The Diversiti IT Hiring Influence Report is also endorsed by Queensland University of Technology.

Diversiti managing director Deborah Howard said the results dispel the myth that the skills crisis is fiction.

"There is absolutely no doubt that the key challenges facing employers over the next 12 months relate to the supply and retention of talent," she said.

"Despite these findings confirming that the hunt for IT talent is set to get harder, employers are confident that they will still be able to source most of their IT hires from within Australia."

Around 50 percent of respondents believe it will be harder to find relevant IT candidates with 47 percent citing "competition from other professions" as a problem.