Geospatial Data Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Geospatial Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 - 127
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.46% - 0.050%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.43% - 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £413 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +70.73%
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile £545 - -
South East median daily rate £419 £800 £425
% change year-on-year -47.66% +88.24% -22.73%

All Database & BI Skills
Berkshire

Geospatial Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 233 188 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.41% 14.91% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 117 150
10th Percentile £363 £367 £316
25th Percentile £425 £409 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -13.04% +18.56%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £675
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 14
10th Percentile £74.87 £41.25 £19.45
25th Percentile £77.08 £46.33 £51.94
Median hourly rate £81.50 £63.15 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.06% +1.85% -17.88%
75th Percentile £83.00 £65.39 £67.50
90th Percentile £83.45 £65.62 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £37.06 £52.83 £59.00
% change year-on-year -29.84% -10.47% +18.00%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Geospatial Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Geospatial Data job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Geospatial Data
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Geospatial Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Geospatial Data

Geospatial Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Geospatial Data in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Geospatial Data in Berkshire

Geospatial Data
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Geospatial Data within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Wokingham - 8 £500 - 1
Geospatial Data
South East

Geospatial Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) GeoServer
1 8 (100.00%) Smallworld
2 2 (25.00%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) GIS
1 8 (100.00%) QGIS
2 5 (62.50%) Metadata
3 2 (25.00%) Spatial Data
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
1 5 (62.50%) GIS Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Data Centre Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (37.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Analytics
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Migration
2 6 (75.00%) AI
2 6 (75.00%) Data Migration
2 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
3 5 (62.50%) Decision-Making
3 5 (62.50%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (62.50%) Use Case
3 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Visualisation
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (37.50%) Change Control
5 3 (37.50%) Data Stewardship
5 3 (37.50%) High Availability
5 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
5 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (37.50%) Validation
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) ESRI
1 8 (100.00%) Intergraph
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft