GIS Contracts in Scotland

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for GIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GIS over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 125 170
Rank change year-on-year +7 +45 -25
Contract jobs citing GIS 13 40 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.59% 1.40% 0.028%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.28% 6.57% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 34 0
10th Percentile £281 £306 -
25th Percentile £415 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £488 £479 -
90th Percentile £500 £498 -
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £495
% change year-on-year +3.47% -2.37% +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £21.75 £11.49
Median % change year-on-year - +89.30% -
UK median hourly rate £16.12 £22.49 £52.50
% change year-on-year -28.31% -57.17% +356.92%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

GIS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 396 609 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.94% 21.30% 15.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 484 382
10th Percentile £325 £400 £356
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +3.13% +12.94%
75th Percentile £559 £550 £563
90th Percentile £663 £684 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £13.33
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £38.25
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £43.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for GIS in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for GIS in Scotland

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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 GIS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Glasgow +1 5 £288 -34.70% 3
Edinburgh +21 4 £451 -1.96% 1
Perthshire +12 2 £488 -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (23.08%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
2 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (30.77%) Serverless
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Applications Support
2 3 (23.08%) GIS Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Report Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) PostGIS
2 4 (30.77%) AWS CDK
3 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
4 2 (15.38%) React
4 2 (15.38%) Spring
5 1 (7.69%) OAuth
5 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
5 1 (7.69%) REST
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (23.08%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) User Experience
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Human-Centred Design
5 2 (15.38%) Inclusive Design
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
6 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) C#
3 4 (30.77%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana