GIS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GIS 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 295 327 356
Rank change year-on-year +32 +29 +74
Contract jobs citing GIS 41 72 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.35% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.03% 2.78% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 43 82
10th Percentile £301 £350 £356
25th Percentile £406 £375 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -6.05% -11.71%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £550
90th Percentile £594 £645 £636
UK median daily rate £471 £500 £483
% change year-on-year -5.75% +3.47% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 3
10th Percentile - - £16.18
25th Percentile - £11.00 £17.94
Median hourly rate £29.80 £13.50 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +120.74% -37.93% -67.78%
75th Percentile - £16.12 £24.06
90th Percentile - £62.36 £24.93
UK median hourly rate £29.80 £16.12 £22.49
% change year-on-year +84.86% -28.31% -57.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

GIS 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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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 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
North of England +5 13 £413 -31.25% 83
South East +40 11 £550 +33.33% 108
North West +23 10 £400 -21.95% 37
Scotland +7 7 £470 -1.05% 21
South West +46 4 £413 -21.43% 54
Midlands +19 3 £513 +46.43% 79
Yorkshire -7 3 £633 +5.42% 37
Northern Ireland -9 2 £500 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £425 - 28
East of England +26 1 £500 - 74
West Midlands +9 1 £600 +71.43% 47
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UK

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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 (4.88%) ArcGIS
1 2 (4.88%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (4.88%) GeoServer
1 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.88%) Maximo
1 2 (4.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.44%) SAP CRM
2 1 (2.44%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) AWS
2 5 (12.20%) Amazon S3
2 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (12.20%) Serverless
3 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (9.76%) Azure
4 3 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.88%) GitHub
5 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.44%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.88%) MSDE
4 2 (4.88%) ObjectStore
4 2 (4.88%) Spatial Data
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.44%) Big Data
5 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.44%) DTS
5 1 (2.44%) Metadata
5 1 (2.44%) QGIS
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) GitLab
2 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) Git
4 1 (2.44%) Jasmine
4 1 (2.44%) Mocha
General
1 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Local Government
4 2 (4.88%) Military
4 2 (4.88%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.44%) Legal
5 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Developer
2 8 (19.51%) Consultant
3 6 (14.63%) GIS Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Solutions Consultant
4 4 (9.76%) Project Manager
4 4 (9.76%) Python Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) DBA
6 2 (4.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.88%) GIS Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) SQL DBA
6 2 (4.88%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) PostGIS
2 6 (14.63%) SOAP
3 5 (12.20%) React
4 4 (9.76%) .NET
4 4 (9.76%) AWS CDK
5 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.32%) Node.js
5 3 (7.32%) RESTful
6 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.88%) GeoJSON
6 2 (4.88%) Google Maps API
6 2 (4.88%) Leaflet
6 2 (4.88%) MapLibre
6 2 (4.88%) Spring
6 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.44%) Jest
7 1 (2.44%) NumPy
7 1 (2.44%) Pandas
7 1 (2.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Operational Technology
1 7 (17.07%) SCADA
2 4 (9.76%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.76%) Replication
3 3 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Clustering
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.44%) Lidar
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Windows
2 3 (7.32%) Linux
3 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (19.51%) Analytics
2 6 (14.63%) Agile
2 6 (14.63%) DevOps
3 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
3 5 (12.20%) Decision-Making
3 5 (12.20%) ETL
3 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
4 4 (9.76%) CRM
4 4 (9.76%) Data Management
4 4 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (9.76%) Digital Twin
4 4 (9.76%) Scrum
5 3 (7.32%) Asset Management
5 3 (7.32%) Data Integration
5 3 (7.32%) Data Migration
5 3 (7.32%) Kanban
5 3 (7.32%) Migration
5 3 (7.32%) System Testing
5 3 (7.32%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Python
2 10 (24.39%) SQL
3 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
3 6 (14.63%) Perl
3 6 (14.63%) PL/SQL
4 5 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 4 (9.76%) Java
6 2 (4.88%) C#
6 2 (4.88%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.44%) Magik
7 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) PMP
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) CBAP
4 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Grafana
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Perfmon
2 1 (2.44%) SCOM
2 1 (2.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) ESRI
3 3 (7.32%) SAP
4 2 (4.88%) Google
4 2 (4.88%) Mapbox
5 1 (2.44%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.44%) IBM
5 1 (2.44%) Sparx
5 1 (2.44%) VMware