ArcGIS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

ESRI ArcGIS
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring ArcGIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 110 136
Rank change year-on-year +6 +26 -
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 4 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.27% 0.19% 0.045%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.08% 1.20% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £425
75th Percentile £538 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £490
% change year-on-year +4.76% +7.14% -10.91%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

ArcGIS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 130 251 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 8.86% 15.92% 15.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 140 193
10th Percentile £254 £156 £313
25th Percentile £363 £349 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £421 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% -23.45% +26.15%
75th Percentile £508 £515 £650
90th Percentile £577 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 3
10th Percentile £14.16 £20.16 -
25th Percentile £15.59 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £18.00 £24.00 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +55.64% -14.85%
75th Percentile £39.64 £24.18 £16.57
90th Percentile £52.60 £27.88 £17.26
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £24.25
% change year-on-year -32.03% +52.58% +33.06%

ArcGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ArcGIS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

ArcGIS job vacancy trend in Scotland

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ArcGIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ArcGIS

ArcGIS
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ArcGIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ArcGIS

ArcGIS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ArcGIS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Edinburgh - 3 £525 - 1
Glasgow +3 1 - -
ArcGIS
UK

ArcGIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (50.00%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) GIS
2 2 (50.00%) Spatial Data
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) GIS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Parallel Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Spatial Data Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Magik
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ESRI
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle