ArcGIS Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

ESRI ArcGIS
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring ArcGIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 123 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.17% 0.14% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.46% 1.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £405 £320 -
25th Percentile £413 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £438 £519 -
90th Percentile £445 £590 -
South East median daily rate £720 £513 -
% change year-on-year +40.49% - -

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

ArcGIS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 205 178 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.82% 8.23% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 108 161
10th Percentile £350 £263 £244
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% +0.83% +2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £649 £608 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £461 £475
% change year-on-year +8.40% -2.89% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 12
10th Percentile £13.25 £35.83 £21.53
25th Percentile £16.38 £41.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £52.83 £55.03
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% -4.00% +223.69%
75th Percentile £69.56 £64.73 £68.63
90th Percentile £75.75 - £71.66
South East median hourly rate £29.64 £63.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year -53.07% +9.83% +207.24%

ArcGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ArcGIS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

ArcGIS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ArcGIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ArcGIS

ArcGIS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ArcGIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ArcGIS

ArcGIS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ArcGIS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 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 +19 3 £425 +21.43% 1
ArcGIS
South East

ArcGIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (100.00%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (100.00%) Smallworld
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) GIS
1 3 (100.00%) Spatial Data
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) GIS Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Migration Architect
3 1 (33.33%) GIS Specialist
3 1 (33.33%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Magik
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) ESRI
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle