GIS Contracts in London

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for GIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GIS over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 444 528
Rank change year-on-year +103 +84 -115
Contract jobs citing GIS 53 57 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.40% 1.03% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 34 58
10th Percentile £463 £321 £362
25th Percentile £485 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% - +2.70%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £646 £689
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 3
10th Percentile - - £25.15
25th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £29.32
Median hourly rate £23.32 £22.49 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% -40.04% +87.50%
75th Percentile £25.66 £23.73 £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £52.50
% change year-on-year -39.96% -57.17% +360.53%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

GIS 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 London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,789 5,551 8,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.39% 20.53% 21.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 4,046 6,249
10th Percentile £377 £400 £406
25th Percentile £457 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 53 35
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.59 £24.50 £32.00
Median hourly rate £49.25 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% - +44.07%
75th Percentile £54.34 £72.50 £71.88
90th Percentile £64.14 £88.30 £82.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS in London.

Daily rate trend for GIS in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS in London.

Hourly rate trend for GIS in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Central London +42 6 £510 - 3
South London - 5 £625 - 1
East London -10 4 - -
West London +17 2 £488 +8.33%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 22 (41.51%) ArcGIS
2 10 (18.87%) SharePoint
2 10 (18.87%) Site Server
3 1 (1.89%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) Azure
2 16 (30.19%) AWS
3 13 (24.53%) IaaS
4 12 (22.64%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (18.87%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.77%) GCP
6 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) 2G
1 5 (9.43%) 3G
1 5 (9.43%) 4G
1 5 (9.43%) 5G
1 5 (9.43%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (30.19%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (13.21%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (11.32%) Spatial Data
4 5 (9.43%) QGIS
5 4 (7.55%) Big Data
5 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.66%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (3.77%) Power BI
8 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (41.51%) Public Sector
2 9 (16.98%) Finance
3 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Local Government
5 5 (9.43%) Telecoms
6 4 (7.55%) Electronics
6 4 (7.55%) Manufacturing
6 4 (7.55%) Marketing
7 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.77%) Back Office
9 1 (1.89%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Military
9 1 (1.89%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 8 (15.09%) Developer
2 7 (13.21%) GIS Developer
2 7 (13.21%) Senior
3 6 (11.32%) Analyst
3 6 (11.32%) Architect
3 6 (11.32%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (9.43%) GIS Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) GIS Architect
4 5 (9.43%) GIS Specialist
5 4 (7.55%) Operations Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Radio Specialist
5 4 (7.55%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (7.55%) Senior GIS Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Head of IT
6 3 (5.66%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Spatial Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Geospatial Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) REST
2 9 (16.98%) .NET
3 3 (5.66%) PostGIS
4 2 (3.77%) RESTful
4 2 (3.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (5.66%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.77%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.77%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (3.77%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.89%) CCTV
4 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Windows
1 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) DevOps
1 15 (28.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 13 (24.53%) ETL
3 11 (20.75%) Project Management
4 9 (16.98%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (16.98%) Migration
4 9 (16.98%) Project Delivery
5 7 (13.21%) Agile
5 7 (13.21%) Asset Management
5 7 (13.21%) Budget Management
5 7 (13.21%) Business Development
5 7 (13.21%) Data Management
6 6 (11.32%) Business Case
6 6 (11.32%) Data Analysis
7 5 (9.43%) Analytics
7 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
7 5 (9.43%) CRM
7 5 (9.43%) Visualisation
8 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (7.55%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (43.40%) Python
2 10 (18.87%) Korn
2 10 (18.87%) PowerShell
3 7 (13.21%) SQL
4 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (24.53%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.89%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
Vendors
1 29 (54.72%) ESRI
2 14 (26.42%) Oracle
3 7 (13.21%) SAP
4 2 (3.77%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) Mapbox
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft