GIS Developer Contracts

GIS Developer
UK

The median GIS Developer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 715 863
Rank change year-on-year +150 +148 -190
Contract jobs requiring a GIS Developer 22 21 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.034% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.036% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 3
10th Percentile £281 £435 £433
25th Percentile £375 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £606
90th Percentile £688 £722 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +12.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,655 58,114 85,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.57% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,578 40,502 60,282
10th Percentile £275 £309 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,591 1,650 2,130
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.37
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.94
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +96.16% -0.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.45 £75.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +117.26% +2.63%

GIS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured GIS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GIS Developer in the UK

GIS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS Developer.

Daily rate trend for GIS Developer in the UK

GIS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS Developer over the 6 months to 15 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIS Developer in the UK

GIS Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS Developer in the UK

GIS Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +125 18 £510 -15.00% 5
UK excluding London +77 14 £450 - 3
Work from Home +124 8 £413 -21.43% 4
London +110 8 £523 -12.80% 2
North of England +43 4 £600 +14.29%
Scotland +31 4 £288 -36.11%
South East +28 4 £425 -
Yorkshire +30 2 £600 +14.29%
South West - 2 £431 - 2
North East - 1 £650 -
North West - 1 - -

GIS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 April 2024, GIS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring GIS Developer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) GIS
2 16 (72.73%) Python
3 14 (63.64%) ESRI
4 9 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (40.91%) PostGIS
5 8 (36.36%) Azure
5 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
6 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
7 5 (22.73%) ETL
7 5 (22.73%) AWS
7 5 (22.73%) IaaS
7 5 (22.73%) Secure Coding
7 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
7 5 (22.73%) OpenLayers
7 5 (22.73%) Spatial Data
8 4 (18.18%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
8 4 (18.18%) GeoPandas
8 4 (18.18%) DevOps
8 4 (18.18%) Celery
8 4 (18.18%) Django
8 4 (18.18%) Redis
8 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (18.18%) Finance
9 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
9 3 (13.64%) Information Security
9 3 (13.64%) Programme Management
9 3 (13.64%) Agile
9 3 (13.64%) ArcGIS
9 3 (13.64%) Management Information System

GIS Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (13.64%) ArcGIS
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.09%) Site Server
3 1 (4.55%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) IaaS
3 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) Prefect
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (100.00%) GIS
2 9 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (22.73%) Spatial Data
4 4 (18.18%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (18.18%) Redis
5 2 (9.09%) QGIS
6 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
General
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Electronics
3 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
3 3 (13.64%) Marketing
3 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) PostGIS
2 5 (22.73%) OpenLayers
3 4 (18.18%) Celery
3 4 (18.18%) Django
3 4 (18.18%) GeoPandas
4 3 (13.64%) pytest
4 3 (13.64%) React
4 3 (13.64%) REST
5 2 (9.09%) Flake8
5 2 (9.09%) Flask
5 2 (9.09%) Metaflow
5 2 (9.09%) Node.js
6 1 (4.55%) CSS
6 1 (4.55%) HTML
6 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
1 5 (22.73%) ETL
1 5 (22.73%) Secure Coding
2 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (18.18%) DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Agile
3 3 (13.64%) Availability Management
3 3 (13.64%) Capacity Management
3 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
3 3 (13.64%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (13.64%) Information Security
3 3 (13.64%) Programme Management
3 3 (13.64%) Prototyping
3 3 (13.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (9.09%) Analytics
4 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.55%) Data Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning
5 1 (4.55%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) Korn
3 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) ESRI
2 3 (13.64%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft