ICT Job Adverts
Filtered by DBA/Developer
April 2012
900
800
15%
700
43%
600
42%
500
400
300
Oracle
SAP
200
SQL Server
100
Monthly change;
 Wellington – SAP declined 21%
0
Auckland Wellington Canterbury Waikato Total NZ  All NZ – SQL declined 21%
Source: (Accessed April 2012)

16. News Bytes
– How to solve the (UK) tech skills crisis? Make IT cool again
By Nick Heath March 14, 2012, 7:38 AM PDT
 According to Paul Coby, chairman of the CIO board of eSkills UK, the UK is in the grip of an
IT skills crisis;
 eSkills estimates the UK will need an additional 110,000 new IT workers to enter the
workforce each year
 Overall the number of applicants to computing courses in the UK is only about one
third of the new intake that the IT industry needs
 The disparity between supply and demand looks set to continue, with the proportion
of new jobs in the IT sector growing nearly five times faster than the UK average
 Only 18 per cent of IT professionals in the UK are women
 An IT GCSE being developed by eSkills and its partners to focus on areas such as;
 programming
 games design
 web
 mobile app development
 Students from countries including India and China are embracing careers in
technology
 applications from overseas students remains “very high”

17. News Bytes
(April 2012)
Financial, IT and ‘green’ energy and construction skills are topping the list of skills in
greatest demand in the global job market (Hays recruitment specialist)
 Specific IT skills that are in short supply globally include knowledge of
 JAVA
 .NET
 C++
There are IT jobs beyond the Bombays
Misconceptions about Hamilton and lack of publicity are making it difficult to hire skilled IT
people (Rob Heebink, General Manager, Gallagher Group Research & Development)
 Heebink’s research team includes 65 IT staff working on a range of IT projects from
software development to networks
 Gallagher plans on hiring a further eight to ten IT workers over the next year
 Finding specialists, especially those with .NET skills, is difficult

18. News Bytes
(The UK Guardian March 2012)
There is a growing consensus that the way children in schools are being taught
information technology is in need of a radical overhaul
 Universities want to reverse the decline in applicants for computer science
courses
 Gaming companies want more programmers
 The government wants more high-tech start-ups
 Manufacturers want trainees who can design embedded systems.
 And head teachers want bigger budgets for even more computer labs.
According to John Naughton a big vision is required, as follows;
“Starting in primary school, children from all backgrounds and every part of the UK
should have the opportunity to: learn some of the key ideas of computer science;
understand computational thinking; learn to program; and have the opportunity to
progress to the next level of excellence in these activities”

19. News Bytes
Job outlook up as firms look to hire
Information technology was the most buoyant sector with 43.3 per cent
of companies intending to increase staff.
Strong demand for IT staff [Trademe IT Jobs]
 Information technology features strongly in the number of
advertised vacancies in the first quarter of this year – up 18% on the
same time in 2011
 There is constant demand for IT people - a common theme
throughout 2011 and now 2012
 IT also featured strongly in Trade Me Jobs' analysis of pay rates - the
highest advertised pay rate was for an average salary of $125,505
 Christchurch – rebuilding driving strong growth
 Auckland & Wellington - growth below the national average

20. Conclusion
This months 14% decline in ICT job adverts on Seek ICT NZ needs to be
viewed in the wider context of the trend towards an increasing global
shortage of suitably qualified graduates and skilled/knowledgeable ICT
workers.
There is a continuing need to address future demand for ICT
knowledge/skills by
 Promoting ICT as a rewarding job/career
 Increasing ICT enrolments in higher/tertiary education
 Providing incentives for skilled ICT personnel to stay in NZ [or to
return to NZ after their OE]
 Encouraging skilled ICT immigrants