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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 325 354
Rank change year-on-year -46 +29 +106
Contract jobs citing GIS 26 26 35
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.85% 0.89% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 24
10th Percentile £423 £390 £386
25th Percentile £494 £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -19.15% +14.19%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £647
90th Percentile £736 £687 £688
England median daily rate £519 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +15.28% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.98
Median hourly rate - - £23.32
75th Percentile - - £25.66
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.75 £29.80 £23.32
% change year-on-year +113.93% +27.79% +3.71%

All Database & BI 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 3,046 2,932 3,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.33% 22.13% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,091 2,044 2,653
10th Percentile £361 £370 £383
25th Percentile £420 £455 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 40
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £28.25 £28.84 £26.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £41.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -7.78% -6.38%
75th Percentile £72.50 £59.75 £53.84
90th Percentile £88.50 £78.75 £64.78
England median hourly rate £50.00 £38.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +30.53% -9.87% -25.26%

GIS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GIS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

GIS job vacancy trend in London

GIS
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

GIS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in London over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in London

GIS
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

GIS
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 2 March 2026. 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 -7 2 £563 +95.31% 2
GIS
England

GIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (38.46%) ArcGIS
2 2 (7.69%) nginx
2 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) MinIO
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) 2G
1 4 (15.38%) 4G
1 4 (15.38%) 5G
1 4 (15.38%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (7.69%) RFID
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) DKIM
3 1 (3.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (11.54%) Spatial Data
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Power BI
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (23.08%) Telecoms
2 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Local Government
4 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Lead
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Geospatial Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Network Design Specialist
4 3 (11.54%) Network Specialist
5 2 (7.69%) Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Salesforce Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) SAP Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Data Manager
6 1 (3.85%) GIS Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) GIS Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Senior GIS Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) Node.js
3 2 (7.69%) EJB
3 2 (7.69%) Java EE
3 2 (7.69%) OAuth
3 2 (7.69%) OpenLayers
3 2 (7.69%) SAML
3 2 (7.69%) SAP Basis
3 2 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.85%) Blazor
4 1 (3.85%) CSS
4 1 (3.85%) GeoJSON
4 1 (3.85%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (3.85%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.85%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (3.85%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) IoT
1 4 (15.38%) Mobile App
1 4 (15.38%) NB-IoT
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Solaris
2 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
2 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Migration
2 9 (34.62%) Data Modelling
3 6 (23.08%) ETL
4 5 (19.23%) DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) Analytics
5 4 (15.38%) Architectural Design
5 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 4 (15.38%) Data Management
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (15.38%) Test Strategy
6 3 (11.54%) Change Management
6 3 (11.54%) Functional Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Hydrography
6 3 (11.54%) Network Design
6 3 (11.54%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Validation
7 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (7.69%) Master Data Management
7 2 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Java
1 7 (26.92%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
2 3 (11.54%) PL/SQL
2 3 (11.54%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Apex Code
3 2 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.85%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) ESRI
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (11.54%) Salesforce
5 2 (7.69%) IBM
5 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.69%) SAP
6 1 (3.85%) Mapinfo
6 1 (3.85%) Progress