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Spurred by a range of infrastructure projects underway in Queensland, some Brisbane based employers are now offering incentives to encourage IT professionals from the southern states to make the trek north.

Simon Meyer, national director of recruitment business Michael Page Technology, said that Brisbane is currently more active than Sydney and Melbourne where companies are taking longer to reboot their hiring programmes after the GFC. In contrast, Queensland companies are now looking for fresh blood.

'We've been briefed on five or six roles in Queensland, with salaries north of $130,000, where the companies are offering to support people with relocation packages,' according to Meyer. At the same time 'A lot of candidates are talking about the opportunity to move interstate,' as jobs demand picked up around the country.

In response to the market demand the company has just established a Brisbane based team and will have four IT recruiters based in Queensland.  It will offer permanent and contract services.

Demand was such that 'Brisbane is almost matching Sydney and Melbourne,' he said.

Mr Meyer said further expansion was planned for West Australia and Auckland later this year as the company seeks to expand its footprint outside of its traditional Sydney-Melbourne axis. This would be the first time the company had offered IT recruitment services in New Zealand, said Mr Meyer.

With 30 consultants specialising in IT recruitment currently, Mr Meyer said that would grow to 35 or 40 by year's end.

The Brisbane technology group will be led by Jonathan Hottot who has moved across from Michael Page International.

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Beverley Head is a Sydney-based freelance writer who specialises in exploring how and why technology changes everything - society, business, government, education, health. Beverley started writing about the business of technology in London in 1983 before moving to Australia in 1986. She was the technology editor of the Financial Review for almost a decade, and then became the newspaper's features editor before embarking on a freelance career, during which time she has written on a broad array of technology related topics for the Sydney Morning Herald, Age, Boss, BRW, Banking Day, Campus Review, Education Review, Insite and Government Technology Review. Beverley holds a degree in Metallurgy and the Science of Materials from Oxford University and a deep affection for things which are shaken not stirred.

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