The first table below looks at the demand for GIS skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GIS over the 3 months to 22 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Rank 195 189 161
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -28
Permanent jobs citing GIS 4 1 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.080% 0.022% 0.246%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.253% 0.065% 0.763%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 6
Average salary £39,500 £39,000 £35,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.28% +10.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,900 £39,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,100 £39,000 £48,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-11.25% +6.66%
All Database & Business Intelligence
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1579 1539 1311
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 31.39% 33.35% 32.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1399 1385 1187
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £47,500
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands GIS Salary Trend

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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Birmingham -9 4 £39,500 +1.28%
GIS
England

GIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 6 (37.50%) CRM
2 5 (31.25%) Mapinfo
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) Degree
4 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
4 3 (18.75%) Operations Research
4 3 (18.75%) Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Insight
4 3 (18.75%) Business Transformation
4 3 (18.75%) Mobile Computing
4 3 (18.75%) Solaris
4 3 (18.75%) Linux
4 3 (18.75%) OO
4 3 (18.75%) RAD
4 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
4 3 (18.75%) .NET
4 3 (18.75%) C#
4 3 (18.75%) C++
4 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
4 3 (18.75%) EAI
4 3 (18.75%) OOD
4 3 (18.75%) SAS

GIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
2 2 (12.50%) WinForms
2 2 (12.50%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) SAS
2 1 (6.250%) IIS
2 1 (6.250%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Casewise Modeler
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Agresso
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) Internet
1 1 (6.250%) SSL
1 1 (6.250%) GSM
1 1 (6.250%) HTTP
1 1 (6.250%) 3G
1 1 (6.250%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
1 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Subversion
1 2 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (12.50%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Marketing
2 3 (18.75%) Retail
3 1 (6.250%) Electronics
3 1 (6.250%) Legal
3 1 (6.250%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Management Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Radio Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) GSM Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) 3G Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) IT Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Web Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
1 3 (18.75%) Mobile Computing
1 3 (18.75%) Economics
2 1 (6.250%) SCADA
2 1 (6.250%) LLPG
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Solaris
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) CRM
2 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) Operations Research
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Customer Insight
3 3 (18.75%) Business Transformation
3 3 (18.75%) OO
3 3 (18.75%) RAD
3 3 (18.75%) EAI
3 3 (18.75%) OOD
3 3 (18.75%) MVC
3 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 2 (12.50%) EAM
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Bug Management
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Web Development
4 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) C++
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) VB6
3 2 (12.50%) PHP
3 2 (12.50%) VB
3 2 (12.50%) VB.NET
4 1 (6.250%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Mapinfo
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle
4 1 (6.250%) Avaya
4 1 (6.250%) ESRI
4 1 (6.250%) Casewise
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Experience with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate... - JavaScript (JQuery, DOJO or any standard frameworks)... - Linux/Redhat Technologies. - Web Servers, IIS, Apache, configuration and implementation. - Virtualisation (VMWare/ESXI)...
Candidate Source
Salary: £28,000 - £35,000 per annum DOE
Posted: 13 May 2013