Oxfordshire GIS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the Oxfordshire 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 20 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 Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester 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 West South Yorkshire Southampton Stroud Sunderland Surrey Torquay Tyne and Wear UK Wallingford Wareham Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	125	136
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	22	11
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	2.667 %	1.578 %
Salaries quoted	19	9
Average minimum salary	£29,000	£25,778
Average salary	£35,342	£29,000
% change on same period last year	+21.86 %
Average maximum salary	£41,684	£32,222
UK excluding London average salary	£37,181	£33,556
% change on same period last year	+10.80 %
Database & Business Intelligence Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	825	697
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.444 %	0.291 %
Salaries quoted	706	590
Average minimum salary	£33,286	£33,414
Average salary	£37,202	£36,176
% change on same period last year	+2.83 %
Average maximum salary	£41,118	£38,937
UK excluding London average salary	£37,227	£38,311
% change on same period last year	-2.82 %
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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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GIS across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	+9	13	£39,100	+30.33 %
Wallingford	-	4	£34,000	-
Abingdon	-4	3	£28,750	+0.29 %
Kidlington	-	2	£27,500	-

GIS South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 35 (66.04 %) SQL Server 2 26 (49.06 %) .NET 3 22 (41.51 %) VB 4 20 (37.74 %) ESRI 4 20 (37.74 %) Oracle 5 18 (33.96 %) Microsoft 5 18 (33.96 %) Pensions 6 17 (32.08 %) C# 7 16 (30.19 %) SQL 8 15 (28.30 %) XML 9 14 (26.42 %) Autodesk 9 14 (26.42 %) ArcGIS 10 13 (24.53 %) Windows 11 12 (22.64 %) HTML 12 11 (20.75 %) Google

12 11 (20.75 %) Windows Mobile 12 11 (20.75 %) EJB 3.0 12 11 (20.75 %) VBScript 12 11 (20.75 %) Sybase 12 11 (20.75 %) J2EE 12 11 (20.75 %) JBoss 12 11 (20.75 %) RDBMS 12 11 (20.75 %) JSP 12 11 (20.75 %) Servlets 12 11 (20.75 %) WebServices 12 11 (20.75 %) EJB 13 10 (18.87 %) XSLT 13 10 (18.87 %) C 13 10 (18.87 %) C++ 13 10 (18.87 %) Mapinfo

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 26 (49.06 %) .NET 2 15 (28.30 %) XML 3 12 (22.64 %) HTML 4 11 (20.75 %) J2EE 4 11 (20.75 %) EJB 4 11 (20.75 %) JSP 4 11 (20.75 %) Servlets 4 11 (20.75 %) WebServices 4 11 (20.75 %) EJB 3.0 5 10 (18.87 %) XSLT 6 7 (13.21 %) CORBA 7 4 (7.547 %) ASP.NET 8 3 (5.660 %) ASP 9 2 (3.774 %) MFC 9 2 (3.774 %) ATL 10 1 (1.887 %) CSS 10 1 (1.887 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (1.887 %) ArcObjects	Application Platforms 1 14 (26.42 %) ArcGIS 2 11 (20.75 %) JBoss 3 5 (9.434 %) Smallworld 4 2 (3.774 %) IIS 5 1 (1.887 %) ArcIMS 5 1 (1.887 %) ArcSDE 5 1 (1.887 %) MapXtreme
Applications 1 3 (5.660 %) ArcView 2 2 (3.774 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.774 %) ArcInfo 3 1 (1.887 %) Photoshop 3 1 (1.887 %) Fireworks	Database & Business Intelligence 1 35 (66.04 %) SQL Server 2 11 (20.75 %) RDBMS 3 4 (7.547 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (5.660 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (3.774 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 1 (1.887 %) Flash 1 1 (1.887 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 18 (33.96 %) Pensions 2 1 (1.887 %) Construction 2 1 (1.887 %) Government 2 1 (1.887 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 22 (41.51 %) Developer 2 16 (30.19 %) Consultant 3 13 (24.53 %) Software Developer 4 12 (22.64 %) C# Developer 4 12 (22.64 %) Software Consultant 5 10 (18.87 %) CSharp Software Developer 6 9 (16.98 %) Senior Consultant 6 9 (16.98 %) Senior Implementation Consultant 6 9 (16.98 %) IT Consultant 6 9 (16.98 %) Implementation Consultant 7 7 (13.21 %) C++ Software Engineer 7 7 (13.21 %) Software Engineer 8 4 (7.547 %) GIS Developer 8 4 (7.547 %) GIS Consultant 9 3 (5.660 %) Support Consultant 10 2 (3.774 %) Oracle DBA 10 2 (3.774 %) .NET Developer 10 2 (3.774 %) C++ Developer 10 2 (3.774 %) Support Engineer 10 2 (3.774 %) Support Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.887 %) LLPG 1 1 (1.887 %) NLPG 1 1 (1.887 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 13 (24.53 %) Windows 2 11 (20.75 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (18.87 %) Enterprise Architecture 1 10 (18.87 %) Use Case 2 3 (5.660 %) Project Management 3 2 (3.774 %) Web Development 4 1 (1.887 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 22 (41.51 %) VB 2 17 (32.08 %) C# 3 16 (30.19 %) SQL 4 11 (20.75 %) VBScript 5 10 (18.87 %) C 5 10 (18.87 %) C++ 6 7 (13.21 %) Ruby 7 4 (7.547 %) VB.NET 8 3 (5.660 %) JavaScript 9 2 (3.774 %) DHTML 10 1 (1.887 %) Java 10 1 (1.887 %) MapBasic	Qualifications 1 2 (3.774 %) Degree
Vendors 1 20 (37.74 %) Oracle 1 20 (37.74 %) ESRI 2 18 (33.96 %) Microsoft 3 14 (26.42 %) Autodesk 4 11 (20.75 %) Google 4 11 (20.75 %) Sybase 5 10 (18.87 %) Mapinfo 6 1 (1.887 %) Adobe 6 1 (1.887 %) Macromedia