The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 24 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 Chester 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing GIS 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 0.719% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.333% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £358 £345
% change year-on-year
+4.89% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.16 £13.75 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+10.21% -60.14%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
30 20 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 21.58% 17.09% 25.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 14
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £293 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £378 £407
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £46.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
GIS
Cheshire

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester GIS Hourly Rate Trend

GIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 (66.67%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) EnCE
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Security
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Conversion
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) ESRI
2 1 (33.33%) ArcGIS
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) E-business
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Finance

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) ArcGIS
1 1 (33.33%) ArcSDE
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (66.67%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Data Conversion
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) LLPG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Security
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) E-business
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
1 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) EnCE
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ESRI
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