The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Devon 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing GIS 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon - - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £9.25 £9.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-2.63% -72.46%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
35 43 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 21.08% 23.50% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 27
Average daily rate £244 £330 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.13% +22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £304 £109
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £333
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 9
Average hourly rate £45.00 £24.63 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+82.74% -16.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.25 £26.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+6.60% -15.87%
GIS
South West

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon GIS Hourly Rate Trend

GIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 12 (100.00%) ESRI
1 12 (100.00%) jQuery
2 11 (91.67%) Dojo
2 11 (91.67%) J2EE
2 11 (91.67%) Java
3 10 (83.33%) .NET
3 10 (83.33%) C#
3 10 (83.33%) Ajax
4 9 (75.00%) HTML
4 9 (75.00%) XML
4 9 (75.00%) XSD
4 9 (75.00%) CSS
4 9 (75.00%) Servlets
5 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
6 7 (58.33%) Visual Studio
6 7 (58.33%) ArcGIS
6 7 (58.33%) Python
7 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (50.00%) Windows 7
7 6 (50.00%) REST
7 6 (50.00%) Publishing
7 6 (50.00%) ArcObjects
7 6 (50.00%) Apache Flex
7 6 (50.00%) Silverlight
7 6 (50.00%) ArcSDE
7 6 (50.00%) Data Management
7 6 (50.00%) Information Management
7 6 (50.00%) Red Hat

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 12 (100.00%) jQuery
2 11 (91.67%) Dojo
2 11 (91.67%) J2EE
3 10 (83.33%) .NET
3 10 (83.33%) Ajax
4 9 (75.00%) HTML
4 9 (75.00%) XML
4 9 (75.00%) XSD
4 9 (75.00%) CSS
4 9 (75.00%) Servlets
5 6 (50.00%) Web Services
5 6 (50.00%) ArcObjects
5 6 (50.00%) Apache Flex
5 6 (50.00%) Silverlight
5 6 (50.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) ArcGIS
2 6 (50.00%) ArcSDE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
1 11 (91.67%) GIS Developer
2 1 (8.333%) GIS Analyst
2 1 (8.333%) Analyst
2 1 (8.333%) Analyst Programmer
2 1 (8.333%) Programmer
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 6 (50.00%) Data Management
2 6 (50.00%) Information Management
3 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (91.67%) Java
3 10 (83.33%) C#
4 7 (58.33%) Python
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) ESRI
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat