GIS Contracts in the East Midlands

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GIS 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.43% - 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.16% - 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £335
25th Percentile £413 - £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £425
75th Percentile £438 - £426
90th Percentile - - £427
England median daily rate £455 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 95 128 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.57% 14.80% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 88 113
10th Percentile £313 £288 £223
25th Percentile £358 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £488 £473 £508
90th Percentile £516 £536 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile £18.29 £12.51 £19.80
25th Percentile £18.43 - £20.92
Median hourly rate £21.00 £14.00 £23.40
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -40.17% -33.14%
75th Percentile £26.99 £20.00 £25.26
90th Percentile £34.17 £27.77 £25.99
England median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -15.00% -29.76% +41.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for GIS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Leicestershire - 2 £425 - 2
Derbyshire - 1 - - 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (33.33%) QGIS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AutoCAD Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) CAD Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Geospatial Technician
1 1 (33.33%) GIS Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) 3D Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
1 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) CAD
1 1 (33.33%) Contract Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Trapeze