The first table below looks at the demand for ArcGIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ArcGIS over the 3 months to 23 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 Application Platforms category for the 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ESRI ArcGIS
Rank 482 494 545
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +51
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 36 68 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.087% 0.127% 0.049%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.475% 0.775% 0.291%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 38 7
Average daily rate £300 £348 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.66% -6.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £286 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £500 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £313 £348
% change year-on-year
+16.00% -10.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
Average hourly rate £15.75 £16.00 £13.15
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.56% +21.67%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.13 £15.00 -
% change year-on-year
-19.16% -
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7582 8779 9623
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 18.26% 16.44% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4342 4956 5207
Average daily rate £363 £350 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £521 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 405 536
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
ArcGIS
UK

ArcGIS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ArcGIS across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

England ArcGIS Jobs Demand Trend

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Trend

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

England ArcGIS Daily Rate Trend

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ArcGIS across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England ArcGIS Daily Rate Histogram

ArcGIS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England ArcGIS Hourly Rate Trend

ArcGIS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ArcGIS within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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
South East +10 21 £298 -0.83%
South West +32 6 £600 -
North West +12 4 - -
East Midlands - 3 - -
London +17 1 - -
West Midlands -1 1 £525 +31.25%
Yorkshire -4 1 - -
ArcGIS
UK

ArcGIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ArcGIS 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 ArcGIS.

1 73 (81.11%) GIS
2 63 (70.00%) ESRI
3 43 (47.78%) .NET
4 38 (42.22%) C#
5 37 (41.11%) Python
6 30 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 28 (31.11%) Visual Studio
8 24 (26.67%) Windows
9 23 (25.56%) Web Services
9 23 (25.56%) ArcObjects
10 22 (24.44%) Oracle
10 22 (24.44%) SQL Server
11 20 (22.22%) IIS
11 20 (22.22%) WCF
11 20 (22.22%) Silverlight
12 17 (18.89%) jQuery
12 17 (18.89%) SQL
12 17 (18.89%) Data Modelling
13 16 (17.78%) Windows 7
14 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
14 15 (16.67%) Microsoft
14 15 (16.67%) Java
15 14 (15.56%) Ajax
15 14 (15.56%) Data Management
16 13 (14.44%) RIA
16 13 (14.44%) SQL Server 2008
17 12 (13.33%) Dojo
18 11 (12.22%) Degree
18 11 (12.22%) Oracle 11g
18 11 (12.22%) ArcIMS

ArcGIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ArcGIS 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 ArcGIS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 43 (47.78%) .NET
2 23 (25.56%) Web Services
2 23 (25.56%) ArcObjects
3 20 (22.22%) WCF
3 20 (22.22%) Silverlight
4 17 (18.89%) jQuery
5 14 (15.56%) Ajax
6 12 (13.33%) Dojo
7 10 (11.11%) HTML
7 10 (11.11%) XML
8 9 (10.00%) XSD
8 9 (10.00%) CSS
8 9 (10.00%) REST
9 8 (8.889%) Managed Extensibility Framework
9 8 (8.889%) HTML5
9 8 (8.889%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 8 (8.889%) Servlets
9 8 (8.889%) J2EE
9 8 (8.889%) Apache Flex
10 5 (5.556%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 20 (22.22%) IIS
2 11 (12.22%) ArcIMS
3 10 (11.11%) ArcSDE
4 5 (5.556%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 7 (7.778%) MS Office
1 7 (7.778%) MS Excel
2 6 (6.667%) AutoCAD
3 2 (2.222%) ArcInfo
4 1 (1.111%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.111%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (81.11%) GIS
2 22 (24.44%) SQL Server
3 13 (14.44%) SQL Server 2008
4 11 (12.22%) Oracle 11g
5 7 (7.778%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
7 5 (5.556%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (4.444%) Oracle 10g
9 2 (2.222%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.222%) MS Access
10 1 (1.111%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.111%) TOAD
10 1 (1.111%) OpenWorks
Development Applications
1 28 (31.11%) Visual Studio
2 8 (8.889%) Moq
2 8 (8.889%) MSTest
3 6 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.111%) QADirector
4 1 (1.111%) LoadRunner
General
1 8 (8.889%) Publishing
2 2 (2.222%) Electronics
2 2 (2.222%) Finance
2 2 (2.222%) Military
2 2 (2.222%) Local Government
3 1 (1.111%) Advertising
3 1 (1.111%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (34.44%) Developer
2 20 (22.22%) GIS Developer
3 13 (14.44%) Analyst
4 11 (12.22%) Architect
5 10 (11.11%) Programmer
5 10 (11.11%) GIS Analyst
5 10 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 9 (10.00%) DBA
7 8 (8.889%) Software Developer
7 8 (8.889%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.889%) Software Programmer
8 7 (7.778%) C# Developer
8 7 (7.778%) Administrator
8 7 (7.778%) C# Programmer
9 6 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.556%) .NET Programmer
10 5 (5.556%) Database Developer
10 5 (5.556%) C# .NET Developer
11 4 (4.444%) Trainer
11 4 (4.444%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) RIA
2 8 (8.889%) Client/Server
3 5 (5.556%) Open Source
4 4 (4.444%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.444%) Statistics
5 3 (3.333%) Data Conversion
6 2 (2.222%) Replication
6 2 (2.222%) Chemistry
7 1 (1.111%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.111%) LLPG
7 1 (1.111%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.67%) Windows
2 16 (17.78%) Windows 7
3 8 (8.889%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (7.778%) Linux
4 7 (7.778%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.556%) HPUX
6 2 (2.222%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (1.111%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.89%) Data Modelling
2 14 (15.56%) Data Management
3 9 (10.00%) ETL
4 8 (8.889%) Unit Testing
4 8 (8.889%) UML
5 7 (7.778%) CAD
6 6 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (6.667%) Information Management
7 5 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (4.444%) Data Migration
8 4 (4.444%) System Testing
8 4 (4.444%) Migration
9 3 (3.333%) Asset Management
9 3 (3.333%) Time Management
9 3 (3.333%) Data Cleansing
9 3 (3.333%) Data Architecture
10 2 (2.222%) Data Analysis
10 2 (2.222%) Validation
10 2 (2.222%) Technical Architecture
11 1 (1.111%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (42.22%) C#
2 37 (41.11%) Python
3 30 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 17 (18.89%) SQL
5 15 (16.67%) Java
6 8 (8.889%) VB.NET
7 4 (4.444%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.111%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.111%) C++
8 1 (1.111%) VB
8 1 (1.111%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) Degree
2 11 (12.22%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.556%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.111%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.111%) QA
1 1 (1.111%) JSP 440
Vendors
1 63 (70.00%) ESRI
2 22 (24.44%) Oracle
3 15 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.889%) Mapinfo
5 7 (7.778%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.222%) i2
7 1 (1.111%) Google
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Our requirement is, candidates with GIS knowledge and digitizing experience in ArcGIS / eSpatial technology... Experience in using ArcGIS / eSpatial System Ability to multi-task using Microsoft office - excel,...
Advantage Resourcing
Salary: £8 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013