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Job Seeker Market Report 2016-2017
Australian Technology Recruitment
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These survey results are recognised throughout the Australian IT industry as an accurate representation of the industry and a market leading source of quality insights and opinions.
All survey responses, comments and insights have been consolidated for this Australian IT Recruitment Market Insights and Salary Guide 2016-2017. This survey was carried out during June-July 2016 and distributed via an online questionnaire. Greythorn received 2583 responses.
Executive Summary 3
Market Report 4
About Greythorn 9
Contact us 9
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Market UpdateI am delighted to provide you with the Greythorn Job
Seeker Market Report 2016-2017. This report collates
the views of over 2500 IT professionals who responded to our
annual IT market survey. I am confident the trends
and conclusions included in our report will be valuable to
hiring organisations looking to navigate the IT market, as well
as job seekers who want to be empowered with relevant
data about their field of specialisation.
Growth and talent shortages are the key themes for the
Australian IT market in 2016/17. Driven by the plethora of
digital, mobile, ERP and security projects that kicked off in
2015 there has been a significant increase in demand for
skills across these areas. In addition to this, many private
sector organisations are restructuring and moving to Public
Cloud environments, and in doing so, undertaking large
IT transformation programs that affect all areas of their
businesses.
The coming months will see demand for candidates
continue, with 47% of survey respondents expecting
their teams to increase in size in the next 12 months. In
particular, Greythorn has seen an increased demand in for
those skilled in mobile first responsive web development,
cyber security, customer experience, digital strategy, Cloud,
Big Data and data analytics, along with a surge in requests
for those with Agile experience.
Top in-demand roles for 2016/17 will include:
1. Business Analysts
2. Project Managers
3. Responsive/Mobile Web Developers
4. Security Consultants
5. Data Analytics & BI Specialists
6. DevOps
7. Mobility Specialists
8. Cloud Specialists
Economic optimism remains at similar levels to 2015
with commerce (private sector) being the most optimistic
industry. In line with this job security remains at similarly
high levels. The government sector is slightly more secure
than in 2015, when 37% of those surveyed felt insecure.
The majority of job seekers are ‘fairly or very satisfied’ in
their roles this year (70%), however this figure is lower than
in 2015 when 89% of those surveyed were fairly or very
satisfied in their roles. Interestingly, job seekers are no less
likely to recommend their employer to a friend this year in
spite of lowered job satisfaction.
Rates and remuneration are set to remain stable, with the
majority of job seekers anticipating no change. Sectors
where there is significant predicted growth such as digital,
mobile and analytics can expect to see increases in rates
and salaries as employers are forced to compete in a
candidate driven market.
Over the past 2 years there has been an increasing trend
towards candidates becoming passive job seekers;
keeping an eye on the market, but waiting for the right role
to find them rather than actively job hunting. This trend
and current talent shortages mean having a well-defined
candidate attraction strategy in place is more important
than ever. This year job seekers have cited career
development, remuneration and projects and technologies
as the most attractive factors when considering a new
role. Interestingly, in 2015 remuneration was the top
concern, followed by projects and technologies and culture.
Creating awareness of the benefits and opportunities
offered by your organisation when speaking with recruitment
partners, when advertising, on social media and in interviews
is crucial. I would advise employers to review their
candidate attraction strategies with this information in mind.
I invite you to review our findings and hope that they will
assist in guiding your strategy in the coming months.
Should you require any further information please do not
hesitate to contact us.
Suzanne Gerrard
Director, Greythorn
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Level of econominc optimism:
How would you rate your current job security?
How satisfied are you in your current role?
Secure Insecure
Commerce
Financial Services
Government
72% 28%
77% 23%
68% 32%
Very
Fairly
Neutral
2016 2015
Not very
30% 27%
11%
20%
41% 42%
17%
12%
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2016 2015 2014
37% 38% 35%
While levels of economic optimism remain at similar levels year on year feelings of job security have risen. As in 2015 Financial Services is the most secure sector, however job security in government has also increas-ded, in spite of recent political turmoil.
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Job Seeking behaviour
60% intend to change jobs in the next 12 months
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Project Management& Business Analysis
Digital, Mobile& Marketing
SAP/ERP/CRM
68%
68%
74%
Over the past 2 years there has been an increasing trend towards candi-dates becoming passive job seekers; keeping an eye on the market, but waiting for the right role to find them rather than actively job hunting.
Top 3 sectors intending to change jobs:
2016
Actively looking
Not actively looking,but keeping an eye
on the market
Not interestedin changing jobs
2014
28% 43%
60% 49%
11% 8%
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What attracts you to a new role?
Career development
Projects & technologies
Culture
Location
Projects & technologies
Flexible working
Flexible working
Culture
Remuneration & benefits
Remuneration & benefits
2016 2015
Remuneration package
Flexible working
New challenge
Remuneration package
Flexible working
New challenge
2016 2015
Career development
New challenge
Poor culture
Career development
New challenge
Higher salary
2016 2015
Why did you leave your last role?
Why do you stay?
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Only 10% of those surveyed left their roles for a higher salary in 2016. At 26% this was the highest reason for leaving a role last year! Job seekers are now valuing challenging work far more than in previous years.
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Would you recommend your current employer to a friend?
Who works 45+ hours per week (by sector)? Top 5
IT Sales 63%
IT Executive
Project Management& Business Analysis
Architecture
SAP/ERP/CRM
51%
38%
36%
33%
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77% 23%
In 2015 results were similar, with IT Sales and Marketing, IT Executive and Architecture the longest working sectors. Interesting Digital and Mobile has gone from the fourth longest working sector with 35% working 45+ hours down to only 25% working overtime this year.
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Most valuable skill sets in demand over the next 12-24 months:
Job seekers predict future trends:
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OUTSOURCING AGILE IoT DevOps SaaSSOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MACHINE LEARNINGVIRTUAL REALITY VIRTUALISATION
SECURITY AUTOMATIONDATA ANALYTICS CLOUDBIG DATA MOBILE INTEGRATION
Cloud Computing
Big Data
IT Security
Mobility Solutions
Data Analytics
Cloud Computing
Big Data
IT Security
Mobility Solutions
Data Analytics
Cloud Computing
Big Data
IT Security
Mobility Solutions
Data Analytics
Cloud Computing
Big Data
IT Security
Mobility Solutions
Data Analytics
ICT (ALL) FINANCIAL SERVICES
COMMERCEGOVERNMENT
Interestingly, mobile apps has moved from being the third most in demand skill in 2015 to sixth this year. Unsurprisingly cloud computing remains at the top of all lists, as in 2015.
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About Greythorn
Greythorn is a market leading IT and Technology recruitment agency. As true IT specialists our consultants are
subject matter experts in their verticals which is reflected in their industry knowledge and ability to determine
candidate suitability based on their skills and experience in a very short time.
Specialist Salary Guides and Market Reports:
• Architecture
• DevOps and Infrastructure
• Digital and Mobile
• Financial Services
• Government
• Information Management
• IT Executive
• IT Sales and Marketing
• IT Security
• Project Management and Business Analysis
• SAP, CRM and ERP
• Software Development, Testing & QA
About Greythorn
ADELAIDE
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