Australia’s electronic security sector — including CCTV, access control, alarms and integrated security systems — continues to expand as technology adoption accelerates across commercial, retail, infrastructure and community settings. Alongside this growth, recruitment and skills availability are emerging as a key operational challenge for many providers.

Recruitment Industry Insights

Recent recruitment-market analysis published by Motion Recruitment Australia, a national technology and technical recruitment firm, has identified sustained demand for skilled electronic security technicians, particularly those with experience in:

  • CCTV and Video Managment Systems
  • Electronic Access Control
  • Integrated & networked security platforms.

Motion Recruitment notes that demand for these skill sets has increased as systems become more complex and software-driven, while the supply of suitably experienced candidates has not kept pace. This assessment reflects observations drawn from active recruitment campaigns and employer demand across multiple states.

Importantly, this analysis represents recruitment-market intelligence, rather than a formal government skills-shortage declaration — but it provides a useful indicator of conditions being experienced by employers on the ground.

Broader Labour-Market Signals

Recruitment commentary is supported by wider market indicators, including:

  • High and sustained job vacancy levels for electronic security technicians and installers across major employment platforms like SEEK.
  • Increasing emphasis by employers on vendor-specific training, system integration experience and IT-adjacent skills.
  • Greater competition for experienced technicians, particularly in metropolitan markets and critical-infrastructure environments.

Together, these signals suggest that workforce pressure is not confined to a single employer group, but reflects structural change within the electronic security sector itself.

What This Means For Security Providers

For SPAAL members, these trends highlight the importance of:

  • Workforce planning: building recruitment pipelines early, including apprenticeships and traineeships.
  • Upskilling and retention: investing in ongoing training as technology evolves.
  • Capability development: ensuring businesses can support increasingly integrated and software-dependent systems.

While market conditions will continue to shift, the underlying direction is clear: skills capability is becoming as critical as technology selection in delivering compliant, reliable electronic security services.

SPAAL will continue to keep an eye on workforce trends and we’ll share any developments, trends or thoughts that we think may be relevant and helpful..