Coding Course Queensland

This Coding course is eligible for Government Subsidy under QLD Career Boost program.
Current Enrolment Period Closes: 14th of August 2026

ICT50220 Diploma of Information Technology
(Back End Web Development)

EQC Institute offers Coding courses in Queensland, where you will gain hands-on experience in web development and learn the practical skills required to build websites and applications. You will develop industry-relevant coding skills and learn how to apply them to real-world business and client projects across technology and other growing industries.

Course Description

The ICT50220 Diploma of Information Technology (Back End Web Development) is an Australian nationally recognised course. This is a web & software development course covering the essential & practical skills of coding to become a software developer/engineer. Subjects 5-7 of this course additionally cover ICT concepts and skills that are in high demand. Emerging tech areas like AI & machine learning, privacy & security are becoming increasingly relevant to web development roles.

Some of the Tools You'll Learn
Course Subjects
  • S01: Front End Web Development
  • S02: Working with Clients and Industry
  • S03: Back End Web Development
  • S04: Deployment and Hosting
  • S05: Privacy and Security
  • S06: Blockchain
  • S07: Artificial Intelligence (AI/Machine learning)
Core Topics
  • Front End Web Development (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap): Craft responsive and visually stunning user interfaces using HTML for structure, CSS for styling, and frameworks like Bootstrap for streamlined, accessible web design.
  • Back End Web Development (JavaScript, Python, Django): Build robust server-side applications with JavaScript and Python, leveraging Django to create scalable APIs and manage complex backend logic.
  • Database and Data Management (MySQL, NoSQL): Design and optimize databases using MySQL for structured data and NoSQL for flexibility to ensure efficient data management.
  • Hosting and Deployment (GitHub, AWS, Servers, Domains): Launch your own web applications seamlessly using GitHub for version control, AWS for hosting, and configure servers and domains for scalable production environments.
  • Blockchain (Blockchain Networks, Smart Contracts): Learn how cryptocurrency runs securely and decentralized, by exploring blockchain networks and coding smart contracts to automate trustless transactions.
  • Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning): Create intelligent systems by exploring machine learning techniques, training predictive models, and applying deep learning to solve real-world challenges.
  • Working with Clients (Rules, Briefs, Design, Feedback, and Reviews): Excel in client collaboration by creating clear project briefs, interpreting design needs, and managing feedback to deliver successful outcomes.
  • QLD Government Subsidy

    Course fees are paid Monthly:

    Non-Concession Monthly Fee: $186.25
    Concession Monthly Fee:  $53
    Full Course Fee Without Subsidy: $5220
    Click here to see if you're eligible.

    The Queensland Government have subsidised the Cyber course fee cost through their Skills Assure program. Eligible Queensland students may enrol into the ICT50220 Diploma of Information Technology course through the Career Boost Program see below for more details.

    Entry Requirements

    To enter this qualification you must:

    • Have minimum level of English and Numeracy Skills required
    • Demonstrate study capacity
    • Complete application form to be reviewed by entry team
    Course Breakdown
    7 Subjects
    Subject 1: Front End Web Development
    What You'll Learn:
    Build responsive websites from the ground up using HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript
    Turn professional designs and wireframes into functional, pixel-accurate web interfaces
    Create interactive user experiences with dynamic content, forms, navigation, and animations
    Develop reusable components using modern front-end frameworks and development workflows
    Connect websites to APIs and display live data from external services
    Test, debug, and optimise websites across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices
    Subject 2: Working with Clients and Industry
    What You'll Learn:
    Translate a client’s business idea into clear technical requirements and a practical development plan
    Run discovery sessions, ask the right questions, and identify what a client actually needs
    Create wireframes, user journeys, prototypes, project scopes, and technical documentation
    Manage development work using Git, GitHub, version control, and industry project-management tools
    Present technical concepts clearly to clients, stakeholders, designers, and non-technical teams
    Deliver a complete client project through planning, development, feedback, revisions, and final handover
    Subject 3: Back End Web Development
    What You'll Learn:
    Build the server-side systems that power modern websites and web applications
    Create APIs that allow front-end interfaces, databases, and external services to communicate
    Design, build, and query databases to securely store users, products, bookings, and application data
    Develop authentication systems with user accounts, permissions, sessions, and protected routes
    Process forms, validate user input, manage errors, and automate back-end workflows
    Build a complete full-stack application connecting the user interface, server, API, and database
    Subject 4: Deployment and Hosting
    What You'll Learn:
    Take a completed application from a local development environment to a live production website
    Configure domains, DNS records, SSL certificates, environment variables, and secure HTTPS access
    Deploy front-end, back-end, and database services using modern cloud hosting platforms
    Use Git-based deployment workflows to safely release updates and manage different application versions
    Configure application logs, performance monitoring, backups, and error reporting
    Diagnose and resolve real deployment issues involving servers, databases, APIs, permissions, and networking
    Subject 5: Privacy and Security
    What You'll Learn:
    Build privacy and security into an application from the beginning instead of treating it as an afterthought
    Protect user accounts with secure authentication, password hashing, access controls, and session management
    Identify and defend against common application threats covered by the OWASP Top 10
    Prevent SQL injection, cross-site scripting, insecure data exposure, and malicious file uploads
    Secure APIs, databases, forms, cookies, tokens, and sensitive information across an application
    Apply Australian privacy principles and responsible data-handling practices to real business systems
    Subject 6: Blockchain
    What You'll Learn:
    Understand how blockchain networks record, verify, and protect transactions without a central authority
    Build and interact with smart contracts that automatically execute programmed business rules
    Develop decentralised applications that connect a web interface to a blockchain network
    Work with wallets, digital signatures, tokens, transaction fees, and blockchain explorers
    Test smart contracts for vulnerabilities, unexpected behaviour, and costly deployment errors
    Evaluate where blockchain provides real business value and where a traditional database is the better solution
    Subject 7: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    What You'll Learn:
    Build AI-powered applications that solve practical business and user problems
    Prepare, clean, and analyse data so it can be used effectively by machine-learning systems
    Train and evaluate machine-learning models for prediction, classification, and pattern recognition
    Integrate large language models and AI services into websites, applications, and automated workflows
    Develop systems using natural-language processing, recommendation tools, and intelligent search
    Test AI systems for accuracy, bias, privacy, security, and responsible use before deployment
    Course Details
    Subjects:
    7
    Delivery:
    100% online
    Study Type:
    Course Coach
    Optional Classes:
    Online Lectures
    Enrolment Period End:
    14th August 2026
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    Queensland Government Subsidy
    EQC Institute is an approved Skills Assure Supplier (SAS) under the Queensland Government’s Career Boost program. If you are a Queensland resident, an Australian citizen or permanent resident, or other approved category of person, you may be eligible for a subsidised place under the Queensland Government Career Boost program.

    What is Career Boost?
    Career Boost is designed to do exactly that – give your career a boost. Career Boost aims to take your career to the next level, enabling you to grow and apply your skills to existing or new job roles and to support productivity growth and workplace innovation. EQC offers a General Training pathway for Career Boost student participants. You can access this funding once– for a qualification of your choice and if eligible up to two subsidised skill sets.
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    Subsidised Course Fees
    Eligible students will pay a maximum $1,490 (Non-Concession) or $371 (Concession) in course fees in 2026.

    Click here to see if you're eligible.

    The Queensland Government have subsidised the Cyber course fee cost through their Skills Assure program. Eligible Queensland students may enrol into the ICT50220 Diploma of Information Technology course through the Career Boost Program.


    Eligibility Requirements


    Eligible Students must meet the following criteria:

    i. On campus students: 18 years or older. For online students please contact us;
    ii. Not be a school student;
    iii. Be a permanent Queensland resident;
    iv. Be an Australian citizen, or Australian permanent resident (includes humanitarian entrant), or a temporary resident with the right visa and work permits on the pathway to permanent residency, or a New Zealand citizen;
    v. Not already have a Certificate IV or higher qualification (including tertiary qualification) completed within the last 10 years (qualifications completed as a school student, and foundation skills qualifications, do not count).
    vi. Not be enrolled in any other qualification, whether funded or unfunded, except for foundation skills qualifications.

    Not Eligible? Click here to see our special course offering.



    Concession Eligibility

    To be eligible for a concession, you will need to show one of the following:
    • You hold a Health Care, Veteran or Pensioner Concession Card issued under Commonwealth law
    • You are the partner or dependent of a person who is entitled to concessions under a Health Care, Veteran or Pensioner Concession Card
    • You identify as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person
    • You have a disability
    • You are an adult prisoner
    Fees & Co-contributions

    The Queensland Government contracts approved providers to deliver education and training in key priority areas to Queenslanders. EQC Institute’s ICT50220 Diploma of Information Technology is an approved course and EQC Institute is an approved provider within the Skills Assure Supplier (SAS) network. You can specialise in either back end web development (coding) or cyber security (which also includes business analysis).
    What Fees Apply?
    If you are eligible for a subsidy, the set subsidy amount will be paid by the Queensland Government upon successful processing of your enrolment. Our friendly team will assist you to determine your eligibility and complete your enrolment as simply as possible.The Queensland Government makes it compulsory for education providers in the Career Boost program in the Diploma of IT, to charge a student fee, which is called the “Co-contribution fee”. This means that all RTOs offering that program under the SAS program, must charge a Co-contribution fee. The Government requires a Co-contribution fee because the increased benefits of advanced-level training, such as improved job opportunities and higher earning potential. The fee represents total costs to the student for the qualification, including materials costs. You will not be charged more for tuition or materials. You could be charged for ad hoc administrative matters requested by you, such as re-issue of a parchment (certificate). That sort of fee is set out in our Administrative Fees Schedule. However, all of your learning materials and tuition are covered by your Co-contribution fee.The Co-contribution fee for non-concessional card holders in Queensland is $1,490 for non-concession applicants and $371 for concession applicants.

    Co-contribution Fee Terms

    If you think you may be eligible for a funded place, you will need to let us know how you would like to pay your portion of the total fee: up front payment, or payment by instalments (a payment plan). We will never ask you to pay more than 30% of your Co-contribution fee up front. Call us on 1800 338 883 or apply below to see if you are eligible for the subsidy.

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    Real Tech Industry Demand
    2700+
    $95k-$115k
    1.48M

    Active job listings Australia wide according to SEEK.com 28/7/2026 for "Software Development"

    Average annual salary for an entry level Web Development role. Top level role annual salaries ranging upto $245k.

    More IT professionals needed in Australia's workforce by 2035 with growing demand. Source: ACS Digital Pulse, 2025

    University Pathways


    EQC Institute's ICT50220 Diploma of Information Technology qualifies for articulation with credit into a number of university Bachelor programs. This means our students can progress into approved programs with credit up to 1 year, and in a number of cases direct entry into Year 2 (depending on the university).

    Terms and conditions may apply at the relevant university and how to inquire with each university is listed below. Contact us for more information.

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    1 year of credit - Start with direct entry into year 2 (eligible bachelor course).

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    Newcastle
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    1 year of credit - Start with direct entry into year 2 or 70 unit credits (eligible bachelor course)

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    Edith Cowan
    University

    1 year of credit - Start with direct entry into year 2 (eligible bachelor course).

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    Griffith
    University

    Case by Case basis. We will support you with your application

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    Coding Course FAQ's
    What are the course subjects?

    1. Front End Web Development
    2.
    Working with Clients and Industry
    3.
    Back End Web Development
    4.
    Deployment and Hosting
    5.
    Privacy and Security
    6.
    Blockchain
    7.
    Artificial Intelligence (AI/Machine learning)

    What are the units?

    We’ve made your units very easy to study by grouping them under subjects, so you have less doubling up and your study is more efficient and meaningful. The elective units have been set for you to fit the Back End Web Development Specialisation.

    CORE UNITS

    BSBCRT512
    Originate and develop concepts
    BSBXCS402 Promote workplace cyber security awareness and best practices
    BSBXTW401
    Lead and facilitate a team
    ICTICT517 Match ICT needs with the strategic direction of the organisation
    ICTICT532 Apply IP, ethics and privacy in ICT environments
    ICTSAS527 Manage client problems

    ELECTIVE UNITS
    ICTWEB513
    Build dynamic websites
    ICTWEB519 Develop complex web page layouts
    ICTWEB520
    Develop complex cascading style sheets
    ICTDBS507 Integrate databases with websites
    ICTPRG553 Create and develop REST APIs
    ICTPRG554 Manage data persistence using noSQL data stores
    ICTWEB522 Develop website information architecture
    ICTWEB525 Implement quality assurance process for websites
    ICTWEB514 Create dynamic web pages
    ICTICT527 Develop and maintain blockchain solutions
    ICTAII401 Identify opportunities to apply artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning
    ICTAII501 Automate work tasks using machine learning
    ICTAII502 Train and evaluate machine learning models
    ICTAII503 Build natural language processing models and pipelines

    What kind of work could I do when I graduate?

    On completion of the ICT50220 Diploma of Information Technology (Web Development), you will be equipped with a diverse set of highly sought-after skills. The digital economy is expanding at pace, and virtually every industry now relies on skilled web developers to build, maintain, and grow their online presence.

    Industries hiring Web Development professionals right now:

    Finance & Insurance:
    building secure banking portals, payment gateway integrations, and customer-facing financial dashboards

    Healthcare:
    developing patient booking systems, telehealth platforms, and accessible health information websites

    Retail & E-Commerce:
    creating online stores, product management systems, and seamless checkout experiences

    Education: designing e-learning platforms, student portals, and interactive course delivery websites

    Gaming & Entertainment:
    developing browser-based games, streaming interfaces, and community platforms

    Telecommunications:
    building customer self-service portals, real-time usage dashboards, and product landing pages

    Manufacturing:
    creating supply chain tracking interfaces, B2B client portals, and internal business tools

    Data & Cloud Hosting: developing data visualisation dashboards, SaaS application front-ends, and cloud service management consoles

    Cyber Security:
    building security awareness training platforms, internal reporting tools, and compliance management systems

    Marketing & Media:
    crafting campaign landing pages, content management systems, and brand websites that convert

    Are there any entry requirements?

    There are no prior qualifications required before entering this Diploma.

    As part of assessing your suitability to study the course, the College will be required to assess your LLND (Language, Literacy, Numeracy, and Digital skills), academic suitability and study load capacity. The College reserves the right to cancel an enrolment application if the suitability requirements are not achieved.

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