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‘Near tech’ workers are the solution to Australia’s cyber security & AI skills shortfall: ACS
- Australia is struggling to find technology workers with the right cyber security and artificial intelligence skills but could tap 1.1 million “near tech” workers with similar capabilities to reskill and support the workforce, the 10th annual ACS Australia’s Digital Pulse report has found.
- Demand for cyber security skills has increased by 80% in Australia since 2020 amid a similar increase in cyber crime.
- While Australia’s technology workforce now encompassed more than 1 million workers, the report argued an extra 300,000 people would be needed by 2030 due to “current business demand”.
- Workers in “near tech” jobs which could reskill for roles in tech included mathematicians, advertising and marketing professionals, and account clerks, among others.
- Reskilling thousands of Australians for roles in the technology workforce still faced significant challenges, Digital Pulse found.
- The report recommended 12 key actions to support the growth of Australia’s tech workforce, including business and government paying workers while they learned tech skills, increasing the number of paid work placements for IT students.
- It also recommended a campaign to inform parents and students about careers in tech, more initiatives to train workers and students on how to take advantage of AI, and a federal government grant program to support tech startups led by women.
- Despite a surge in domestic students choosing IT studies during the pandemic, enrolments have now dropped, with a 10 per cent decline in 2022.
- Australia’s technology sector contributed over $124 billion to the local economy in the 2023-24 financial year, the report found.
- Last year’s Digital Pulse called for the country to take greater action on AI, which it forecast would disrupt the overwhelming majority of local jobs in the coming years.
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