ESRI Contract Job Trends in Scotland

ESRI
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring knowledge or experience of ESRI products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ESRI over the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 113 134
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 +23
Contract jobs citing ESRI 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.14% 0.19% 0.044%
As % of the Vendors category 0.32% 0.49% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £268 -
25th Percentile £513 £430 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +55.56% +234.57%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £501 £513 £629
% change year-on-year -2.34% -18.49% +14.32%

All Vendors
Scotland

ESRI falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 634 618 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 43.34% 38.65% 42.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 349 548
10th Percentile £256 £175 £192
25th Percentile £400 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -10.00% +9.23%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 41 34
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £16.36
Median hourly rate £20.62 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +20.97% +10.05%
75th Percentile £30.38 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.63 £34.50 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £27.35 £43.00
% change year-on-year -13.16% -36.40% +39.84%

ESRI
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

ESRI job vacancy trend in Scotland

ESRI
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ESRI

ESRI
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ESRI

ESRI
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 ESRI within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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 +8 2 £525 +218.18% 1
ESRI
UK

ESRI
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 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 2 (100.00%) Smallworld
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) GIS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Magik
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle