GIS Contracts in Northern Ireland

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GIS 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.07% - 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.00% - 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £488
% change year-on-year +3.47% -0.87% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.12 - -
UK median hourly rate £16.12 £22.49 £52.50
% change year-on-year -28.31% -57.17% +358.72%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15 26 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 10.34% 13.00% 15.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 20
10th Percentile £329 £394 £308
25th Percentile £375 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £500 £509 £500
90th Percentile £513 £636 £551
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £16.12 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.41% - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £43.38
% change year-on-year -32.54% +36.70% +60.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 6 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
County Antrim - 3 - - 2
GIS
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (33.33%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Spatial Data
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) GIS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ESRI