QGIS Contracts in England

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for QGIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QGIS 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 506 618 765
Rank change year-on-year +112 +147 -166
Contract jobs citing QGIS 37 30 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.059% 0.025%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.60% 0.33% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 13
10th Percentile - £337 £426
25th Percentile £350 £381 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -20.00% +44.44%
75th Percentile £495 £576 £700
90th Percentile - £616 -
UK median daily rate £413 £520 £650
% change year-on-year -20.67% -20.00% +53.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile - - £28.83
25th Percentile - £21.24 £30.06
Median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.96% -31.34% +36.46%
75th Percentile - £23.73 £36.06
90th Percentile - - £37.68
UK median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £32.75
% change year-on-year -39.96% -31.34% +36.46%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

QGIS 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 6,216 9,070 14,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.70% 17.97% 20.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,460 6,505 10,360
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £781 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.78% +9.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 166 170
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.05 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.92
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% +35.25% +72.91%
75th Percentile £56.74 £70.19 £61.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +59.00%

QGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QGIS in England

QGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for QGIS in England

QGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for QGIS in England

QGIS
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 QGIS within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
South West +25 22 - - 1
London +99 7 £490 +22.50% 3
Midlands - 4 £350 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £350 - 1
North of England - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North West - 1 - - 1
QGIS
UK

QGIS
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 9 (24.32%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.70%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (8.11%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (2.70%) AWS
1 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (2.70%) Azure
1 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
1 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (56.76%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (13.51%) 2G
2 5 (13.51%) 3G
2 5 (13.51%) 4G
2 5 (13.51%) 5G
3 4 (10.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (35.14%) GIS
2 3 (8.11%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (8.11%) Metadata
2 3 (8.11%) Spatial Data
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) RAN Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Network Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Radio Specialist
4 3 (8.11%) GIS Technician
5 2 (5.41%) Network Specialist
6 1 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Developer
6 1 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) GIS Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Radio Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Radio Planner
6 1 (2.70%) RF Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) CSS
1 1 (2.70%) HTML
1 1 (2.70%) OpenLayers
1 1 (2.70%) PostGIS
1 1 (2.70%) React
1 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) PACS
2 3 (8.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (8.11%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.22%) Decision-Making
1 6 (16.22%) Visualisation
2 5 (13.51%) Data Analysis
2 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (10.81%) Customer Experience
4 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (8.11%) Data Management
4 3 (8.11%) Image Processing
4 3 (8.11%) User Experience
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Machine Learning
5 2 (5.41%) Network Planning
6 1 (2.70%) Analytics
6 1 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (2.70%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (2.70%) Data Analytics
6 1 (2.70%) Data Engineering
6 1 (2.70%) Open Source
6 1 (2.70%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) ESRI
2 4 (10.81%) Ericsson
2 4 (10.81%) Greenplum
2 4 (10.81%) Mapinfo
2 4 (10.81%) Pega
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft