Midlands GIS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the Midlands 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 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Geographic Information System (GIS)
Location Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London County Londonderry Coventry Croydon Devon Dorset Droitwich Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Epsom Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Gloucestershire Grantham Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stroud Sunderland Surrey Torquay Tyne and Wear UK Wales Wallingford Wareham Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	81
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	14
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	2.765 %	3.398 %
Salaries quoted	0	14
Average minimum salary	-	£45,000
Average salary	-	£47,500
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£50,000
UK excluding London average salary	£36,897	£33,546
% change on same period last year	+9.98 %
Database & Business Intelligence Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	217	412
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.118 %	0.173 %
Salaries quoted	158	320
Average minimum salary	£41,266	£38,200
Average salary	£46,619	£43,803
% change on same period last year	+6.42 %
Average maximum salary	£51,972	£49,407
UK excluding London average salary	£37,241	£38,310
% change on same period last year	-2.79 %
GIS 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 Midlands 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 citing GIS across the Midlands region.

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Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 8 (47.06 %) SAP 1 8 (47.06 %) SAP MM 1 8 (47.06 %) GAP Analysis 1 8 (47.06 %) Migration 1 8 (47.06 %) SAP CS 1 8 (47.06 %) Asset Management 1 8 (47.06 %) Document Management 1 8 (47.06 %) Business Development 1 8 (47.06 %) SAP IS-U 1 8 (47.06 %) Data Migration 2 2 (11.76 %) SQL 2 2 (11.76 %) VBA 2 2 (11.76 %) SAS 2 2 (11.76 %) SPSS 3 1 (5.882 %) Middleware

3 1 (5.882 %) XML 3 1 (5.882 %) XSLT 3 1 (5.882 %) EDI 3 1 (5.882 %) ESRI 3 1 (5.882 %) XPath 3 1 (5.882 %) Project Planning

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 (5.882 %) XML 1 1 (5.882 %) XSLT 1 1 (5.882 %) EDI 1 1 (5.882 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 2 (11.76 %) SAS
Applications 1 2 (11.76 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 8 (47.06 %) SAP MM 1 8 (47.06 %) SAP CS 1 8 (47.06 %) SAP IS-U
Job Titles 1 8 (47.06 %) Management Consultant 1 8 (47.06 %) Consultant 1 8 (47.06 %) SAP Consultant 1 8 (47.06 %) SAP ISU Consultant 2 5 (29.41 %) GIS Manager 2 5 (29.41 %) Account Manager 3 2 (11.76 %) Developer 3 2 (11.76 %) Analyst 3 2 (11.76 %) Business Analyst 3 2 (11.76 %) GIS Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (47.06 %) GAP Analysis 1 8 (47.06 %) Migration 1 8 (47.06 %) Asset Management 1 8 (47.06 %) Document Management 1 8 (47.06 %) Business Development 1 8 (47.06 %) Data Migration 2 1 (5.882 %) Project Planning
Programming Languages 1 2 (11.76 %) SQL 1 2 (11.76 %) VBA 2 1 (5.882 %) XPath	Vendors 1 8 (47.06 %) SAP 2 1 (5.882 %) ESRI