GIS Contracts in Edinburgh

Geographic Information System (GIS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for GIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GIS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 90 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Contract jobs citing GIS 4 22 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.49% 1.69% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.74% 7.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 0
10th Percentile £415 £383 -
25th Percentile £416 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £460 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - -
75th Percentile £473 £479 -
90th Percentile £479 £490 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 -
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

GIS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 146 309 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.91% 23.71% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 256 211
10th Percentile £381 £402 £375
25th Percentile £431 £439 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -2.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £575
90th Percentile £669 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.44
25th Percentile - - £16.76
Median hourly rate - - £21.75
75th Percentile - - £29.00
90th Percentile - - £33.50
Scotland median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for GIS in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for GIS in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) PostGIS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (25.00%) React
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusive Design
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana