GIS Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring GIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 29 26
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -
Contract jobs citing GIS 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.83% 0.56% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.88% 2.44% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £963 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £975 - -
75th Percentile £988 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.39% -6.82% +12.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.60
25th Percentile - - £12.35
Median hourly rate - - £13.66
75th Percentile - - £14.91
90th Percentile - - £15.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -63.07%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 34 41 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.17% 23.16% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 17
10th Percentile £374 £243 £180
25th Percentile £400 £347 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £645 £538 -
90th Percentile £826 - £519
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £12.08
25th Percentile - - £13.55
Median hourly rate - £22.48 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +40.50% +18.52%
75th Percentile - - £16.06
90th Percentile - - £16.10
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £30.11 £46.18
% change year-on-year +49.48% -34.81% -7.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GIS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

GIS job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

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Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing GIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing GIS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing GIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing GIS

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
County Antrim -4 2 £975 -
GIS
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Conflict Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Fujitsu
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft