East of England GIS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the East of England 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	218	223
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	75	50
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	2.109 %	1.751 %
Salaries quoted	58	40
Average minimum salary	£31,552	£30,296
Average salary	£35,741	£31,809
% change on same period last year	+12.36 %
Average maximum salary	£39,931	£33,321
UK excluding London average salary	£34,883	£34,729
% change on same period last year	+0.44 %
Database & Business Intelligence East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	3557	2855
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.744 %	1.264 %
Salaries quoted	3048	2428
Average minimum salary	£34,808	£33,825
Average salary	£37,565	£36,185
% change on same period last year	+3.81 %
Average maximum salary	£40,322	£38,545
UK excluding London average salary	£37,328	£38,057
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
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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 East of England 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 East of England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GIS across the East of England 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 East of England 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	Cambridgeshire	+28	52	£37,773	+21.84 %
2	Hertfordshire	-4	9	£30,139	-12.32 %
3	Norfolk	-7	8	£26,875	+1.55 %
4	Bedfordshire	-23	6	£35,000	+5.88 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East of England 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 60 (44.78 %) SQL 1 60 (44.78 %) Degree 2 52 (38.81 %) Java 3 45 (33.58 %) .NET 4 41 (30.60 %) Oracle 5 34 (25.37 %) C++ 6 31 (23.13 %) C# 6 31 (23.13 %) Microsoft 7 29 (21.64 %) ESRI 7 29 (21.64 %) Government 8 28 (20.90 %) OO 9 25 (18.66 %) Internet 10 23 (17.16 %) Local Government 11 22 (16.42 %) Computer Science 12 21 (15.67 %) Windows

13 20 (14.93 %) C 14 19 (14.18 %) Smallworld 14 19 (14.18 %) ASP.NET 15 17 (12.69 %) Intranet 15 17 (12.69 %) Magik 15 17 (12.69 %) Unix 16 16 (11.94 %) Mapinfo 17 15 (11.19 %) Autodesk 17 15 (11.19 %) SQL Server 17 15 (11.19 %) HTML 18 14 (10.45 %) Health 18 14 (10.45 %) JavaScript 18 14 (10.45 %) Pensions 19 13 (9.701 %) ArcObjects 19 13 (9.701 %) PL/SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East of England 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 45 (33.58 %) .NET 2 19 (14.18 %) ASP.NET 3 15 (11.19 %) HTML 4 13 (9.701 %) ArcObjects 5 12 (8.955 %) XML 6 11 (8.209 %) J2EE 7 8 (5.970 %) COM 7 8 (5.970 %) WinForms 8 7 (5.224 %) CSS 9 6 (4.478 %) CORBA 10 5 (3.731 %) Hibernate 10 5 (3.731 %) Spring 10 5 (3.731 %) AJAX 10 5 (3.731 %) Apache Axis 11 3 (2.239 %) XSL 12 2 (1.493 %) WebServices 13 1 (0.746 %) ASP 13 1 (0.746 %) Silverlight 13 1 (0.746 %) Grails 13 1 (0.746 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 19 (14.18 %) Smallworld 2 13 (9.701 %) ArcSDE 3 11 (8.209 %) ArcGIS 4 8 (5.970 %) ArcIMS 5 5 (3.731 %) JBoss 6 4 (2.985 %) IIS 7 1 (0.746 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 8 (5.970 %) AutoCAD 2 6 (4.478 %) MS Excel 3 3 (2.239 %) ArcView 4 1 (0.746 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.746 %) ArcInfo	Communications & Networking 1 25 (18.66 %) Internet 2 17 (12.69 %) Intranet 3 2 (1.493 %) GPRS 4 1 (0.746 %) GSM 4 1 (0.746 %) VoIP 4 1 (0.746 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (11.19 %) SQL Server 2 12 (8.955 %) RDBMS 3 5 (3.731 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 5 (3.731 %) MS Access 4 4 (2.985 %) Ingres 4 4 (2.985 %) Crystal Reports 4 4 (2.985 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (1.493 %) MySQL 6 1 (0.746 %) OLAP	Development Applications 1 5 (3.731 %) JUnit 2 4 (2.985 %) Dreamweaver 3 3 (2.239 %) Flash 4 2 (1.493 %) Subversion
General 1 29 (21.64 %) Government 2 23 (17.16 %) Local Government 3 14 (10.45 %) Pensions 3 14 (10.45 %) Health 4 10 (7.463 %) Finance 5 6 (4.478 %) Education 6 5 (3.731 %) Construction 7 3 (2.239 %) Electronics 7 3 (2.239 %) Telecoms 8 1 (0.746 %) Automotive 8 1 (0.746 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 45 (33.58 %) Developer 2 29 (21.64 %) Consultant 3 24 (17.91 %) GIS Developer 3 24 (17.91 %) GIS Consultant 4 20 (14.93 %) Software Engineer 5 18 (13.43 %) Analyst 6 15 (11.19 %) Programmer 7 13 (9.701 %) Support Analyst 8 12 (8.955 %) Software Developer 9 11 (8.209 %) Software Programmer 10 9 (6.716 %) Architect 10 9 (6.716 %) Java Developer 11 8 (5.970 %) Applications Support 11 8 (5.970 %) Applications Support Analyst 11 8 (5.970 %) Test Engineer 11 8 (5.970 %) C++ Software Engineer 11 8 (5.970 %) Team Leader 12 7 (5.224 %) GIS Technician 12 7 (5.224 %) Software Consultant 12 7 (5.224 %) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous 1 22 (16.42 %) Computer Science 2 12 (8.955 %) Asset Management 3 3 (2.239 %) Mathematics 4 2 (1.493 %) Management Information System 4 2 (1.493 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 21 (15.67 %) Windows 2 17 (12.69 %) Unix 3 3 (2.239 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (20.90 %) OO 2 8 (5.970 %) UML 2 8 (5.970 %) OOP 3 7 (5.224 %) Validation 3 7 (5.224 %) ITIL 4 5 (3.731 %) Project Management 5 4 (2.985 %) Software Engineering 6 3 (2.239 %) Web Design 6 3 (2.239 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 3 (2.239 %) System Testing 7 2 (1.493 %) Time Management 7 2 (1.493 %) Manual Testing 7 2 (1.493 %) Data Management 7 2 (1.493 %) OOD 7 2 (1.493 %) Data Analysis 8 1 (0.746 %) Logistics 8 1 (0.746 %) Operations Research 8 1 (0.746 %) Technical Architecture 8 1 (0.746 %) Web Development 8 1 (0.746 %) Operations Management	Programming Languages 1 60 (44.78 %) SQL 2 52 (38.81 %) Java 3 34 (25.37 %) C++ 4 31 (23.13 %) C# 5 20 (14.93 %) C 6 17 (12.69 %) Magik 7 14 (10.45 %) JavaScript 8 13 (9.701 %) PL/SQL 9 9 (6.716 %) VBA 9 9 (6.716 %) VB 10 3 (2.239 %) VB.NET 11 2 (1.493 %) PHP 11 2 (1.493 %) PHP5 12 1 (0.746 %) Groovy 12 1 (0.746 %) Fortran 12 1 (0.746 %) Delphi
Qualifications 1 60 (44.78 %) Degree 2 2 (1.493 %) PhD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (5.970 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (0.746 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 41 (30.60 %) Oracle 2 31 (23.13 %) Microsoft 3 29 (21.64 %) ESRI 4 16 (11.94 %) Mapinfo 5 15 (11.19 %) Autodesk