GIS Contracts in Cheshire

Geographic Information System (GIS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring GIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GIS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing GIS 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.89% - 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.33% - 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £279 - -
25th Percentile £286 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £296 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +105.88%
75th Percentile £308 - -
90th Percentile £315 - -
North West median daily rate £400 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -21.95% +7.89% +39.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.80 - -
North West median hourly rate £29.80 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

GIS 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 75 91 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.70% 18.06% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 68 63
10th Percentile £334 £363 £330
25th Percentile £365 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +8.67% +8.56%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £586
90th Percentile £643 £610 £679
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.63 -
25th Percentile £39.85 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £49.90 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.41% +6.25% +29.03%
75th Percentile £59.95 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £65.98 - -
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
% change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for GIS in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for GIS in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Crewe - 1 - -
GIS
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MSDE
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) DTS
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Content Management
1 2 (50.00%) CRM
1 2 (50.00%) Data Management
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 2 (50.00%) Quality Management
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Perfmon
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
1 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware