Market Insights & Regional Map

Meta-analysis of 3,133 jobs across 12 NZ regions

Auckland Concentration

67%

Of all geo-located roles

Remote-Friendly

NZ-wide / WFH roles

Regions Active

Distinct NZ locations

Posted < 7 days

426

Fresh listings this week

Regional Job Distribution

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Bubble size = job count. Hover for region details. Scroll to zoom.

Regions Ranked by Volume

Auckland10 companies

$11k - $340k1968 jobs

Wellington10 companies

$55k - $220k418 jobs

Christchurch10 companies

$60k - $210k269 jobs

Hamilton10 companies

$64k - $180k106 jobs

Remote / NZ-wide10 companies

$30k - $130k63 jobs

Dunedin10 companies

$61k - $166k50 jobs

Tauranga10 companies

$59k - $90k49 jobs

Napier-Hastings4 companies

5 jobs

Palmerston North5 companies

$120k - $140k5 jobs

Invercargill4 companies

$93k - $130k5 jobs

New Plymouth2 companies

2 jobs

Nelson1 company

1 jobs

Demand Signals

Auckland dominates with 67% of mapped roles

high

1968 of 2941 geo-located jobs

Remote-friendly: 63 positions allow NZ-wide / WFH

high

2% of total listings

Highest demand: Other (762 listings)

high

24% of total market

228 fixed-term/contract roles signal project-based AI work

high

7% of listings are FTC

Active market: 354 jobs posted in last 7 days

high

72 in last 24h alone

192 jobs with unresolvable locations (likely international/ambiguous)

low

6% of listings

Role Archetypes

Other

762 (24%)

Graduate Engineer - Data and AI | Data Specialist | Senior Strategic Client Executive

AI Leadership

705 (23%)

AI & Automation Lead | AI Technical Lead | Head of Co-Managed Services

Software Engineer

524 (17%)

Software Engineer - Data automation | Senior Platform Engineer & Senior Cloud Engineer (AI Enablement Project) | Senior Managed Service Desk Engineer

AI/ML Engineer

209 (7%)

AI Engineer | Senior Machine Learning Engineer | Machine Learning Engineer

Data Engineer

188 (6%)

Data Engineer | Data Engineer/Scientist | Associate Data Engineer

Data Analyst

139 (4%)

Customer Advisory Architect - Data & Analytics | Data and Analytics - Support Consultant | Customer Advisory Architect – Data & Analytics

AI Consultant

134 (4%)

Principal Consultant | Presales Consultant | Principal Consultant AI - (Performance Testing & Test Automation)

Cloud / DevOps

129 (4%)

Sales Solutions Specialist - Azure | Cloud Engineer | Cloud Architect (AWS)

Operations / Delivery

103 (3%)

Project Operations | Service Delivery Coordinator | Project Engineer

Data Scientist

69 (2%)

Data Scientist | Senior Customer Data Scientist | Senior Data Scientist

Integration / Automation

55 (2%)

Power BI & Automation Specialist | RPA Engineer | Automation Test Engineer

Sales / Account

49 (2%)

Pre-Sales Engineer | Sales Executive - Data and Integration | Outbound Phone Sales Representative

Research / PhD

30 (1%)

STEM PhDs - Math | Research Scientist | Oncology Clinical Researcher

Security

23 (1%)

Security Specialist - Enterprise Data Protection | Security Officer | Cyber Security GRC Partner - Fixed Term 12 months

NLP / GenAI

12 (0%)

General Manager - AI solutions (QA) | Platform Lead - Agentic AI (Low Code) | Software Engineer - AI Automation & LLM Systems

Computer Vision

2 (0%)

Senior Computer Vision Engineer

Listing Freshness

< 24h

1-7 days

354

8-30 days

931

30+ days

1709

Unknown

30-Day Timeline

32 jobs on 16 Mar

42 jobs on 17 Mar

44 jobs on 18 Mar

49 jobs on 19 Mar

59 jobs on 20 Mar

25 jobs on 21 Mar

10 jobs on 22 Mar

75 jobs on 23 Mar

52 jobs on 24 Mar

63 jobs on 25 Mar

79 jobs on 26 Mar

71 jobs on 27 Mar

42 jobs on 28 Mar

3 jobs on 29 Mar

22 jobs on 30 Mar

68 jobs on 31 Mar

39 jobs on 1 Apr

67 jobs on 2 Apr

44 jobs on 3 Apr

17 jobs on 4 Apr

14 jobs on 5 Apr

8 jobs on 6 Apr

42 jobs on 7 Apr

127 jobs on 8 Apr

93 jobs on 9 Apr

36 jobs on 10 Apr

54 jobs on 11 Apr

2 jobs on 12 Apr

13 jobs on 13 Apr

59 jobs on 14 Apr

16 Mar14 Apr

Contract Types

Unspecified2338

Contract287

Permanent239

Fixed Term228

Part Time25

Internship16

Salary Ranges by Role Archetype

AI Leadership$55k - $340k (136 with salary)

Data Engineer$80k - $220k (31 with salary)

Software Engineer$60k - $190k (136 with salary)

Cloud / DevOps$60k - $190k (27 with salary)

Data Scientist$78k - $166k (18 with salary)

AI Consultant$74k - $185k (22 with salary)

AI/ML Engineer$30k - $200k (24 with salary)

Security$85k - $120k (6 with salary)

Other$51k - $210k (196 with salary)

Integration / Automation$11k - $140k (18 with salary)

Research / PhD$65k - $115k (10 with salary)

NLP / GenAI$75k - $118k (5 with salary)

Data Analyst$67k - $199k (26 with salary)

Operations / Delivery$66k - $134k (17 with salary)

Sales / Account$50k - $128k (9 with salary)

Bar = min-max range. White line = median. Only roles with disclosed salaries shown.

AI Maturity Distribution

Across 180 profiled companies

adopting45 (25%)

experimenting42 (23%)

exploring37 (21%)

scaling35 (19%)

mature21 (12%)

Tech Stack Frequency

Top technologies across company profiles

Python13Snowflake10Databricks9AWS8dbt7ServiceNow5Microsoft 3655TypeScript4React4Microsoft Copilot4SQL4Fivetran4Salesforce4Snowflake data platform4AWS cloud platform3PyTorch3TensorFlow3.NET3LinkedIn for sourcing3Microsoft Fabric3SAP3SharePoint3Tableau3Power BI3Azure3