GIS Contracts in the North of England

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 194 234
Rank change year-on-year +37 +40 -60
Contract jobs citing GIS 27 19 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.33% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.86% 2.29% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 3
10th Percentile - £441 £288
25th Percentile £480 £475 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £340
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +54.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £414
90th Percentile £695 £693 £458
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.15
25th Percentile - - £38.38
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £13.50 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £52.50
% change year-on-year -39.96% -57.17% +360.53%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 699 830 1,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.89% 14.54% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 600 943
10th Percentile £350 £362 £325
25th Percentile £413 £420 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% +13.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 43
10th Percentile £11.00 £35.00 £11.88
25th Percentile £14.00 £39.60 £15.24
Median hourly rate £40.25 £49.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +113.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £44.74 £65.00 £50.60
90th Percentile £50.69 £65.40 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.25 £57.50 £42.92
% change year-on-year -30.00% +33.98% +71.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Yorkshire +34 18 £600 +9.09%
North East +16 5 £675 +28.57% 1
North West +25 4 £513 +7.89% 7
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 10 (37.04%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.70%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (11.11%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (7.41%) SAP CRM
2 2 (7.41%) SAP ERP
2 2 (7.41%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (14.81%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) LTE
1 3 (11.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (18.52%) Spatial Data
3 4 (14.81%) QGIS
4 3 (11.11%) Metadata
5 2 (7.41%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (7.41%) Redis
6 1 (3.70%) Power BI
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Architect
3 4 (14.81%) GIS Architect
3 4 (14.81%) GIS Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) GIS Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) GIS Business Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) GIS Technician
4 3 (11.11%) SCADA Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.41%) GIS Manager
5 2 (7.41%) GIS Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Telecoms Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Trainer
6 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) OpenLayers
1 3 (11.11%) PostGIS
2 2 (7.41%) Node.js
2 2 (7.41%) SignalR
3 1 (3.70%) CSS
3 1 (3.70%) HTML
3 1 (3.70%) React
3 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (11.11%) Lidar
1 3 (11.11%) SCADA
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Agile
2 6 (22.22%) Data Management
2 6 (22.22%) DevOps
3 5 (18.52%) Waterfall
4 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (14.81%) CRM
4 4 (14.81%) ERP
4 4 (14.81%) User Stories
5 3 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (11.11%) Analytics
5 3 (11.11%) Business Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 3 (11.11%) Image Processing
5 3 (11.11%) Open Source
5 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (11.11%) User Experience
6 2 (7.41%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 3 (11.11%) Python
2 2 (7.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) ESRI
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.81%) SAP
4 2 (7.41%) Mapbox