Report on Skill Shortage in Australia

As a person willing to live and work in Australia, it is interesting to know that you’ll be able to find work easily. The Clarius Skills Index is a report that indexes the shortage and oversupply of skilled labour.

Australia is having the highest level of labour skills shortage since 2001. In particular the demand for computing professionals is 2.1% higher than the available supply.

Amoungst the notable shortages, Chefs come first, Metal-related tradepersons are second, Automotive-related tradepersons are 4th, Health professionals are 5th and computing professionals are 7th.

The unemployment rate is planned to stay low in the next few years, despite the economic down-turn, around 5%.

In ICT, skills shortages will remain in areas such as .Net, Java, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Cisco and SAP.

On average in Australia, wages have increased by a strong 14% since 2005, but this is planned to fall below 4% during 2009/10.

For more information see the report.

Saturday, March 7th, 2009 Skill Shortage

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