ArcGIS Contracts in the UK excluding London

ESRI ArcGIS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ArcGIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ArcGIS over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 376 427
Rank change year-on-year +44 +51 +65
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 11 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.069% 0.052%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.74% 0.81% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £337 - -
25th Percentile £375 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £550
90th Percentile £594 £650 £590
UK median daily rate £440 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.71% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £15.95
25th Percentile - - £17.38
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.50% -60.00%
75th Percentile - £14.16 £22.88
90th Percentile - £15.33 £24.45
UK median hourly rate - £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - -32.50% -57.89%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,480 1,727 2,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.50% 8.52% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 962 1,165 1,829
10th Percentile £225 £213 £200
25th Percentile £358 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £585
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 123 98
10th Percentile £15.63 £13.00 £15.35
25th Percentile £20.70 £14.50 £17.56
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -10.91% +37.50%
75th Percentile £64.63 £49.04 £65.94
90th Percentile £78.10 £70.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £29.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year +57.88% -35.00% +80.00%

ArcGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ArcGIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ArcGIS in the UK excluding London

ArcGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ArcGIS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ArcGIS in the UK excluding London

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ArcGIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ArcGIS in the UK excluding London

ArcGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ArcGIS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ArcGIS in the UK excluding London

ArcGIS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ArcGIS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
North of England +13 5 £585 +18.18% 2
North West +11 5 £585 +17.00% 1
South East +53 3 £400 -23.81% 9
Midlands - 3 £375 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £375 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
ArcGIS
UK

ArcGIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (18.18%) Oracle Spatial
1 2 (18.18%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) AutoCAD
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) GIS
2 5 (45.45%) Spatial Data
3 3 (27.27%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GDB
General
1 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Local Government
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Geospatial Architect
3 2 (18.18%) GIS Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) GIS Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AutoCAD Technician
4 1 (9.09%) CAD Technician
4 1 (9.09%) Geospatial Technician
4 1 (9.09%) GIS Manager
4 1 (9.09%) GIS Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) GeoJSON
1 2 (18.18%) KML
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
1 2 (18.18%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Data Analysis
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
4 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
4 3 (27.27%) Data Management
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
5 2 (18.18%) Cartography
5 2 (18.18%) Data Conversion
5 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Open Source
5 2 (18.18%) Spatial Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Spatial Data Management
5 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Magik
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) ESRI
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle