GIS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring GIS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing GIS 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.077% - 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.63% - 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £303
25th Percentile - - £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.00%
75th Percentile - - £494
90th Percentile - - £528
England median daily rate £495 £478 £570
% change year-on-year +3.66% -16.23% +14.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 158 112 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.12% 7.29% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 63 148
10th Percentile £375 £213 £338
25th Percentile £450 £319 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% -10.00% -4.67%
75th Percentile £600 £544 £578
90th Percentile £650 £641 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile £20.89 £13.69 £39.20
25th Percentile £21.09 £14.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £24.45 £15.98 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.00% -77.96% +78.00%
75th Percentile £35.53 £20.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £47.72 £37.75 £78.30
England median hourly rate £44.25 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +22.07% -34.09% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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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 GIS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Hertfordshire - 1 - - 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Agriculture
1 1 (100.00%) Agrochemical
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Biology
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Sensing
1 1 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PhD