Geospatial Data Contracts in England

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Geospatial Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Geospatial Data over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 587 705
Rank change year-on-year +82 +118 -126
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 45 78 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.73% 0.85% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 48 52
10th Percentile £389 £350 £411
25th Percentile £453 £404 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -14.06%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £616
90th Percentile £710 £650 £673
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £529
% change year-on-year +15.00% -5.39% -13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 10
10th Percentile - - £15.00
25th Percentile - £21.24 -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.96% -70.02% +650.00%
75th Percentile - £23.73 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £75.00
% change year-on-year -39.96% -70.02% +598.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Geospatial Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,174 9,191 14,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.59% 18.04% 20.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,430 6,592 10,471
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £653
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £547 £540
% change year-on-year -4.02% +1.30% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 164 173
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.93 £35.00 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +39.52% +70.00%
75th Percentile £54.34 £71.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.76 £69.81
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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 +93 20 £675 +35.00% 12
North of England +36 12 £545 +3.81% 3
Yorkshire +26 10 £490 -18.33% 2
South East +6 6 £525 -7.41% 8
South West +13 3 £600 -7.69% 5
West Midlands +30 2 £400 +14.29% 1
Midlands +28 2 £400 +14.29% 1
North East - 2 £650 -
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 15 (33.33%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.67%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (4.44%) SAP CRM
2 2 (4.44%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) Azure
1 9 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (11.11%) AWS
2 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (11.11%) GCP
3 3 (6.67%) Azure Functions
3 3 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (6.67%) PaaS
3 3 (6.67%) Serverless
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (4.44%) SaaS
4 2 (4.44%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (46.67%) GIS
2 11 (24.44%) SQL Server
3 9 (20.00%) Power BI
4 8 (17.78%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 8 (17.78%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (17.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (13.33%) Metadata
6 4 (8.89%) Spatial Data
7 3 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (6.67%) BigQuery
7 3 (6.67%) QGIS
8 2 (4.44%) Big Data
8 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
9 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) ClearCase
1 4 (8.89%) ClearQuest
1 4 (8.89%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (4.44%) JIRA
3 2 (4.44%) Zephyr
4 1 (2.22%) Postman
4 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Electronics
5 1 (2.22%) Local Government
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Military
5 1 (2.22%) Social Housing
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Analyst
2 11 (24.44%) Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Data Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Senior
5 6 (13.33%) Technical Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Technical Business Analyst
6 5 (11.11%) GIS Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Architect
7 3 (6.67%) GIS Architect
7 3 (6.67%) GIS Business Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) GIS Technician
7 3 (6.67%) Lead
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Geospatial Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) GIS Project Manager
8 2 (4.44%) Information Systems Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.44%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) XML
2 4 (8.89%) .NET
3 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 3 (6.67%) React
4 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (4.44%) CSS
4 2 (4.44%) GeoPandas
4 2 (4.44%) HTML
4 2 (4.44%) Matplotlib
4 2 (4.44%) NumPy
4 2 (4.44%) PostGIS
4 2 (4.44%) PyTorch
4 2 (4.44%) RESTful
4 2 (4.44%) scikit-learn
4 2 (4.44%) SOAP
4 2 (4.44%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (4.44%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.22%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.67%) Lidar
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) Agile
2 16 (35.56%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (31.11%) Scrum
4 12 (26.67%) Kanban
5 10 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 9 (20.00%) Project Management
6 9 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 8 (17.78%) Dimensional Modelling
7 8 (17.78%) Kimball Methodology
7 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (15.56%) Data Engineering
8 7 (15.56%) ETL
9 6 (13.33%) Data Governance
9 6 (13.33%) Data Management
9 6 (13.33%) OO
10 5 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
10 5 (11.11%) DevOps
10 5 (11.11%) Waterfall
11 4 (8.89%) Analytics
11 4 (8.89%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) SQL
2 8 (17.78%) PL/SQL
2 8 (17.78%) Python
2 8 (17.78%) XPath
2 8 (17.78%) XQuery
3 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.89%) C
4 4 (8.89%) C#
4 4 (8.89%) C++
5 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.44%) Java
6 2 (4.44%) R
6 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.56%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) Accessibility
1 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) WCAG
3 2 (4.44%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) HP ALM
2 3 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (35.56%) ESRI
2 11 (24.44%) SAP
3 8 (17.78%) Oracle
4 5 (11.11%) Google
4 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 4 (8.89%) HP
5 4 (8.89%) Sparx
6 1 (2.22%) Mapbox
6 1 (2.22%) Xamarin