GIS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 557 549
Rank change year-on-year +204 -8 -14
Permanent jobs citing GIS 501 204 316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.34% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.07% 1.76% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 150 78 134
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £27,150
25th Percentile £35,529 £35,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% -
75th Percentile £54,375 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,125 £74,875 £70,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -0.99%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,303 11,608 16,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.35% 19.30% 22.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,165 6,794 10,245
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +174 131 £40,000 -20.00% 8
North West +98 90 £40,000 - 7
South East +50 77 £45,000 -35.71% 14
Scotland -14 75 £45,000 -11.66% 8
South West -1 55 £51,000 +27.50% 8
Midlands -9 53 £80,000 +88.24% 3
East of England +13 41 £43,000 -3.91% 8
Yorkshire +127 39 £63,750 +177.17%
Wales +34 39 £54,000 -26.78% 5
East Midlands +9 36 £95,000 +192.31%
Northern Ireland +56 30 - - 1
West Midlands -16 13 £43,806 +1.29% 2
North East -4 2 £40,000 -24.69% 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 316 (63.07%) ArcGIS
2 289 (57.68%) GeoServer
3 10 (2.00%) Apache
3 10 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.20%) nginx
5 3 (0.60%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (0.60%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 15 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.80%) Trello
3 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.40%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.20%) InVision
6 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (2.00%) Maximo
2 6 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.60%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 334 (66.67%) Azure
2 312 (62.28%) AWS
3 31 (6.19%) SaaS
4 27 (5.39%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.40%) GitHub
7 11 (2.20%) Power Automate
8 8 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.20%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.20%) Serverless
11 4 (0.80%) IaaS
11 4 (0.80%) PaaS
12 3 (0.60%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.60%) Google Sheets
13 2 (0.40%) PowerApps
14 1 (0.20%) Azure AKS
14 1 (0.20%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.00%) HTTP
2 6 (1.20%) DNS
3 5 (1.00%) Intranet
4 2 (0.40%) WPA
5 1 (0.20%) Internet
5 1 (0.20%) RNC
5 1 (0.20%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (63.67%) PostgreSQL
2 285 (56.89%) QGIS
3 79 (15.77%) Geospatial Data
4 36 (7.19%) SQL Server
5 24 (4.79%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.99%) Power BI
6 20 (3.99%) Spatial Data
7 16 (3.19%) Redis
8 15 (2.99%) MySQL
9 14 (2.79%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.80%) MS Access
12 7 (1.40%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.80%) Tableau
13 4 (0.80%) Triplestore
14 1 (0.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (2.40%) JIRA
2 10 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (1.80%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.60%) Git
5 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (9.38%) Social Skills
2 32 (6.39%) Public Sector
3 25 (4.99%) Finance
4 22 (4.39%) Local Government
5 16 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.20%) Marketing
7 8 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.40%) Retail
9 6 (1.20%) Electronics
9 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.00%) Publishing
11 4 (0.80%) Automotive
11 4 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Back Office
12 3 (0.60%) Environmental Health
13 1 (0.20%) Games
13 1 (0.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 317 (63.27%) Software Engineer
2 201 (40.12%) Senior
3 184 (36.73%) Senior Software Engineer
4 35 (6.99%) Developer
5 25 (4.99%) Analyst
6 16 (3.19%) Architect
6 16 (3.19%) GIS Analyst
7 12 (2.40%) Lead
8 11 (2.20%) Geospatial Engineer
8 11 (2.20%) Software Developer
9 10 (2.00%) Data Analyst
10 9 (1.80%) Application Support Team Leader
10 9 (1.80%) Applications Support
10 9 (1.80%) Support Team Leader
10 9 (1.80%) Team Leader
11 8 (1.60%) Network Engineer
11 8 (1.60%) Network Technician
12 7 (1.40%) Applications Developer
12 7 (1.40%) GIS Developer
13 6 (1.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (59.28%) React
2 296 (59.08%) PostGIS
3 294 (58.68%) OpenLayers
4 291 (58.08%) Leaflet
5 274 (54.69%) .NET
6 270 (53.89%) CSS
7 262 (52.30%) .NET Core
8 51 (10.18%) Django
9 31 (6.19%) HTML
10 22 (4.39%) AngularJS
11 19 (3.79%) REST
12 17 (3.39%) JSON
13 16 (3.19%) RESTful
14 14 (2.79%) GeoJSON
14 14 (2.79%) Vue
15 11 (2.20%) Blazor
15 11 (2.20%) Dask
15 11 (2.20%) Flask
16 10 (2.00%) ASP.NET
16 10 (2.00%) GeoPandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.39%) Management Information System
2 8 (1.60%) PDA
2 8 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
3 6 (1.20%) Data Centre
3 6 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.00%) Driving Licence
5 4 (0.80%) Data Structures
5 4 (0.80%) Linked Data
5 4 (0.80%) NHS
5 4 (0.80%) Reference Data
6 3 (0.60%) Housing Association
6 3 (0.60%) Product Ownership
6 3 (0.60%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.40%) IoT
7 2 (0.40%) Lidar
8 1 (0.20%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.20%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.20%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.20%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 58 (11.58%) Linux
2 40 (7.98%) Ubuntu
3 15 (2.99%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (64.87%) Software Engineering
2 307 (61.28%) Web Development
3 305 (60.88%) Actionable Insight
4 302 (60.28%) Agile
5 293 (58.48%) DevOps
6 46 (9.18%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (8.18%) Full Stack Development
8 37 (7.39%) Business Intelligence
9 32 (6.39%) Data Analysis
10 27 (5.39%) Analytics
11 24 (4.79%) Computer Science
11 24 (4.79%) Decision-Making
12 23 (4.59%) OO
13 22 (4.39%) Data Modelling
13 22 (4.39%) Project Management
14 21 (4.19%) MVC
15 20 (3.99%) Line Management
15 20 (3.99%) Software Architecture
16 19 (3.79%) Code Quality
17 16 (3.19%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 341 (68.06%) Python
2 336 (67.07%) JavaScript
3 176 (35.13%) C#
4 28 (5.59%) SQL
5 13 (2.59%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.80%) Apex Code
7 7 (1.40%) Java
8 6 (1.20%) Ada
8 6 (1.20%) PHP
9 4 (0.80%) R
9 4 (0.80%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.40%) C++
11 1 (0.20%) Go
11 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.20%) Ruby
11 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 322 (64.27%) Security Cleared
2 300 (59.88%) SC Cleared
3 57 (11.38%) Degree
4 9 (1.80%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.60%) MCPD
7 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.40%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.40%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.20%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.40%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.40%) QA
4 1 (0.20%) GDPR
4 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (2.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.40%) Terraform
2 6 (1.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 309 (61.68%) ESRI
2 41 (8.18%) Microsoft
3 25 (4.99%) Oracle
4 14 (2.79%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.59%) SAP
6 9 (1.80%) Civica
7 7 (1.40%) IBM
8 5 (1.00%) Mapbox
9 4 (0.80%) Sparx
10 3 (0.60%) Google
11 2 (0.40%) Mapinfo
12 1 (0.20%) Adobe
12 1 (0.20%) Ericsson
12 1 (0.20%) IFS
12 1 (0.20%) Nokia
12 1 (0.20%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.20%) Xamarin