Trade Me job listings up 27 pct from year ago

Friday 8th July 2011

Listings on the Trade Me Jobs website in the June quarter were 27 percent up on a year earlier and 17 percent higher than in the first quarter of 2011.

All the main centres had year-on-year growth of more than 20 percent, with quake-hit Canterbury up 65 percent on the same period last year.

Job adverts in the IT sector grew 60 percent over the year to 6300 roles, with networking and systems roles up 121 percent, helpdesk up 112 percent, and test analysts up 110 percent, Trade Me Jobs head Peter Ashby said today.

Listings for the banking, finance and insurance category were up 53 percent from a year earlier, with Ashby saying an increase in insurance-related roles was no surprise given recent events in Canterbury.

Good growth had also been noted in banking and finance roles in Auckland and Hamilton in the past three months.

Competition among applicants had eased and pay packets were up more than 3.5 percent on a year ago, Ashby said.

NZPA

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