GIS Contracts in the North West

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 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 110 133 154
Rank change year-on-year +23 +21 +7
Contract jobs citing GIS 10 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.51% 0.15% 0.094%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.96% 0.96% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £292 £503 -
25th Percentile £320 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +7.89% +39.71%
75th Percentile £463 £519 £588
90th Percentile £470 £523 £655
England median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.80 - -
England median hourly rate £29.80 £13.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +120.74% -39.96% -57.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 338 418 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.17% 15.17% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 318 374
10th Percentile £354 £346 £338
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £635 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 18
10th Percentile £22.72 £26.85 £35.00
25th Percentile £22.92 £39.44 £39.70
Median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
Median % change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%
75th Percentile £29.85 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £69.50 £65.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for GIS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the North West 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
Manchester +19 5 £413 -19.51% 10
Cheshire - 4 £296 - 2
Lancashire +3 1 £500 - 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (20.00%) MSDE
2 2 (20.00%) ObjectStore
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) DTS
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (10.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (10.00%) Legal
1 1 (10.00%) Local Government
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) DBA
2 2 (20.00%) Fibre Planner
2 2 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 2 (20.00%) GIS Developer
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Business Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) GeoJSON
3 2 (20.00%) Google Maps API
3 2 (20.00%) Leaflet
3 2 (20.00%) MapLibre
4 1 (10.00%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (30.00%) Digital Twin
1 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (20.00%) BCP
2 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (20.00%) Content Management
2 2 (20.00%) CRM
2 2 (20.00%) Data Management
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Content Management
2 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (20.00%) High Availability
2 2 (20.00%) Information Assurance
2 2 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (20.00%) RBAC
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Perfmon
2 1 (10.00%) SCOM
2 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) Mapbox
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware