ICT Skills White Paper - Common Job Profiles And Skills Mobility

The Australian Computer Society has been conducting annual employment surveys since 1993. For the first time, the 2013 survey contained a dedicated skills section.

An essential resource to support career planning

The 2013 survey had over 5,000 respondents and asked them to nominate the top four skills they use in their current role using skills defined in the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA).

The survey results provide a clear understanding of skills mobility horizontally across tech job roles of similar skill levels and vertically.

This white paper identifies the skills profiles for twenty-five common tech job roles. These job roles represent the collective returns of 3,629 survey participants.

For an individual, the skills profiles provide an invaluable resource supporting career planning. The data provides an insight into market demand for specific skills and identifies skill sets that afford the most significant mobility in the tech employment market.

For an organisation, the skills profiles provide invaluable benchmarking data to compare the skills profile of your workforce with that of the broader tech sector. Such analysis supports human capital strategic planning by informing areas to target in recruitment and workforce development plans.