Geospatial Data Contracts in the UK excluding London

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Geospatial Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Geospatial Data over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 375 406
Rank change year-on-year +53 +31 +47
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 14 24 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.69% 0.93% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 36
10th Percentile £406 £406 £316
25th Percentile £422 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £508 £494
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +2.78% -12.61%
75th Percentile £484 £600 £614
90th Percentile £500 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £13.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year - -39.96% -70.02%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Geospatial Data in the UK excluding London

Geospatial Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Geospatial Data in the UK excluding London

Geospatial Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Geospatial Data in the UK excluding London

Geospatial Data
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 Geospatial Data within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South West +49 7 £450 -14.29% 13
North of England +11 4 £450 -17.43%
North West - 4 £450 -
South East +41 1 £525 - 11
Midlands +21 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Geospatial Data
UK

Geospatial Data
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 1 (7.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) GIS
2 2 (14.29%) ObjectStore
3 1 (7.14%) QGIS
3 1 (7.14%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jasmine
2 1 (7.14%) Mocha
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Tech for Good
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Military
2 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) GIS Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Python Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) AutoCAD Technician
5 1 (7.14%) CAD Technician
5 1 (7.14%) Geospatial Technician
5 1 (7.14%) GIS Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) GIS Data Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Maximo Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Scientific Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
1 3 (21.43%) Node.js
1 3 (21.43%) PostGIS
1 3 (21.43%) React
1 3 (21.43%) RESTful
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) GeoJSON
2 2 (14.29%) Google Maps API
2 2 (14.29%) Leaflet
2 2 (14.29%) MapLibre
3 1 (7.14%) Jest
3 1 (7.14%) NumPy
3 1 (7.14%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Analytics
1 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
2 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (21.43%) Digital Twin
3 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
3 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Data Management
4 2 (14.29%) Data Science
4 2 (14.29%) ETL
4 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (14.29%) RBAC
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 2 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) ESRI
1 2 (14.29%) Google
1 2 (14.29%) Mapbox
2 1 (7.14%) IBM