East Midlands GIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the East Midlands 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	74	77
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	17	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	4.019 %	3.270 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£250
Average daily rate	£365	£250
% change on same period last year	+46.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£330
% change on same period last year	-9.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£12.17
% change on same period last year	+84.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.50	£14.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.24	£18.91
% change on same period last year	+44.07 %
Database & Business Intelligence East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	423	367
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.558 %	0.389 %
Daily rates quoted	80	48
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£301
Average daily rate	£360	£314
% change on same period last year	+14.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	45
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.59	£25.35
Average hourly rate	£31.03	£26.97
% change on same period last year	+15.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.47	£28.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.86
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
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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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

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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 East Midlands region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing GIS within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottinghamshire	-7	5	£365	+46.00 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 15 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 12 (40.00 %) SQL Server 3 11 (36.67 %) .NET 3 11 (36.67 %) Government 4 10 (33.33 %) C# 5 8 (26.67 %) ArcIMS 5 8 (26.67 %) Local Government 6 7 (23.33 %) BPR 6 7 (23.33 %) ArcGIS 7 6 (20.00 %) Visual Studio 7 6 (20.00 %) ASP 8 5 (16.67 %) JDBC 8 5 (16.67 %) Java 8 5 (16.67 %) JavaScript 8 5 (16.67 %) Oracle 10g

8 5 (16.67 %) Java RMI 8 5 (16.67 %) Microsoft 8 5 (16.67 %) UML 8 5 (16.67 %) Swing 8 5 (16.67 %) J2SE 8 5 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development 8 5 (16.67 %) ArcSDE 9 4 (13.33 %) EDRMS 9 4 (13.33 %) ASP.NET 10 3 (10.00 %) PRINCE2 10 3 (10.00 %) Ant 10 3 (10.00 %) MS Excel 10 3 (10.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 3 (10.00 %) Subversion 10 3 (10.00 %) BS7666

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 11 (36.67 %) .NET 2 6 (20.00 %) ASP 3 5 (16.67 %) JDBC 3 5 (16.67 %) Swing 3 5 (16.67 %) J2SE 3 5 (16.67 %) Java RMI 4 4 (13.33 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (6.667 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 8 (26.67 %) ArcIMS 2 7 (23.33 %) ArcGIS 3 5 (16.67 %) ArcSDE
Applications 1 3 (10.00 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.333 %) Acrobat 2 1 (3.333 %) GeoMedia 2 1 (3.333 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (3.333 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (40.00 %) SQL Server 2 5 (16.67 %) Oracle 10g 3 4 (13.33 %) EDRMS
Development Applications 1 6 (20.00 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (10.00 %) Subversion 2 3 (10.00 %) Ant	General 1 11 (36.67 %) Government 2 8 (26.67 %) Local Government 3 2 (6.667 %) 3D Graphics
Job Titles 1 15 (50.00 %) Developer 2 9 (30.00 %) Analyst 3 6 (20.00 %) GIS Developer 4 5 (16.67 %) Java Developer 4 5 (16.67 %) Systems Analyst 5 4 (13.33 %) Business Analyst 6 2 (6.667 %) Applications Developer 6 2 (6.667 %) Java Swing Developer 7 1 (3.333 %) Analyst Programmer 7 1 (3.333 %) Programmer 7 1 (3.333 %) .NET Developer 7 1 (3.333 %) Developer Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) GIS Consultant 7 1 (3.333 %) Project Officer 7 1 (3.333 %) GIS Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Java Software Developer 7 1 (3.333 %) GIS Manager 7 1 (3.333 %) Software Engineer 7 1 (3.333 %) Software Developer 7 1 (3.333 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (10.00 %) Mathematics 2 2 (6.667 %) Multithreading 3 1 (3.333 %) Management Information System 3 1 (3.333 %) LLPG
Operating Systems 1 2 (6.667 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (23.33 %) BPR 2 5 (16.67 %) UML 2 5 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (10.00 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (6.667 %) ITIL 4 2 (6.667 %) Project Management 4 2 (6.667 %) Security Management 4 2 (6.667 %) Information Management 4 2 (6.667 %) OO 5 1 (3.333 %) CRM 5 1 (3.333 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (3.333 %) Logistics 5 1 (3.333 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (3.333 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (3.333 %) Business Continuity 5 1 (3.333 %) Information Security 5 1 (3.333 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 10 (33.33 %) C# 2 5 (16.67 %) Java 2 5 (16.67 %) JavaScript 3 1 (3.333 %) SQL 3 1 (3.333 %) VB.NET 3 1 (3.333 %) VC++ 3 1 (3.333 %) C++	Qualifications 1 3 (10.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (10.00 %) BS7666 2 2 (6.667 %) QA	Vendors 1 15 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 5 (16.67 %) Microsoft 3 1 (3.333 %) Adobe 3 1 (3.333 %) ESRI 3 1 (3.333 %) Intergraph 3 1 (3.333 %) Northgate