In its executive demand index for July, human resources consultancy E.L. Consult found that there had been a 22 percent rise in demand for IT executives, compared to the previous month.
This isn't the first month there have been signs of growing demand for IT staff--surveys over the past couple of months have touted a growing interest in IT professionals.
Grant Montgomery, managing director at E.L. Consult, believes it's the sign of a trend, rather than being a one-off spike in the figures.
"I think on a global perspective we won't get an improvement in overall executive demand unless IT is a lot stronger than it has been," Montgomery said.
Montgomery also thinks that demand needs to grow by another 30 to 40 percent to get to the base level of IT skills the Australian economy needs on an ongoing basis.
However, Montgomery warned that he doesn't think that demand will return to what it was before the dot-com crash. "It is unlikely that the IT sector will be employing executives like it did at the height of the new economy boom for some years," he predicted.
