GIS Contracts in the South East

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 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 186 207 222
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 -33
Contract jobs citing GIS 17 14 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.24% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.79% 1.61% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 34
10th Percentile £363 £356 £331
25th Percentile £375 £357 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £481 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -14.44% +25.00%
75th Percentile £436 £500 £638
90th Percentile £450 £560 £646
England median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.78% +9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £24.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £25.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +170.00% +33.33% +87.50%
75th Percentile - £25.50 £30.00
90th Percentile - - £41.25
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 610 867 1,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.99% 14.92% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 606 966
10th Percentile £319 £317 £338
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £684 £681
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 39 30
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £20.18
25th Percentile £22.08 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.95 £57.50 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +46.66% -0.74%
75th Percentile £69.38 £75.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.44 £62.49
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.92
% change year-on-year -31.09% +35.25% +72.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for GIS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the South East 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
Thames Valley +13 11 £400 +9.89% 3
Berkshire +1 11 £400 +9.89% 3
Surrey - 5 £423 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (11.76%) GeoServer
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure AKS
2 4 (23.53%) SaaS
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) Stripe
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (11.76%) XCAP
2 1 (5.88%) FTP
2 1 (5.88%) HTTP
2 1 (5.88%) Internet
2 1 (5.88%) RNC
2 1 (5.88%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (23.53%) Redis
3 3 (17.65%) Power BI
4 2 (11.76%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (11.76%) Tableau
5 1 (5.88%) Spatial Data
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Billing
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.88%) Legal
2 1 (5.88%) Local Government
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Full Stack Developer
2 4 (23.53%) GIS Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Web Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (11.76%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 2 (11.76%) Full Stack Web Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Optimisation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.76%) RAN Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) RAN Performance Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) OpenLayers
2 6 (35.29%) PostGIS
3 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
3 4 (23.53%) Celery
3 4 (23.53%) Django
3 4 (23.53%) Flask
3 4 (23.53%) GeoPandas
4 3 (17.65%) REST
5 2 (11.76%) CSS
5 2 (11.76%) Node.js
5 2 (11.76%) React
5 2 (11.76%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (11.76%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (5.88%) Housing Association
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Agile
1 4 (23.53%) Full Stack Development
1 4 (23.53%) Scrum
1 4 (23.53%) Web Development
2 3 (17.65%) API Development
2 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement Process
3 2 (11.76%) Customer Experience
3 2 (11.76%) Data Transformation
3 2 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
3 2 (11.76%) Open Source
3 2 (11.76%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
4 1 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.88%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (5.88%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Korn
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
1 2 (11.76%) Remedy
2 1 (5.88%) Ericsson
2 1 (5.88%) ESRI
2 1 (5.88%) Mapinfo
2 1 (5.88%) Nokia