Geospatial Data Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Geospatial Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.37% - 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.80% - 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £409 - £296
25th Percentile £413 - £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £481
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.94%
75th Percentile - - £630
90th Percentile £545 - £702
South East median daily rate £419 £800 £419
% change year-on-year -47.66% +91.04% -20.24%

All Database & BI Skills
Thames Valley

Geospatial 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 286 270 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.08% 15.85% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 175 227
10th Percentile £323 £325 £316
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 20
10th Percentile - £34.67 £22.40
25th Percentile - £41.25 £30.35
Median hourly rate - £63.15 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £64.95 £67.50
90th Percentile - £65.62 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £63.15 £54.50
% change year-on-year -41.41% +15.87% +25.29%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Geospatial Data job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Geospatial Data
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Geospatial Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Geospatial Data in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Geospatial Data in the Thames Valley

Geospatial Data
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Geospatial Data
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 Geospatial Data within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. 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 - 8 £500 - 5
Geospatial Data
South East

Geospatial Data
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 8 (100.00%) GeoServer
1 8 (100.00%) Smallworld
2 2 (25.00%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) GIS
1 8 (100.00%) QGIS
2 5 (62.50%) Metadata
3 2 (25.00%) Spatial Data
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
1 5 (62.50%) GIS Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Data Centre Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (37.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Analytics
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Migration
2 6 (75.00%) AI
2 6 (75.00%) Data Migration
2 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
3 5 (62.50%) Decision-Making
3 5 (62.50%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (62.50%) Use Case
3 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Visualisation
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (37.50%) Change Control
5 3 (37.50%) Data Validation
5 3 (37.50%) High Availability
5 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
5 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (37.50%) Validation
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) ESRI
1 8 (100.00%) Intergraph
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft