Current IT Job market update for Christchurch & Canterbury

So with recent geopolitical change and re-setting of the world order how does this translate to the Christchurch, Canterbury and NZ job market?

Unfortunately when the tariffs hit from the US government it unsettled the markets, businesses don’t like uncertainty and although Trump has pulled back on the tariffs there is cautious optimism.

New data from Seek shows IT jobs up 7% and has seen job applications down 11% in Canterbury which is good news for IT job hunters. See more here

“There has been welcome growth in some high-skilled industries of late, including a 15% jump in design and architecture and a 7% boost to information and communications technology in April, on top of longer-term growth, pointing to returning business confidence in some skilled sectors.’

See more here on the Seek article here.

The new financial year started 1st April but often, in a lot of companies new budgets are not often finalised until May, June or July. When these come out line managers have new $$ to spend on projects and IT staff.

We’ve been lucky enough to appoint some new contractors who have started in April & May with some of the new budgets kicking off and new projects launching. Some companies are currently considering using more contract resource that matches some of the projects and statements of works that they are winning rather than taking on permanent resource to manage their risks and keep staffing salaries (overheads) in check which is smart.

We are seeing growth, albeit slow growth and the feeling all round is that it’s better than last year!!!!

We have some interesting IT roles we’re currently recruiting for here:

Lead R&D Software Engineer (Computer Vision / Data / Robotics)

Web Operations Manager (eCommerce / Warehouse / Logistics)

CONTRACT Identity Designer / Security Consultant (Ping identity)

Senior Full Stack C#.Net Software Engineer (AWS)

GIS Business Analyst (ESRI / ArcGIS)

CONTRACT Senior Fullstack C#.Net Developer / Azure Architect

Intermediate Java Back-end Developer

CONTRACT Senior Fullstack C#.Net Developer

Senior Fullstack Engineer (React/Typescript/Node)

Team Lead / Senior Software Integration Developer

Lead Software Engineer (Cloud / DevOps / Data)

Remember get out there to some of the local meet-ups and press the flesh, learn new things, meet new people and keep yourself active in the job market.

I’m Paul, lover of coffee, dogs, biking, surfing & skiing. Founder & Principal Consultant of Sunstone, an IT Recruitment & HR company specialising in recruiting IT roles within software, web, digital, mobile, blockchain, data, cloud infrastructure, security & networks in Christchurch & South Island of New Zealand.