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Australia"s Tech Jobs

Opportunity - Cracking the Code

to Australia's Best Jobs The Tech Council of Australia (TCA) is the peak industry body for Australia"s tech sector. Providing a trusted voice for Australia's technology industry, with over 100 members, the TCA comprises the full spectrum of tech companies. We aim to advise and engage with Australian governments, businesses, and the wider community to help support the ongoing creation, development, and adoption of technology across industries. Our vision is for a prosperous Australia that thrives by harnessing the power of technology.

Authorship

This work has been authored by the Tech Council of Australia. The report features research conducted by Collancer and references previous research conducted by Accenture. Where this is the case, it has been denoted in source notes or footnotes.

About the Tech

Council of Australia

Contents

1

Executive summary

2

What is the tech jobs opportunity?

Tech sector jobs are an important new source of opportunity for Australians

Tech jobs are spread across the country

5 employment in tech?

Demographic breakdowns

Linguistic diversity

Educational pathways into tech

10

Highly paid and secure jobs

Less pay discrimination based on gender and educational background

Flexibility

14 How does Australia meet the tech jobs opportunity? 17

Technical Appendix

1

Australia's tech jobs opportunity

The tech sector has experienced strong growth

in the last decade and is now the seventh biggest employing sector in Australia. There are now 861,000 people employed in them across Australia today.

1 in 16 working Australians work in tech sector

jobs, and there are more software engineers and developers in Australia than hairdressers.

These jobs, and the workers who perform them, are

spread across every state and territory in Australia.

Tech jobs are good jobs

Tech sector jobs, whether technical or otherwise,

are highly paid. On an hourly basis, entry level tech sector jobs pay 32 per cent more than the economy-wide average. On a weekly basis, tech sector jobs pay 64 per cent more than the economy-wide average.

Tech sector workers rate their jobs as being more

exible than other industries.

Tech sector jobs are more secure than other jobs.

The rate of people no longer working after 8 years was 4.7 percentage points lower in tech than high paying industries, and 6.2 percentage points lower than other industries.

Tech provides an opportunity for Australians from

all walks of life Around 40 per cent of people in the tech sector do not have a tertiary degree.

Australians who attended public schools outnumber

those who attended private schools 1.5 to 1 in the tech sector. There is almost no gap in pay for entry level jobs between VET and university educated positions, which will allow for rapid reskilling to work in the industry.

Women are under-represented, but well rewarded

Gender diversity remains a weakness for Australia's

Australia"s Tech Jobs

Opportunity - Cracking the Code

to Australia's Best Jobs The Tech Council of Australia (TCA) is the peak industry body for Australia"s tech sector. Providing a trusted voice for Australia's technology industry, with over 100 members, the TCA comprises the full spectrum of tech companies. We aim to advise and engage with Australian governments, businesses, and the wider community to help support the ongoing creation, development, and adoption of technology across industries. Our vision is for a prosperous Australia that thrives by harnessing the power of technology.

Authorship

This work has been authored by the Tech Council of Australia. The report features research conducted by Collancer and references previous research conducted by Accenture. Where this is the case, it has been denoted in source notes or footnotes.

About the Tech

Council of Australia

Contents

1

Executive summary

2

What is the tech jobs opportunity?

Tech sector jobs are an important new source of opportunity for Australians

Tech jobs are spread across the country

5 employment in tech?

Demographic breakdowns

Linguistic diversity

Educational pathways into tech

10

Highly paid and secure jobs

Less pay discrimination based on gender and educational background

Flexibility

14 How does Australia meet the tech jobs opportunity? 17

Technical Appendix

1

Australia's tech jobs opportunity

The tech sector has experienced strong growth

in the last decade and is now the seventh biggest employing sector in Australia. There are now 861,000 people employed in them across Australia today.

1 in 16 working Australians work in tech sector

jobs, and there are more software engineers and developers in Australia than hairdressers.

These jobs, and the workers who perform them, are

spread across every state and territory in Australia.

Tech jobs are good jobs

Tech sector jobs, whether technical or otherwise,

are highly paid. On an hourly basis, entry level tech sector jobs pay 32 per cent more than the economy-wide average. On a weekly basis, tech sector jobs pay 64 per cent more than the economy-wide average.

Tech sector workers rate their jobs as being more

exible than other industries.

Tech sector jobs are more secure than other jobs.

The rate of people no longer working after 8 years was 4.7 percentage points lower in tech than high paying industries, and 6.2 percentage points lower than other industries.

Tech provides an opportunity for Australians from

all walks of life Around 40 per cent of people in the tech sector do not have a tertiary degree.

Australians who attended public schools outnumber

those who attended private schools 1.5 to 1 in the tech sector. There is almost no gap in pay for entry level jobs between VET and university educated positions, which will allow for rapid reskilling to work in the industry.

Women are under-represented, but well rewarded

Gender diversity remains a weakness for Australia's