ESRI Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

ESRI
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 119 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing ESRI 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.36% 0.13% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.66% 0.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £375 £320 -
25th Percentile £406 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% - -
75th Percentile £544 £519 -
90th Percentile £575 £590 -
South East median daily rate £550 £400 £640
% change year-on-year +37.50% -37.50% -5.19%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 912 1,104 1,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 55.47% 49.37% 50.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 641 930
10th Percentile £250 £263 £225
25th Percentile £394 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £701 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.62% +3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 41 46
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.20 £21.25 £18.08
Median hourly rate £16.75 £58.05 £40.36
Median % change year-on-year -71.14% +43.82% +160.39%
75th Percentile £32.05 £61.60 £63.84
90th Percentile £54.25 £75.24 £69.88
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -65.13% +9.24% +162.50%

ESRI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing ESRI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for ESRI in the Thames Valley

ESRI
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

ESRI
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ESRI in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ESRI in the Thames Valley

ESRI
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

ESRI
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 ESRI within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 September 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 +21 6 £438 +25.00% 2
ESRI
South East

ESRI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (66.67%) Smallworld
2 3 (50.00%) ArcGIS
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) GIS
2 4 (66.67%) Spatial Data
3 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (33.33%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) GIS Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) GIS Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Migration Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) GIS Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) GIS Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) GIS Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
1 3 (50.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Open Source
4 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
4 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (50.00%) Validation
5 2 (33.33%) Benchmarking
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (16.67%) Change Management
6 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
6 1 (16.67%) Data Management
6 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
6 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
6 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Magik
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle