QGIS Contracts in England

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for QGIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QGIS over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 616 750
Rank change year-on-year +117 +134 -137
Contract jobs citing QGIS 34 31 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.093% 0.064% 0.023%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.55% 0.36% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 12
10th Percentile £406 £337 £417
25th Percentile £468 £381 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -20.00% +62.50%
75th Percentile £495 £576 £700
90th Percentile - £616 -
UK median daily rate £490 £510 £650
% change year-on-year -3.92% -21.54% +62.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile - - £28.83
25th Percentile - £21.24 £30.06
Median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.96% -31.34% +45.56%
75th Percentile - £23.73 £36.06
90th Percentile - - £37.68
UK median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £32.75
% change year-on-year -39.96% -31.34% +45.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

QGIS 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 6,201 8,694 14,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.00% 17.84% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,467 6,258 10,229
10th Percentile £355 £375 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 165 177
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.13 £57.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.22% +27.78% +83.15%
75th Percentile £58.68 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.54% +31.77% +69.81%

QGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QGIS in England

QGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for QGIS in England

QGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for QGIS in England

QGIS
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 QGIS within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
South West +23 22 - - 1
London +75 7 £490 +22.50% 4
North of England - 4 - - 12
Yorkshire - 3 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 £350 -
Midlands - 1 £350 -
North West - 1 - - 9
QGIS
UK

QGIS
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 9 (26.47%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.94%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (8.82%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (2.94%) AWS
1 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (2.94%) Azure
1 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
1 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (58.82%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (14.71%) 2G
2 5 (14.71%) 3G
2 5 (14.71%) 4G
2 5 (14.71%) 5G
3 1 (2.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) GIS
2 3 (8.82%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (8.82%) Metadata
2 3 (8.82%) Spatial Data
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) RAN Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Network Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Radio Specialist
4 3 (8.82%) GIS Technician
5 1 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Developer
5 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) GIS Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Network Specialist
5 1 (2.94%) Radio Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Radio Planner
5 1 (2.94%) RF Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Senior
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) CSS
1 1 (2.94%) HTML
1 1 (2.94%) OpenLayers
1 1 (2.94%) PostGIS
1 1 (2.94%) React
1 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (8.82%) Lidar
2 1 (2.94%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.65%) Visualisation
2 5 (14.71%) Data Analysis
3 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (11.76%) Customer Experience
4 3 (8.82%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (8.82%) Data Management
4 3 (8.82%) Decision-Making
4 3 (8.82%) Image Processing
4 3 (8.82%) User Experience
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Machine Learning
5 2 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (2.94%) Computer Vision
6 1 (2.94%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (2.94%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (2.94%) Generative AI
6 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (2.94%) Product Roadmap
6 1 (2.94%) Roadmaps
6 1 (2.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) ESRI
2 1 (2.94%) Ericsson
2 1 (2.94%) Greenplum
2 1 (2.94%) Mapinfo
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Pega