GIS Jobs in the North West

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for GIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 204 294 304
Rank change year-on-year +90 +10 -69
Permanent jobs citing GIS 91 7 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.94% 0.089% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.06% 0.46% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29 0 12
10th Percentile £30,000 - £40,125
25th Percentile £32,500 - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £43,150
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.16%
75th Percentile £42,203 - £56,356
90th Percentile £45,500 - £91,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,800 1,525 2,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 18.53% 19.31% 22.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 887 1,310
10th Percentile £32,875 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £54,882 £53,015
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% +3.52% +8.19%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,759 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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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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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for GIS in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing GIS in the North West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for GIS in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the North West 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +83 58 £40,000 - 6
Merseyside +44 31 - - 2
Cheshire -15 2 £38,750 - 2
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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 71 (78.02%) ArcGIS
2 57 (62.64%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 57 (62.64%) AWS
1 57 (62.64%) Azure
2 4 (4.40%) SaaS
3 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (76.92%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (62.64%) QGIS
3 23 (25.27%) Geospatial Data
4 13 (14.29%) MySQL
4 13 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 13 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 7 (7.69%) Redis
6 2 (2.20%) Power BI
General
1 5 (5.49%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.20%) Finance
4 1 (1.10%) Games
4 1 (1.10%) Local Government
4 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (82.42%) Software Engineer
2 38 (41.76%) Senior
3 37 (40.66%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Developer
4 8 (8.79%) Software Developer
5 6 (6.59%) Research Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Research Software Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Geospatial Developer
7 4 (4.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Geospatial Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) GIS Developer
9 2 (2.20%) Analyst
9 2 (2.20%) Data Analyst
9 2 (2.20%) EDI Specialist
9 2 (2.20%) Information Specialist
9 2 (2.20%) Performance Specialist
9 2 (2.20%) Project Manager
10 1 (1.10%) C# Software Engineer
10 1 (1.10%) GIS Technician
10 1 (1.10%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (71.43%) PostGIS
1 65 (71.43%) React
2 63 (69.23%) .NET
3 62 (68.13%) .NET Core
4 61 (67.03%) Leaflet
4 61 (67.03%) OpenLayers
5 57 (62.64%) CSS
6 8 (8.79%) AngularJS
6 8 (8.79%) Blazor
6 8 (8.79%) Django
6 8 (8.79%) HTML
6 8 (8.79%) HTML5
6 8 (8.79%) Node.js
6 8 (8.79%) RESTful
6 8 (8.79%) Svelte
6 8 (8.79%) Vue
7 7 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 7 (7.69%) JSON
7 7 (7.69%) XML
8 6 (6.59%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.40%) NHS
2 2 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.48%) Linux
2 8 (8.79%) Ubuntu
3 7 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (83.52%) Software Engineering
2 65 (71.43%) Web Development
3 61 (67.03%) Actionable Insight
4 57 (62.64%) Agile
4 57 (62.64%) DevOps
5 14 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 14 (15.38%) OO
6 13 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 13 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
7 12 (13.19%) MVC
7 12 (13.19%) MVVM
7 12 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (13.19%) System Testing
8 6 (6.59%) Dependency Injection
8 6 (6.59%) Inversion of Control
9 5 (5.49%) Prototyping
10 4 (4.40%) Line Management
10 4 (4.40%) Open Source
10 4 (4.40%) Software Architecture
10 4 (4.40%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 72 (79.12%) Python
2 71 (78.02%) JavaScript
3 45 (49.45%) C#
4 1 (1.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (67.03%) Security Cleared
2 57 (62.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Degree
Vendors
1 65 (71.43%) ESRI
2 13 (14.29%) Oracle