The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 21 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 West Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank 89 88 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing GIS 3 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.234% 0.436% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.935% 1.902% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £413 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.31 £16.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-4.31% -53.62%
All Database & Business Intelligence
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
321 368 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 25.00% 22.94% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 213 107
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £215 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £440 £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 6
Average hourly rate £23.75 £16.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.43% -25.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.40 £12.00 £20.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £32.50 £66.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
GIS
Yorkshire

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire GIS Daily Rate Trend

GIS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Castleford - 2 - -
Leeds -12 1 - -
GIS
Yorkshire

GIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (71.43%) EAM
3 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
3 4 (57.14%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (42.86%) ETL
4 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
5 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (28.57%) TOAD
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (28.57%) Java
5 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (28.57%) VBA
5 2 (28.57%) .NET
5 2 (28.57%) J2EE
5 2 (28.57%) MS Office
5 2 (28.57%) XML
5 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
5 2 (28.57%) MS Access
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) JSON
5 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 2 (28.57%) System Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (28.57%) Ajax

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) J2EE
1 2 (28.57%) XML
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Office
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
1 2 (28.57%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS R12
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) TOAD
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (28.57%) MS Access
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Consultant
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Management Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Technical Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) GIS Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Data Quality Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Quality Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) Data Conversion
3 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) EAM
2 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) System Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 1 (14.29%) Data Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Time Management
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Quality Management
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft