QGIS Contract Job Trends in the South East

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring QGIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QGIS 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.22% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £473 £644 -
% change year-on-year -26.60% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

QGIS 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 496 592 762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.52% 14.05% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 384 554
10th Percentile £205 £246 £305
25th Percentile £330 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £660 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 41
10th Percentile - £22.07 £20.25
25th Percentile £13.25 £30.00 £25.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £48.18 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.08% -1.67% +130.05%
75th Percentile £40.90 £61.60 £64.50
90th Percentile £70.41 £64.73 £76.53
England median hourly rate £43.50 £33.93 £50.00
% change year-on-year +28.21% -32.14% -

QGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

QGIS job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

QGIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QGIS in the South East over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QGIS in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

QGIS
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 QGIS within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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 - 8 £550 - 3
Thames Valley - 8 £550 - 3
QGIS
England

QGIS
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 6 (75.00%) GeoServer
1 6 (75.00%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) GIS
2 6 (75.00%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (37.50%) Metadata
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Data Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) GIS Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) GIS Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (37.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Migration
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) AI
3 6 (75.00%) Analytics
3 6 (75.00%) Data Migration
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (37.50%) Change Control
5 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
5 3 (37.50%) Data Stewardship
5 3 (37.50%) Data Validation
5 3 (37.50%) High Availability
5 3 (37.50%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
5 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (37.50%) Use Case
5 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Validation
5 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) ESRI
2 6 (75.00%) Intergraph