Author: Jennifer Foreshew
Appeared in: The Australian
Date: April 27th 2010

WESTERN Australia is leading a national surge in IT job salaries as the employment market opens up in the recovery from the global financial crisis.

More than 40 per cent of IT job categories in Perth have received a salary or contract rate rise in the first quarter of this year due to the rebound in the WA resources sector , a survey has found.

Appeared: Computerworld
Date: 28th April, 2010

Perth ICT workers received the highest pay rises in the first quarter of this year according to salary survey data released by recruitment firm Peoplebank.

According to the survey, which covered more than 50 IT job categories in the nation’s capital cities over a three month period, 40 per cent of the categories surveyed witnessed a salary or contract rate rise. The firm attributed this to a dwindling job market in the western capital, forcing employers to increase pay in order to keep existing staff and attract new workers.

Author: James Hutchinson
Appeared in: Computerworld
Date: 29 April, 2010

The Australian Government has released an ICT workforce strategy in an effort to fight an ageing workforce and promote new hires amongst government departments over the next three years. The plan is the latest in a spate of whole-of-government IT reforms initiated by the release of the Gershon report, and are expected to aid major government projects including the National Broadband Network, Service Delivery Reform and the Government 2.0 Taskforce reforms.

Under the plan, entitled Whole-of-government ICT strategic workforce plan 2010-2013, the government would hire newly graduated IT workers through cadetship programs and hire professionals through links with the Australian Computer Society.

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Peoplebank’s salary data for Q1 2010 reveals that significant salary increases (the first sign of increased competition among employers for IT skills) are evident in Perth, while spot increases support mounting anecdotal evidence of a shrinking talent pool along Australia’s east coast - including NSW, VIC, the ACT and QLD.

Peoplebank’s surveys - of salaries paid in more than 50 IT job categories in Australia’s six largest capital cities during the first three months of 2010 – shows that more than 40 percent of job categories in Perth have enjoyed salary or contract rate rises in the past three months.