The first table below looks at the demand for PostGIS 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 PostGIS over the 3 months to 20 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 Application Development category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PostGIS
Rank 239 232 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Permanent jobs citing PostGIS 2 13 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.028% 0.183% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.057% 0.374% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £40,000 -
% change year-on-year
+18.75% -
All Application Development
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3495 3480 3045
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 49.18% 49.09% 44.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3115 3151 2796
Average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PostGIS
England

PostGIS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing PostGIS across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West PostGIS Jobs Demand Trend

PostGIS
Salary Trend

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

North West PostGIS Salary Trend

PostGIS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostGIS within the North West region over the 3 months to 20 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 -25 2 - -
PostGIS
England

PostGIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing PostGIS 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 PostGIS.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (81.82%) Degree
3 8 (72.73%) Spring
3 8 (72.73%) Maven
3 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 8 (72.73%) Hibernate
3 8 (72.73%) Linux
3 8 (72.73%) Swing
3 8 (72.73%) Shell Script
3 8 (72.73%) Gradle
4 6 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (54.55%) Information Management
4 6 (54.55%) Communications Security
4 6 (54.55%) Oracle 8/8i
4 6 (54.55%) Management Information System
4 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
5 3 (27.27%) Advertising
5 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (27.27%) .NET
5 3 (27.27%) Ajax
5 3 (27.27%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (27.27%) WPF
5 3 (27.27%) Silverlight
5 3 (27.27%) jQuery
5 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (27.27%) GIS
5 3 (27.27%) ESRI
5 3 (27.27%) ArcGIS

PostGIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing PostGIS 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 PostGIS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (72.73%) Swing
1 8 (72.73%) Hibernate
1 8 (72.73%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Ajax
2 3 (27.27%) WPF
2 3 (27.27%) Silverlight
2 3 (27.27%) jQuery
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
1 3 (27.27%) ArcGIS
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Spatial
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (27.27%) GIS
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Maven
1 8 (72.73%) Gradle
General
1 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
2 3 (27.27%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
1 8 (72.73%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) GIS Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Management Information System
2 3 (27.27%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (54.55%) Information Management
1 6 (54.55%) Communications Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) Shell Script
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Degree
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) ESRI
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