The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank 88 84 94
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +10
Permanent jobs citing GIS 5 10 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.429% 0.756% 0.312%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.269% 3.226% 1.205%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 4
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £34,000 £28,250
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £54,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,500 £40,000 £38,250
% change year-on-year
-11.25% +4.57%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
394 310 415
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 33.79% 23.43% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 262 232 281
Average salary £42,500 £39,250 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.28% +4.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,500 £52,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
GIS
Scotland

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing GIS across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Edinburgh GIS Jobs Demand Trend

GIS
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh GIS Salary Trend

GIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 5 (50.00%) CEH
3 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (40.00%) Statistics
3 4 (40.00%) QA
3 4 (40.00%) Time Management
4 3 (30.00%) Python
5 2 (20.00%) ESRI
5 2 (20.00%) Change Management
5 2 (20.00%) Project Planning
5 2 (20.00%) Web Development
5 2 (20.00%) Open Source
6 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (10.00%) Change Control
6 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 1 (10.00%) VSAT
6 1 (10.00%) SRDF
6 1 (10.00%) ArcGIS
6 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (10.00%) Finance
6 1 (10.00%) SAS
6 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
6 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) SLA
6 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (10.00%) Project Management
6 1 (10.00%) C#

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) VSAT
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) GIS Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Research Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (40.00%) Statistics
2 2 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Time Management
2 2 (20.00%) Change Management
2 2 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Change Control
3 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 5 (50.00%) CEH
3 1 (10.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) SRDF
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) ESRI
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat