Geospatial Data Contracts in the North of England

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 162 173 212
Rank change year-on-year +11 +39 +13
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 4 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.69% 1.72% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £416 - £475
25th Percentile £430 £480 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £545 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% -3.11% +11.94%
75th Percentile £463 £625 £644
90th Percentile - £650 £669
England median daily rate £513 £538 £513
% change year-on-year -4.65% +4.88% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
England median hourly rate - £13.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year - -39.96% -70.02%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 581 698 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.63% 14.64% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 521 612
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 19
10th Percentile £22.72 £11.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £14.00 £39.80
Median hourly rate £26.47 £40.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -17.86% +78.18%
75th Percentile £33.11 £44.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.34 £50.69 £65.20
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Geospatial Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Geospatial Data in the North of England

Geospatial Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Geospatial Data in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Geospatial Data in the North of England

Geospatial Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Geospatial Data in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Geospatial Data in the North of England

Geospatial Data
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Geospatial Data within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West - 4 £450 -
Geospatial Data
England

Geospatial Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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