The first table below looks at the demand for the GIS Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GIS Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
GIS Developer
Rank 520 549 567
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +18
Contract jobs requiring a GIS Developer 10 29 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.022% 0.050% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.054% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 8
Average daily rate £292 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.75% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £345 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £286 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.66% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

GIS Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing GIS Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

GIS Developer Jobs Demand Trend

GIS Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing GIS Developer within the UK.

GIS Developer Daily Rate Trend

GIS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GIS Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

GIS Developer Daily Rate Histogram

GIS Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GIS Developer within the UK.

GIS Developer Hourly Rate Trend

GIS Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +30 10 £292 -2.75%
South East +11 5 £286 -3.05%
South West +26 4 - -
Kent -11 4 £281 -6.50%
Exeter - 4 - -
Devon - 4 - -
Maidstone -4 3 £275 -5.17%
London +18 1 £525 +40.00%
Berkshire +16 1 £300 -
City of London +11 1 £525 -
Reading +11 1 £300 -

GIS Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited GIS Developer in their job title 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 with GIS Developer in their job title.

1 34 (100.00%) GIS
2 27 (79.41%) .NET
3 26 (76.47%) JavaScript
3 26 (76.47%) ESRI
4 25 (73.53%) C#
5 22 (64.71%) jQuery
6 20 (58.82%) ArcGIS
6 20 (58.82%) Python
7 18 (52.94%) Dojo
8 16 (47.06%) Ajax
8 16 (47.06%) Java
8 16 (47.06%) Visual Studio
9 15 (44.12%) J2EE
10 14 (41.18%) XML
11 13 (38.24%) XSD
11 13 (38.24%) CSS
11 13 (38.24%) Servlets
11 13 (38.24%) HTML
11 13 (38.24%) ArcObjects
12 12 (35.29%) Web Services
13 11 (32.35%) ArcSDE
14 10 (29.41%) Data Modelling
14 10 (29.41%) Oracle
14 10 (29.41%) SQL Server
15 9 (26.47%) REST
16 8 (23.53%) Silverlight
16 8 (23.53%) Windows
17 7 (20.59%) Linux
17 7 (20.59%) Red Hat
17 7 (20.59%) Data Management

GIS Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited GIS Developer in their job title 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 with GIS Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (79.41%) .NET
2 22 (64.71%) jQuery
3 18 (52.94%) Dojo
4 16 (47.06%) Ajax
5 15 (44.12%) J2EE
6 14 (41.18%) XML
7 13 (38.24%) XSD
7 13 (38.24%) CSS
7 13 (38.24%) Servlets
7 13 (38.24%) HTML
7 13 (38.24%) ArcObjects
8 12 (35.29%) Web Services
9 9 (26.47%) REST
10 8 (23.53%) Silverlight
11 7 (20.59%) Apache Flex
12 5 (14.71%) WCF
13 3 (8.824%) ASP.NET
14 2 (5.882%) ASP
15 1 (2.941%) LAMP
15 1 (2.941%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 20 (58.82%) ArcGIS
2 11 (32.35%) ArcSDE
3 7 (20.59%) ArcIMS
4 6 (17.65%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (5.882%) ArcInfo
2 1 (2.941%) MS Office
2 1 (2.941%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (100.00%) GIS
2 10 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.76%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (11.76%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (8.824%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (8.824%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (47.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (20.59%) Publishing
2 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.941%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.941%) Replication
1 1 (2.941%) Computer Science
1 1 (2.941%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Windows
2 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 7 (20.59%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (20.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (20.59%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.941%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Data Modelling
2 7 (20.59%) Data Management
3 6 (17.65%) Information Management
4 3 (8.824%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (8.824%) System Testing
4 3 (8.824%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (2.941%) Asset Management
5 1 (2.941%) MVC
5 1 (2.941%) Scrum
5 1 (2.941%) Test Automation
5 1 (2.941%) Web Development
5 1 (2.941%) OO
Programming Languages
1 26 (76.47%) JavaScript
2 25 (73.53%) C#
3 20 (58.82%) Python
4 16 (47.06%) Java
5 5 (14.71%) SQL
6 1 (2.941%) VB
6 1 (2.941%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.941%) C++
6 1 (2.941%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (5.882%) Degree
2 1 (2.941%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 26 (76.47%) ESRI
2 10 (29.41%) Oracle
3 7 (20.59%) Red Hat
4 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.941%) Mapinfo
5 1 (2.941%) Intergraph