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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 326 340
Rank change year-on-year -47 +14 +102
Contract jobs citing GIS 28 29 53
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.86% 1.02% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 40
10th Percentile £363 £406 £463
25th Percentile £438 £409 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £474 £538
Median % change year-on-year +16.09% -11.86% +10.82%
75th Percentile £600 £637 £638
90th Percentile £736 £672 £688
England median daily rate £500 £461 £500
% change year-on-year +8.40% -7.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.98
Median hourly rate £22.82 - £23.32
75th Percentile - - £25.66
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.24 £29.80 £17.89
% change year-on-year -38.78% +66.60% -20.45%

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 3,274 2,841 3,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.83% 22.36% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,250 2,000 2,773
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £630 £713 £700
90th Percentile £749 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 37
10th Percentile £20.64 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £31.03 £28.60 £25.79
Median hourly rate £46.50 £40.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -16.49% +2.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.50 £64.06
England median hourly rate £50.50 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +52.52% -17.23% -31.73%

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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 19 April 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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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 12 (42.86%) ArcGIS
2 2 (7.14%) nginx
2 2 (7.14%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (14.29%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) MinIO
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (7.14%) RFID
1 2 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (10.71%) Power BI
2 3 (10.71%) Spatial Data
3 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.57%) MS Access
4 1 (3.57%) Tableau
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Local Government
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.57%) Aviation
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Geospatial Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Consultant
4 3 (10.71%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.14%) GIS Technician
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Salesforce Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) SAP Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Governance Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) GIS Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) React Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (10.71%) Node.js
3 2 (7.14%) EJB
3 2 (7.14%) Java EE
3 2 (7.14%) OAuth
3 2 (7.14%) OpenLayers
3 2 (7.14%) SAML
3 2 (7.14%) SAP Basis
3 2 (7.14%) Spring
4 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.57%) Blazor
4 1 (3.57%) GeoJSON
4 1 (3.57%) hapi
4 1 (3.57%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.57%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (3.57%) React
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) LLPG
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Solaris
2 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
2 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling
1 9 (32.14%) Migration
2 5 (17.86%) DevOps
3 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (10.71%) Data Management
4 3 (10.71%) ETL
4 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (10.71%) Functional Testing
4 3 (10.71%) Hydrography
4 3 (10.71%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.14%) Analytics
5 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (7.14%) EAM
5 2 (7.14%) Identity Management
5 2 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) Java
2 4 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
3 3 (10.71%) Python
4 2 (7.14%) Apex Code
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) BS7666
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) ESRI
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.71%) Salesforce
5 2 (7.14%) IBM
5 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.14%) SAP
6 1 (3.57%) Mapinfo
6 1 (3.57%) Progress