GIS Contracts in England

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 421 429 517
Rank change year-on-year +8 +88 +98
Contract jobs citing GIS 64 113 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.38% 1.81% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 73 98
10th Percentile £375 £363 £354
25th Percentile £406 £429 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.78%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £620
90th Percentile £649 £688 £652
UK median daily rate £471 £500 £483
% change year-on-year -5.75% +3.47% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.00 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.80 £13.50 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +120.74% -39.96% -57.17%
75th Percentile - £25.66 £23.73
90th Percentile - £59.13 -
UK median hourly rate £29.80 £16.12 £22.49
% change year-on-year +84.86% -28.31% -57.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 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%

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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 1 May 2025.

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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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 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 +15 30 £475 -11.63% 39
North of England +5 13 £413 -31.25% 31
South East +40 11 £550 +33.33% 54
North West +23 10 £400 -21.95% 14
South West +46 4 £413 -21.43% 26
Midlands +19 3 £513 +46.43% 32
Yorkshire -7 3 £633 +5.42% 14
East Midlands - 2 £425 - 10
East of England +26 1 £500 - 34
West Midlands +9 1 £600 +71.43% 21
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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 12 (18.75%) ArcGIS
2 3 (4.69%) Apache
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.13%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (3.13%) Camunda
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.56%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.13%) Maximo
1 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.56%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.25%) AWS
2 12 (18.75%) Azure
3 4 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (1.56%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.56%) dbt
5 1 (1.56%) Fivetran
5 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (1.56%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (7.81%) Big Data
2 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (6.25%) Tableau
4 3 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.69%) Spatial Data
5 2 (3.13%) Metadata
5 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.13%) MSDE
5 2 (3.13%) MySQL
5 2 (3.13%) ObjectStore
5 2 (3.13%) Redis
6 1 (1.56%) Airbyte
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.56%) Power BI
6 1 (1.56%) QGIS
6 1 (1.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Git
2 2 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.56%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) Mocha
General
1 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.13%) Back Office
4 2 (3.13%) Finance
4 2 (3.13%) Legal
4 2 (3.13%) Local Government
4 2 (3.13%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.56%) Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Developer
2 11 (17.19%) GIS Developer
3 9 (14.06%) Architect
4 7 (10.94%) Consultant
5 5 (7.81%) GIS Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Project Manager
5 5 (7.81%) Python Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Python Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior
5 5 (7.81%) Software Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Solutions Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Geospatial Architect
7 3 (4.69%) GIS Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Fibre Planner
8 2 (3.13%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) AngularJS
2 6 (9.38%) SOAP
3 5 (7.81%) Node.js
3 5 (7.81%) React
3 5 (7.81%) RESTful
4 4 (6.25%) .NET
5 3 (4.69%) PostGIS
6 2 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.13%) GeoJSON
6 2 (3.13%) Google Maps API
6 2 (3.13%) HTML
6 2 (3.13%) Kafka
6 2 (3.13%) Keycloak
6 2 (3.13%) Leaflet
6 2 (3.13%) MapLibre
6 2 (3.13%) Spring
6 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.13%) XML
7 1 (1.56%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Operational Technology
1 7 (10.94%) SCADA
2 5 (7.81%) Replication
3 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.13%) Clustering
5 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.13%) PKI
5 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Linux
1 5 (7.81%) Windows
2 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (15.63%) Agile
1 10 (15.63%) Analytics
2 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (10.94%) DevOps
3 7 (10.94%) Software Engineering
3 7 (10.94%) Visualisation
4 6 (9.38%) CRM
4 6 (9.38%) Data Modelling
4 6 (9.38%) Decision-Making
4 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (7.81%) Asset Management
5 5 (7.81%) Containerisation
5 5 (7.81%) Data Management
5 5 (7.81%) Data Science
5 5 (7.81%) Digital Twin
5 5 (7.81%) Scrum
6 4 (6.25%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (6.25%) ETL
6 4 (6.25%) High Availability
6 4 (6.25%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.25%) Python
2 14 (21.88%) SQL
3 7 (10.94%) TypeScript
4 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.38%) Perl
4 6 (9.38%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.69%) Java
6 2 (3.13%) C#
6 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.56%) Bash
7 1 (1.56%) Magik
7 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (4.69%) Degree
4 2 (3.13%) PMP
5 1 (1.56%) CBAP
5 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.25%) NIST
2 4 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.25%) QA
3 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Istio
3 1 (1.56%) Perfmon
3 1 (1.56%) SCOM
3 1 (1.56%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) ESRI
2 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) Mapbox
3 3 (4.69%) SAP
4 2 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.56%) IBM
5 1 (1.56%) Sparx
5 1 (1.56%) VMware