About the Harvey Nash Technology Survey 2016.The survey was conducted between 14th July 2015 and 26th October 2015 with 2,959 technology professionals from 36 countries taking part. A wide range of people contributed, including software engineers (ten per cent), technology project managers (ten per cent) and developers (seven per cent), and c-level technology leaders (nine per cent). For more information visit www.harveynash.com/techsurvey
DEMOGRAPHICS
CAREERS
SECURITY
SKILLS
Switzerland
Australia
Ireland
Global Average
United Kingdom
Germany
United States
Sweden
Poland
62+38+T62%
55+45+T55%
48+52+T48%
43+57+T43%
40+60+T40%
39+61+T39%
37+63+T37%
35+65+T35%
15+85+T15%
55+45+T55%
64+36+T64%
29+71+T29%
35+65+T35%
26+74+T26%
24+76+T24%
21+79+T21%
12+88+T12%
6+94+T6%
% of technology workers from overseas:
Ongoing shift to permanent hiring: 71% now in full time employment, 65% in 2014, 62% 2013, 58% in 2012
War for Talent: 32% of technologists report 10+ headhunter enquiries in past year
HARVEY NASH TECH SURVEY 2016 KEY FINDINGS
Technology hiring managers report skills shortage in 2015, up from 51% last year
feel they are integrally important to future of organisation (up from 41% last year and 38% in 2013)
Good Pay now most important reason for leaving role (for 77%), 61% last year of technologists moved
job in past 12 months; also 39% in 2014, 38% in 2013, 46% in 2012
62% of technologists willing to innovate despite increasing security risk, up from 59% last year
US technologists most worried about over-regulation of tech innovation (61%) compared to 42% in Europe and 50% in Asia-PAC
Skills shortage most intense in Europe (56% of all technology hiring managers report
shortage); US 51%, Asia-PAC 37%
44% of hiring managers think skills shortage will get worse in future
53+47+T53% 45+55+T45%
39+61+T39%
Developer
Software Engineer
Design UX/UI
Architecture
Database Engineer
Web Developer
Testing
Project Management
CIO/CTO
% respondents with 10+ headhunter enquiries per year:
56% personally hacked last year (UP from 52% in 2014)but...39% of companies were hacked last year (DOWN from 46% in 2014)
STAY OR GO
Total number of respondents:
2,959