West Yorkshire GIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the West Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Geographic Information System (GIS)
Location Avon Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire 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 Huddersfield Hull Ilford Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidstone Merseyside Midlands Newbury Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Prescot Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Swansea Thames Valley UK Wakefield Wales Wareham Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	89
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	11	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	2.466 %	1.244 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£343
Average daily rate	£290	£343
% change on same period last year	-15.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£319
% change on same period last year	-4.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£37.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.09	£20.94
% change on same period last year	+29.33 %
Database & Business Intelligence West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	446	402
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.594 %	0.408 %
Daily rates quoted	93	34
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£341
Average daily rate	£310	£362
% change on same period last year	-14.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.51	£24.35
Average hourly rate	£28.95	£25.29
% change on same period last year	+14.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.39	£26.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.81	£31.09
% change on same period last year	+5.51 %
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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 West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 24 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
Bradford	-	5	£290	-
Leeds	-4	5	-	-
Huddersfield	-	4	-	-
Wakefield	-	4	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, 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 14 (63.64 %) Oracle 2 13 (59.09 %) Crystal Reports 3 12 (54.55 %) SQL 3 12 (54.55 %) Oracle Reports 4 7 (31.82 %) ESRI 5 5 (22.73 %) SQL Server 6 4 (18.18 %) Government 7 3 (13.64 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 3 (13.64 %) ArcGIS 8 2 (9.091 %) ArcIMS 8 2 (9.091 %) Autodesk 8 2 (9.091 %) ArcSDE 8 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 2 (9.091 %) Adobe 8 2 (9.091 %) ColdFusion

8 2 (9.091 %) MS Office 8 2 (9.091 %) Construction 8 2 (9.091 %) Capita 8 2 (9.091 %) Oracle Spatial 8 2 (9.091 %) Degree 9 1 (4.545 %) LINQ 9 1 (4.545 %) ArcView 9 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2005 9 1 (4.545 %) Oracle Workflow 9 1 (4.545 %) Visual Studio 9 1 (4.545 %) ASP.NET 9 1 (4.545 %) UNIX 9 1 (4.545 %) Oracle Forms 9 1 (4.545 %) .NET 9 1 (4.545 %) C#

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, 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 1 (4.545 %) .NET 1 1 (4.545 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (4.545 %) LINQ	Application Platforms 1 3 (13.64 %) ArcGIS 2 2 (9.091 %) ArcIMS 2 2 (9.091 %) ArcSDE 2 2 (9.091 %) Oracle Spatial 2 2 (9.091 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (4.545 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 2 (9.091 %) MS Office 2 1 (4.545 %) ArcView	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.545 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (59.09 %) Crystal Reports 2 12 (54.55 %) Oracle Reports 3 5 (22.73 %) SQL Server 4 3 (13.64 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (4.545 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (4.545 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (4.545 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 4 (18.18 %) Government 2 2 (9.091 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 11 (50.00 %) Analyst 1 11 (50.00 %) MI Analyst 2 9 (40.91 %) Information Analyst 3 6 (27.27 %) Developer 4 5 (22.73 %) GIS Developer 5 2 (9.091 %) Applications Developer 5 2 (9.091 %) Data Analyst 6 1 (4.545 %) Oracle Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) .NET Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) C# Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.545 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (4.545 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 12 (54.55 %) SQL 2 1 (4.545 %) Shell Script 2 1 (4.545 %) C# 2 1 (4.545 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (9.091 %) Degree
Vendors 1 14 (63.64 %) Oracle 2 7 (31.82 %) ESRI 3 2 (9.091 %) Capita 3 2 (9.091 %) Adobe 3 2 (9.091 %) Autodesk