The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 75 61 -
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -
Contract jobs citing GIS 1 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.134% 0.787% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.495% 3.349% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £413 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £365 £350
% change year-on-year
+6.16% +4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.31 £15.75 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-2.79% -54.34%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
202 209 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 27.11% 23.48% 24.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 138 69
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £409 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
Average hourly rate £13.25 £13.25 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -68.82%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
GIS
West Yorkshire

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds GIS Hourly Rate Trend

GIS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) EAM
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Spatial
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) System Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) TOAD
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) Ajax
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) TOAD
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Consultant
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Technical Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Management Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) EAM
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) System Testing
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle