1. New Zealand
ICT
Tertiary Education & Job Series
July 2011
garry.roberton@wintec.ac.nz
Note:
Indicates
new/significant
change

2. Insights
 Enrolments & Completions:
 for the tertiary sector (ITPs, PTEs & Universities)
 Diploma & degree EFTS enrolments are increasing
 Diploma completions are increasing
 Degree completions are decreasing
 Jobs:
 for the month of July
 Auckland experienced a 5% increase in Seek ICT job
adverts
 Waikato experienced a 14% increase in Seek ICT job
adverts
 Overall all NZ ICT jobs advertised on Seek rose 4%
[Trademe increased just 0.6%]

3. Tertiary Sector ICT Enrolment Trends
[Domestic & International]
2003 to 2009
14,000
12,000
10,000
8,000
EFTS
Diplomas & Degrees
Combined
6,000
4,000
2,000
0
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Year
 Tertiary sector ICT EFTS (Equivalent Full Time Student) enrolments:
 Decreased by 39% between 2003 and 2007
 Increased by 20% between 2007 and 2009
Source: (Accessed July 2011)

4. Institutes of Technology & Polytechnics (ITP)
ICT Enrolment Trends
(Certificates, Diplomas & Degree EFTS)
2002 to 2011
4,500
4,000
3,500
Increase
3,000 of 10% for
2011
2,500 estimated
EFTS
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
 ITP/Polytechnic sector ICT EFTS enrolments (Based on data collected by )
 Decreased by 49% between 2002 and 2007
 Increased by 45% between 2007 and *2011 (Still 1000 fewer EFTS
enrolments in 2011 than in 2002)
*Based on an estimated increase of 10% for the 2011 year

5. CRA Taulbee Survey
 Total enrollments among U.S. computer science undergraduates
increased 10 percent in 2010
 Third straight year of increases in total enrollment
 Indicates that the post “dot-com crash” decline in undergraduate
computing program enrollments is over.
Source: – April 2011

6. Tertiary Sector ICT Diploma Completion Trends
[Domestic & International]
2004 to 2009
2009
2008
Total
2007 International
Domestic
2006
2005
2004
0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500
Students Completing
Between 2007 and 2009 diploma completions more than doubled
Source: (Accessed July 2011)

7. Tertiary Sector Completion Trends
ICT Bachelor [Domestic & International]
2004 to 2009
2009
2008
Total
2007
International
Domestic
2006
2005
2004
0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000
Students Completing
Degree completions:
 Decreased 36% from 2004 to 2007 (Tracking falling enrolments)
 Continue to decrease (a further 16% from 2007 to 2009)
Source: (Accessed July 2011)

8. IT Job Advertisements
2003 to 2007
IT job vacancies increased by approximately 60% over the same
period [2003 to 2007] that tertiary ICT enrolments declined by
approximately 40%

9. Seek IT Job Trends NZ
2011
3500
3000
2662 2732 3127
2603 2689 3000
2500
2000 1712
1500
1000 Last Year
500
0
Jan Feb
2011 Mar April
2011 2011 May June
2011 2011 July
2011 2011
Source: (Accessed July 2011)

10. Seek ICT Growth in Job Adverts
January - July
2011
120%
100%
80%
Percentage Increase
60%
40%
20%
0%
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Source: (Accessed July 2011)

11. 2007 Peak ICT Job Adverts NZ
before
recession
Seek & Trademe
3487
3500
3127
3000
3000
2689 2732
2662
2603
2500
2000 Trademe IT
1712 Seek IT
1462 1474 1484
1367 1407 1391
1500 1353
955
1000
500
0
Sept Jan Feb Mar April May June July
2007 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011
Source: (Accessed July 2011)

12. Seek ICT Job Adverts NZ
January - July 2011
Total NZ
Total NZ
Canterbury
July 2010
Wellington
Waikato
Auckland
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
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
Source: (Accessed July 2011)

13. Seek ICT Job Adverts
by Industry Certification
July 2011
Total NZ
Canterbury
Wellington
Waikato
Auckland
0 200 400 600 800 1000
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Microsoft 299 10 138 72 547
Cisco 174 4 86 27 310
Linux 556 15 243 64 901
Wellington has the only significant monthly increase of 7% across all 3 categories
Source: (Accessed July 2011)

14. Seek ICT Job Adverts by
Programming Language
July 2011
Total NZ
Canterbury
Wellington
Waikato
Auckland
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
PHP 393 12 156 38 608
C# 153 5 64 29 257
.NET 187 7 89 45 337
Java 425 10 169 46 657
Source: (Accessed July 2011)

15. Comment on Seek ICT Job Adverts by
Programming language
 Auckland:
 Experienced a 25% monthly increase in job adverts filtered on PHP
 Experienced a 10% monthly increase in job adverts filtered on Java
 Experienced an increase of 8% for the month across all 4 categories
 Wellington:
 Experienced an decrease of 5% for the month across all 4
categories
 Christchurch:
 Experienced an decrease of 20% for the month across all 4
categories
Seek ICT NZ Job Adverts
PHP & Java Comparison
July 2011
608 Java
657 PHP

16. News Bytes
 Australia: Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association
(ITCRA) (May 2011):
 On the cusp of an employment skills shortage in the ICT sector
 The group's inaugural Skillsmatch ICT Skills Dashboard revealed;
 An average of 26.3 days taken to hire a new ICT employee, an
increase of six days in the past year
 In the same period, the number of suitable candidates for each
role has decreased from 7.7 candidates to 6.8 candidates
 The top five skills employers and recruiters are requesting are;
 Help desk experience
 Project management
 Java
 SQL
 Windows
Source: (Accessed July 2011)

17. News Bytes
ComputerWorld: Hiring process lengthening in tighter market
Good quality candidates are getting harder to source, survey finds
[By David Watson | Auckland | Thursday, 23 June, 2011]
managing director Josh Comrie;
 “The market today is one that has very much gone back to the one last seen
in 2007”.................“It is candidate-short.”
 In-demand skill sets include senior network design, infrastructure design
and software design roles - “It is the architecture roles.”
 C# and Java developers are also in demand and the Flash Flex development
toolset is also “becoming very popular”
Source: (Accessed July 2011)

18. Conclusion:
 CS/ICT undergraduate enrolment trends in NZ mirror those in
the USA
 NZ ICT jobs advertised on Seek up 32% on this time last year
 The July 2011 Seek ICT job advert figure of 3,127 is only 10%
below the peak of 3,487 in September 2007 (Prior to the
recession)
 NZ ICT job numbers advertised on Trademe consistently
above the September 2007 peak from February 2011
 CS/ICT completion rates in NZ are not keeping pace with job
vacancies – the skills gap is increasing, once again
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