ICT Trends

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

2. Insights
 NZ Tertiary Sector IT Enrolments from 2007 to 2010
 Diploma;
 36% increase, but 1,700 fewer enrolments in 2010 than in 2002
 Degrees;
 14% increase, but 4,200 fewer enrolments in 2010 than in 2002
 Seek ICT NZ Job Adverts in May 2012
 Total job adverts;
 increased 14% for the month
 are up 2% on May 2011
 are up 30% on May 2010
 Monthly change by major region;
 Auckland up 8%
 Wellington up 27%
 Canterbury up 10%

3. NZ Tertiary Sector IT EFTS
Enrolment Trends
[Total Domestic & International]
2002 to 2010
10000
9000
8000
7000
Diploma
6000
EFTS
5000 Bachelors Degrees
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Year
Source: (Accessed May 2012)

4. NZ Tertiary Sector IT EFTS
Enrolment Trends
[Total Domestic & International]
2003 to 2010
14,000
12,000
10,000
8,000 Diploma & Degree
Combined
EFTS
6,000
4,000
2,000
0
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Year
Source: (Accessed May 2012)

5. NZ Tertiary Sector IT EFTS
International Enrolment Trends
2004 - 2010
4,000
3,500
3,000
2,500
Diplomas
2,000 Degrees
Total
1,500
1,000
500
0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Source: (Accessed May 2012)

6. NZ Tertiary Sector IT EFTS
Domestic Enrolment Trends
2007 - 2010
5,000
4,500
4,000
3,500
3,000 2007
2008
2,500 2009
2010
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
Level 1-3 Level 4 Diplomas Bachelor Graduate Postgrad Masters Doctorates
degrees certs & dipls certs, dipls
& honours
Source: (Accessed May 2012)

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

8. Seek ICT Job Advert
Monthly Trends
2010 - 2012
3000
2753
2768 2784
2500
2438
2000
1904
No. of Job Adverts
1500 2012
2011
1000 2010
500
0
Jan Feb Mar April May
Month
Source: (Accessed May 2012)

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

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

11. Seek ICT Job Adverts
by Industry Certification
May 2012
Monthly change for;
Microsoft: 35% increase for Wellington [-36% last month]
Cisco: 53% increase for Wellington
Linux: 5% increase for all NZ [-6% last month]
Total NZ
Canterbury
Wellington
Waikato
Auckland
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Microsoft 245 4 115 44 428
Cisco 128 2 52 15 214
Linux 507 7 198 71 783
Source: (Accessed May 2012)

12. Seek ICT Job Adverts Filtered
by Management Certifications
May 2012
350
300
30%
42%
250
200 28%
PMP
Prince
150 ITIL
Monthly increase for all NZ;
 PMP 41%
100  62% for Wellington
 Prince 35%
 53% for Wellington
50  ITIL increased 31%
 45% for Wellington
0
Auckland Wellington Canterbury Waikato Total NZ
Source: (Accessed May 2012)

13. Seek ICT Job Adverts by
Programming Language
May 2012
Total NZ
18%
36%
Canterbury 14%
Wellington 32%
Waikato
The largest monthly increases
occurred for Wellington;
Auckland
 .NET……………..27%
 PHP………………21%
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
 Java………………14%
.NET 243 2 75 40 365
PHP 415 4 150 62 651
C# 194 0 42 37 277
Java 441 6 193 58 713
Source: (Accessed May 2012)

14. Seek ICT Job Adverts
by Role
May 2012
23% 22%
Programmer/Developer
4%
System Support
24% Help Desk
20%
Network (All categories)
7%
Mobile (Apps)
All Other Roles
Note: No significant change for the month
Source: (Accessed May 2012)

15. Seek ICT Job Advert Trends
IT Architect
May 2012
TOGAF qualified architect salary range $130k to $150k
Total NZ
Waikato
Canterbury
Wellington
Auckland
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Auckland Wellington Canterbury Waikato Total NZ
TOGAF 9 14 8 1 1 23
VmWare 40 9 5 1 73
Note: A growing demand for TOGAF qualified applicants;
 All NZ Increased 92%
 Auckland increased from 4 to 14 advertised jobs
 Waikato: Waikato District Health Board
Source: (Accessed May 2012)

16. Seek ICT Job Adverts
Filtered by DBA/Developer
May 2012
Total NZ
15%
Waikato 43%
42%
Canterbury
Wellington
Monthly increase;
 14% for Oracle & SQL for all NZ
Auckland  Wellington; Oracle 28% & SAP 25%
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
Auckland Wellington Canterbury Waikato Total NZ
SQL Server 209 79 32 3 331
SAP 584 234 64 11 911
Oracle 558 287 66 9 940
Source: (Accessed May 2012)

17. News Bytes
IT Trends – Where the Jobs Are in 2012
January, 2012
According to a recent the top ten information technology
priorities are:
 Analytics and business intelligence
 Mobile technologies
 Cloud computing (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS)
 Collaboration technologies (workflow)
 Virtualization
 Legacy modernization
 IT management
 CRM
 ERP applications
 Security

18. News Bytes
IEEE Computer Society Build Your Career (BYC) Newsfeed (April, 2012)
 Average salary registered a 6.2% gain, the highest increase in the Global
Knowledge and TechRepublic's annual IT Skills and Salary Survey’s five year
history
 Salaries grew the most for those involved in;
 security
 database
 data centre
 servers and storage
 63% of respondents received a raise, but
 Individuals earning $60,000 or less were much less likely to receive a
raise than their colleagues in higher earning brackets
 65% of respondents reported earning a certification in the past five years
(reportedly leading to greater job satisfaction & effectiveness)
(Acknowledgement: Link referred by Garry Johnston, IT Director, Wintec)

19. News Bytes
TechRepublic Opinion Piece
10 IT job roles that are hardest to fill ( April, 2012)
IT trainer
 Requires a unique skill set and often a need to travel
 Project manager
 Requirement for
 CIO/CTO/director of IT/etc.
 Requires someone who has good “crossover” skills (technical & leadership
skills)
 Help desk staff
 Pay rates often far less than the person desired/being hired will accept
 Specialized programmer
 There is a high demand for a relatively small number of specialized
developers available

20. News Bytes
TechRepublic Opinion Piece Cont.
 Pre-sales engineer
 Requires a diverse range of talents beyond the technical and often requires a
lot of travel
 Technical writer
 Hard to find people who can write coherently, in a language that the end user
can grasp, and who understand the technical side of things
 Product evangelist
 The right person needs to have an absolute passion for the work and for the
company and its specific products, as well as the technical knowledge and
soft skills to handle the job
 IT author
 The number of IT authors who can consistently produce high quality content
year in and year out is extremely limited
 Maintenance/legacy programmer
 Few programmers are willing to take these jobs because they are the kiss of
death for a career.

21. Conclusion
Enrolments
The IT industry should be very concerned that there were over 3000 fewer
tertiary sector ICT combined diploma and degree enrolments in 2010 than
in 2003. This reflects a global trend.
It’s great, therefore, to see the strong level of support by the IT industry for
the NZ Computer Society’s [PDF] in-school programme,
designed to evangelize a bright future in IT.
Job Adverts
This months 14% increase in ICT job adverts on Seek ICT NZ is in contrast to
last month’s 14% decline.
Perhaps the April downturn was an aberration that can be attributed to the
Easter and ANZAC holidays!
Mobile Apps – Refer May 9th 2012