The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 24 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 South East 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank 178 182 199
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +17
Contract jobs citing GIS 46 57 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.590% 0.562% 0.521%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.117% 3.272% 2.514%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 37 21
Average daily rate £300 £330 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -4.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £284 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £434 £509
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £358 £345
% change year-on-year
+4.89% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 12
Average hourly rate £8.00 £15.75 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-49.20% -54.34%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.16 £13.75 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+10.21% -60.14%
All Database & Business Intelligence
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1476 1742 2148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 18.94% 17.17% 20.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 879 1025
Average daily rate £360 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 53 116
Average hourly rate £27.50 £26.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.76% -30.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.50 £18.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.25 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
GIS
England

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East GIS Daily Rate Trend

GIS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GIS across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East GIS Daily Rate Histogram

GIS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GIS across the South East region.

South East GIS Hourly Rate Trend

GIS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire +33 29 £425 +16.43%
Kent -6 8 £281 -6.50%
Surrey +17 3 £315 +24.75%
East Sussex +2 2 £300 -29.41%
Hampshire - 2 - -
Middlesex +5 1 £488 +30.00%
Buckinghamshire +4 1 - -
GIS
England

GIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 27 (36.00%) ArcGIS
2 19 (25.33%) ESRI
2 19 (25.33%) .NET
3 17 (22.67%) Oracle
3 17 (22.67%) Data Modelling
4 16 (21.33%) Microsoft
4 16 (21.33%) Management Information System
5 14 (18.67%) ETL
6 12 (16.00%) Python
7 11 (14.67%) C#
7 11 (14.67%) Migration
7 11 (14.67%) Oracle 11g
7 11 (14.67%) Time Management
7 11 (14.67%) Data Migration
8 10 (13.33%) TOGAF
8 10 (13.33%) MS Office
8 10 (13.33%) XML
8 10 (13.33%) UML
9 9 (12.00%) Java
9 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
9 9 (12.00%) SQL
9 9 (12.00%) SQL Server
9 9 (12.00%) Mapinfo
9 9 (12.00%) Technical Architecture
9 9 (12.00%) Security Cleared
9 9 (12.00%) Open Source
10 8 (10.67%) ArcIMS
10 8 (10.67%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (10.67%) Web Services
11 7 (9.333%) Visual Studio

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 19 (25.33%) .NET
2 10 (13.33%) XML
3 8 (10.67%) Web Services
4 6 (8.000%) ArcObjects
4 6 (8.000%) Dojo
4 6 (8.000%) WCF
4 6 (8.000%) jQuery
5 5 (6.667%) REST
6 4 (5.333%) Silverlight
7 3 (4.000%) LAMP
7 3 (4.000%) HTML
7 3 (4.000%) J2EE
7 3 (4.000%) CORBA
7 3 (4.000%) SOAP
7 3 (4.000%) JDBC
7 3 (4.000%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.000%) JSON
8 2 (2.667%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.667%) Spring
8 2 (2.667%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 27 (36.00%) ArcGIS
2 8 (10.67%) ArcIMS
3 6 (8.000%) IIS
4 5 (6.667%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (1.333%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.333%) Apache
5 1 (1.333%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) MS Office
2 4 (5.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.000%) SNMP
1 3 (4.000%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.333%) RTCP
2 1 (1.333%) RTP
2 1 (1.333%) RFID
2 1 (1.333%) GSM
2 1 (1.333%) SMS
2 1 (1.333%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.333%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.333%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.67%) Oracle 11g
2 9 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (10.67%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (9.333%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (8.000%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (5.333%) Oracle 10g
7 3 (4.000%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.667%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (2.667%) SQL Server 2012
8 2 (2.667%) Ingres
8 2 (2.667%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.667%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.333%) MS Access
9 1 (1.333%) Oracle Discoverer
9 1 (1.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.333%) Visual Studio
2 3 (4.000%) Telelogic TAU
2 3 (4.000%) Rational Rose
2 3 (4.000%) Selenium
3 2 (2.667%) FindBugs
3 2 (2.667%) Mockito
3 2 (2.667%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.667%) Hudson
3 2 (2.667%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.667%) ClearCase
3 2 (2.667%) Ant
3 2 (2.667%) JUnit
3 2 (2.667%) NetBeans
3 2 (2.667%) CruiseControl
4 1 (1.333%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (8.000%) Finance
2 5 (6.667%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.667%) Local Government
4 1 (1.333%) Electronics
4 1 (1.333%) Publishing
4 1 (1.333%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (25.33%) Architect
2 18 (24.00%) Analyst
3 17 (22.67%) Developer
4 10 (13.33%) Business Analyst
5 8 (10.67%) GIS Analyst
5 8 (10.67%) DBA
5 8 (10.67%) GIS Developer
6 6 (8.000%) Enterprise Architect
6 6 (8.000%) .NET Developer
7 5 (6.667%) Information Architect
7 5 (6.667%) Administrator
7 5 (6.667%) Technical Architect
7 5 (6.667%) Data Architect
7 5 (6.667%) Database Developer
8 4 (5.333%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.333%) Data Migration Analyst
8 4 (5.333%) Project Manager
9 3 (4.000%) Technical Project Manager
9 3 (4.000%) Technical Manager
9 3 (4.000%) Silverlight Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Management Information System
2 9 (12.00%) Open Source
3 4 (5.333%) Photography
3 4 (5.333%) Computer Science
3 4 (5.333%) Statistics
4 3 (4.000%) Replication
4 3 (4.000%) Mathematics
4 3 (4.000%) Physics
5 1 (1.333%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.333%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.333%) Remote Sensing
5 1 (1.333%) Chemistry
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.333%) Windows
2 3 (4.000%) Linux
3 2 (2.667%) UNIX
4 1 (1.333%) Windows CE
4 1 (1.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.333%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.67%) Data Modelling
2 14 (18.67%) ETL
3 11 (14.67%) Migration
3 11 (14.67%) Time Management
3 11 (14.67%) Data Migration
4 10 (13.33%) TOGAF
4 10 (13.33%) UML
5 9 (12.00%) Technical Architecture
6 7 (9.333%) Business Analysis
7 6 (8.000%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (8.000%) Data Management
7 6 (8.000%) Test Automation
7 6 (8.000%) Information Architecture
7 6 (8.000%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (8.000%) Scrum
7 6 (8.000%) Service Delivery
8 5 (6.667%) MVC
8 5 (6.667%) OO
8 5 (6.667%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (6.667%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.00%) Python
2 11 (14.67%) C#
3 9 (12.00%) Java
3 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (12.00%) SQL
4 4 (5.333%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.667%) C++
6 1 (1.333%) PHP
6 1 (1.333%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.333%) Degree
3 5 (6.667%) ISEB
4 4 (5.333%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.667%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.333%) JTAG
System Software
1 1 (1.333%) XenApp
1 1 (1.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 19 (25.33%) ESRI
2 17 (22.67%) Oracle
3 16 (21.33%) Microsoft
4 9 (12.00%) Mapinfo
5 4 (5.333%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 3 (4.000%) Telelogic
7 2 (2.667%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.333%) NEC
8 1 (1.333%) VMware
8 1 (1.333%) Ericsson
8 1 (1.333%) i2
8 1 (1.333%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.333%) Citrix
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