The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Castleford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 21 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 Castleford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing GIS 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Castleford 100.00% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.31 £16.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-4.31% -53.62%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Castleford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Castleford 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
GIS
West Yorkshire

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Castleford GIS Jobs Demand 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 Castleford region.

Castleford GIS Hourly Rate Trend

GIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Castleford 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 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) VBA
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Spatial
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) MS Access
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Data Conversion
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
3 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (33.33%) EAM
3 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Castleford 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 Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (66.67%) MS Access
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Quality Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality Manager
1 1 (33.33%) GIS Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Implementation Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Data Conversion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) EAM
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft