Reading GIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the Reading 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Geographic Information System (GIS)
Location Avon Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Croydon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Hull Ilford Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidstone Merseyside Midlands Newbury Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Prescot Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley UK Wakefield Wales Wareham Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	69
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	11	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	5.914 %	2.235 %
Daily rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum daily rate	£214	£300
Average daily rate	£243	£350
% change on same period last year	-30.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£271	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£319
% change on same period last year	-9.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£8.75
Average hourly rate	-	£9.63
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£10.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.14	£21.15
% change on same period last year	+28.31 %
Database & Business Intelligence Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	186	179
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.248 %	0.181 %
Daily rates quoted	56	81
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£370
Average daily rate	£368	£395
% change on same period last year	-6.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£421
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.59	£31.71
Average hourly rate	£34.18	£33.64
% change on same period last year	+1.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.77	£35.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
GIS Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GIS across the Reading region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 Reading region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (29.41 %) SQL 1 5 (29.41 %) Oracle 2 4 (23.53 %) Microsoft 2 4 (23.53 %) MS Office 2 4 (23.53 %) MS Excel 2 4 (23.53 %) ESRI 3 3 (17.65 %) MS Access 4 2 (11.76 %) .NET 4 2 (11.76 %) Data Management 4 2 (11.76 %) Data Analysis 4 2 (11.76 %) ArcGIS 4 2 (11.76 %) Workflow 4 2 (11.76 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (5.882 %) Finance 5 1 (5.882 %) ArcInfo

5 1 (5.882 %) AJAX 5 1 (5.882 %) Google 5 1 (5.882 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (5.882 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (5.882 %) Use Case 5 1 (5.882 %) Google Maps API 5 1 (5.882 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (5.882 %) Banking 5 1 (5.882 %) Retail 5 1 (5.882 %) J2EE 5 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server 5 1 (5.882 %) HTML 5 1 (5.882 %) Java 5 1 (5.882 %) JavaScript 5 1 (5.882 %) PHP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (11.76 %) .NET 2 1 (5.882 %) J2EE 2 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (5.882 %) AJAX 2 1 (5.882 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (5.882 %) Google Maps API 2 1 (5.882 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (11.76 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 4 (23.53 %) MS Office 1 4 (23.53 %) MS Excel 2 1 (5.882 %) ArcInfo	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (17.65 %) MS Access 2 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server
General 1 1 (5.882 %) Finance 1 1 (5.882 %) Banking 1 1 (5.882 %) Retail 1 1 (5.882 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 6 (35.29 %) Analyst 2 5 (29.41 %) Trainer 2 5 (29.41 %) Data Analyst 3 2 (11.76 %) Tester 4 1 (5.882 %) Systems Tester 4 1 (5.882 %) Project Administrator 4 1 (5.882 %) Information Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Change Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Data Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Administrator
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (11.76 %) Workflow 1 2 (11.76 %) Data Management 1 2 (11.76 %) Data Analysis 1 2 (11.76 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (5.882 %) UML 2 1 (5.882 %) Use Case 2 1 (5.882 %) User Acceptance Testing	Programming Languages 1 5 (29.41 %) SQL 2 1 (5.882 %) Java 2 1 (5.882 %) JavaScript 2 1 (5.882 %) PHP
Vendors 1 5 (29.41 %) Oracle 2 4 (23.53 %) Microsoft 2 4 (23.53 %) ESRI 3 1 (5.882 %) Google 3 1 (5.882 %) Mapinfo