The first table below looks at the demand for PostGIS 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 PostGIS over the 3 months to 21 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PostGIS
Rank 202 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing PostGIS 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.020% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.049% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £31,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 -
% change year-on-year
-0.62% -
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2037 1929 1555
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.66% 42.73% 38.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1819 1733 1420
Average salary £36,000 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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 - 1 £31,000 -
PostGIS
England

PostGIS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) nginx
2 1 (50.00%) RSpec
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Haml
2 1 (50.00%) Memcached
2 1 (50.00%) Capistrano
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Ant
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) Advertising

PostGIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Haml
1 1 (50.00%) Memcached
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (50.00%) RSpec
1 1 (50.00%) Capistrano
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Development
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
You will be required to have experience of Java including Hibernate, Ant, Spring and also knowledge of Tomcat, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and some exposure to fast paced agile...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £28000 - £34000 per annum + Fantastic package
Posted: 16 May 2013