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GUEST OPINION: According to the Information Systems Consortium, there are approximately 2.7 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs around the world today. There are simply not enough people with the required cyber specialisms to carry out the work in this high-growth sector. Australia’s 2020 Cyber Security Strategy highlighted this issue, and the Government committed millions of dollars via the Cyber Security National Workforce Growth Program to address the skills shortage.

GitHub has released its annual state of the Octoverse report which addresses the question of what really helps developers be efficient and productive, as well as giving other insights.

Software developers are finding their productivity and wellbeing has been hit as a result of COVID-19, according to a new worldwide study led by the University of Adelaide’s School of Computer Science in collaboration with Dalhousie University in Canada.

Software development versioning and collaboration platform GitHub says it wants to free developers to keep in the zone, announcing a series of new product features to take away the daily struggles of its 31 million users.

Demand for ICT jobs in Sydney and Melbourne is picking up, and the first quarter of this year is showing improved prospects for the national hiring market over 2013, prompting one national recruiter to express cautious optimism about the hiring market for the remainder of the year.

TechnologyOne is in the midst of a transition to the cloud, so it's looking for graduates with the right skills to help it with the journey.