Geospatial Data Contracts in England

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Geospatial Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Geospatial Data 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 455 497 574
Rank change year-on-year +42 +77 +125
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 30 45 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.65% 0.72% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 50
10th Percentile £406 £393 £350
25th Percentile £441 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +4.88% -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £600
90th Percentile £649 £708 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.24
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year - -39.96% -70.02%
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £13.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year - -39.96% -70.02%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Geospatial Data in England

Geospatial Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Geospatial Data in England

Geospatial Data
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Geospatial Data in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Geospatial Data in England

Geospatial Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Geospatial Data in England

Geospatial Data
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 Geospatial Data within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +35 16 £600 -11.11% 21
South West +49 7 £450 -14.29% 22
North of England +11 4 £450 -17.43% 16
North West - 4 £450 - 7
South East +41 1 £525 - 28
Midlands +21 1 - - 17
East Midlands - 1 - - 7
Geospatial Data
UK

Geospatial Data
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 4 (13.33%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) PaaS
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (46.67%) GIS
2 2 (6.67%) Big Data
2 2 (6.67%) Metadata
2 2 (6.67%) ObjectStore
2 2 (6.67%) Tableau
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) QGIS
3 1 (3.33%) Spatial Data
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.33%) Jasmine
3 1 (3.33%) Mocha
General
1 7 (23.33%) Publishing
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Tech for Good
5 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Aviation
6 1 (3.33%) Finance
6 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Developer
2 10 (33.33%) Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 4 (13.33%) GIS Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 3 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead Python Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Geospatial Architect
6 2 (6.67%) GIS Architect
6 2 (6.67%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) Node.js
2 5 (16.67%) REST
3 3 (10.00%) .NET
3 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (10.00%) PostGIS
3 3 (10.00%) React
3 3 (10.00%) RESTful
4 2 (6.67%) GeoJSON
4 2 (6.67%) Google Maps API
4 2 (6.67%) Leaflet
4 2 (6.67%) MapLibre
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.33%) Express.js
5 1 (3.33%) HTML
5 1 (3.33%) Jest
5 1 (3.33%) NumPy
5 1 (3.33%) Nunjucks
5 1 (3.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Lidar
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 9 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (26.67%) Data Ingestion
4 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
5 6 (20.00%) Agile
5 6 (20.00%) API Integration
5 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 5 (16.67%) Visualisation
7 4 (13.33%) Analytics
7 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.33%) Data Management
7 4 (13.33%) Data Science
7 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
7 4 (13.33%) Event-Driven
7 4 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
7 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) C#
3 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.00%) SQL
6 2 (6.67%) Java
7 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PMP
3 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) WCAG
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) ESRI
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Google
2 2 (6.67%) Mapbox
3 1 (3.33%) IBM