About the Harvey Nash Technology Survey 2016. The survey was conducted between 14th July 2015 and 26th October 2015 with 2,959 technology professionals from 36 countries taking part. A wide range of people contributed, including software engineers (ten per cent), technology project managers (ten per cent) and developers (seven per cent), and c-level technology leaders (nine per cent). For more information visit www.harveynash.com/techsurvey DEMOGRAPHICS CAREERS SECURITY SKILLS Switzerland Australia Ireland Global Average United Kingdom Germany United States Sweden Poland >&T 62% 7-T 55% 04T 48% +9T 43% (<T 40% '=T 39% %?T 37% #AT 35% /UT 15% 7-T 55% @$T 64% BGT 29% #AT 35% :JT 26% 8LT 24% 5OT 21% ,XT 12% 6^T 6% % of technology workers from overseas: Ongoing shift to permanent hiring: 71% now in full time employment, 65% in 2014, 62% 2013, 58% in 2012 War for Talent: 32% of technologists report 10+ headhunter enquiries in past year HARVEY NASH TECH SURVEY 201 6 KEY FINDINGS Technology hiring managers report skills shortage in 2015, up from 51% last year feel they are integrally important to future of organisation (up from 41% last year and 38% in 2013) Good Pay now most important reason for leaving role (for 77%), 61% last year of technologists moved job in past 12 months; also 39% in 2014, 38% in 2013, 46% in 2012 62% of technologists willing to innovate despite increasing security risk, up from 59% last year US technologists most worried about over-regulation of tech innovation (61%) compared to 42% in Europe and 50% in Asia-PAC Skills shortage most intense in Europe (56% of all technology hiring managers report shortage); US 51%, Asia-PAC 37% 44% of hiring managers think skills shortage will get worse in future 61T 53% -7T 45% '=T 39% Developer Software Engineer Design UX/UI Architecture Database Engineer Web Developer Testing Project Management CIO/CTO % respondents with 10+ headhunter enquiries per year: 56% personally hacked last year (UP from 52% in 2014) but... 39% of companies were hacked last year (DOWN from 46% in 2014) STAY OR GO Total number of respondents: 2,959