New Zealand’s ICT job ads decline as employment soars
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND – Advertisements for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) job vacancies slid by 10.8% in December 2022, according to job posting site Seek New Zealand (NZ).
Specifically, listings for the role of developers and programmers dropped by 17%, followed by business and systems analysts with 11% and software engineers with nine per cent.
The continued fall in the IT industry’s job listing comes as overall job ads for the nation also fell, dropping down six per cent.
However, SEEK New Zealand Country Manager Rob Clark said that the slowdown was typical for the holiday period — “particularly in the populous regions of Auckland and Wellington.”
He also countered that applications per job ad on their website “recorded the greatest monthly increase since the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the job market in 2020.”
“Applications per ad increased in almost all industries, and levels have now returned to where they were pre-pandemic.
The decline of job vacancies being posted can also be an effect of New Zealand’s record-level 69.3% employment rate in Q3 — the country’s highest since 2007.
