QGIS Contracts in England

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring QGIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QGIS over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 516 605
Rank change year-on-year +16 +89 +145
Contract jobs citing QGIS 7 29 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.026% 0.082% 0.043%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.14% 0.46% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 3
10th Percentile - £476 -
25th Percentile £438 £485 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £490 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -5.77% -20.00%
75th Percentile £490 £582 £540
90th Percentile - £669 -
UK median daily rate £455 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -7.14% -5.77% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £25.61
25th Percentile - - £29.68
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £36.45
Median % change year-on-year - -62.96% +30.18%
75th Percentile - - £43.23
90th Percentile - - £47.29
UK median hourly rate - £13.50 £36.45
% change year-on-year - -62.96% +30.18%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

QGIS 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 4,999 6,366 8,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.31% 18.00% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,459 4,580 5,739
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £825 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 106 148
10th Percentile £18.84 £14.00 £21.04
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.00 £34.35
Median hourly rate £34.98 £39.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% -28.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £64.13 £54.23 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £70.63 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £38.11 £38.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% -30.91% +29.41%

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 22 July 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 +26 6 £455 -7.14% 6
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 4
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 5 (71.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) AutoCAD
1 1 (14.29%) SPSS
1 1 (14.29%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Power Platform
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Geospatial Data
1 6 (85.71%) GIS
1 6 (85.71%) Power BI
2 5 (71.43%) Tableau
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Telecoms
2 4 (57.14%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Python Data Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Python Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Data Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) AutoCAD Technician
3 1 (14.29%) CAD Technician
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Geospatial Technician
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) GeoPandas
1 5 (71.43%) PostGIS
2 2 (28.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Algorithms
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (14.29%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 5 (71.43%) Customer-Centricity
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (71.43%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (71.43%) Machine Learning
2 5 (71.43%) Mathematics
2 5 (71.43%) Spatial Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) Visualisation
2 5 (71.43%) Workflow
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Time Management
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Data Science
5 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Databricks
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft