GIS Contract Job Trends in London

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring GIS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 339 437
Rank change year-on-year +13 +98 +97
Contract jobs citing GIS 35 41 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.25% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.24% 1.11% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 31 9
10th Percentile £403 £375 £310
25th Percentile £411 £466 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £510 £375
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +36.00% -22.08%
75th Percentile £640 £545 £600
90th Percentile £672 £575 £765
England median daily rate £500 £485 £570
% change year-on-year +3.09% -14.91% +14.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

GIS 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,819 3,686 4,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.29% 22.92% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,957 2,651 3,106
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £690
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 24 40
10th Percentile £28.26 £25.40 £19.18
25th Percentile £33.56 £36.25 £35.19
Median hourly rate £52.50 £49.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -14.78% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69.75 £57.51 £75.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.63 £90.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -34.09% +22.22%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GIS

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GIS

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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 15 September 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
Central London -4 1 £650 +27.45% 3
South London -7 1 £675 +35.00%
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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 7 (20.00%) ArcGIS
2 5 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.71%) Smallworld
4 1 (2.86%) nginx
4 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) AWS
3 7 (20.00%) GCP
3 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) dbt
5 1 (2.86%) Fivetran
5 1 (2.86%) MinIO
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Network Security
2 1 (2.86%) DKIM
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) Internet
2 1 (2.86%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (45.71%) Geospatial Data
2 12 (34.29%) Tableau
3 7 (20.00%) Power BI
4 5 (14.29%) Big Data
4 5 (14.29%) QGIS
5 2 (5.71%) Metadata
5 2 (5.71%) Spatial Data
6 1 (2.86%) Airbyte
6 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (37.14%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (31.43%) Telecoms
4 8 (22.86%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) Finance
7 1 (2.86%) Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Billing
7 1 (2.86%) Local Government
7 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Analyst
1 7 (20.00%) Architect
2 6 (17.14%) Security Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Python Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Geospatial Architect
5 3 (8.57%) GIS Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Data Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Junior
6 2 (5.71%) Junior Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Junior Data Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) GeoPandas
1 5 (14.29%) PostGIS
2 3 (8.57%) Node.js
3 2 (5.71%) CSS
3 2 (5.71%) HTML
3 2 (5.71%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (5.71%) PySpark
3 2 (5.71%) React
4 1 (2.86%) EJB
4 1 (2.86%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.86%) JSF
4 1 (2.86%) Matplotlib
4 1 (2.86%) NumPy
4 1 (2.86%) OpenLayers
4 1 (2.86%) Pandas
4 1 (2.86%) REST
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
4 1 (2.86%) SOAP
4 1 (2.86%) Spring
4 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 5 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) IoT
5 1 (2.86%) CMDB
5 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
2 12 (34.29%) Data Visualisation
2 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (25.71%) Time Management
5 8 (22.86%) Agile
5 8 (22.86%) Analytics
6 7 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 7 (20.00%) Workflow
7 6 (17.14%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (17.14%) Cloud Security
7 6 (17.14%) Data Modelling
7 6 (17.14%) Security Architecture
8 5 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (14.29%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 5 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
8 5 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (14.29%) Spatial Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Python
1 15 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.57%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) Apex Code
4 2 (5.71%) Magik
4 2 (5.71%) SOQL
5 1 (2.86%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.86%) R
5 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (17.14%) NIST
1 6 (17.14%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (31.43%) ESRI
3 6 (17.14%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow