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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 331 370
Rank change year-on-year -27 +39 +119
Contract jobs citing GIS 23 35 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.77% 1.13% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 16
10th Percentile £398 £346 £339
25th Percentile £466 £413 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -10.87% +11.76%
75th Percentile £681 £562 £678
90th Percentile £736 £663 £719
England median daily rate £501 £450 £570
% change year-on-year +11.22% -21.05% +10.79%

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 2,969 3,093 3,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.64% 21.50% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,066 2,123 2,550
10th Percentile £360 £363 £382
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £23.20
25th Percentile £29.88 £26.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.50 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.77% -5.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £54.85 £40.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +35.43% -14.74% -13.64%

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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 3 January 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 3 January 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 2 £563 +49.60% 7
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 9 (39.13%) ArcGIS
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
2 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.35%) MinIO
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) 2G
1 4 (17.39%) 4G
1 4 (17.39%) 5G
1 4 (17.39%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (8.70%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (8.70%) RFID
2 2 (8.70%) VPN
3 1 (4.35%) DKIM
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (8.70%) Spatial Data
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
1 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Local Government
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Billing
3 1 (4.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Geospatial Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Lead Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Network Design Specialist
3 3 (13.04%) Network Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) GIS Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Governance Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.35%) GIS Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Senior GIS Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
1 3 (13.04%) Node.js
2 2 (8.70%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (8.70%) OAuth
2 2 (8.70%) SAML
2 2 (8.70%) SAP Basis
3 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (4.35%) Blazor
3 1 (4.35%) GeoJSON
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) Java SE
3 1 (4.35%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.35%) OpenLayers
3 1 (4.35%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Swagger
3 1 (4.35%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) IoT
1 4 (17.39%) NB-IoT
2 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) CMDB
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Migration
2 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 5 (21.74%) Data Management
4 5 (21.74%) ETL
5 4 (17.39%) Agile
5 4 (17.39%) Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) Architectural Design
5 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (17.39%) Test Strategy
6 3 (13.04%) Functional Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Hydrography
6 3 (13.04%) Network Design
6 3 (13.04%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (8.70%) Integration Patterns
7 2 (8.70%) Order Management
7 2 (8.70%) Spatial Data Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Java
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Apex Code
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) SOQL
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) ESRI
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle
4 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.70%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) Mapinfo
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow