City of London GIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Geographic Information System (GIS)
Location Avon Aylesbury Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Croydon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ilford Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Maidstone Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Prescot Preston Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Wareham Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	204	193
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	16	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.895 %	0.429 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£640	-
Average daily rate	£652	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£664	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£330
% change on same period last year	-9.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.20	-
Average hourly rate	£44.20	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£49.20	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.24	£18.91
% change on same period last year	+44.07 %
Database & Business Intelligence City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	1787	1400
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.356 %	1.485 %
Daily rates quoted	1007	648
Average minimum daily rate	£405	£428
Average daily rate	£439	£462
% change on same period last year	-4.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£472	£495
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.39	£22.13
Average hourly rate	£33.72	£24.16
% change on same period last year	+39.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.05	£26.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.86
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
GIS London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing GIS across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing GIS across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GIS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GIS across the City of London region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GIS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 17 (62.96 %) Oracle 2 12 (44.44 %) Solaris 2 12 (44.44 %) Sun 3 9 (33.33 %) Unix 3 9 (33.33 %) C# 3 9 (33.33 %) Java 3 9 (33.33 %) ESRI 4 8 (29.63 %) ArcGIS 4 8 (29.63 %) SC Cleared 4 8 (29.63 %) Security Cleared 4 8 (29.63 %) SQL 4 8 (29.63 %) SQL Server 4 8 (29.63 %) Microsoft 5 7 (25.93 %) ArcSDE 6 5 (18.52 %) Windows

6 5 (18.52 %) .NET 6 5 (18.52 %) ArcObjects 6 5 (18.52 %) Oracle Spatial 7 4 (14.81 %) ArcIMS 7 4 (14.81 %) Government 7 4 (14.81 %) MS Office 7 4 (14.81 %) Mapinfo 7 4 (14.81 %) SQL Server 2000 8 3 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 8 3 (11.11 %) Internet 8 3 (11.11 %) Data Modelling 8 3 (11.11 %) LAN 8 3 (11.11 %) Active Directory 8 3 (11.11 %) Linux 8 3 (11.11 %) Windows 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 5 (18.52 %) .NET 1 5 (18.52 %) ArcObjects 2 3 (11.11 %) .NET Framework 3 2 (7.407 %) HTML 3 2 (7.407 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (7.407 %) CSS 3 2 (7.407 %) WebServices 3 2 (7.407 %) XML 3 2 (7.407 %) WinForms 3 2 (7.407 %) AJAX 3 2 (7.407 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 1 (3.704 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 8 (29.63 %) ArcGIS 2 7 (25.93 %) ArcSDE 3 5 (18.52 %) Oracle Spatial 4 4 (14.81 %) ArcIMS 5 3 (11.11 %) MapXtreme 6 2 (7.407 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 4 (14.81 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.704 %) MS Visio 2 1 (3.704 %) SPSS 2 1 (3.704 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (3.704 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (3.704 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 3 (11.11 %) LAN 1 3 (11.11 %) Internet 1 3 (11.11 %) VLAN 2 2 (7.407 %) Firewall 2 2 (7.407 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (3.704 %) SAN 3 1 (3.704 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (29.63 %) SQL Server 2 4 (14.81 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (7.407 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 2 (7.407 %) Oracle 9i 4 2 (7.407 %) Datawarehouse 4 2 (7.407 %) DTS 4 2 (7.407 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (3.704 %) MS Access 5 1 (3.704 %) Oracle Reports 5 1 (3.704 %) Oracle OWB
Development Applications 1 2 (7.407 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (3.704 %) ERwin	General 1 4 (14.81 %) Government 2 2 (7.407 %) Local Government 2 2 (7.407 %) Finance 3 1 (3.704 %) Auditing 3 1 (3.704 %) Health 3 1 (3.704 %) Banking 3 1 (3.704 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (3.704 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 6 (22.22 %) Developer 2 5 (18.52 %) Analyst 2 5 (18.52 %) Consultant 3 4 (14.81 %) Architect 4 3 (11.11 %) Business Analyst 4 3 (11.11 %) Solutions Architect 4 3 (11.11 %) Technical Manager 4 3 (11.11 %) GIS Consultant 5 2 (7.407 %) GIS Developer 5 2 (7.407 %) Technical Consultant 5 2 (7.407 %) GIS Manager 5 2 (7.407 %) Technical Project Manager 5 2 (7.407 %) Project Manager 6 1 (3.704 %) Software Engineer 6 1 (3.704 %) Business Systems Analyst 6 1 (3.704 %) Systems Analyst 6 1 (3.704 %) Systems Engineer 6 1 (3.704 %) Data Architect 6 1 (3.704 %) Senior Developer 6 1 (3.704 %) Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (11.11 %) Thin Client 1 3 (11.11 %) Fat Client 2 2 (7.407 %) Management Information System 3 1 (3.704 %) PMI 3 1 (3.704 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 12 (44.44 %) Solaris 2 9 (33.33 %) Unix 3 5 (18.52 %) Windows 4 3 (11.11 %) Windows XP 4 3 (11.11 %) Linux 4 3 (11.11 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (7.407 %) Windows NT 5 2 (7.407 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (29.63 %) SC Cleared 1 8 (29.63 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (11.11 %) Data Migration 2 3 (11.11 %) Data Analysis 2 3 (11.11 %) UML 2 3 (11.11 %) Data Modelling 2 3 (11.11 %) Migration 3 2 (7.407 %) Business Continuity 3 2 (7.407 %) Disaster Recovery 3 2 (7.407 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (3.704 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (3.704 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (3.704 %) Software Testing 4 1 (3.704 %) Risk Management 4 1 (3.704 %) Practice Management 4 1 (3.704 %) SOA 4 1 (3.704 %) Project Management 4 1 (3.704 %) SSADM 4 1 (3.704 %) RUP
Programming Languages 1 9 (33.33 %) C# 1 9 (33.33 %) Java 2 8 (29.63 %) SQL 3 2 (7.407 %) Transact-SQL 3 2 (7.407 %) MapBasic 3 2 (7.407 %) JavaScript 3 2 (7.407 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (3.704 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 1 (3.704 %) MCP 1 1 (3.704 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (3.704 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (7.407 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 3 (11.11 %) Active Directory 1 3 (11.11 %) NetBackup 1 3 (11.11 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 2 (7.407 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 17 (62.96 %) Oracle 2 12 (44.44 %) Sun 3 9 (33.33 %) ESRI 4 8 (29.63 %) Microsoft 5 4 (14.81 %) Mapinfo 6 3 (11.11 %) VMware 7 1 (3.704 %) ProClarity 7 1 (3.704 %) CA 7 1 (3.704 %) Hyperion