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December 28, 2011 – According to a new report entitled, “The Means to Compete: Benchmarking IT industry Competitiveness”, released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), along with Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, the island country continent of Australia provides the most positive competitive conditions for IT firms in the Asia-Pacific region, ranking third.

Moreover, the EIU report also ranks Australia 5th in the world in terms of the overall competitiveness of its IT industry, along with the US topping the index table, then Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom, respectively.

Likewise, Australia also performed extremely well in terms of Advanced IT and communications infrastructure as it was ranked fourth in the world, preceded only by US, Canada, and Switzerland and ranked first in the Asia-Pacific.

Australia’s robust IT infrastructure is built on extensive PC ownership, high broadband penetration  which is at 33%, topped only by the Netherlands and South Korea  good internet security and substantial spending on IT.

The report also revealed that Australia’s mobile phone penetration is also high at 94.5%.

Meanwhile, Australia’s IT industry has been continuing to make steps in becoming more green-friendly for many years.
In fact, several major Australian organizations are increasingly focusing on environmental and energy concerns.

On Australia’s IT industry workforce sector, the nation is experiencing a high demand for seasoned IT professionals as large public sector upgrades gather steam and Australia’s IT industry braces itself for a serious skills shortage, with more than a thousand of IT new positions to be filled up.

Moreover, the major system enhancement projects across all of Australia’s federal agencies, and the corporate sector gearing up for a 10 year ‘refresh’, has fuelled the chronic shortage of skilled IT staff Australia-wide.
Likewise, this candidate short market in the IT industry along with the negative effect of the skills shortages beginning to affect IT project delivery times has driven up salaries, creating highly paid IT job opportunities.

According to Jim Ellis, vice president of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), Australia’s ICT skills shortage, particularly in Western Australia, has forced WA to bring people in on 457 working Australia visa.

Many Australian employees are now looking oversees to bring in IT skilled professionals on the 457 visas for Australia.
With the situation in WA where there are more vacancies for ICT staff in the mining and resources sector than there are for engineers, WA is looking oversees to bring in IT professionals on 457 visas Australian.

So if you are an IT professional, apply visa to Australia and work in Australia.

source:
atmc.vic.edu.au