GIS Contracts in London

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring GIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GIS over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 353 433
Rank change year-on-year +47 +80 +77
Contract jobs citing GIS 44 51 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.29% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.61% 1.27% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 36 19
10th Percentile £405 £463 £375
25th Percentile £408 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £511 £530
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -3.54% +6.00%
75th Percentile £570 £638 £631
90th Percentile £640 £688 £660
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.98 £21.24
Median hourly rate - £23.32 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year - +3.71% -18.97%
75th Percentile - £25.66 £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.90 £21.75 £22.49
% change year-on-year +60.46% -3.27% -47.09%

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 2,737 4,003 5,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.74% 22.78% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,918 2,983 3,682
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £449 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -2.54%
75th Percentile £713 £718 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 47
10th Percentile £24.80 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £39.31 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £61.19 £54.13 £82.75
90th Percentile £80.75 £71.40 £90.00
England median hourly rate £33.50 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.26% -30.43% +43.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS in London.

Daily rate trend for GIS in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS in London.

Hourly rate trend for GIS in London

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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 24 June 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
South London +2 3 £475 -24.00% 1
Central London +3 1 £200 -60.78% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (25.00%) ArcGIS
2 5 (11.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.55%) Apache
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.55%) Camunda
4 1 (2.27%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) Azure
2 15 (34.09%) AWS
3 7 (15.91%) GCP
3 7 (15.91%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.27%) dbt
4 1 (2.27%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) Internet
2 1 (2.27%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (38.64%) Geospatial Data
2 12 (27.27%) Tableau
3 7 (15.91%) Power BI
4 5 (11.36%) Big Data
4 5 (11.36%) QGIS
5 2 (4.55%) Metadata
5 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.55%) MySQL
5 2 (4.55%) Redis
6 1 (2.27%) Airbyte
6 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.27%) Spatial Data
6 1 (2.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 9 (20.45%) Public Sector
5 8 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Finance
7 1 (2.27%) Banking
7 1 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Developer
2 8 (18.18%) Architect
2 8 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Analyst
3 6 (13.64%) Security Architect
4 5 (11.36%) Data Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Data Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) GIS Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (9.09%) GIS Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Geospatial Architect
6 3 (6.82%) GIS Manager
6 3 (6.82%) Senior
7 2 (4.55%) Data Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Junior
7 2 (4.55%) Junior Data Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Product Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) GeoPandas
1 5 (11.36%) PostGIS
2 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 4 (9.09%) React
3 3 (6.82%) HTML
3 3 (6.82%) Node.js
3 3 (6.82%) RESTful
3 3 (6.82%) XML
4 2 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (4.55%) Kafka
4 2 (4.55%) Keycloak
4 2 (4.55%) PySpark
4 2 (4.55%) Spring
4 2 (4.55%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.27%) CSS
5 1 (2.27%) Great Expectations
5 1 (2.27%) JSON
5 1 (2.27%) Matplotlib
5 1 (2.27%) NumPy
5 1 (2.27%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (13.64%) Algorithms
3 5 (11.36%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.55%) IoT
4 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.55%) PKI
5 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Visualisation
2 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
4 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (20.45%) Time Management
7 8 (18.18%) Analytics
7 8 (18.18%) Machine Learning
8 6 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (13.64%) Agile
8 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
8 6 (13.64%) Data Modelling
8 6 (13.64%) DevOps
8 6 (13.64%) Security Architecture
8 6 (13.64%) Software Engineering
8 6 (13.64%) Workflow
9 5 (11.36%) Customer-Centric Approach
9 5 (11.36%) Customer-Centricity
9 5 (11.36%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 20 (45.45%) Python
2 15 (34.09%) SQL
3 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.27%) Magik
5 1 (2.27%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (13.64%) NIST
1 6 (13.64%) PCI DSS
2 4 (9.09%) QA
3 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Istio
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) ESRI
2 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Mapbox