GIS Architect Contract Job Trends in Reading

GIS Architect
Berkshire > Reading

The median GIS Architect daily rate in Reading is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GIS Architect 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.24% - 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% - 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £700
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 - £700

All Contract IT Job Roles
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 779 719 1,051
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 91.13% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 403 651
10th Percentile £306 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £615
90th Percentile £669 £663 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 3 36
10th Percentile £24.25 £63.58 £27.58
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.60 £52.49
Median hourly rate £90.00 £73.25 £60.87
Median % change year-on-year +22.88% +20.33% -6.35%
75th Percentile £97.50 £76.03 £65.81
90th Percentile £107.00 £76.73 £86.59
Berkshire median hourly rate £75.00 £61.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +21.96% +5.48% -9.86%

GIS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'GIS Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

GIS Architect job vacancy trend in Reading

GIS Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GIS Architect job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GIS Architect job vacancies in Reading

GIS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 12 February 2026, GIS Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring GIS Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) ESRI
1 2 (100.00%) GIS
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) EAM
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving

GIS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Spatial Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) Webhook
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ESRI
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) SAP