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Generation Australia's new data analyst program is intended to help address the skills shortage while assisting unemployed Australians to join the workforce.

• 85 per cent of technology employers will increase salaries in their next review – up from 65 per cent;
• 34 per cent will award increases of three per cent or more;
• 76 per cent say the skills shortage has forced them to offer higher salaries than planned;
• 87 per cent of technology employees say an increase of three per cent or more would reflect their individual performance and the demand for their skills.

More technology professionals will receive a pay rise this coming financial year than last, with skills shortages creating a “once-in-a-career market”, according to the latest salary guide from recruiting firm Hays Technology.

Australian technology industry digital micro-skills marketplace Skills Finder has launched 20 new dedicated Career Pathways it says will help meet the growing demand for skilled workers in high-demand jobs such as data analytics, digital marketing and UX design. 

Industry-led skills group, Digital Skills Organisation (DSO), has appointed former Deloitte Australia Consulting executive Patrick Kidd as its new chief executive.

Data scientists, data engineers and data analysts are in hot demand in Australia, topping the list of IT skills shortfalls for the first half of 2019, according to a new report on the jobs market.

A new training college for data analysts and scientists has launched in Sydney with the opening of a local branch of the London Data School founded in 2015.

The jobs outlook for ICT professionals is strengthening month to month as both government and private sector employers express confidence in the year ahead.

There’s encouraging signs that Australia's ICT jobs market has been gathering pace over the past quarter, with the market for ICT skills now at its highest point for more than a year, according to a newly published report.