The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 24 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank 240 230 226
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -4
Permanent jobs citing GIS 3 17 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.042% 0.240% 0.116%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.109% 0.609% 0.345%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 8
Average salary £40,000 £30,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -36.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,200 £29,000 £38,750
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £52,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,500 £40,000 £37,750
% change year-on-year
-11.25% +5.96%
All Database & Business Intelligence
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
2740 2793 2318
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 38.14% 39.35% 33.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2377 2503 2143
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £55,000 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
GIS
England

GIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West GIS Salary Trend

GIS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GIS across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West GIS Salary Histogram

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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester -28 2 £42,500 +30.76%
GIS
England

GIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 33 (78.57%) .NET
2 28 (66.67%) SQL
2 28 (66.67%) OO
3 25 (59.52%) SQL Server
4 19 (45.24%) C#
4 19 (45.24%) WPF
5 18 (42.86%) Java
5 18 (42.86%) Oracle
6 16 (38.10%) XML
6 16 (38.10%) JavaScript
6 16 (38.10%) C++
6 16 (38.10%) TCP/IP
6 16 (38.10%) Microsoft
6 16 (38.10%) ASP.NET
6 16 (38.10%) ESRI
6 16 (38.10%) WCF
6 16 (38.10%) jQuery
6 16 (38.10%) Open Source
7 15 (35.71%) SOA
7 15 (35.71%) UML
7 15 (35.71%) J2EE
8 13 (30.95%) PHP
8 13 (30.95%) PL/SQL
8 13 (30.95%) XSLT
8 13 (30.95%) Oracle 9i
8 13 (30.95%) Python
8 13 (30.95%) MS Excel
8 13 (30.95%) Client/Server
8 13 (30.95%) MVC
8 13 (30.95%) OOD

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 33 (78.57%) .NET
2 19 (45.24%) WPF
3 16 (38.10%) XML
3 16 (38.10%) ASP.NET
3 16 (38.10%) WCF
3 16 (38.10%) jQuery
4 15 (35.71%) J2EE
5 13 (30.95%) XSLT
5 13 (30.95%) ASP.NET MVC
5 13 (30.95%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 3 (7.143%) EDI
6 3 (7.143%) CSS
6 3 (7.143%) SOAP
6 3 (7.143%) HTML
6 3 (7.143%) EDIFACT
6 3 (7.143%) Ajax
6 3 (7.143%) PostGIS
6 3 (7.143%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 13 (30.95%) WordPress
1 13 (30.95%) Apache Solr
1 13 (30.95%) Drupal
2 8 (19.05%) ArcGIS
3 3 (7.143%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.143%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 13 (30.95%) MS Excel
2 5 (11.90%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 16 (38.10%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.143%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (59.52%) SQL Server
2 13 (30.95%) Oracle 9i
2 13 (30.95%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 13 (30.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 13 (30.95%) SQL Server 2005
2 13 (30.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 13 (30.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (7.143%) Advertising
2 2 (4.762%) Retail
2 2 (4.762%) Finance
2 2 (4.762%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (38.10%) Software Engineer
2 13 (30.95%) Developer
3 9 (21.43%) C# Programmer
3 9 (21.43%) Software Programmer
3 9 (21.43%) Programmer
4 7 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) GIS Technician
6 5 (11.90%) .NET Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Consultant
7 3 (7.143%) Analyst
7 3 (7.143%) EDI Analyst
7 3 (7.143%) GIS Consultant
7 3 (7.143%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (4.762%) Technical Consultant
9 1 (2.381%) Architect
9 1 (2.381%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 16 (38.10%) Open Source
2 13 (30.95%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.381%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.143%) AIX
2 1 (2.381%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) OO
2 15 (35.71%) SOA
2 15 (35.71%) UML
3 13 (30.95%) MVC
3 13 (30.95%) OOD
3 13 (30.95%) TDD
3 13 (30.95%) Use Case
4 5 (11.90%) CAD
5 2 (4.762%) PRINCE2
5 2 (4.762%) RUP
5 2 (4.762%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) SQL
2 19 (45.24%) C#
3 18 (42.86%) Java
4 16 (38.10%) JavaScript
4 16 (38.10%) C++
5 13 (30.95%) PHP
5 13 (30.95%) PL/SQL
5 13 (30.95%) Python
5 13 (30.95%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Degree
2 2 (4.762%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.95%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) Oracle
2 16 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 16 (38.10%) ESRI
3 5 (11.90%) Mapinfo
4 3 (7.143%) SAP