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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 325 347
Rank change year-on-year -83 +22 +88
Contract jobs citing GIS 33 40 49
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.91% 1.41% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 37 41
10th Percentile £361 £405 £400
25th Percentile £413 £408 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £455 £510
Median % change year-on-year +12.64% -10.78% -15.00%
75th Percentile £559 £626 £575
90th Percentile £681 £640 £638
England median daily rate £460 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% -9.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.82 - -
England median hourly rate £13.67 £40.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year -65.84% +196.30% -28.76%

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 3,626 2,835 3,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.06% 21.20% 23.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,449 1,985 2,780
10th Percentile £365 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £725
90th Percentile £742 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £513 £545
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 35 26
10th Percentile £18.23 £25.53 £26.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £55.63 £63.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £60.75 £84.50 £76.88
England median hourly rate £38.25 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.29% - -36.36%

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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

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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 26 August 2026.

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 26 August 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 - 4 £450 - 3
GIS
England

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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 14 (42.42%) ArcGIS
2 3 (9.09%) nginx
2 3 (9.09%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.03%) GeoServer
3 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.03%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Power Platform
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) AWS
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (6.06%) Matillion
4 2 (6.06%) MinIO
4 2 (6.06%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) 2G
1 2 (6.06%) 3G
1 2 (6.06%) 4G
1 2 (6.06%) 5G
1 2 (6.06%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (3.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Power BI
2 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
2 4 (12.12%) Spatial Data
3 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.09%) QGIS
3 3 (9.09%) Tableau
4 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (6.06%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) ER Studio
General
1 7 (21.21%) Telecoms
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Local Government
5 2 (6.06%) Publishing
6 1 (3.03%) Aviation
6 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (18.18%) Developer
2 6 (18.18%) GIS Architect
3 4 (12.12%) GIS Technician
4 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Dashboard Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Principal Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Principal Data Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Lead
6 1 (3.03%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (3.03%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) OpenLayers
1 3 (9.09%) PostGIS
2 2 (6.06%) CSS
2 2 (6.06%) EJB
2 2 (6.06%) GeoJSON
2 2 (6.06%) HTML
2 2 (6.06%) Jakarta EE
2 2 (6.06%) Java SE
2 2 (6.06%) Node.js
2 2 (6.06%) React
2 2 (6.06%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) Snowpark
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.03%) GeoPandas
3 1 (3.03%) hapi
3 1 (3.03%) JSP
3 1 (3.03%) Middleware
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (3.03%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Replication
1 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.03%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.03%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (3.03%) LLPG
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Solaris
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
1 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
1 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) ETL
2 6 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 5 (15.15%) Visualisation
4 4 (12.12%) Agile
4 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis
4 4 (12.12%) Data Management
4 4 (12.12%) DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) IT Strategy
4 4 (12.12%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (9.09%) AI
5 3 (9.09%) Analytics
5 3 (9.09%) Data Integration
5 3 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (9.09%) Decision-Making
5 3 (9.09%) ERP
5 3 (9.09%) Migration
5 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.09%) Spatial Analysis
6 2 (6.06%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) SQL
3 3 (9.09%) Java
3 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.03%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.03%) Bash
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) BS7666
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) SAP
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
3 3 (9.09%) ESRI
3 3 (9.09%) IBM
3 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.06%) Alteryx
4 2 (6.06%) Databricks
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.06%) VMware
5 1 (3.03%) ComArch
5 1 (3.03%) Mapbox
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft