West Midlands GIS Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Geographic Information System (GIS) skills within the West 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 4 September 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 Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London Luton 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 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	177	194
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching permanent IT job ads	51	32
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	2.133 %	1.397 %
Salaries quoted	47	29
Average minimum salary	£31,064	£26,395
Average salary	£32,264	£28,420
% change on same period last year	+13.52 %
Average maximum salary	£33,464	£30,446
UK excluding London average salary	£36,822	£33,432
% change on same period last year	+10.14 %
Database & Business Intelligence West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	2391	2291
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.317 %	0.971 %
Salaries quoted	2135	2068
Average minimum salary	£31,743	£33,220
Average salary	£34,732	£35,956
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
Average maximum salary	£37,721	£38,692
UK excluding London average salary	£37,278	£38,383
% change on same period last year	-2.88 %
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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 West 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 West Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GIS across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 September 2008.

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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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 September 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
Birmingham	+9	19	£31,100	-0.48 %
Worcestershire	+13	17	£29,088	+32.21 %
Herefordshire	-4	3	£29,000	-5.30 %
Coventry	-11	2	£35,000	-6.66 %
Wolverhampton	-	1	£34,000	-
Warwickshire	+5	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT jobs across the West 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 46 (39.32 %) .NET 1 46 (39.32 %) Oracle 2 34 (29.06 %) C# 3 32 (27.35 %) Pensions 4 31 (26.50 %) SQL 5 28 (23.93 %) SQL Server 6 27 (23.08 %) VB.NET 6 27 (23.08 %) Java 7 25 (21.37 %) ASP.NET 8 24 (20.51 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 21 (17.95 %) ESRI 9 21 (17.95 %) XML 10 20 (17.09 %) VB 11 18 (15.38 %) J2EE 12 17 (14.53 %) Windows

12 17 (14.53 %) EDI 13 16 (13.68 %) UNIX 13 16 (13.68 %) ArcObjects 14 14 (11.97 %) WebSphere 15 13 (11.11 %) Gentran 15 13 (11.11 %) XSLT 15 13 (11.11 %) Struts 16 12 (10.26 %) Apache 16 12 (10.26 %) Finance 16 12 (10.26 %) ArcSDE 16 12 (10.26 %) XPath 17 11 (9.402 %) Oracle Spatial 17 11 (9.402 %) Spring 17 11 (9.402 %) Shale 17 11 (9.402 %) JBoss

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT jobs across the West 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 46 (39.32 %) .NET 2 25 (21.37 %) ASP.NET 3 24 (20.51 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 21 (17.95 %) XML 5 18 (15.38 %) J2EE 6 17 (14.53 %) EDI 7 16 (13.68 %) ArcObjects 8 14 (11.97 %) WebSphere 9 13 (11.11 %) XSLT 9 13 (11.11 %) Struts 10 11 (9.402 %) Spring 10 11 (9.402 %) Shale 11 7 (5.983 %) CSS 11 7 (5.983 %) XHTML 12 5 (4.274 %) WebServices 12 5 (4.274 %) Adobe Flex 12 5 (4.274 %) AJAX 12 5 (4.274 %) HTML 12 5 (4.274 %) Middleware 13 3 (2.564 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 13 (11.11 %) Gentran 2 12 (10.26 %) ArcSDE 2 12 (10.26 %) Apache 3 11 (9.402 %) JBoss 3 11 (9.402 %) Oracle Spatial 4 10 (8.547 %) WebLogic 5 5 (4.274 %) ArcGIS 5 5 (4.274 %) Tomcat 6 2 (1.709 %) MS Exchange 6 2 (1.709 %) ArcIMS 7 1 (0.855 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 5 (4.274 %) MS Visio 1 5 (4.274 %) AutoCAD 2 3 (2.564 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.855 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (0.855 %) SAP MM 1 1 (0.855 %) SAP SCM
Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.419 %) HTTPS 2 3 (2.564 %) FTP 3 2 (1.709 %) Internet 3 2 (1.709 %) X.400 3 2 (1.709 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (0.855 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (23.93 %) SQL Server 2 11 (9.402 %) MySQL 2 11 (9.402 %) Oracle 10g 3 10 (8.547 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 5 (4.274 %) RDBMS 5 2 (1.709 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (0.855 %) MS Access 6 1 (0.855 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 7 (5.983 %) Flash	General 1 32 (27.35 %) Pensions 2 12 (10.26 %) Finance 3 8 (6.838 %) FMCG 4 5 (4.274 %) Government 4 5 (4.274 %) Health 5 4 (3.419 %) Graphic Design 6 3 (2.564 %) Construction 6 3 (2.564 %) Manufacturing 6 3 (2.564 %) Military 6 3 (2.564 %) Back Office 7 2 (1.709 %) Local Government 7 2 (1.709 %) Education
Job Titles 1 73 (62.39 %) Developer 2 42 (35.90 %) GIS Developer 3 25 (21.37 %) .NET Developer 4 24 (20.51 %) C# Developer 4 24 (20.51 %) VB.NET Developer 4 24 (20.51 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 24 (20.51 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 4 24 (20.51 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 15 (12.82 %) J2EE Developer 6 14 (11.97 %) Graduate 6 14 (11.97 %) Graduate Developer 7 13 (11.11 %) Graduate .NET Developer 7 13 (11.11 %) Graduate CSharp Developer 8 10 (8.547 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 10 (8.547 %) Web Developer 8 10 (8.547 %) Java Developer 9 8 (6.838 %) Analyst 10 6 (5.128 %) Business Analyst 10 6 (5.128 %) Service Manager 11 5 (4.274 %) AutoCAD Technician	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.419 %) Computer Science 1 4 (3.419 %) Data Conversion 2 3 (2.564 %) Informatics 3 2 (1.709 %) RIA 4 1 (0.855 %) Mathematics 4 1 (0.855 %) N-Tier 4 1 (0.855 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 17 (14.53 %) Windows 2 16 (13.68 %) UNIX 3 10 (8.547 %) AIX 4 6 (5.128 %) Linux 5 2 (1.709 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (7.692 %) UML 2 6 (5.128 %) OO 2 6 (5.128 %) Web Development 3 5 (4.274 %) Security Cleared 3 5 (4.274 %) ITIL 3 5 (4.274 %) EAI 3 5 (4.274 %) CAD 3 5 (4.274 %) Data Management 4 4 (3.419 %) Service Management 4 4 (3.419 %) Unit Testing 4 4 (3.419 %) Data Protection 4 4 (3.419 %) Business Development 4 4 (3.419 %) Service Delivery 5 3 (2.564 %) Business Analysis 5 3 (2.564 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (0.855 %) Technical Architecture 6 1 (0.855 %) Scrum 6 1 (0.855 %) Asset Management 6 1 (0.855 %) Operations Management 6 1 (0.855 %) Resource Management
Programming Languages 1 34 (29.06 %) C# 2 31 (26.50 %) SQL 3 27 (23.08 %) VB.NET 3 27 (23.08 %) Java 4 20 (17.09 %) VB 5 12 (10.26 %) XPath 6 11 (9.402 %) JavaScript 7 8 (6.838 %) ActionScript 8 7 (5.983 %) VBA 9 3 (2.564 %) Python 9 3 (2.564 %) C 10 1 (0.855 %) Delphi 10 1 (0.855 %) ABAP	Qualifications 1 9 (7.692 %) Degree 2 3 (2.564 %) Sun Certification 3 2 (1.709 %) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (5.128 %) QA 2 5 (4.274 %) WAI	System Software 1 2 (1.709 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 46 (39.32 %) Oracle 2 21 (17.95 %) ESRI 3 8 (6.838 %) SAP 4 5 (4.274 %) Adobe 5 3 (2.564 %) Sun 5 3 (2.564 %) Microsoft 6 2 (1.709 %) Cisco 7 1 (0.855 %) Mapinfo 7 1 (0.855 %) Autodesk