GIS Contracts in the South West

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for GIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GIS over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 160 153
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 -25
Contract jobs citing GIS 4 15 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.12% 0.41% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.25% 3.07% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile £505 £230 £341
25th Percentile £513 £378 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £423
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +6.38% -12.10%
75th Percentile £556 £503 £463
90th Percentile £575 £603 £543
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £63.35
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -80.00% +566.67%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £17.89 £22.49 £52.50
% change year-on-year -20.45% -57.17% +275.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

GIS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 320 489 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.97% 13.26% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 356 445
10th Percentile £325 £363 £339
25th Percentile £422 £438 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £590
90th Percentile £721 £720 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 26 21
10th Percentile £14.82 £19.38 £48.74
25th Percentile - £38.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -5.87% +61.77%
75th Percentile - £73.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.13 £58.59 £40.62
% change year-on-year -31.52% +44.26% +63.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the South West

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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 GIS within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Bristol +10 3 £513 +13.89% 1
Wiltshire - 1 £575 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (50.00%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata Repository
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) GIS Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linked Data
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Information Management
2 1 (25.00%) Records Management
2 1 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Mapbox