GIS Contracts in the South East

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring GIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GIS over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 200 229
Rank change year-on-year +19 +29 -23
Contract jobs citing GIS 19 15 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.26% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.00% 1.89% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 31
10th Percentile £363 £463 £275
25th Percentile £375 £473 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -16.67% +41.18%
75th Percentile £436 £569 £638
90th Percentile £450 £636 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £30.28 - £23.75
25th Percentile £44.56 £24.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £61.25 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +145.00% -28.57% +250.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £25.50 £42.50
90th Percentile - - £46.25
England median hourly rate £22.00 £22.49 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.16% -55.03% +236.30%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

GIS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 633 793 1,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.00% 14.00% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 551 948
10th Percentile £313 £315 £347
25th Percentile £394 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 42 28
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.18 £17.69
25th Percentile £22.61 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.18 £58.59 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.77% +160.40% -48.28%
75th Percentile £62.62 £74.69 £49.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.68 £57.53
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GIS in the South East over the 6 months to 22 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GIS in the South East

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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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Thames Valley +13 13 £400 -22.89% 1
Berkshire -2 13 £400 -16.88% 1
Surrey - 4 £423 -
Hampshire -10 1 - - 2
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England

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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 2 (10.53%) GeoServer
2 1 (5.26%) ArcGIS
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) AutoCAD
1 1 (5.26%) Autodesk Inventor
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) AWS
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
1 4 (21.05%) Azure AKS
1 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
1 4 (21.05%) SaaS
2 2 (10.53%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (10.53%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (10.53%) XCAP
2 1 (5.26%) FTP
2 1 (5.26%) HTTP
2 1 (5.26%) Internet
2 1 (5.26%) RNC
2 1 (5.26%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (21.05%) Power BI
2 4 (21.05%) Redis
3 2 (10.53%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (10.53%) Tableau
4 1 (5.26%) Spatial Data
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Billing
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (10.53%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Local Government
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Full Stack Developer
2 4 (21.05%) GIS Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Web Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (10.53%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Web Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Optimisation Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
3 2 (10.53%) RAN Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) RAN Performance Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) OpenLayers
2 6 (31.58%) PostGIS
3 4 (21.05%) AngularJS
3 4 (21.05%) Celery
3 4 (21.05%) Django
3 4 (21.05%) Flask
3 4 (21.05%) GeoPandas
4 2 (10.53%) CSS
4 2 (10.53%) Node.js
4 2 (10.53%) React
4 2 (10.53%) REST
4 2 (10.53%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (10.53%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (5.26%) Housing Association
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Agile
1 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Full Stack Development
1 4 (21.05%) Scrum
1 4 (21.05%) Web Development
2 3 (15.79%) API Development
2 3 (15.79%) Customer Experience
3 2 (10.53%) Change Management
3 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement Process
3 2 (10.53%) Data Transformation
3 2 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
3 2 (10.53%) Open Source
3 2 (10.53%) Order to Cash
3 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
3 2 (10.53%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
4 1 (5.26%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.26%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Remedy
2 1 (5.26%) Ariba
2 1 (5.26%) Ericsson
2 1 (5.26%) Mapinfo
2 1 (5.26%) Nokia
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle