Bridget Gray Managing Director APAC, Harvey Nash Plc

Tech skills shortage

AGENDA

Research

State of the market

Drivers to the tech skills shortage

The outlook on tech skills demand

Hot skills and predictions

Tackling the skill issue

Practical tips and considerations

What next?

4,500 RESPONSES

$1/3 trn IT budget

TWO DECADES

86 COUNTRIES

183 Australian

respondents

About the Harvey Nash CIO Survey

The state of the market?

Two-thirds of CIOs experiencing skills

shortage

3,100

3,200

3,300

3,400

3,500

3,600

3,700

3,800

3,900

4,000

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

More organisation’s making major

investment in digital strategies

Global spend ($bn)

27%

35%

41%

2015 2016 2017

Investment in technology growing

Sources: Chart 1: Gartner Charts 2, 3: Harvey Nash / KPMG CIO Survey 2017

Drivers to the skills shortage

Drivers to the skills shortage

Skills shortage continues

Big data # 1 skill in demand

The hottest skills right now

TACKLING THE

SKILLS ISSUE

Where are all the women?

15% 85%

Over 40 and over the hill? Ageism in tech

Thinking about your next career step, will your age negatively impact you? (yes)

People over 45 where age negatively affects them:

Insulating against the effect of age

Outsourcing increasingly

being used to plug skills gap

Cloud increasingly part of the solution

Automation will fill some gaps

28%

29%

30%

32%

35%

39%

41%

48%

50%

53%

58%

68%

72%

71%

70%

68%

65%

61%

59%

52%

50%

47%

42%

32%

Programme Management

CIO, CTO or VP of IT

Software Engineering

Development Management / Team Leadership

Project Management

Architecture

Business Analysis

Developer

Infrastructure Management / Team Leadership

BI / Analytics

IT operations

Testing

Agree

Disagree

Agree or disagree? Within ten years, a significant part of my job that I currently perform will be automated – job title

Too focused on tick boxing tech skills?

Chart: Agree or disagree? Recruiters are too focused on assessing technical skills, and overlook good people as a result

74%

26%

Agree

Disagree

Australia strongly reliant on immigrants

% of tech people born outside the place they live

11%

16%

20%

24%

24%

24%

26%

26%

32%

36%

46%

53%

64%

69%

70%

87%

Poland

Sweden

Norway

UK

US

Vietnam

India

The Netherlands

Germany

Ireland

France

Belgium

Switzerland

Australia

Hong Kong

Singapore

Attracting top talent

Chart: If you were to change one thing about your workplace, what would it be?

4%

6%

9%

12%

12%

14%

16%

26%

Reduce the amount of work

My boss

Have better job security

Be recognised more for my contribution

Have more training

Other (please specify)

Have a stronger team around me

Work on more interesting projects

CONCLUSION

Unconscious Bias

Blended solutions –

Outsourcing, Offshore

Emerging technology adoption –

Cloud and Automation

Values based hiring –

Cross training/Apprenticeships

Attracting Talent –

Interesting projects and working with

bright people