This is a huge improvement on 2003 when unemployment was at 12.4 per cent, or 7.2 percent in 2005.

The 2006 survey found more than two-thirds (69.5) percent of respondents were employed full time.

Tasmania has the highest concentration of unemployed ICT workers at 8.3 percent, followed by New South Wales at 7.9 per cent unemployment, Western Australia at 6.2 percent, Victoria at 5.5 percent, Queensland with 4.1 percent and South Australia at 2.2 percent.

ACS president Philip Argy said while the employment results are encouraging, age and sex discrimination experienced by some professionals is of major concern.

Argy said there is a "pocket of long-term ICT unemployed whose skills are vastly undervalued."