Devon GIS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the Devon 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	48	33
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching permanent IT job ads	23	25
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	8.014 %	14.53 %
Salaries quoted	20	24
Average minimum salary	£29,775	£32,708
Average salary	£31,938	£34,583
% change on same period last year	-7.65 %
Average maximum salary	£34,100	£36,458
UK excluding London average salary	£34,883	£34,729
% change on same period last year	+0.44 %
Database & Business Intelligence Devon
Matching permanent IT job ads	287	172
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.141 %	0.076 %
Salaries quoted	248	157
Average minimum salary	£28,619	£29,811
Average salary	£30,491	£31,558
% change on same period last year	-3.38 %
Average maximum salary	£32,363	£33,305
UK excluding London average salary	£37,328	£38,057
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
GIS South West

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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 Devon 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 Devon region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GIS across the Devon 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 Devon 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	Torquay	-	8	£32,281	-
2	Exeter	-9	7	£38,750	+23.29 %

GIS South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Devon 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 52 (94.55 %) Oracle 2 39 (70.91 %) XML 3 28 (50.91 %) SQL Server 4 27 (49.09 %) C++ 4 27 (49.09 %) HTML 4 27 (49.09 %) Java 4 27 (49.09 %) C 5 26 (47.27 %) .NET 6 24 (43.64 %) C# 7 18 (32.73 %) SQL 8 17 (30.91 %) Mapinfo 9 16 (29.09 %) WebServices 9 16 (29.09 %) VB.NET 9 16 (29.09 %) SQL Server 2005 10 14 (25.45 %) VB6

10 14 (25.45 %) VB 11 13 (23.64 %) Oracle Reports 12 12 (21.82 %) DTS 12 12 (21.82 %) Citrix 12 12 (21.82 %) Visual Studio 12 12 (21.82 %) AJAX 12 12 (21.82 %) MapXtreme 12 12 (21.82 %) ESRI 13 11 (20.00 %) Unix 13 11 (20.00 %) Windows 14 10 (18.18 %) ArcGIS 14 10 (18.18 %) Oracle Spatial 14 10 (18.18 %) Data Mapping 15 9 (16.36 %) Marketing 15 9 (16.36 %) Pensions

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Devon 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 39 (70.91 %) XML 2 27 (49.09 %) HTML 3 26 (47.27 %) .NET 4 16 (29.09 %) WebServices 5 12 (21.82 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 12 (21.82 %) MapXtreme 2 10 (18.18 %) Oracle Spatial 2 10 (18.18 %) ArcGIS
Communications & Networking 1 9 (16.36 %) HTTPS 1 9 (16.36 %) Internet 1 9 (16.36 %) Firewall 1 9 (16.36 %) Reverse Proxy	Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (50.91 %) SQL Server 2 16 (29.09 %) SQL Server 2005 3 13 (23.64 %) Oracle Reports 4 12 (21.82 %) DTS 5 8 (14.55 %) SQL Server 2000 6 5 (9.091 %) MS Access 7 4 (7.273 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 12 (21.82 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (14.55 %) Oracle Forms 3 3 (5.455 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 9 (16.36 %) Pensions 1 9 (16.36 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 27 (49.09 %) Developer 2 26 (47.27 %) Analyst 3 12 (21.82 %) Analyst Programmer 3 12 (21.82 %) Programmer 4 11 (20.00 %) Software Developer 5 10 (18.18 %) Data Analyst 5 10 (18.18 %) Java Developer 5 10 (18.18 %) GIS Analyst 5 10 (18.18 %) GIS Data Analyst 6 9 (16.36 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 6 9 (16.36 %) .NET Programmer 6 9 (16.36 %) VB.NET Programmer 6 9 (16.36 %) VB.NET Analyst Programmer 6 9 (16.36 %) C# Analyst Programmer 7 8 (14.55 %) Java Software Developer 7 8 (14.55 %) GIS Developer 8 5 (9.091 %) C# Developer 9 4 (7.273 %) QA Test Analyst 9 4 (7.273 %) Test Analyst 9 4 (7.273 %) QA Analyst	Operating Systems 1 11 (20.00 %) Unix 1 11 (20.00 %) Windows 2 1 (1.818 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (18.18 %) Data Mapping 2 7 (12.73 %) Requirements Analysis 3 4 (7.273 %) Web Development 3 4 (7.273 %) Load Testing 4 3 (5.455 %) Time Management 4 3 (5.455 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (3.636 %) PRINCE 5 2 (3.636 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (1.818 %) Regression Testing	Programming Languages 1 27 (49.09 %) C 1 27 (49.09 %) C++ 1 27 (49.09 %) Java 2 24 (43.64 %) C# 3 18 (32.73 %) SQL 4 16 (29.09 %) VB.NET 5 14 (25.45 %) VB6 5 14 (25.45 %) VB 6 8 (14.55 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 8 (14.55 %) Degree 2 2 (3.636 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (7.273 %) QA
Vendors 1 52 (94.55 %) Oracle 2 17 (30.91 %) Mapinfo 3 12 (21.82 %) ESRI 3 12 (21.82 %) Citrix 4 1 (1.818 %) Sun