ESRI Contract Job Trends in the South East

ESRI
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 October 2025, 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
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 178 194
Rank change year-on-year +31 +16 +64
Contract jobs citing ESRI 22 4 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.61% 0.094% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 1.15% 0.19% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 16
10th Percentile £405 £330 -
25th Percentile £413 £375 £629
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £645
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -20.54% +12.17%
75th Percentile £703 £678 £650
90th Percentile £720 £751 -
England median daily rate £501 £485 £633
% change year-on-year +3.20% -23.32% +10.00%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,909 2,091 2,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.81% 49.06% 52.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 1,295 1,893
10th Percentile £205 £256 £205
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +0.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £606
90th Percentile £650 £700 £686
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 73 136
10th Percentile £14.15 £16.25 £15.38
25th Percentile £15.55 £26.25 £20.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £57.25 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -65.07% +13.30% +124.57%
75th Percentile £33.05 £67.02 £65.06
90th Percentile £71.78 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +80.56%

ESRI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

ESRI job vacancy trend in the South East

ESRI
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ESRI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ESRI

ESRI
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ESRI in the South East over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ESRI in the South East

ESRI
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ESRI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ESRI

ESRI
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ESRI within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Berkshire +32 16 £425 +21.43% 1
Thames Valley +20 16 £425 +6.25% 1
West Sussex -2 6 £720 -10.00%
ESRI
England

ESRI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (45.45%) Smallworld
2 9 (40.91%) ArcGIS
3 6 (27.27%) GeoServer
4 3 (13.64%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (81.82%) GIS
2 8 (36.36%) QGIS
3 6 (27.27%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (18.18%) Spatial Data
5 3 (13.64%) Data Lake
5 3 (13.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Architect
2 8 (36.36%) GIS Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Subject Matter Expert
4 3 (13.64%) Data Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Data Centre Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Maximo Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) GIS Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Migration Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) GIS Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) GIS Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) GIS Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Middleware
1 3 (13.64%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.64%) Replication
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Migration
2 11 (50.00%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) Data Migration
4 9 (40.91%) DevOps
4 9 (40.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (27.27%) AI
5 6 (27.27%) Analytics
5 6 (27.27%) Asset Management
5 6 (27.27%) Data Governance
5 6 (27.27%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (27.27%) Machine Learning
5 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
5 6 (27.27%) Validation
6 4 (18.18%) Architectural Design
6 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 4 (18.18%) Data Validation
6 4 (18.18%) Open Source
6 4 (18.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Magik
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
1 4 (18.18%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) IBM
1 6 (27.27%) Intergraph
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle