The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 17 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 East of England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank 104 127 123
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -4
Contract jobs citing GIS 11 2 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.511% 0.068% 0.342%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.670% 0.306% 1.627%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £215 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+86.04% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £365 £350
% change year-on-year
+6.16% +4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.31 £15.75 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-2.79% -54.34%
All Database & Business Intelligence
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
412 654 553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 19.13% 22.19% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 354 254
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 31 45
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £21.50 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £36.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
GIS
England

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England GIS Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing GIS across the East of England region.

East of England GIS Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GIS across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England GIS Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GIS across the East of England region.

East of England GIS Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire - 6 £425 -
Essex -2 2 £400 +86.04%
Bedfordshire - 2 £400 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
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England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 10 (35.71%) SharePoint
2 10 (35.71%) Oracle
2 10 (35.71%) Web Services
2 10 (35.71%) Windows
3 8 (28.57%) .NET
3 8 (28.57%) C#
3 8 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 7 (25.00%) Internet
4 7 (25.00%) CRM
4 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 7 (25.00%) XML
4 7 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 7 (25.00%) JSP
4 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 6 (21.43%) SaaS
5 6 (21.43%) CSS
5 6 (21.43%) Apache
5 6 (21.43%) EDI
5 6 (21.43%) Intranet
5 6 (21.43%) Migration
6 5 (17.86%) IVR
6 5 (17.86%) Workflow
6 5 (17.86%) Unit Testing
6 5 (17.86%) CTI
6 5 (17.86%) UML
6 5 (17.86%) SAP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 10 (35.71%) Web Services
2 8 (28.57%) .NET
3 7 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 7 (25.00%) JSP
3 7 (25.00%) XML
4 6 (21.43%) EDI
4 6 (21.43%) CSS
5 4 (14.29%) J2EE
5 4 (14.29%) DHTML
5 4 (14.29%) XML Schema
5 4 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 4 (14.29%) Spring
5 4 (14.29%) JSF
5 4 (14.29%) Struts
5 4 (14.29%) Struts2
6 3 (10.71%) SAP PI
6 3 (10.71%) HTML
7 1 (3.571%) SOAP
7 1 (3.571%) BAPI
7 1 (3.571%) Web Dynpro
Application Platforms
1 10 (35.71%) SharePoint
2 6 (21.43%) Apache
3 4 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (14.29%) Liferay
4 3 (10.71%) ArcGIS
5 1 (3.571%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (3.571%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (3.571%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (3.571%) Gentran
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) MS Office
1 2 (7.143%) MS Excel
1 2 (7.143%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.571%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) MFGPRO
2 1 (3.571%) SAP MRS
2 1 (3.571%) SAP cProjects
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) Internet
2 6 (21.43%) Intranet
3 5 (17.86%) CTI
4 3 (10.71%) Firewall
5 2 (7.143%) Ethernet
6 1 (3.571%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (14.29%) JasperReports
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (7.143%) MS Access
4 1 (3.571%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.571%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.571%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Maven
2 2 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
2 2 (7.143%) Finance
3 1 (3.571%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.571%) Publishing
3 1 (3.571%) Billing
3 1 (3.571%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) Senior Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Business Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Business Systems Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) SharePoint Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Transmission Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Transmission Planning Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Design Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Business Process Analyst
6 2 (7.143%) Architect
6 2 (7.143%) .NET Developer
6 2 (7.143%) Process Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) SaaS
2 5 (17.86%) IVR
3 4 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (3.571%) iPad
4 1 (3.571%) Visualisation
4 1 (3.571%) N-Tier
4 1 (3.571%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (10.71%) Windows 7
2 3 (10.71%) UNIX
3 2 (7.143%) Linux
4 1 (3.571%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (25.00%) CRM
3 6 (21.43%) Migration
3 6 (21.43%) Data Migration
4 5 (17.86%) Workflow
4 5 (17.86%) Unit Testing
4 5 (17.86%) UML
5 4 (14.29%) RUP
5 4 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (10.71%) Business Transformation
6 3 (10.71%) TDD
6 3 (10.71%) Time Management
6 3 (10.71%) Six Sigma
6 3 (10.71%) Service Management
6 3 (10.71%) ITSM
6 3 (10.71%) ITIL
6 3 (10.71%) E-Commerce
7 2 (7.143%) ETL
7 2 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) C#
2 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (3.571%) Perl
4 1 (3.571%) PHP
4 1 (3.571%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.571%) VB
4 1 (3.571%) ABAP
4 1 (3.571%) VBA
4 1 (3.571%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.571%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 3 (10.71%) JSP 440
2 1 (3.571%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Oracle
2 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.86%) SAP
4 3 (10.71%) ESRI
4 3 (10.71%) QAD
5 2 (7.143%) Google
5 2 (7.143%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 2 (7.143%) NEC
5 2 (7.143%) Ericsson
5 2 (7.143%) Mapinfo