The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank - 51 41
Contract jobs citing GIS 0 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.475% 0.596%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 1.695% 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £338 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +22.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £358 £345
% change year-on-year
+8.39% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.66 £13.75 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+13.85% -60.14%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
96 177 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 21.67% 28.01% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 104 60
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £247 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £440 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Average hourly rate £26.75 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
GIS
West Midlands

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing GIS across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Birmingham GIS Jobs Demand Trend

GIS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing GIS across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham GIS Daily Rate Trend

GIS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GIS across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham GIS Hourly Rate Trend

GIS
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing GIS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited GIS.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ
1 2 (100.00%) DevExpress

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing GIS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited GIS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# Developer
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) DevExpress