GIS Contracts in England

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GIS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 525 614
Rank change year-on-year +103 +89 -88
Contract jobs citing GIS 113 138 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.83% 1.52% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 100 114
10th Percentile £363 £356 £341
25th Percentile £429 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year - +1.78% +9.17%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £658 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £495
% change year-on-year +2.56% -1.52% +10.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 19
10th Percentile - - £20.00
25th Percentile £11.00 £21.24 £32.13
Median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.96% -57.17% +275.00%
75th Percentile £25.66 £23.73 £75.00
90th Percentile £59.13 - -
UK median hourly rate £16.12 £22.49 £52.50
% change year-on-year -28.31% -57.17% +311.93%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

GIS 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 6,162 9,092 14,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.67% 17.99% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,417 6,531 10,384
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 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 168 170
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £34.35 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%
75th Percentile £56.74 £70.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GIS in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GIS in England

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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 GIS within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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 +95 53 £538 +13.16% 16
North of England +41 27 £600 +14.29% 15
Yorkshire +27 18 £600 - 3
South East +29 17 £413 -14.29% 8
West Midlands +35 6 £350 -41.67% 2
Midlands +27 6 £350 -31.84% 2
North East +20 5 £675 +28.57% 1
East of England +12 5 - - 6
North West +17 4 £513 +7.89% 11
South West +11 4 £525 +16.67% 3
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UK

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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 33 (29.20%) ArcGIS
2 11 (9.73%) SharePoint
2 11 (9.73%) Site Server
3 4 (3.54%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.65%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.77%) SAP CRM
2 2 (1.77%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.77%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.88%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 31 (27.43%) Azure
2 21 (18.58%) AWS
3 18 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (12.39%) IaaS
5 11 (9.73%) Amazon S3
5 11 (9.73%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.42%) Google Sheets
7 4 (3.54%) Azure AKS
7 4 (3.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (3.54%) GitHub
7 4 (3.54%) SaaS
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.77%) GCP
8 2 (1.77%) Serverless
8 2 (1.77%) Stripe
9 1 (0.88%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.73%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (4.42%) 2G
2 5 (4.42%) 3G
2 5 (4.42%) 4G
2 5 (4.42%) 5G
3 4 (3.54%) Network Security
4 3 (2.65%) LTE
4 3 (2.65%) TETRA
5 2 (1.77%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.77%) XCAP
6 1 (0.88%) FTP
6 1 (0.88%) HTTP
6 1 (0.88%) Internet
6 1 (0.88%) RNC
6 1 (0.88%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.78%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (18.58%) Geospatial Data
3 13 (11.50%) QGIS
4 12 (10.62%) Spatial Data
5 11 (9.73%) Power BI
6 6 (5.31%) Redis
7 4 (3.54%) Big Data
7 4 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.54%) Metadata
8 3 (2.65%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.77%) InterSystems Cache
9 2 (1.77%) Tableau
10 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.88%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (25.66%) Public Sector
2 27 (23.89%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.04%) Finance
4 13 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.96%) Local Government
5 9 (7.96%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.19%) Back Office
7 6 (5.31%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.42%) Retail
9 4 (3.54%) Electronics
9 4 (3.54%) Marketing
10 2 (1.77%) French Language
10 2 (1.77%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.88%) Billing
11 1 (0.88%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Legal
11 1 (0.88%) Military
11 1 (0.88%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 22 (19.47%) Developer
2 15 (13.27%) GIS Developer
3 13 (11.50%) Analyst
4 12 (10.62%) Architect
5 10 (8.85%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (7.96%) GIS Analyst
6 9 (7.96%) GIS Architect
6 9 (7.96%) Senior
7 6 (5.31%) GIS Specialist
8 5 (4.42%) Digital Transformation
8 5 (4.42%) Digital Transformation Manager
8 5 (4.42%) Python Developer
8 5 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.42%) Transformation Manager
9 4 (3.54%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (3.54%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (3.54%) Operations Manager
9 4 (3.54%) Senior GIS Analyst
9 4 (3.54%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.39%) REST
2 12 (10.62%) PostGIS
3 10 (8.85%) OpenLayers
4 9 (7.96%) .NET
5 4 (3.54%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.54%) Celery
5 4 (3.54%) Django
5 4 (3.54%) Flask
5 4 (3.54%) GeoPandas
5 4 (3.54%) Node.js
6 3 (2.65%) CSS
6 3 (2.65%) React
7 2 (1.77%) RESTful
7 2 (1.77%) SignalR
7 2 (1.77%) SOAP
7 2 (1.77%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (1.77%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (0.88%) HTML
8 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.16%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.54%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.54%) PACS
2 4 (3.54%) SCADA
3 3 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.65%) Lidar
3 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.77%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.77%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.77%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.88%) CCTV
5 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.88%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.88%) Linked Data
5 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.77%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.12%) Agile
2 22 (19.47%) DevOps
3 21 (18.58%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (15.93%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 16 (14.16%) ETL
6 15 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (12.39%) Data Management
7 14 (12.39%) Project Management
8 13 (11.50%) Data Analysis
9 10 (8.85%) Asset Management
9 10 (8.85%) Line Management
10 9 (7.96%) Budget Management
10 9 (7.96%) CRM
10 9 (7.96%) Migration
10 9 (7.96%) Project Delivery
10 9 (7.96%) Visualisation
11 8 (7.08%) Analytics
11 8 (7.08%) Data Modelling
11 8 (7.08%) Decision-Making
11 8 (7.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (34.51%) Python
2 19 (16.81%) SQL
3 12 (10.62%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.73%) Korn
5 7 (6.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.65%) Java
7 2 (1.77%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.88%) C#
8 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (15.93%) Degree
2 11 (9.73%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.54%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) QA
2 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.65%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.77%) SLA
4 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (4.42%) Docker
Vendors
1 47 (41.59%) ESRI
2 16 (14.16%) Oracle
3 11 (9.73%) SAP
4 7 (6.19%) Google
5 6 (5.31%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.42%) Ericsson
6 5 (4.42%) Mapinfo
7 4 (3.54%) Greenplum
7 4 (3.54%) Pega
8 3 (2.65%) Mapbox
9 2 (1.77%) Remedy
10 1 (0.88%) IBM
10 1 (0.88%) Nokia