Wakefield GIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the Wakefield 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	5	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	10	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	52.63 %	0.000 %
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	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.24	£18.91
% change on same period last year	+44.07 %
Database & Business Intelligence Wakefield
Matching contract IT job ads	19	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.002 %
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	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.92	-
Average hourly rate	£16.09	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.26	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.86
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
GIS West Yorkshire

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 Wakefield 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 Wakefield 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 Wakefield region.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield 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 10 (100.00 %) SQL 1 10 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 10 (100.00 %) Crystal Reports 1 10 (100.00 %) Oracle Reports

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield 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.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (100.00 %) Crystal Reports 1 10 (100.00 %) Oracle Reports	Job Titles 1 10 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 10 (100.00 %) MI Analyst 2 8 (80.00 %) Information Analyst 3 2 (20.00 %) Data Analyst
Programming Languages 1 10 (100.00 %) SQL	Vendors 1 10 (100.00 %) Oracle