We are in the age of digital transformation, with rapid progress in personal and business computing creating ongoing demand for employees with an awareness of emerging tech and with the specialist skills to maintain clients’ assets3.
In the Information and Communications Technology IRC’s 2019 Skills Forecast4, the key demands impacting the ICT sector were:
Changing technology, the increase in automation technology, the importance of cyber security, the rollout of NBN and removing legacy infrastructure and increased competition in ICT business models
3 Ibid, p. 15
4 https://nationalindustryinsights.aisc.net.au/industries/information-and-communications-technology#:~:text=The%202018%20report%20Australia's%20Digital,high%20of%20758%2C700%20by%202023.