Geospatial Data Contracts in Manchester

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Geospatial Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Geospatial Data over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - 116
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% - 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.00% - 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £416 - £493
25th Percentile £430 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.94%
75th Percentile £463 - £606
90th Percentile - - £633
North West median daily rate £450 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.47%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

Geospatial Data 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 200 259 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 21.60% 17.07% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 201 226
10th Percentile £378 £363 £351
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £656
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile - £35.45 £35.92
25th Percentile £24.25 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.36% +5.77% +348.28%
75th Percentile £40.75 £74.63 -
90th Percentile £69.55 £78.45 £65.80
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
% change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Geospatial Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Geospatial Data in Manchester

Geospatial Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Geospatial Data in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Geospatial Data in Manchester

Geospatial Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) GIS
2 2 (50.00%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (25.00%) Mocha
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 2 (50.00%) GIS Developer
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) GeoJSON
2 2 (50.00%) Google Maps API
2 2 (50.00%) Leaflet
2 2 (50.00%) MapLibre
3 1 (25.00%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Twin
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Mapbox