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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 352 415
Rank change year-on-year +16 +63 +110
Contract jobs citing GIS 32 37 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.23% 0.090%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.14% 1.04% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 28 7
10th Percentile £405 £371 £328
25th Percentile £413 £409 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £511 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +36.33% -26.07%
75th Percentile £519 £561 £744
90th Percentile £647 £638 £780
England median daily rate £455 £438 £573
% change year-on-year +4.00% -23.58% +11.27%

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 2,807 3,568 4,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.99% 22.31% 19.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,948 2,538 2,876
10th Percentile £375 £363 £388
25th Percentile £432 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £806 £850 £788
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 22 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £19.05
25th Percentile £31.29 £36.25 £35.35
Median hourly rate £52.50 £43.75 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.94% -11.06%
75th Percentile £68.38 £62.21 £66.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.99% -33.33% +5.00%

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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 18 October 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 18 October 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 2 £563 +10.84% 6
South London - 1 £675 -
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 6 (18.75%) ArcGIS
2 5 (15.63%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.25%) Smallworld
4 1 (3.13%) nginx
4 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
4 4 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) MinIO
6 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) 2G
1 4 (12.50%) 4G
1 4 (12.50%) 5G
1 4 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (9.38%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) DKIM
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) Internet
3 1 (3.13%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) Geospatial Data
2 9 (28.13%) Tableau
3 7 (21.88%) Power BI
4 5 (15.63%) QGIS
5 3 (9.38%) Big Data
5 3 (9.38%) Spatial Data
6 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.13%) Metadata
6 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
1 12 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 11 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Billing
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Local Government
5 1 (3.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Data Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Network Design Specialist
4 3 (9.38%) Network Specialist
4 3 (9.38%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Data Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Junior
5 2 (6.25%) Junior Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Junior Data Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Customer Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) GeoPandas
1 5 (15.63%) PostGIS
2 3 (9.38%) Node.js
3 2 (6.25%) CSS
3 2 (6.25%) HTML
3 2 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (6.25%) PySpark
3 2 (6.25%) React
4 1 (3.13%) EJB
4 1 (3.13%) Java SE
4 1 (3.13%) JSF
4 1 (3.13%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) Matplotlib
4 1 (3.13%) NumPy
4 1 (3.13%) OpenLayers
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
4 1 (3.13%) SOAP
4 1 (3.13%) Spring
4 1 (3.13%) Visualforce
4 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) IoT
1 6 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (15.63%) Algorithms
2 5 (15.63%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (12.50%) NB-IoT
4 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) CMDB
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Visualisation
2 10 (31.25%) Data Visualisation
3 9 (28.13%) Analytics
3 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
3 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (21.88%) Machine Learning
6 6 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 6 (18.75%) ETL
6 6 (18.75%) Time Management
6 6 (18.75%) Workflow
7 5 (15.63%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (15.63%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 5 (15.63%) Customer-Centricity
7 5 (15.63%) Data Management
7 5 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (15.63%) Mathematics
7 5 (15.63%) Spatial Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) SQL
2 13 (40.63%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) Apex Code
5 2 (6.25%) Magik
5 2 (6.25%) SOQL
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.13%) R
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (9.38%) NIST
1 3 (9.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) ESRI
3 6 (18.75%) Databricks
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) Citrix
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow