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The gender gap in the New Zealand ICT market seems to have blown out, with a newly released report by a major recruitment firm revealing that men are by far and away better off in the remuneration benefit stakes than their female colleagues.

Offshoring has decimated the local ICT jobs market. Australia now has a large and increasing oversupply of ICT professionals, not a skills shortage as widely touted over recent years, according to a new report.

Salaries for IT professionals in Christchurch are on the rise, according to a New Zealand recruitment agency which says that new data shows that wages in the city have ‘spiked at 10%’ in the past six months.

There has been a big leap in job dissatisfaction amongst Australia’s IT professionals, with nearly one in 10 of them prepared to change employers for less money.

Australia’s white collar professionals consistently lag behind their counterparts in other countries on productivity, with the country sitting second last on the global productivity scale and newly published research showing that Aussie workers have an unrealised average daily productivity capacity of 26%.

There’s something of a war for talent going on in New Zealand’s enterprise IT market between the private and public sectors, with new research revealing that commercial success for many of those enterprises is soaking up the supply of technology professionals.

The IT talent pool in Australia is diminishing as an increasing number of IT professionals head across the ditch to New Zealand, which is supposedly attracting Aussies to work in the country’s ‘reinvigorated, globally innovating” IT market.