GIS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 290 360 515
Rank change year-on-year +70 +155 -106
Contract jobs citing GIS 57 108 104
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.43% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.97% 2.26% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 89 78
10th Percentile £406 £335 £341
25th Percentile £433 £449 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £489 £481
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% +1.61% +13.24%
75th Percentile £501 £604 £634
90th Percentile £650 £651 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £483 £488
% change year-on-year +1.40% -0.87% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile - £21.78 £22.81
Median hourly rate - £23.38 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.25% +335.16%
75th Percentile - £24.78 £56.25
90th Percentile - £25.21 £62.50
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,891 4,781 9,580
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.15% 19.03% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,125 3,492 6,964
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 83 83
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.20 £19.20
25th Percentile £22.61 £41.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +39.28% +50.55%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.92
% change year-on-year -32.54% +38.16% +59.07%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GIS trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GIS.

GIS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GIS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

GIS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GIS.

GIS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (31.58%) ArcGIS
2 5 (8.77%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Maximo
2 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.51%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.54%) Power Platform
2 8 (14.04%) AWS
2 8 (14.04%) Azure
3 5 (8.77%) Google Sheets
4 4 (7.02%) Azure AKS
4 4 (7.02%) SaaS
5 2 (3.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (3.51%) Stripe
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.75%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (7.02%) 2G
2 4 (7.02%) 3G
2 4 (7.02%) 4G
2 4 (7.02%) 5G
3 2 (3.51%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (3.51%) XCAP
4 1 (1.75%) FTP
4 1 (1.75%) LTE
4 1 (1.75%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) Geospatial Data
1 11 (19.30%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (17.54%) Power BI
3 5 (8.77%) QGIS
4 4 (7.02%) Redis
5 2 (3.51%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.51%) Star Schema
5 2 (3.51%) Tableau
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.75%) Big Data
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.75%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Public Sector
3 10 (17.54%) Finance
4 9 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.28%) Local Government
6 5 (8.77%) Back Office
6 5 (8.77%) Retail
7 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.51%) French Language
8 2 (3.51%) Italian Language
8 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.75%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.75%) Electronics
9 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.75%) Marketing
9 1 (1.75%) Military
9 1 (1.75%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Developer
2 10 (17.54%) Analyst
3 7 (12.28%) GIS Analyst
4 6 (10.53%) GIS Developer
5 5 (8.77%) Applications Support
5 5 (8.77%) Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Digital Transformation
5 5 (8.77%) Digital Transformation Manager
5 5 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Transformation Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (7.02%) GIS Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Radio Specialist
6 4 (7.02%) Senior
6 4 (7.02%) Web Developer
7 3 (5.26%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) GIS Business Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) GIS Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Head of IT
7 3 (5.26%) Senior GIS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) PostGIS
2 8 (14.04%) .NET
3 7 (12.28%) OpenLayers
4 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
4 4 (7.02%) Celery
4 4 (7.02%) Django
4 4 (7.02%) Flask
4 4 (7.02%) GeoPandas
4 4 (7.02%) React
5 3 (5.26%) CSS
6 2 (3.51%) Node.js
6 2 (3.51%) REST
6 2 (3.51%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (3.51%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.75%) HTML
7 1 (1.75%) Spring
7 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.75%) Web Services
7 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.26%) SCADA
3 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.51%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.51%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Windows
1 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.82%) Agile
2 13 (22.81%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (21.05%) Data Analysis
4 9 (15.79%) Migration
4 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.79%) Visualisation
5 8 (14.04%) DevOps
5 8 (14.04%) Project Management
6 7 (12.28%) Customer Experience
7 5 (8.77%) CRM
7 5 (8.77%) Data Modelling
7 5 (8.77%) Line Management
7 5 (8.77%) Scrum
7 5 (8.77%) Service Management
8 4 (7.02%) Data Migration
8 4 (7.02%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (7.02%) Roadmaps
8 4 (7.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (7.02%) User Stories
8 4 (7.02%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.84%) Python
2 14 (24.56%) SQL
3 5 (8.77%) C#
4 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.75%) Java
6 1 (1.75%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 3 (5.26%) Degree
2 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.51%) QA
1 2 (3.51%) SLA
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) ESRI
2 5 (8.77%) Google
2 5 (8.77%) SAP
3 4 (7.02%) Mapbox
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.51%) Remedy
4 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.75%) IBM