Cambridgeshire GIS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GIS over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Geographic Information System (GIS)
Location Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Corby County Antrim Crawley Croydon Devon Dorchester Dorset Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Emsworth England Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Kent Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stirling Surrey Swansea Tetbury Torquay Tring Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimborne Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	115	143
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching permanent IT job ads	52	14
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	5.083 %	2.115 %
Salaries quoted	43	14
Average minimum salary	£33,733	£26,857
Average salary	£37,773	£31,000
% change on same period last year	+21.84 %
Average maximum salary	£41,814	£35,143
UK excluding London average salary	£34,883	£34,729
% change on same period last year	+0.44 %
Database & Business Intelligence Cambridgeshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1023	662
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.502 %	0.293 %
Salaries quoted	895	586
Average minimum salary	£34,455	£30,932
Average salary	£36,491	£33,277
% change on same period last year	+9.65 %
Average maximum salary	£38,527	£35,621
UK excluding London average salary	£37,328	£38,057
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
GIS East of England

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GIS across the Cambridgeshire region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the Cambridgeshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Cambridge	+20	43	£37,936	+23.36 %
2	Peterborough	-	1	£46,500	-

GIS East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing GIS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing GIS.

1 49 (55.06 %) SQL 2 44 (49.44 %) Degree 3 41 (46.07 %) Java 4 35 (39.33 %) Oracle 5 33 (37.08 %) .NET 6 26 (29.21 %) C++ 7 23 (25.84 %) C# 8 22 (24.72 %) Internet 8 22 (24.72 %) Government 9 21 (23.60 %) Windows 10 20 (22.47 %) ESRI 11 18 (20.22 %) OO 12 17 (19.10 %) Unix 12 17 (19.10 %) Microsoft 12 17 (19.10 %) Intranet

12 17 (19.10 %) Magik 12 17 (19.10 %) Smallworld 12 17 (19.10 %) Computer Science 13 16 (17.98 %) Local Government 14 15 (16.85 %) Mapinfo 14 15 (16.85 %) Autodesk 15 14 (15.73 %) Health 15 14 (15.73 %) C 15 14 (15.73 %) Pensions 16 13 (14.61 %) PL/SQL 17 11 (12.36 %) J2EE 17 11 (12.36 %) SQL Server 18 9 (10.11 %) RDBMS 18 9 (10.11 %) Finance 19 8 (8.989 %) XML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing GIS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing GIS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 33 (37.08 %) .NET 2 11 (12.36 %) J2EE 3 8 (8.989 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (8.989 %) XML 4 6 (6.742 %) CORBA 5 5 (5.618 %) Hibernate 5 5 (5.618 %) Spring 5 5 (5.618 %) AJAX 5 5 (5.618 %) ArcObjects 5 5 (5.618 %) Apache Axis 6 3 (3.371 %) XSL 7 1 (1.124 %) Silverlight 7 1 (1.124 %) HTML 7 1 (1.124 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (1.124 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 17 (19.10 %) Smallworld 2 5 (5.618 %) ArcSDE 2 5 (5.618 %) JBoss 3 4 (4.494 %) IIS 4 2 (2.247 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 5 (5.618 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.247 %) ArcView 3 1 (1.124 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 22 (24.72 %) Internet 2 17 (19.10 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.124 %) Firewall 3 1 (1.124 %) GPRS 3 1 (1.124 %) GSM 3 1 (1.124 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (12.36 %) SQL Server 2 9 (10.11 %) RDBMS 3 5 (5.618 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 5 (5.618 %) JUnit 2 3 (3.371 %) Flash
General 1 22 (24.72 %) Government 2 16 (17.98 %) Local Government 3 14 (15.73 %) Pensions 3 14 (15.73 %) Health 4 9 (10.11 %) Finance 5 6 (6.742 %) Education 6 3 (3.371 %) Electronics 7 2 (2.247 %) Telecoms 8 1 (1.124 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 37 (41.57 %) Developer 2 24 (26.97 %) Consultant 2 24 (26.97 %) GIS Consultant 3 21 (23.60 %) GIS Developer 4 20 (22.47 %) Software Engineer 5 14 (15.73 %) Programmer 6 12 (13.48 %) Software Developer 7 11 (12.36 %) Software Programmer 8 8 (8.989 %) Test Engineer 8 8 (8.989 %) C++ Software Engineer 9 7 (7.865 %) C++ Developer 10 6 (6.742 %) Java Developer 10 6 (6.742 %) Java/J2EE Developer 11 5 (5.618 %) Test Specialist 12 4 (4.494 %) .NET Web Developer 12 4 (4.494 %) C# Developer 12 4 (4.494 %) ASP.NET Developer 12 4 (4.494 %) .NET Developer 12 4 (4.494 %) Analyst 12 4 (4.494 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 17 (19.10 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 21 (23.60 %) Windows 2 17 (19.10 %) Unix 3 1 (1.124 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (20.22 %) OO 2 4 (4.494 %) Software Engineering 3 3 (3.371 %) Web Design 3 3 (3.371 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (3.371 %) System Testing 4 2 (2.247 %) Manual Testing 4 2 (2.247 %) Data Management 5 1 (1.124 %) Network Design 5 1 (1.124 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (1.124 %) Technical Architecture 5 1 (1.124 %) Web Development 5 1 (1.124 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 49 (55.06 %) SQL 2 41 (46.07 %) Java 3 26 (29.21 %) C++ 4 23 (25.84 %) C# 5 17 (19.10 %) Magik 6 14 (15.73 %) C 7 13 (14.61 %) PL/SQL 8 8 (8.989 %) VB 9 1 (1.124 %) Fortran 9 1 (1.124 %) Delphi
Qualifications 1 44 (49.44 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.371 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (1.124 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 35 (39.33 %) Oracle 2 20 (22.47 %) ESRI 3 17 (19.10 %) Microsoft 4 15 (16.85 %) Mapinfo 4 15 (16.85 %) Autodesk