ArcGIS Contracts in England

ESRI ArcGIS
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring ArcGIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ArcGIS over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 500 617
Rank change year-on-year +47 +117 +127
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 27 38 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.10% 0.069%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.99% 1.08% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 26
10th Percentile £349 £463 £378
25th Percentile £400 £483 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £513 £606 £550
90th Percentile £591 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £440 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -10.20% -6.67% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £15.95
25th Percentile - - £17.38
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.50% -57.89%
75th Percentile - £24.50 £22.88
90th Percentile - £44.30 £24.45
UK median hourly rate - £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - -32.50% -57.89%

All Application Platform Skills
England

ArcGIS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,718 3,523 5,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 9.70% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,815 2,550 3,658
10th Percentile £289 £255 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +4.90%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £764
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.72% +0.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 141 135
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.00 £16.07
25th Percentile £29.25 £15.13 £19.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -33.33% +100.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.16 £50.00
% change year-on-year +74.07% -39.68% +108.33%

ArcGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ArcGIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ArcGIS in England

ArcGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ArcGIS in England.

Daily rate trend for ArcGIS in England

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ArcGIS in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ArcGIS in England

ArcGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ArcGIS in England.

Hourly rate trend for ArcGIS in England

ArcGIS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ArcGIS within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
London +48 16 £430 -14.00% 14
North West +11 5 £585 +17.00% 22
North of England +10 5 £585 +18.18% 51
South East +52 3 £400 -23.81% 57
Midlands - 3 £375 - 52
West Midlands - 2 £375 - 30
East Midlands - 1 - - 19
ArcGIS
UK

ArcGIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Spatial
1 2 (7.41%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (59.26%) GIS
2 5 (18.52%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (18.52%) Spatial Data
3 3 (11.11%) Power BI
4 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.70%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) GDB
General
1 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Developer
3 4 (14.81%) GIS Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Geospatial Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Applications Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Geospatial Technician
5 2 (7.41%) GIS Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) GIS Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) AutoCAD Technician
6 1 (3.70%) CAD Technician
6 1 (3.70%) GIS Technician
6 1 (3.70%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) React
2 2 (7.41%) GeoJSON
2 2 (7.41%) KML
2 2 (7.41%) Middleware
2 2 (7.41%) PostGIS
3 1 (3.70%) CSS
3 1 (3.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Data Analysis
1 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (22.22%) DevOps
2 6 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 5 (18.52%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (14.81%) Agile
4 4 (14.81%) Data Management
5 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
5 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (11.11%) TOGAF
6 2 (7.41%) Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) Cartography
6 2 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (7.41%) Data Conversion
6 2 (7.41%) Data Migration
6 2 (7.41%) Data Modelling
6 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (7.41%) Migration
6 2 (7.41%) Open Source
6 2 (7.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
4 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) Magik
6 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) ESRI
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks