Home Counties GIS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Geographic Information System (GIS)
Location Aylesbury Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Fife Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	5.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£304
% change on same period last year	+17.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.41	£22.21
% change on same period last year	+18.95 %
Database & Business Intelligence Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	20	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.035 %
Daily rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum daily rate	£457	£450
Average daily rate	£464	£500
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£471	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£346
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.31	£31.85
% change on same period last year	-14.24 %
GIS South East

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 Home Counties 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 Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

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Top 1 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 1 (100.00 %) LLPG

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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.

Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) LLPG