The document summarizes ICT job market trends in New Zealand. It finds that Trademe IT job adverts increased 10.2% in June and 40.8% year-to-date. Seek ICT job adverts increased 5.3% in June but decreased 5% from June 2015, though increased 48.6% year-to-date. Demand is highest for jobs in Java, C, C++, Python and C# according to Seek data. There is a large shortage of computer science graduates to fill over 500,000 open computing jobs across many sectors.

1. New Zealand
ICT
Tertiary Education & Job Series
June 2016
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Note:
Indicates
new/significant
change

2. Insights for June 2016
 Trademe IT Job Adverts:
 Up 10.2 percent for the month; a total increase of 40.8 percent for the year to date
 Seek ICT All NZ Job Adverts:
 Total job adverts;
 Up 5.3 percent for the month
 Down 5 percent on June 2015
 Up 48.6 percent for the year to date
 Refer Table 1 for the current NZ Seek ICT job adverts for the top 5
programming languages
 Computer science salaries rise with demand for new graduates ( )
 There are currently over 500,000 open computing jobs, in every sector, from
manufacturing to banking, from agriculture to healthcare, but only 50,000
computer science graduates a year
Note: Data analysis performed on Tuesday 14th June 2016

3. TIOBE Index Order
of Popularity
TIOBE Index Top 5
Programming Language
*Seek ICT
Job Adverts
for May
2016
Seek ICT Job
Adverts for
June 2016
Monthly
Percentage
Change
1 Java
148 192 +29.7%
2 C
62 73 +17.7%
3 C++
31 27 -13%
4 Python
64 67 +4.7%
5 C #
193 209 +8.3%
Table 1 NZ Demand for TIOBE Index Top 5 Programming Languages
*Some programming language adverts overlap/double up; e.g. C/C++

4. 0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
Sept 2007 Jan-16 Feb Mar April May June
1367
719 788
802 862 918 1012
3487
1436
1915
2065
1960
2027
2134
No.ofJobs
Month & Year
Trademe IT
Seek ICT
Seek & Trademe
ICT Job Advert Trends
All NZ
Peaks before
the 2007-2008
GFC
June
(992)
June 2015
(2249)
Source: (Accessed 14 June 2016)

5. Source: (Accessed 14 June 2016)
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500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
No.ofJobAdverts
Month
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
Seek ICT Job Advert
Monthly Trends
2010 - 2016

6. Source: (Accessed 14 June 2016)
-40.0%
-30.0%
-20.0%
-10.0%
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
PercentageChange Seek ICT Job Advert Trends
Change for the Month of
June 2016

7. June 2015
2249
Source: (Accessed 14 June 2016)
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500
Auckland
Waikato
Wellington
Canterbury
Total NZ
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Jun-16 1281 41 533 198 2134
May-16 1205 59 526 154 2027
Apr-16 1137 53 480 185 1960
Mar-16 1154 49 553 186 2065
Feb-16 1155 35 470 172 1915
Jan-16 792 26 388 144 1436
Seek ICT Job Advert Trends
June 2016