Spatial Data Contracts in the South East

Spatial Data
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Spatial Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spatial Data over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 190 -
Rank change year-on-year +44 - -
Contract jobs citing Spatial Data 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.037% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.97% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £278 - -
25th Percentile £324 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile £435 - -
England median daily rate £375 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -37.50% +26.32% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.34 -
England median hourly rate - £13.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

Spatial Data 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 413 607 827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.88% 11.11% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 374 582
10th Percentile £321 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -7.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 34 42
10th Percentile £20.85 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.61 £26.12
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +4.72% +150.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £66.37 £74.69
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £75.68
England median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -17.60% -28.19% +23.78%

Spatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Spatial Data 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 Spatial Data in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Spatial Data in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spatial Data in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spatial Data 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 Spatial Data in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Spatial Data in the South East

Spatial Data
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 Spatial Data within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Thames Valley +37 4 £375 - 3
Berkshire +33 4 £375 - 2
Spatial Data
England

Spatial Data
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 3 (75.00%) ArcGIS
1 3 (75.00%) Smallworld
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) GIS
2 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) GIS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) GIS Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) GIS Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) GIS Manager
2 1 (25.00%) GIS Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Magik
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) ESRI
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle