GIS Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring GIS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 132 144
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 +51
Contract jobs citing GIS 15 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.56% 0.22% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.34% 1.32% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile - - £335
25th Percentile £375 £250 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% +3.03%
75th Percentile £620 £388 £426
90th Percentile - £395 £427
England median daily rate £490 £485 £573
% change year-on-year +1.03% -15.28% +14.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 449 455 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.70% 16.76% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 302 307
10th Percentile £318 £313 £313
25th Percentile £403 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £23.92 £23.79 £11.33
25th Percentile £30.47 £27.59 £11.52
Median hourly rate £34.43 £33.93 £11.83
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +186.81% -63.60%
75th Percentile £35.75 £34.47 £21.44
90th Percentile £37.48 £34.79 £27.20
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £54.75
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.07% +10.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GIS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GIS

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
West Midlands -6 14 £400 +6.67% 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (26.67%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 6 (40.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (40.00%) Collibra
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (13.33%) AWS
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (13.33%) Serverless
6 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (40.00%) Delta Lake
1 6 (40.00%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 5 (33.33%) Spatial Data
3 3 (20.00%) Power BI
4 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GDB
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Architect
2 6 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (33.33%) Analyst
3 5 (33.33%) GIS Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Data Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Data Migration Specialist
4 3 (20.00%) GIS Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
5 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Geospatial Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) GIS Business Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
6 1 (6.67%) GIS Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) SaaS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) GeoJSON
2 2 (13.33%) KML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) IoT
1 6 (40.00%) SCADA
2 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Data Governance
2 6 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 5 (33.33%) Data Management
3 5 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 5 (33.33%) ETL
3 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 4 (26.67%) Data Integration
5 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) RBAC
5 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 3 (20.00%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Databricks
1 6 (40.00%) Informatica
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (40.00%) SAP
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle
3 4 (26.67%) ESRI
4 1 (6.67%) Trapeze