Overview of this occupation
Multimedia Specialists and Web Developers create computer animation, audio, video and graphic image files for multimedia presentations, games, motion pictures, CD-ROMs, information kiosks and the web, and plan, produce and maintain websites and web applications using web programming, scripting, authoring, content management and file transfer software.
What they do:
- Collaborate with others to resolve information technology issues
- Communicate with others to arrange, coordinate, or conduct activities
- Create computer-generated graphics or animation
- Design computer modelling or simulation programs
- Design websites or web applications
- Develop software applications
- Develop specifications or procedures for website development or maintenance
- Implement security measures for computer or information systems
- Monitor the security of digital information
- Prepare graphics or other visual representations of information
- Update website content
- Write computer programming code
What technology tools they use:
- Content workflow software
- Database management software
- Document management and code versioning software
- File format conversion utilities
- Graphics or photo imaging software
- Project management software
- Quotation and cost modelling software
- Social media platforms
- Software development and programming languages
- Statistical and data analysis software
- Video creation and editing software
- Web page creation and editing software
What their interests are:
- Business, Management And Sales – they enjoy meeting people, leading and talking with others.
- Corporate – they enjoy organising, working indoors, understanding numbers and data.
Source: Australian Skills Classification, job and Skills Australia, Commonwealth of Australia. Used under Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence and Jobs and Skills Australia, ABS Census 2016, Customised Report.
Quick facts
Multimedia Specialists and Web Developers
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Skills and knowledge
What are they good at?
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Source: Australian Skills Classification, Jobs and Skills Australia, Commonwealth of Australia. Used under Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence.
Education and qualifications
Multimedia Specialists and Web Developers – Skill level 1
Occupation at Skill Level 1 have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor's degree of higher qualification .
At least five years of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualification
Source: Conceptual basis of ANZSCO, ABS Survey, Release Nov 2021.
Qualifications in this workforce
This table shows the distribution of employment by highest qualification completed (in any field of study).7
Source: ABS, 2021 Census of Population and Housing based on place of usual residence.
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