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ANZSCO 261311Updated 2026-01-29
Analyst Programmer
National shortage level: Low
Snapshot
Median pay: AUD 136k
Weekly earnings: AUD 2610
Salary range: AUD 122k-AUD 149k
Job ads trend: Not listed
Time to hire: Varies
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State distribution
35.5%
VIC
35%
NSW
10.9%
QLD
Education mix
55.8%
bachelor degree
26.4%
Post graduate
7.2%
advanced diploma/ diploma
Role overview
Analyst Programmers analyse user needs, produce requirements documentation and system plans, and encode, test, debug, maintain and document programs and applications.
What you do
- • Researches, consults, analyses and evaluates system programme needs.
- • Identifies technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods.
- • Tests, debugs, diagnoses and corrects errors and faults in an applications programming language within established testing protocols, guidelines and quality standards to ensure programs and applications perform to specification.
Core skills
Credentials & pathway
- Recommended level: bachelor degree (55.8%)
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Tasks
- • Identifies technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods.
- • Researches, consults, analyses and evaluates system programme needs.
- • Tests, debugs, diagnoses and corrects errors and faults in an applications programming language within established testing protocols, guidelines and quality standards to ensure programs and applications perform to specification.
Earnings
Weekly median: AUD 2610
Annual median: AUD 136k
Range: AUD 122k-AUD 149k