The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank 114 99 89
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -10
Permanent jobs citing GIS 4 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.235% 0.067% 0.149%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.803% 0.216% 0.521%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
Average salary £39,500 £39,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.28% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,500 £40,000 £37,750
% change year-on-year
-11.25% +5.96%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
498 462 384
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 29.29% 31.17% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 431 410 344
Average salary £43,500 £35,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.53% -4.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
GIS
West Midlands

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham GIS Jobs Demand Trend

GIS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing GIS across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham GIS Salary Trend

GIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited GIS.

1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) EAM
2 2 (33.33%) Agresso
2 2 (33.33%) Mapinfo
2 2 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) CRM
2 2 (33.33%) VB
2 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) VB6
2 2 (33.33%) Subversion
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) WinForms
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
2 2 (33.33%) WFM
2 2 (33.33%) WPF
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited GIS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) WinForms
2 2 (33.33%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Agresso
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) GSM
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
1 1 (16.67%) 2G
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
1 1 (16.67%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
1 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Management Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Radio Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Web Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) GSM Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3G Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) LLPG
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) EAM
1 2 (33.33%) CRM
1 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 2 (33.33%) Web Development
1 2 (33.33%) WFM
1 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 2 (33.33%) Bug Management
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) VB
2 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) VB6
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Mapinfo
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) ESRI
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Experience with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate... - JavaScript (JQuery, DOJO or any standard frameworks)... - Linux/Redhat Technologies. - Web Servers, IIS, Apache, configuration and implementation. - Virtualisation (VMWare/ESXI)...
Candidate Source
Salary: £28,000 - £35,000 per annum DOE
Posted: 13 May 2013