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 East of England 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 East of England region.

 Geographic Information System (GIS)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank173158223
Rank change year-on-year
Down-15Up+65
Matching permanent IT job ads203961
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England0.339 %0.603 %0.470 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category1.298 %2.076 %1.706 %
Salaries quoted163955
Average salary£32,500£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,750£25,000£20,900
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£53,750£40,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£36,000£33,000
% change year-on-year
+4.160 %+9.090 %
East of England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
154118793575
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England26.15 %29.07 %27.53 %
Salaries quoted134616853119
Average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£50,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
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England

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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 East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England GIS Salary Trend

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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 3 months to 19 March 2010.

East of England GIS Salary Histogram

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Job Locations

The table below 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 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
BedfordshireUp+108£32,500-18.75 %
CambridgeshireDown-166£43,750+75.00 %
HertfordshireUp+104£28,750+59.72 %
EssexUp+211£32,500-
NorfolkNew entry-1£50,000-
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England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

119 (35.19 %)Project Management
119 (35.19 %)Government
119 (35.19 %)Asset Management
119 (35.19 %)Local Government
216 (29.63 %)Smallworld
315 (27.78 %)Agile Software Development
413 (24.07 %)Telecoms
511 (20.37 %)C
610 (18.52 %)Java
79 (16.67 %)Windows
88 (14.81 %)Degree
97 (12.96 %)Construction
106 (11.11 %)Electric
106 (11.11 %)Blackberry
106 (11.11 %)J2ME
106 (11.11 %)Symbian
106 (11.11 %)C++
106 (11.11 %)Network Design
106 (11.11 %)Windows Mobile
106 (11.11 %)Objective-C
106 (11.11 %)Usability Testing
106 (11.11 %)Android
115 (9.259 %)OO
115 (9.259 %)C#
115 (9.259 %).NET
115 (9.259 %)Internet
115 (9.259 %)Cocoa
115 (9.259 %)Xcode
124 (7.407 %)Computer Science
133 (5.556 %)Magik

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

East of England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
16 (11.11 %)J2ME
25 (9.259 %)Cocoa
25 (9.259 %).NET
32 (3.704 %)ASP.NET
32 (3.704 %)jQuery
41 (1.852 %)Google Maps API
41 (1.852 %)XML
41 (1.852 %)WinForms
41 (1.852 %).NET Framework
East of England IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
116 (29.63 %)Smallworld
21 (1.852 %)SharePoint
21 (1.852 %)ArcGIS
East of England IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (1.852 %)MS Excel
11 (1.852 %)ArcInfo
East of England IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (9.259 %)Internet
23 (5.556 %)Intranet
East of England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (5.556 %)SQL Server
22 (3.704 %)Crystal Reports
31 (1.852 %)ETL
31 (1.852 %)RDBMS
31 (1.852 %)SQL Server 2000
31 (1.852 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
31 (1.852 %)SQL Server 2005
31 (1.852 %)SQL Server 2008
31 (1.852 %)MySQL
East of England IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (9.259 %)Xcode
21 (1.852 %)Team Foundation Server
East of England IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
119 (35.19 %)Government
119 (35.19 %)Local Government
213 (24.07 %)Telecoms
37 (12.96 %)Construction
46 (11.11 %)Electric
51 (1.852 %)Finance
51 (1.852 %)Marketing
51 (1.852 %)Auditing
51 (1.852 %)Games
51 (1.852 %)Electronics
East of England IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
113 (24.07 %)Developer
210 (18.52 %)Consultant
210 (18.52 %)Implementation Consultant
210 (18.52 %)Software Consultant
39 (16.67 %)Software Manager
39 (16.67 %)Analyst
46 (11.11 %)Usability Analyst
46 (11.11 %)Mac Developer
53 (5.556 %)GIS Developer
53 (5.556 %)Graduate
53 (5.556 %)Software Developer
53 (5.556 %)Programmer
53 (5.556 %)Support Analyst
62 (3.704 %)Applications Support
62 (3.704 %)Solutions Architect
62 (3.704 %)Architect
62 (3.704 %)IT Manager
62 (3.704 %)Agile .NET Developer
62 (3.704 %)Agile C# Developer
62 (3.704 %)Software Programmer
East of England IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
16 (11.11 %)Blackberry
24 (7.407 %)Computer Science
33 (5.556 %)Open Source
41 (1.852 %)N-Tier
41 (1.852 %)Social Network
41 (1.852 %)iPhone
41 (1.852 %)PDA
East of England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19 (16.67 %)Windows
26 (11.11 %)Windows Mobile
26 (11.11 %)Android
31 (1.852 %)Windows Server 2003
31 (1.852 %)UNIX
East of England IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
119 (35.19 %)Project Management
119 (35.19 %)Asset Management
215 (27.78 %)Agile Software Development
36 (11.11 %)Network Design
36 (11.11 %)Usability Testing
45 (9.259 %)OO
52 (3.704 %)MVC
61 (1.852 %)Scrum
61 (1.852 %)Business Continuity
61 (1.852 %)TDD
61 (1.852 %)SOA
61 (1.852 %)Disaster Recovery
61 (1.852 %)System Testing
61 (1.852 %)UML
61 (1.852 %)Software Engineering
61 (1.852 %)Statistical Analysis
61 (1.852 %)Release Management
61 (1.852 %)User Acceptance Testing
East of England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
111 (20.37 %)C
210 (18.52 %)Java
36 (11.11 %)C++
36 (11.11 %)Objective-C
45 (9.259 %)C#
53 (5.556 %)Magik
62 (3.704 %)SQL
62 (3.704 %)T-SQL
71 (1.852 %)VBScript
71 (1.852 %)VB.NET
71 (1.852 %)Python
71 (1.852 %)PHP
East of England IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
18 (14.81 %)Degree
21 (1.852 %)Microsoft Certification
East of England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (1.852 %)ISO9001
11 (1.852 %)ISO27001
11 (1.852 %)QA
11 (1.852 %)BS25999
East of England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16 (11.11 %)Symbian
22 (3.704 %)Microsoft
22 (3.704 %)ESRI
31 (1.852 %)Google
31 (1.852 %)Mapinfo
31 (1.852 %)Oracle
31 (1.852 %)Sybase