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Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector is one of the most highly developed and cost competitive in the Asia-Pacific region. There is a strong local industry and many international ICT corporations have significant global operations based in Australia. |
ICT PowerPoint presentation
A PowerPoint presentation on the current state of the Australian ICT labour market can be viewed by clicking on the link below. The slides present key demand and supply indicators for ICT skills in a series of charts, accompanied by detailed notes. Users who would like to read the notes to the slides should choose the 'Save' option and open the copy saved to their local drive. The data in this presentation are current as at November 2011.
There are eighteen significant occupations at Unit Group level (that is, at four digit occupation code level) in the broad view of ICT occupations taken by Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO). These are set out in ANZSCO's 'ICT Alternative View'. Many other occupations also include elements of ICT related skills and tasks. The following table shows the number employed and the share of employment for each of these ICT occupations. Note that when ICT Professionals who could not be coded to specific Unit Groups are included, total ICT employment was 445 700 in November 2011.
ANZSCO Code |
Occupation |
Employed ('000s) |
Share of ICT employment (%) |
2613 |
Software and Applications Programmers |
85.5 |
19.9 |
3131 |
ICT Support Technicians |
58.0 |
13.5 |
1351 |
ICT Managers |
44.7 |
10.4 |
2621 |
Database & Systems Administrators & ICT Security |
37.2 |
8.7 |
3423 |
Electronics Trades Workers |
37.0 |
8.6 |
2611 |
ICT Business and Systems Analysts |
32.6 |
7.6 |
2631 |
Computer Network Professionals |
25.9 |
6.0 |
6212 |
ICT Sales Assistants |
19.7 |
4.6 |
3424 |
Telecommunications Trades Workers |
16.6 |
3.9 |
2252 |
ICT Sales Professionals |
13.3 |
3.1 |
2324 |
Web and Multimedia Designers* |
11.4 |
2.6 |
2633 |
Telecommunications Engineering Professionals |
8.6 |
2.0 |
2334 |
Electronics Engineers |
7.7 |
1.8 |
2612 |
Multimedia Specialists and Web Developers |
7.4 |
1.7 |
3132 |
Telecommunications Technical Specialists |
7.1 |
1.7 |
2232 |
ICT Trainers |
6.4 |
1.5 |
2632 |
ICT Support and Test Engineers |
6.1 |
1.4 |
3124 |
Electronic Engineering Draftspersons, Technicians |
4.3 |
1.0 |
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Total Employment in these ICT Occupations |
429.5 |
100.0 |
Source: DEEWR Trend Data based on ABS Labour Force, Australia,Cat no: 6291.0.55.003 |
Data current as at November 2011. |
* ANZSCO Unit Group 2324 is called 'Graphic and Web Designeers, and Illustrators' and includes the specific (6 digit level) occupations of Graphic Designer and Illustrator, both of which fall outside of the scope of the ANZSCO ICT Alternative View. Census 2006 data indicate that these 'non-ICT' occupations account for approximately 75% of this Unit Group and the above numbers for the ICT component of this group are adjusted accordingly.
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