GIS Contracts in the North West

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 152 166
Rank change year-on-year +18 +14 -36
Contract jobs citing GIS 4 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% 0.095% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.95% 0.58% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £503 - £288
25th Percentile £506 - £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £340
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +39.71% -28.04%
75th Percentile £519 £588 £414
90th Percentile £523 £655 £458
England median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.78% +9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.15
25th Percentile - - £38.38
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £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 West

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 West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 422 515 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.53% 16.30% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 376 560
10th Percentile £349 £344 £313
25th Percentile £408 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -2.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £578 £586 £590
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 39
10th Percentile £26.85 £35.00 £11.06
25th Percentile £39.44 £39.60 £15.24
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +63.64% +17.17%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £47.60
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.40 £60.60
England median hourly rate £40.25 £56.40 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.63% +32.71% +72.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Manchester +22 3 £513 +7.89% 6
Lancashire - 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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%) ArcGIS
2 1 (25.00%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) QGIS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) GIS Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) GIS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) OpenLayers
1 1 (25.00%) PostGIS
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Vision
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Econometrics
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Mapbox