Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Cambridge region.

 Geographic Information System (GIS)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank968297
Rank change year-on-year
Down-14Up+15
Matching permanent IT job ads61538
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge0.348 %0.993 %1.315 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category1.786 %3.896 %6.960 %
Salaries quoted21534
Average salary£43,750£25,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+75.00 %-28.57 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,750£25,000£27,950
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£54,750£29,400£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£36,000£33,000
% change year-on-year
+4.160 %+9.090 %
Cambridge IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
336385546
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge19.49 %25.48 %18.89 %
Salaries quoted325352480
Average salary£35,000£35,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
--6.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£45,000£47,250
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing GIS across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Cambridge GIS Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

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

Cambridge GIS Salary Trend

GIS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GIS across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Cambridge GIS Salary Histogram

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

116 (59.26 %)Smallworld
215 (55.56 %)Agile Software Development
311 (40.74 %)Telecoms
410 (37.04 %)Java
58 (29.63 %)Windows
67 (25.93 %)Degree
76 (22.22 %)Network Design
76 (22.22 %)Windows Mobile
76 (22.22 %)Usability Testing
76 (22.22 %)Construction
76 (22.22 %)Electric
76 (22.22 %)Objective-C
76 (22.22 %)J2ME
76 (22.22 %)Symbian
76 (22.22 %)C++
76 (22.22 %)Blackberry
76 (22.22 %)Android
85 (18.52 %)Cocoa
85 (18.52 %)Xcode
94 (14.81 %)Computer Science
94 (14.81 %)Internet
94 (14.81 %)OO
94 (14.81 %).NET
94 (14.81 %)C#
103 (11.11 %)Intranet
103 (11.11 %)Open Source
103 (11.11 %)Magik
112 (7.407 %)jQuery
112 (7.407 %)MVC
112 (7.407 %)C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

Cambridge IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
16 (22.22 %)J2ME
25 (18.52 %)Cocoa
34 (14.81 %).NET
42 (7.407 %)ASP.NET
42 (7.407 %)jQuery
51 (3.704 %)Google Maps API
Cambridge IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
116 (59.26 %)Smallworld
Cambridge IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (14.81 %)Internet
23 (11.11 %)Intranet
Cambridge IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (7.407 %)SQL Server
12 (7.407 %)Crystal Reports
21 (3.704 %)SQL Server 2000
21 (3.704 %)SQL Server 2005
21 (3.704 %)SQL Server 2008
Cambridge IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (18.52 %)Xcode
Cambridge IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
111 (40.74 %)Telecoms
26 (22.22 %)Construction
26 (22.22 %)Electric
31 (3.704 %)Games
31 (3.704 %)Marketing
31 (3.704 %)Finance
31 (3.704 %)Electronics
Cambridge IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
113 (48.15 %)Developer
26 (22.22 %)Analyst
26 (22.22 %)Usability Analyst
26 (22.22 %)Mac Developer
33 (11.11 %)Software Developer
33 (11.11 %)Programmer
33 (11.11 %)GIS Developer
42 (7.407 %).NET Developer
42 (7.407 %)C# Developer
42 (7.407 %)Web Developer
42 (7.407 %)Agile .NET Developer
42 (7.407 %)Agile C# Developer
42 (7.407 %)Software Programmer
51 (3.704 %)Graduate Programmer
51 (3.704 %)iPhone Developer
51 (3.704 %)Agile Project Manager
51 (3.704 %)Graduate
51 (3.704 %)Applications Developer
51 (3.704 %)Project Manager
51 (3.704 %)Junior
Cambridge IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
16 (22.22 %)Blackberry
24 (14.81 %)Computer Science
33 (11.11 %)Open Source
41 (3.704 %)Social Network
41 (3.704 %)iPhone
Cambridge IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
18 (29.63 %)Windows
26 (22.22 %)Windows Mobile
26 (22.22 %)Android
31 (3.704 %)UNIX
Cambridge IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
115 (55.56 %)Agile Software Development
26 (22.22 %)Network Design
26 (22.22 %)Usability Testing
34 (14.81 %)OO
42 (7.407 %)MVC
51 (3.704 %)Scrum
51 (3.704 %)TDD
51 (3.704 %)System Testing
51 (3.704 %)Release Management
51 (3.704 %)User Acceptance Testing
Cambridge IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
110 (37.04 %)Java
26 (22.22 %)C++
26 (22.22 %)Objective-C
34 (14.81 %)C#
43 (11.11 %)Magik
52 (7.407 %)C
52 (7.407 %)SQL
52 (7.407 %)T-SQL
61 (3.704 %)VBScript
61 (3.704 %)VB.NET
61 (3.704 %)Python
61 (3.704 %)PHP
Cambridge IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (25.93 %)Degree
Cambridge IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (3.704 %)QA
Cambridge IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16 (22.22 %)Symbian
21 (3.704 %)Microsoft
21 (3.704 %)ESRI
21 (3.704 %)Google