Somerset GIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the Somerset region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Geographic Information System (GIS)
Location Avon Aylesbury Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley 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 Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ilford Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Maidstone Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Prescot Preston Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Wareham Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	29
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	11	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	13.41 %	12.82 %
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	£299	£330
% change on same period last year	-9.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.40	-
Average hourly rate	£27.30	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.20	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.24	£18.91
% change on same period last year	+44.07 %
Database & Business Intelligence Somerset
Matching contract IT job ads	82	78
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.108 %	0.083 %
Daily rates quoted	23	4
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£221
Average daily rate	£335	£252
% change on same period last year	+32.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£284
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.29	£29.67
Average hourly rate	£31.16	£31.40
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.03	£33.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.86
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
GIS South West

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 Somerset 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 Somerset 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 Somerset region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GIS across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing GIS within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bath	-1	9	-	-
Bridgwater	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 9 (64.29 %) SQL 1 9 (64.29 %) Oracle 2 7 (50.00 %) MS Access 3 6 (42.86 %) ESRI 3 6 (42.86 %) ArcGIS 3 6 (42.86 %) ArcIMS 4 5 (35.71 %) Shell Script 4 5 (35.71 %) SQLPlus 4 5 (35.71 %) Migration 4 5 (35.71 %) Oracle Spatial 4 5 (35.71 %) Data Migration 5 4 (28.57 %) Asset Management 5 4 (28.57 %) XML 5 4 (28.57 %) .NET 6 3 (21.43 %) Oracle 9i

6 3 (21.43 %) Business Objects 6 3 (21.43 %) ETL 6 3 (21.43 %) Oracle 10g 6 3 (21.43 %) BusinessObjects 6 3 (21.43 %) ArcSDE 6 3 (21.43 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (14.29 %) System Testing 7 2 (14.29 %) QA 7 2 (14.29 %) Data Management 7 2 (14.29 %) Data Analysis 7 2 (14.29 %) Government 7 2 (14.29 %) Informatica 7 2 (14.29 %) RDBMS 7 2 (14.29 %) WebServices 7 2 (14.29 %) HTML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 4 (28.57 %) .NET 1 4 (28.57 %) XML 2 2 (14.29 %) WebServices 2 2 (14.29 %) HTML 3 1 (7.143 %) ArcObjects	Application Platforms 1 6 (42.86 %) ArcGIS 1 6 (42.86 %) ArcIMS 2 5 (35.71 %) Oracle Spatial 3 3 (21.43 %) ArcSDE
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (50.00 %) MS Access 2 5 (35.71 %) SQLPlus 3 3 (21.43 %) Oracle 10g 3 3 (21.43 %) BusinessObjects 3 3 (21.43 %) ETL 3 3 (21.43 %) Oracle 9i 4 2 (14.29 %) RDBMS 5 1 (7.143 %) Data Mining 5 1 (7.143 %) PowerCenter 5 1 (7.143 %) Data Cleansing	General 1 2 (14.29 %) Government
Job Titles 1 7 (50.00 %) Developer 2 5 (35.71 %) GIS Developer 3 4 (28.57 %) Analyst 4 2 (14.29 %) Systems Analyst 4 2 (14.29 %) GIS Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Web Programmer 5 1 (7.143 %) Web Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Programmer 5 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (28.57 %) Asset Management
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (35.71 %) Migration 1 5 (35.71 %) Data Migration 2 2 (14.29 %) System Testing 2 2 (14.29 %) Data Management 2 2 (14.29 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (7.143 %) Systems Analysis 3 1 (7.143 %) Project Planning 3 1 (7.143 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 9 (64.29 %) SQL 2 5 (35.71 %) Shell Script 3 3 (21.43 %) PL/SQL 4 2 (14.29 %) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (14.29 %) QA	Vendors 1 9 (64.29 %) Oracle 2 6 (42.86 %) ESRI 3 3 (21.43 %) Business Objects 4 2 (14.29 %) Informatica