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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 521 632
Rank change year-on-year +43 +111 +128
Contract jobs citing Spatial Data 8 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.041% 0.013%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.17% 0.24% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 3
10th Percentile £319 £490 £240
25th Percentile £369 £525 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -35.42% +50.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £431 £688 £513
90th Percentile £456 - £550
UK median daily rate £388 £600 £430
% change year-on-year -35.42% +39.53% -18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £13.50 -

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 4,618 6,243 8,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.06% 16.98% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,207 4,511 6,027
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £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 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 136 159
10th Percentile £19.41 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £22.96 £20.70 £32.30
Median hourly rate £31.85 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.39% -33.33% +34.91%
75th Percentile £62.63 £55.63 £74.38
90th Percentile £75.63 £73.75 £82.60
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +33.33%

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 31 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 31 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 +48 5 £400 - 7
Midlands - 2 £375 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £375 - 3
South West - 1 £463 - 1
Spatial Data
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 6 (75.00%) ArcGIS
2 4 (50.00%) Smallworld
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) GIS
2 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
2 3 (37.50%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GDB
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Local Government
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) GIS Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) GIS Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Migration Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) GIS Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) GIS Manager
3 1 (12.50%) GIS Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) PostGIS
2 3 (37.50%) Middleware
3 2 (25.00%) GeoJSON
3 2 (25.00%) KML
4 1 (12.50%) NumPy
4 1 (12.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Architectural Design
2 3 (37.50%) Data Management
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) Spatial Data Management
2 3 (37.50%) TOGAF
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 2 (25.00%) Cartography
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Data Conversion
3 2 (25.00%) Spatial Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Magik
1 3 (37.50%) Python
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) ESRI
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle