GIS Specialist Contracts in the South East

GIS Specialist
England > South East

The median GIS Specialist daily rate in the South East is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GIS Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.033% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
England median daily rate £450 £481 -
% change year-on-year -6.49% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 2,733 5,014 5,290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.44% 92.30% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,823 3,012 3,691
10th Percentile £233 £213 £220
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £603
90th Percentile £661 £688 £700
England median daily rate £524 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.26% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 480 237
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £16.40
25th Percentile £19.97 £18.20 £21.65
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.08
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.21% +140.40%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +95.65%

GIS Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured GIS Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GIS Specialist in the South East

GIS Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS Specialist in the South East.

Daily rate trend for GIS Specialist in the South East

GIS Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS Specialist in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for GIS Specialist in the South East

GIS Specialist
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 GIS Specialist within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 - 1 £450 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £450 - 1
GIS Specialist
England

GIS Specialist Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, GIS Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring GIS Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI
1 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (100.00%) Magik
1 1 (100.00%) Smallworld
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Spatial
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) PostGIS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Spatial Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership

GIS Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Spatial
1 1 (100.00%) Smallworld
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) Spatial Data
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Magik
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle