GIS Contracts in England

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 529 604
Rank change year-on-year +105 +75 -95
Contract jobs citing GIS 107 117 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.72% 1.36% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 82 121
10th Percentile £406 £378 £341
25th Percentile £463 £433 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £615
90th Percentile £688 £673 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +2.25% -2.20% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 17
10th Percentile £11.00 - £18.75
25th Percentile £11.63 £21.24 £28.00
Median hourly rate £18.41 £22.49 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% -57.17% +360.53%
75th Percentile £25.66 £23.73 £75.00
90th Percentile £64.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £16.12 £22.49 £52.50
% change year-on-year -28.31% -57.17% +356.92%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,232 8,625 14,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.12% 17.80% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,500 6,210 10,186
10th Percentile £351 £375 £364
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £658
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £549
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 156 168
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.82 £30.54 £22.22
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +23.78% +85.57%
75th Percentile £58.44 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £79.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GIS in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GIS in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +103 52 £523 +10.14% 23
North of England +38 27 £600 +14.29% 24
Yorkshire +25 18 £600 +11.63% 5
South East +29 17 £413 -16.46% 19
North East +13 5 £675 +28.57% 2
East of England +6 5 - - 12
North West +18 4 £513 -12.77% 17
South West +1 4 £525 +16.67% 11
West Midlands +21 1 £375 -37.50% 2
Midlands +16 1 £375 -12.18% 5
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 34 (31.78%) ArcGIS
2 9 (8.41%) SharePoint
2 9 (8.41%) Site Server
3 4 (3.74%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.80%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.93%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.93%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.87%) SAP CRM
2 2 (1.87%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.87%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.93%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.17%) Azure
2 18 (16.82%) AWS
3 16 (14.95%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (11.21%) IaaS
5 11 (10.28%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.41%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.67%) Google Sheets
8 4 (3.74%) Azure AKS
8 4 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (3.74%) GitHub
8 4 (3.74%) SaaS
9 2 (1.87%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.87%) GCP
9 2 (1.87%) Serverless
9 2 (1.87%) Stripe
10 1 (0.93%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.93%) dbt
10 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.54%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (4.67%) 2G
2 5 (4.67%) 3G
2 5 (4.67%) 4G
2 5 (4.67%) 5G
3 3 (2.80%) LTE
3 3 (2.80%) TETRA
4 2 (1.87%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.87%) XCAP
5 1 (0.93%) FTP
5 1 (0.93%) HTTP
5 1 (0.93%) Internet
5 1 (0.93%) RNC
5 1 (0.93%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.30%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (18.69%) Geospatial Data
3 12 (11.21%) Spatial Data
4 11 (10.28%) Power BI
5 9 (8.41%) QGIS
6 6 (5.61%) Redis
7 4 (3.74%) Big Data
7 4 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.74%) Metadata
8 3 (2.80%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.87%) InterSystems Cache
9 2 (1.87%) Tableau
10 1 (0.93%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (28.97%) Public Sector
2 27 (25.23%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.82%) Finance
4 13 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.35%) Telecoms
6 8 (7.48%) Back Office
6 8 (7.48%) Local Government
7 7 (6.54%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.67%) Electronics
8 5 (4.67%) Marketing
8 5 (4.67%) Retail
9 2 (1.87%) French Language
9 2 (1.87%) Italian Language
9 2 (1.87%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Billing
10 1 (0.93%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (21.50%) Developer
2 16 (14.95%) GIS Developer
3 12 (11.21%) Analyst
4 11 (10.28%) Architect
5 10 (9.35%) Senior
6 9 (8.41%) GIS Analyst
6 9 (8.41%) GIS Architect
6 9 (8.41%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.54%) GIS Specialist
8 5 (4.67%) Digital Transformation
8 5 (4.67%) Digital Transformation Manager
8 5 (4.67%) Python Developer
8 5 (4.67%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.67%) Transformation Manager
9 4 (3.74%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (3.74%) Operations Manager
9 4 (3.74%) Radio Specialist
9 4 (3.74%) Senior GIS Analyst
9 4 (3.74%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) PostGIS
1 12 (11.21%) REST
2 10 (9.35%) OpenLayers
3 9 (8.41%) .NET
4 4 (3.74%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.74%) Celery
4 4 (3.74%) Django
4 4 (3.74%) Flask
4 4 (3.74%) GeoPandas
4 4 (3.74%) Node.js
5 3 (2.80%) CSS
5 3 (2.80%) React
6 2 (1.87%) RESTful
6 2 (1.87%) SignalR
6 2 (1.87%) SOAP
6 2 (1.87%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (1.87%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (0.93%) HTML
7 1 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.02%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.74%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.74%) SCADA
3 3 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.80%) Lidar
4 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.87%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.87%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.87%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.87%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.93%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.93%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Unix
1 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (23.36%) Agile
2 22 (20.56%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (18.69%) DevOps
4 16 (14.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 14 (13.08%) Data Management
5 14 (13.08%) ETL
6 13 (12.15%) Project Management
7 12 (11.21%) Data Analysis
8 11 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (9.35%) CRM
9 10 (9.35%) Line Management
10 9 (8.41%) Asset Management
10 9 (8.41%) Budget Management
10 9 (8.41%) Migration
10 9 (8.41%) Visualisation
11 8 (7.48%) Analytics
11 8 (7.48%) Project Delivery
11 8 (7.48%) Roadmaps
12 7 (6.54%) Business Development
12 7 (6.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (34.58%) Python
2 18 (16.82%) SQL
3 10 (9.35%) PowerShell
4 9 (8.41%) Korn
5 7 (6.54%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.80%) Java
7 2 (1.87%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.93%) C#
8 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (15.89%) Degree
2 7 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.80%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.80%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.87%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 41 (38.32%) ESRI
2 14 (13.08%) Oracle
3 12 (11.21%) SAP
4 7 (6.54%) Google
5 6 (5.61%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.80%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.87%) Remedy
8 1 (0.93%) Ericsson
8 1 (0.93%) IBM
8 1 (0.93%) Mapinfo
8 1 (0.93%) Nokia