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Tech wreck eases skills pressure as start-up outcasts hit the market

Paul Smith and Tess Bennett

Aug 9, 2022 – 5.00am

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The results of slowing tech start-up investment and the resulting redundancies across the sector are starting to show up in an easing of a previously crippling shortage of affordable tech skills, according to new data and companies hiring talent.

While long-term solutions to shortages of technology skills in Australia remain an issue worthy of discussion at the government’s upcoming jobs and skills summit, CEOs and founders of companies in the market for tech skills have said the mood of the market has shifted markedly in the past couple of months.

Paul Smith edits the technology coverage and has been a leading writer on the sector for 20 years. He covers big tech, business use of tech, the fast-growing Australian tech industry and start-ups, telecommunications and national innovation policy.

Tess Bennett is a technology reporter with The Australian Financial Review, based in the Brisbane newsroom. She was previously the work & careers reporter.