ESRI Contract Job Trends in the South West

ESRI
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 21 November 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
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 127 149
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 +27
Contract jobs citing ESRI 3 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.13% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.37% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £412 - £393
25th Percentile £427 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year +12.35% +3.03% -36.54%
75th Percentile £552 £456 £427
90th Percentile £581 £468 £441
England median daily rate £425 £475 £633
% change year-on-year -10.53% -24.90% +10.00%

All Vendors
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 967 1,093 1,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.21% 45.62% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 645 862
10th Percentile £225 £278 £262
25th Percentile £409 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £704 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 65 117
10th Percentile £10.21 £12.59 £18.87
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.47% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £38.94 £70.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £73.13 £74.00 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% -24.16% +64.81%

ESRI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

ESRI job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ESRI in the South West over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ESRI in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 21 November 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
Somerset - 3 £478 - 1
ESRI
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (66.67%) GIS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) GIS Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PostGIS
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware