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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 423 530
Rank change year-on-year +27 +107 +77
Contract jobs citing GIS 93 116 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.01% 1.82% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 69 78
10th Percentile £355 £373 £388
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £619
90th Percentile £638 £688 £691
UK median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 12
10th Percentile - £11.00 -
25th Percentile - £13.50 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.80 £22.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +35.45% -2.16% -55.03%
75th Percentile - £25.66 £23.73
90th Percentile - £61.50 -
UK median hourly rate £29.80 £21.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +38.60% -4.38% -55.03%

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 4,627 6,388 8,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.90% 17.05% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,203 4,603 5,937
10th Percentile £360 £350 £370
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £793 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -1.90% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 144 158
10th Percentile £19.41 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.77 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.43 £40.00 £59.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -32.54% +39.52%
75th Percentile £64.78 £54.34 £74.69
90th Percentile £77.38 £72.50 £82.65
UK median hourly rate £34.58 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.56% -33.33% +36.52%

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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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +42 39 £438 -16.67% 52
South East +49 16 £488 +18.18% 39
Midlands +27 16 £513 +36.67% 18
North of England +1 15 £450 -25.00% 25
West Midlands +18 13 £600 +60.00% 11
North West +17 10 £400 -21.95% 20
Yorkshire -3 5 £595 -0.83% 3
South West +40 4 £413 -19.51% 24
East Midlands - 3 £425 - 7
East of England +20 1 £500 - 31
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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 18 (19.35%) ArcGIS
2 7 (7.53%) Smallworld
3 3 (3.23%) Apache
3 3 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.23%) Oracle Spatial
4 2 (2.15%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (2.15%) Camunda
4 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.08%) Confluence
5 1 (1.08%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (6.45%) SAP PM
2 3 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.08%) Maximo
4 1 (1.08%) SAP CRM
4 1 (1.08%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.11%) Azure
2 24 (25.81%) AWS
3 8 (8.60%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (6.45%) Collibra
5 6 (6.45%) GCP
5 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.38%) GitHub
7 4 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.15%) Serverless
10 1 (1.08%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.08%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.08%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) Network Security
2 2 (2.15%) Firewall
3 1 (1.08%) GPON
3 1 (1.08%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (29.03%) Geospatial Data
2 10 (10.75%) Spatial Data
2 10 (10.75%) Tableau
3 8 (8.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (8.60%) Power BI
4 6 (6.45%) Big Data
4 6 (6.45%) Delta Lake
5 5 (5.38%) Oracle Database
5 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (4.30%) QGIS
7 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.23%) Redis
8 2 (2.15%) Metadata
8 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.15%) MSDE
8 2 (2.15%) MySQL
8 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.15%) ObjectStore
9 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (11.83%) Git
2 2 (2.15%) GDB
2 2 (2.15%) GitLab
2 2 (2.15%) JIRA
3 1 (1.08%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.08%) Mocha
General
1 24 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
2 12 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.75%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.23%) Finance
5 3 (3.23%) Legal
5 3 (3.23%) Local Government
6 2 (2.15%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.08%) Banking
7 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.08%) Military
7 1 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (20.43%) Architect
2 18 (19.35%) Developer
3 13 (13.98%) Analyst
4 12 (12.90%) GIS Developer
5 10 (10.75%) GIS Architect
6 9 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (7.53%) Consultant
7 7 (7.53%) Project Manager
7 7 (7.53%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Business Analyst
8 6 (6.45%) GIS Analyst
8 6 (6.45%) Python Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Data Analyst
9 5 (5.38%) Security Architect
9 5 (5.38%) Software Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Solutions Consultant
10 4 (4.30%) GIS Business Analyst
10 4 (4.30%) GIS Manager
10 4 (4.30%) Migration Specialist
10 4 (4.30%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.68%) PostGIS
2 8 (8.60%) Kafka
2 8 (8.60%) React
3 7 (7.53%) AngularJS
4 6 (6.45%) Node.js
4 6 (6.45%) RESTful
4 6 (6.45%) SOAP
5 4 (4.30%) .NET
5 4 (4.30%) GeoJSON
6 3 (3.23%) GeoPandas
6 3 (3.23%) HTML
6 3 (3.23%) Middleware
6 3 (3.23%) XML
7 2 (2.15%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (2.15%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.15%) Keycloak
7 2 (2.15%) Leaflet
7 2 (2.15%) MapLibre
7 2 (2.15%) Spring
7 2 (2.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) SCADA
2 8 (8.60%) IoT
2 8 (8.60%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (7.53%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.38%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.30%) Replication
6 3 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.15%) Clustering
7 2 (2.15%) PKI
8 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.08%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.38%) Linux
1 5 (5.38%) Windows
2 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (18.28%) Analytics
3 16 (17.20%) Visualisation
4 15 (16.13%) DevOps
5 14 (15.05%) Data Governance
6 13 (13.98%) Agile
7 12 (12.90%) CI/CD
7 12 (12.90%) Data Modelling
7 12 (12.90%) Machine Learning
8 11 (11.83%) Data Visualisation
9 10 (10.75%) Time Management
10 9 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (9.68%) Data Management
10 9 (9.68%) ETL
10 9 (9.68%) Software Engineering
11 8 (8.60%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (8.60%) Data Migration
11 8 (8.60%) Data Science
11 8 (8.60%) Migration
12 7 (7.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 36 (38.71%) Python
2 27 (29.03%) SQL
3 6 (6.45%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.45%) Kusto Query Language
3 6 (6.45%) Perl
3 6 (6.45%) PL/SQL
3 6 (6.45%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.38%) Magik
5 3 (3.23%) Bicep
5 3 (3.23%) Java
6 2 (2.15%) C#
6 2 (2.15%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.08%) R
7 1 (1.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.30%) PMP
4 3 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.23%) Degree
4 3 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.15%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.08%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.60%) Data Quality
1 8 (8.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.45%) QA
3 5 (5.38%) GDPR
3 5 (5.38%) NIST
3 5 (5.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.53%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.30%) Terraform
3 2 (2.15%) Istio
4 1 (1.08%) Perfmon
4 1 (1.08%) SCOM
4 1 (1.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (24.73%) ESRI
2 22 (23.66%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.75%) Databricks
3 10 (10.75%) SAP
4 8 (8.60%) Oracle
5 6 (6.45%) Informatica
6 3 (3.23%) Mapbox
7 2 (2.15%) Google
8 1 (1.08%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (1.08%) IBM
8 1 (1.08%) Sparx
8 1 (1.08%) Trapeze
8 1 (1.08%) VMware