GIS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Geographic Information System (GIS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring GIS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 122 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing GIS 1 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.058% 0.33% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.26% 1.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £371 -
25th Percentile £625 £439 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £510 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% - -
75th Percentile £675 £576 -
90th Percentile - £638 -
Central London median daily rate £650 £510 -
% change year-on-year +27.45% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 388 452 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.41% 21.44% 20.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 320 406
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £436 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £675 £725 £706
90th Percentile £800 £825 £789
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.13% -0.04% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £24.25 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.13 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £48.25 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.32% -12.50% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile £81.88 - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year +20.63% -9.09% -22.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GIS

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GIS

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DKIM
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce