ICT Job Ads by State, Australia: September 2026
State by state, from Jobs and Skills Australia's Internet Vacancy Index (September 2026 release): online job ads for ICT Professionals, a broad technology group that includes but does not isolate data roles.
Online ICT job ads fell in every state and territory over the year to September 2026
In Jobs and Skills Australia's Internet Vacancy Index (IVI), September 2026 release, the trend count of online job ads for ICT Professionals (ANZSCO group 26) was 5,866 nationally in September 2026, down 11.6% from 6,636 in September 2025. The count fell in all 8 states and territories over those twelve months. Among the states with at least 100 ICT ads, the smallest change was in Queensland (-7.3%) and the largest in New South Wales (-15.8%). Tasmania (36 ads, -35.0%) and Northern Territory (31 ads, -19.2%) are too small to rank: a few listings move the percentage a long way.
Ads for all occupations together rose 1.6% nationally over the same twelve months (trend series), so the ICT Professionals share of all online ads fell from 3.2% to 2.8%. That share is our own calculation: ICT Professionals ads divided by all-occupation ads, both from the same IVI release. Australian Capital Territory has by far the highest ICT share, at 10.4%.
The national ICT Professionals trend count is 42% below its December 2019 level, and 60% below its highest month in this series since January 2019, April 2022 (14,765). Over the three months from June 2026 to September 2026, the national trend count fell 2.2% and fell in all 8 states and territories.
The seasonally adjusted series gives the same direction: the national count was 5,897 in September 2026 against 6,729 in September 2025 (-12.4%), and it fell in all 8 states and territories over the twelve months. Seasonally adjusted monthly figures are noisier than the trend series, which is why the table below uses trend.
ICT Professionals ads by state and territory
Trend counts of online job ads for ICT Professionals, IVI September 2026 release. "September 2025" is the same series twelve months earlier; June 2026 is three months earlier. Share is ICT Professionals ads as a percentage of all online job ads in that state or territory. State and territory counts do not add up exactly to the national figure because JSA trends each series separately.
| State or territory | September 2026 | September 2025 | 12-month change | 3-month change | Share of all ads, September 2026 | Share of all ads, September 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 5,866 | 6,636 | -11.6% | -2.2% | 2.8% | 3.2% |
| New South Wales | 2,057 | 2,442 | -15.8% | -1.1% | 3.3% | 3.9% |
| Victoria | 1,553 | 1,721 | -9.8% | -2.1% | 3.4% | 3.8% |
| Queensland | 979 | 1,057 | -7.3% | -0.3% | 1.9% | 2.1% |
| South Australia | 296 | 341 | -13.3% | -10.9% | 2.1% | 2.5% |
| Western Australia | 407 | 465 | -12.4% | -5.9% | 1.4% | 1.8% |
| Tasmania | 36 | 56 | -35.0% | -23.0% | 1.1% | 1.7% |
| Northern Territory | 31 | 38 | -19.2% | -4.4% | 1.1% | 1.3% |
| Australian Capital Territory | 474 | 532 | -10.7% | -2.0% | 10.4% | 11.8% |
What this measures, and what it does not
The IVI is the monthly count of job ads advertised online published by Jobs and Skills Australia, coded to occupations under the ANZSCO classification. It counts ads, not vacancies filled, hires or people employed.
ANZSCO group 26, ICT Professionals, covers ICT business and systems analysts, multimedia specialists and web developers, software and applications programmers, database and systems administrators and ICT security specialists, computer network professionals, ICT support and test engineers, and telecommunications engineering professionals. It is a broad technology group, not a data-role measure. The IVI workbook behind this page has no separate occupation for data engineers, data analysts or data scientists, so ads for those roles sit inside this group or other occupations, and we cannot tell from this release how many. Nothing here is a count of data roles, and the changes above should not be read as the change in data-role demand.
The trend series is smoothed, and trend estimates for earlier months can change when a later release is published. This page is built from one release only. We do not offer an explanation for the movements: the IVI measures what was advertised, not why employers advertised more or less.
For advertised roles that are data roles specifically, see the live listings for Data Analyst, Data Engineer and Data Scientist, which come from a different source with different coverage and cannot be compared with the figures on this page.
Source and licence
Source: Jobs and Skills Australia, Internet Vacancy Index, September 2026 release (published 21 October 2026), workbook "Internet Vacancies, ANZSCO2 Occupations, States and Territories - September 2026", sheets "Trend" and "Seasonally Adjusted", ANZSCO group 26 and the all-occupations total for each state and territory. Counts are as published; percentage changes and shares are calculated by DataJobs.AU from those counts and rounded for display. Jobs and Skills Australia has not endorsed this page.
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