The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank 187 164 169
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +5
Permanent jobs citing GIS 2 11 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.049% 0.302% 0.050%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.119% 0.710% 0.150%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 2
Average salary £42,500 £32,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.76% -23.52%
UK excluding London average salary £35,250 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-11.87% +6.66%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1679 1550 1335
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 41.22% 42.56% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1475 1381 1252
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,900 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
GIS
North West

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester GIS Salary Trend

GIS
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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Altrincham - 2 £42,500 -
GIS
North West

GIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 19 (95.00%) .NET
2 17 (85.00%) SQL
2 17 (85.00%) OO
3 16 (80.00%) C#
3 16 (80.00%) C++
3 16 (80.00%) TCP/IP
3 16 (80.00%) WCF
3 16 (80.00%) WPF
4 14 (70.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (20.00%) Java
5 4 (20.00%) UML
5 4 (20.00%) J2EE
5 4 (20.00%) Oracle
5 4 (20.00%) SOA
6 2 (10.00%) XPath
6 2 (10.00%) QA
6 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (10.00%) Use Case
6 2 (10.00%) Drupal
6 2 (10.00%) jQuery
6 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (10.00%) WordPress
6 2 (10.00%) Apache Solr
6 2 (10.00%) Open Source
6 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (10.00%) RUP
6 2 (10.00%) Oracle 9i
6 2 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (10.00%) MS Excel

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 19 (95.00%) .NET
2 16 (80.00%) WCF
2 16 (80.00%) WPF
3 4 (20.00%) J2EE
4 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 2 (10.00%) jQuery
4 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (10.00%) XML
4 2 (10.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Drupal
1 2 (10.00%) WordPress
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (10.00%) Retail
1 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Programmer
2 9 (45.00%) Software Programmer
2 9 (45.00%) C# Programmer
3 7 (35.00%) C# Software Engineer
4 6 (30.00%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Open Source
1 2 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.000%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) OO
2 4 (20.00%) UML
2 4 (20.00%) SOA
3 2 (10.00%) Use Case
3 2 (10.00%) RUP
3 2 (10.00%) OOD
3 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (10.00%) TDD
3 2 (10.00%) MVC
3 2 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) SQL
2 16 (80.00%) C#
2 16 (80.00%) C++
3 4 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) XPath
4 2 (10.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) PHP
4 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) ESRI
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft