Remote Sensing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Remote Sensing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Remote Sensing over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 878 943 1155
Rank change year-on-year +65 +212 -
Permanent jobs citing Remote Sensing 13 60 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.056% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.058% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 5
10th Percentile - - £58,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,931 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £36,507 £66,045
Median % change year-on-year +64.35% -44.72% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £37,996 £69,500
90th Percentile - £38,597 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £36,507 £66,523
% change year-on-year +64.35% -45.12% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Remote Sensing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,920 103,131 145,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 95.65% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 59,805 60,258 83,543
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,456 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +2.43% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.26% +3.81% +9.38%

Remote Sensing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Remote Sensing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Remote Sensing in the UK

Remote Sensing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Remote Sensing.

Salary trend for Remote Sensing in the UK

Remote Sensing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Remote Sensing over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Remote Sensing in the UK

Remote Sensing
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Sensing within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +98 13 £60,000 +64.35% 3
UK excluding London +23 13 £60,000 +64.35% 1
South East +39 10 £30,000 - 1
Work from Home +68 2 £85,000 +132.84% 2
West Midlands - 2 £85,000 -
Midlands - 2 £85,000 -
East of England +26 1 - -

Remote Sensing
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 2 (15.38%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) GIS
2 4 (30.77%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
3 2 (15.38%) Spatial Data
4 1 (7.69%) Metadata
4 1 (7.69%) MySQL
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (38.46%) Aerospace
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Business Consultant
1 5 (38.46%) Business Development Consultant
1 5 (38.46%) Consultant
1 5 (38.46%) Development Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Remote Sensing Technician
3 2 (15.38%) Analytics Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Data Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Data Science Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) PostGIS
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
1 3 (23.08%) Photography
2 2 (15.38%) Lidar
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (38.46%) Business Development
2 5 (38.46%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (23.08%) Aerial Photography
3 3 (23.08%) Cartography
3 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
3 3 (23.08%) Data Conversion
3 3 (23.08%) Workflow
3 3 (23.08%) Workflow Management
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Data Science
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team Management
5 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (7.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) ESRI
1 3 (23.08%) Mapinfo
2 1 (7.69%) Google