The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GIS 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Hampshire 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
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank 98 - 82
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing GIS 2 0 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.131% - 1.118%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.595% - 5.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
Average daily rate - - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £365 £345
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
Average hourly rate - - £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.31 £13.75 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+11.34% -60.14%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
336 332 417
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 22.06% 20.93% 22.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 151 188
Average daily rate £350 £350 £357
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £265 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 31
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.75 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.50% -25.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.18 £13.30 £31.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £44.40 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
GIS
South East

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire GIS Hourly Rate Trend

GIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 5 (83.33%) XML
1 5 (83.33%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 3 (50.00%) LAMP
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) JSON
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) FindBugs
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) Mockito
3 2 (33.33%) Hudson
3 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) AOP
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 2 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 2 (33.33%) NetBeans
3 2 (33.33%) CruiseControl
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Cognizant
3 2 (33.33%) Code Coverage

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 (83.33%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) LAMP
2 3 (50.00%) JSON
2 3 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) Swing
3 2 (33.33%) JDBC
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Ingres
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) FindBugs
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) Mockito
1 2 (33.33%) Hudson
1 2 (33.33%) NetBeans
1 2 (33.33%) CruiseControl
1 2 (33.33%) ClearCase
1 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 2 (33.33%) Ant
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GIS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Remote Sensing
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) AOP
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 2 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 2 (33.33%) Code Coverage
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) OOD
3 2 (33.33%) UML
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) XenApp
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cognizant
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) VMware