Spatial Data Contracts in England

Spatial Data
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Spatial Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spatial Data 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 481 527 644
Rank change year-on-year +46 +117 +110
Contract jobs citing Spatial Data 4 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.040% 0.018%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.086% 0.24% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile £268 £490 £281
25th Percentile £299 £525 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -40.87% +26.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £413 £688 £688
90th Percentile £447 - £725
UK median daily rate £355 £600 £479
% change year-on-year -40.87% +25.26% -8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £12.80 -
25th Percentile £15.63 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% - -
75th Percentile £16.88 - -
90th Percentile - £15.52 -
UK median hourly rate £16.25 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year +20.37% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Spatial Data 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%

Spatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Spatial Data in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Spatial Data in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spatial Data in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spatial Data in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Spatial Data 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 Spatial Data 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
South East +45 1 £247 - 6
London +31 1 - - 10
South West - 1 £463 - 3
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UK

Spatial Data
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 2 (50.00%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) GIS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Local Government
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) AutoCAD Technician
1 1 (25.00%) CAD Technician
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) GIS Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Management
1 2 (50.00%) Spatial Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) CAD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ESRI