Finally surveys agree: IT&T jobs on the rise - but how much?

Stan Beer
Monday, 09 June 2008 07:35

IT People - Enterprise

Olivier claims its use of three jobs boards gives a more accurate indication of the jobs market. However, claims the opposite, pointing out that Seek is by far the dominant jobs board for IT&T jobs, and claiming the majority of job ads on the other two boards are duplications of what is on Seek.

Whichever recruiter is more accurate, the finding that the IT&T jobs market is growing seems to be born out by another survey.

As reported in iTWire last week, http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18611/50/ another recruiter survey has found IT&T salaries are exploding upward, indicating a skills shortage.

The 2008 Hays Salary Survey looked at the salaries paid or offered by 1700 client employers on more than 12,000 vacancies handled by the recruiter over the past 12 months. The survey has pointed to IT as the lucky recipient of higher-than-inflation salary increases. Some prized jobs are even commanding 20% and 30% more money than a year ago.

According to the Hays survey, typical system architect salaries rose from $125,000 to $140,000 in Sydney, and from $100,000 to $120,000 in Canberra. Voice engineers that were commanding $90,000 a year in Sydney and Melbourne can now move jobs for a $120,000 pay packet.

Best found that in the contracting sector, Hardware Engineer and Internet/Multimedia Design/Development roles have recorded the largest increases with 37.5% and 37.84% respectively. The largest increase in the permanent market has been seen in the QA/Tester sector.