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

2. Insights
 Jobs [Last month ()]:
 NZ Seek ICT jobs adverts for the month of October;
 All NZ rose by 1% (-7%) (Up 13% on October 2010) in spite of
other negative economic indicators
 Auckland down 1% (-8%), Wellington up 2% (-3%) and
Canterbury up a significant 9% (-12%)
 Waikato experienced a 2% increase (-22%)
 Trademe (all NZ) increased by 2% (2%) (Up 1.6% on September 2010)
 ICT jobs in Canterbury have increased from 123 to 236 (92%) for the
year to October
 Pay disparity in New Zealand’s ICT sector:
 Still a significant gap with women earning an average of 7.8% less than
salaried men, while the average contract hourly rate for women is 12.5%
lower than for men
 Linked readings:

3. Seek IT Job Trends NZ
2011
3500
3000 2732 3000 3127
2662 2689
2603 2870 2662
2500
2692
2000 1712
1500 Last Year
1000
500
0
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

4. Seek ICT Job Adverts
Monthly Change
October 2011
10%
8%
6%
4%
2%
0%
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
-2%
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

5. Seek ICT Job Advert Trends
Year to October 2011
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40% Growth
30%
20%
10%
0%
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

6. 2007 Peak ICT Job Adverts NZ
before
recession
Seek & Trademe
3487
3500
3127
3000
3000 2870
2689 2732 2692
2662 2662
2603
2500
2000 Trademe IT
1712 Seek IT
1462 1474 1484
1500 1367 1407 1353 1391 1352 1324 1347
955
1000
500
0
Sept Jan Feb Mar April May June July Aug Sept Oct
2007 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

7. Seek ICT Job Adverts
Year to October
2011
Total NZ
October
Canterbury 2010
Wellington
Waikato
Auckland
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Oct-11 1612 57 723 236 2692
Sep-11 1629 56 707 214 2662
Aug-11 1772 72 727 242 2870
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 October 2011)

8. Seek ICT Job Adverts Oct 2011
Full Time & Part time/Contract/Temp/Casual
28
217
Auckland
Wellington
126
Doughnuts Canterbury
621 Inside=F/T
Outside=Contract/etc
1397 16%
271
Fulltime
Comparison by Main Regions Contract
84%
All NZ
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

9. Seek ICT Job Adverts
by Industry Certification
October 2011
Total NZ
Canterbury
Wellington
Waikato
Auckland
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
Microsoft 236 7 114 43 430
Cisco 146 8 48 30 238
Linux 452 24 191 83 772
Linux jobs in the Waikato increased 50%, while for Microsoft
jobs Auckland decreased 16% and Wellington increased 20%
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

10. Seek ICT Job Adverts Filtered
by Management Certifications
350
300
250
200 29%
PMP
Prince 2 41%
150
ITIL
100
50
30%
0
Notes:
• All 3 management certifications may be referenced in the same job advert.
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

11. Seek ICT Job Adverts by
Programming Language
October 2011
Total NZ
Canterbury
Wellington C++ added
this month
for
Waikato
comparison
with TIOBE
Auckland
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700
Auckland Waikato Wellington Canterbury Total NZ
.NET 212 5 99 23 347
PHP 325 13 143 54 554
C++ 38 0 19 12 71
C 345 0 153 56 592
Java 356 14 159 66 613
• Java & .NET increased by 9% & 21% respectively on September totals
• PHP & C# also experienced monthly increases
• C++ added to enable comparison with TOIBE index [Top five: Java, C, C++,
PHP & C#]
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

12. Seek IT Job Adverts
Comparison by Languages
Sept - Oct 2011
344
284 Java
613
Inner = Sept 561 PHP
Outer = Oct
213 11.5% overall C#
250 increase in adverts
for languages .NET
522
554
Note: Total adverts for all four languages increased by 11.5% for the month
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

13. TIOBE [The Importance of Being Earnest]
Programming Community Index
for October 2011
*Java remains the No.1 programming language in the top 20
*Java
C
C++
PHP
C#
Objective-C
(Visual) Basic
Python
Perl
Oct-10
Language
JavaScript
Oct-11
Ruby
Delphi/Object Pascal
Lisp
Transact-SQL
PL/SQL
Lua
RPG (OS/400)
Pascal
Assembly*
Ada
0 5 10 15 20 25
Order of Popularity
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

14. TIOBE Programming Community Index Headline
for October 2011
Despite new version 7 release Java loses ground
 Java lost almost 1% of its popularity in September
 C will be number one again next month, if this trend continues
 Other observations;
 Both Objective-C and Transact-SQL score new all time highs
 Assembly re-entered the top 20
 Visual Basic.NET gained many places (from #39 to #25)
 F# had a hard time (from #23 to #46)
Note: The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages.
The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide,
courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, YouTube and
Baidu are used to calculate the ratings

15. Absolute IT Salary Report NZ
Permanent Salary Data
Nov-10 to Aug-11
Architect
Management
Consultant BI/CRM
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…
Systems Integration
Medium Quartile
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
$0 $20,000 $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $100,000 $120,000 $140,000
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

16. Absolute IT Salary Report NZ
Percentage Change
Nov-10 to Aug-11
Architect
Management
Consultant BI/CRM
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
-20.0% -15.0% -10.0% -5.0% 0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0%
Percentage Change
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

17. ABSOLUTE IT SALARY REPORT
For NZ’s ICT Industry
November 2010 – August 2011
Summary of [Absolute IT] Key Findings:
 In the past 9 months
 Software Development, Testing, Web Developers, and Managers experienced
remuneration increases
 Sales Execs/Account Managers, all levels of Software Architects, IT Security and
Network Administration experienced remuneration decreases
 *17,182 roles are permanent salaries, up by 2,643 salaries
 *3,348 roles are contract/part-time/casual/Interim rates up by 340
*Corresponds with the Seek ICT job advert ratio of 80:20
Pay parity in New Zealand’s ICT sector:
Still a significant gap with salaried men earning an average of 7.8% more than women,
while the average contract hourly rate for men is 12.5% higher than for women
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

18. activeTechPros IT Salary & Skills
Report 2011 NZ
Annual Salary by Job Function and Region (NZD)
$140,000
$120,000
$100,000
$80,000
NZ Dollar
$60,000
$40,000
$20,000
$0
IT Management Project Systems Communications Support Administration Other IT Total
Management Development Professionals
Auckland Wellington Christchurch Tauranga Hawkes Bay Taranaki Manawatu
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

19. ActiveTechPros IT Salary & Skills
Report 2011 NZ
Annual Salary by Job Function & Region (NZD)
Number & Percentage of Respondents
3%
3%
3%
3% 6 6
6
7
Auckland
7% Wellington
15
Christchurch
Tauranga
Hawkes Bay
101 Taranaki
45%
Manawatu
39
17%
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

20. Top Ten Professional Certifications
Ranking & Percentage of Respondents
2011
1 Microsoft Certified Professional
(MCP)
2 A+ Certification
3%
3%
4% 16% 3 Microsoft Certified Systems
Engineer (MCSE)
4%
4 Cisco Certified Network Associate
(CCNA)
6%
5 Network +
8% 14% 6 Microsoft Certified System
Administrator (MCSA)
7 Citrix Certification
9%
9%
8 Project Management (PMP)
9 IBM certification
10 HP certification
Source: (Accessed October 2011)

21. News Bytes
 ICT Industry Confidence:
(
 A survey by recruitment firm Hudson finds ICT industry confidence growing 3.9 per
cent to 42.7 percent, compared with national two-year low in confidence of just 27.9
per cent across all industries
 ICT industry faces skills shortage:
(
 The Australian ICT industry is facing a shortfall of 2700 computing professionals,
adding to a looming skills shortage
 Retention strategies more important than ever to prevent staff from defecting to
competitors. “There have already been wage increases of between five and ten per
cent across the industry with evidence of 20 per cent hikes in Western Australia”
 E-skills UK warns of an alarming 23 percent [33%?] fall in the number of
students taking a GCSE in ICT:
(
 Decline in GCSE numbers was "especially concerning given the economic importance of
IT to the UK economy“
 "IT must be taught in a way that is relevant and inspiring to young people, that
capitalises on the interests and aptitudes of young people, and that demonstrates the
exciting and dynamic opportunities a career in IT offers”

22. Conclusion:
 October has seen a small increase of 2% in Seek IT NZ advertised jobs, after
a decline for two consecutive months
 Java loses ground this month despite the new version 7 release [TIOBE]
 Men earn more than women with median base salary rates for males at
$76,500 compared to $70,500 for females; and median base hourly
contract rates at $80 for males compared to $70 for females [Absolute IT]
 Architects, Managers and Consultant BI/CRM are the highest paid jobs
[Absolute IT]
 In NZ, over the past 9 months, remuneration increases occurred for
software developers, testing, web developers, and managers [Absolute IT]
 Continuing predictions of ICT skills shortages for many countries, including
NZ, Australia, the USA and the UK