Tech job market coming back
Australia’s ICT job market has picked up over the past quarter with the market for new skills standing at its highest point for more than a year.
Australia’s ICT job market has picked up over the past quarter with the market for new skills standing at its highest point for more than a year.
Employers in healthcare and education have been the hungriest for ICT skills over the past three months, according to the latest Peoplebank Salary Survey.
Online education provider Open Universities Australia is in talks to initiate corporate partnerships with the likes of IBM, HP and other major IT companies in a bid to combat the declining number of qualified IT personnel in the Australian market.
The CIO of the federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Glen Archer, has admitted there are fewer places for IT contractors in Canberra, but stopped short of saying there in a new skills crisis in the nation's capital.
Contractors have left Canberra and the public sector behind as they seek higher pay in Sydney and Melbourne, according to the latest statistics from recruitment firm Peoplebank.
Perth ICT workers received the highest pay rises in the first quarter of this year according to salary survey data released by recruitment firm Peoplebank.
While the last three months has seen flat IT employment levels, a rise in contractor hiring across Australia has contributed to very early signs of green shoots of recovery in the sector, according to IT recruitment firm Peoplebank.
There are now half as many job advertisements as there was this time last year, according to new figures released by the Olivier Group.
ICT recruitment firm, Peoplebank, has signed an On-Hire Labour Agreement with the Federal Government, giving it a streamlined process for hiring international contractors under the 457 visa program.