Information Technology Jobs in New Zealand
Compiled from 641 jobs
Last updated: 10 December 2023
Based on a general overview of the technology jobs listed in New Zealand and their trends over time. These results are not comprehensive, but a sample obtained from publicly available job listings and do not relate to actual figures from people currently in industry
How much is a Developer worth in New Zealand?
Industry figures will typically lag behind current valuations, and NZ Stats is only updated annually. Information from current job listings is useful to predict your worth in the market.
Average Salary
Average is: $108,755.8 - Ranging between $103,581.5 - $113,930.0
Fewer jobs list an hourly wage, but this figure is interesting when compared to the minimum wage. Unsurprisingly, salaried jobs pay far more than minimum wage across the board.
Average Hourly Wage
Average is: $30.8 - Ranging between $27.7 - $34.0
What technologies are companies hiring for?
The 20 Most Popular Technologies
Microsoft and Azure taking the top spots in popularity shows us which cloud provider is winning in NZ. they are frequently listed as desirable. Looking at the hard tech, Microsoft products take a clear lead in both the Operating System (OS) and Cloud Environments (Azure).
Many of the big name technologies that are hyped up in the media are absent. The Firebase toolkit, which is popular among new Developers, is absent, and SQL is the only database query language here.
For Developers looking to pick up a new language, we plan to create a separate set of charts to capture trending technologies as historical data becomes available.
Highest paying skills
If you're just getting into IT now or looking to pick up new skills, these results may help you decide what to learn.
Highest Paying Skills
Lowest paying skills
And here's what's not so popular.
Lowest Paying Skills
Which IT jobs pay the most?
Due to the fast progression of technology, your day to day can differ drastically based on what role you have. A project manager may never need to touch a line of code, while a Developer may go for years without talking to clients or scoping out projects.
Job Categories by Salary
Category Details
The entire IT industry in eleven buckets.
- Data/AnalyticsAnalyzing and producing information derived from datasets for business or analytical use. This includes Data Scientist and Machine Learning roles.
- ProductManaging projects and coordinating different resources to deliver a product to market.
- ContentCreation of long or short form written content and copywriting for use in digital products.
- NetworkingAny career involving the physical or digital communication between devices.
- OperationsA broad spectrum of roles relating to the overview of a business and its functions.
- DevOpsCreation and maintenance of CI/CD deployment and testing pipelines as well as their integration.
- Dev/EngineeringSoftware engineering, full-stack development, and all programming roles.
- SecurityGeneral cybersecurity, intrusion detection, social engineering.
- TestingQuality assurance of products through manual, integration, and automation testing.
- HardwareRelated to real actual silicon hardware devices rather than the software that runs on them.
- Customer SupportLive or asynchronous customer facing roles. Phone/email support, first point of contact.
The selection of these categories aims to be diverse enough to facilitate interesting results while also being general enough to provide sufficient datapoints to craft a story. More specialized categories may isolate and make it difficult to identify trends. Having less categories may be too general and dilute the ability to glean meaningful results.
It's Hard To Find A First Job But Easy To Find Subsequent Ones
You hear it a lot when talking to Developers in New Zealand. Recent job postings back this up. Despite the severe skill shortage, this field remains hard for new entrants. The majority of employers want to fill senior positions before hiring recent graduates.
Distribution of Requested Levels of Experience
Entry level being less than two years of relevant experience. Juniors between two and five. And seniors with more than five.
This pattern continues even when grouping by job category or by a specific technology. This suggests a severe shortage of senior level positions.
Job Categories by Experience
Average Salary vs Years of Experience
How does pay increase the longer you work in a job?
These results are uniform across the board, regardless of any specific technology. This means your first job will be hard to find regardless of what you're studying, but it also means there's an equal opportunity for most of the skills you opt to learn.
Technologies vs Experience
There is a remarkable link between the number of jobs requests for a skill and salary.
If you choose a popular skill, such as Microsoft Products, the chances of getting a salary in the average range is higher. However, as popularity increases, the risk and instability of outcome also increases. This makes intuitive sense as the less travelled path has less a more predictable outcome.
Popularity of a Skill vs Average Salary
Does the popularity of a skill translate to a higher salary?
Where are the jobs?
Jobs by location
An overwhelming portion of jobs are in Auckland. This is not surprising when considering the population vastly exceeds that of any other city. Christchurch and Wellington following close behind suggests that these values are closely linked to population. This is reasonable if each location were to have consistent and steady requirements of IT services per capita and most services were provided locally in the region.
Work from home policies
Post-COVID 27.8% of employers are openly hiring for positions with the potential to work from home
For foreigners interested in settling in New Zealand 4.4% of Employers were offering accreditation to help with residency.
Courses in New Zealand
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