GIS Specialist Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GIS Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median GIS Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 367 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs requiring a GIS Specialist 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.017% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.018% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
UK median daily rate £450 £425 -
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,611 16,404 20,252
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.96% 92.42% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,330 9,746 13,619
10th Percentile £213 £225 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,230 1,526 1,142
10th Percentile £13.27 £14.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £19.11 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +12.50% +81.82%
75th Percentile £53.75 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

GIS Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured GIS Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GIS Specialist in the UK excluding London

GIS Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GIS Specialist job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GIS Specialist job vacancies in the UK excluding London

GIS Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for GIS Specialist job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for GIS Specialist job vacancies in the UK excluding London

GIS Specialist
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 GIS Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East +22 1 £450 - 2
West Midlands -12 1 - -
Midlands -14 1 - -
GIS Specialist
UK

GIS Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 September 2025, GIS Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring GIS Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) GIS
1 2 (100.00%) ESRI
1 2 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Spatial Data
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) PostGIS
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Magik
2 1 (50.00%) Smallworld

GIS Specialist Skill Set
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 (100.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (50.00%) Smallworld
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) GIS
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (50.00%) Spatial Data
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Magik
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ESRI
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle