Geospatial Data Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Geospatial Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £504 - -
90th Percentile £509 - -
England median daily rate £476 £476 £600
% change year-on-year -0.16% -20.63% -2.83%

All Database & BI Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 180 158 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.53% 12.33% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 92 63
10th Percentile £347 £375 £213
25th Percentile £410 £450 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +11.72% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £544
90th Percentile £634 £650 £641
England median daily rate £504 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.76% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 9
10th Percentile £20.31 £20.89 £13.69
25th Percentile £20.56 £21.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £58.75 £24.45 £15.98
Median % change year-on-year +140.29% +53.00% -78.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.53 £20.00
90th Percentile - £47.72 £37.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £43.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -9.20% +20.00% -34.09%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Geospatial Data job vacancy trend in the East of England

Geospatial Data
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Geospatial Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Geospatial Data

Geospatial Data
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Geospatial Data.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Geospatial Data

Geospatial Data
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
Cambridgeshire - 2 £469 - 1
Essex - 1 £480 - 1
Geospatial Data
England

Geospatial Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) GIS
2 1 (33.33%) Spatial Data
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) ESRI