GIS Contracts in Edinburgh

Geographic Information System (GIS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 60 68 90
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 -
Contract jobs citing GIS 7 4 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.12% 0.49% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.86% 2.74% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 20
10th Percentile £264 £415 £383
25th Percentile £420 £416 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £451 £460
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -1.96% -
75th Percentile £494 £473 £479
90th Percentile £498 £479 £490
Scotland median daily rate £470 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 144 146 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.04% 17.91% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 106 256
10th Percentile £413 £381 £402
25th Percentile £450 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +1.64% -2.20%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £544
90th Percentile £612 £669 £625
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (28.57%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Support Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) AWS CDK
1 4 (57.14%) PostGIS
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Human-Centred Design
2 3 (42.86%) Inclusive Design
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Cartography
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) System Testing
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ESRI