GIS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GIS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 349 422
Rank change year-on-year +23 +73 -61
Contract jobs citing GIS 68 102 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.44% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.65% 2.84% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 79 53
10th Percentile £361 £355 £275
25th Percentile £406 £426 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £479 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -10.47% +25.88%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £625
90th Percentile £650 £640 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £481
% change year-on-year +3.47% +0.42% +13.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 17
10th Percentile - £16.18 £15.00
25th Percentile £11.00 £17.94 £28.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% -67.78% +496.03%
75th Percentile £16.12 £24.06 £75.00
90th Percentile £62.36 £24.93 -
UK median hourly rate £16.12 £22.49 £52.50
% change year-on-year -28.31% -57.17% +358.72%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

GIS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,566 3,597 5,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.53% 15.37% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,819 2,581 3,795
10th Percentile £316 £338 £328
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.24%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 115 142
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £61.61
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +66.79%

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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 10 May 2024.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 10 May 2024. 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 +42 27 £600 +14.29% 9
Yorkshire +26 18 £600 +9.09%
South East +26 16 £413 -16.46% 15
Scotland +13 13 £475 +5.56% 8
North East +16 5 £675 +28.57% 2
East of England +10 5 - - 9
North West +24 4 £513 +7.89% 7
South West +8 4 £525 +16.67% 9
Midlands +26 3 £375 -12.18% 3
West Midlands +20 3 £375 -37.50% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
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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 11 (16.18%) ArcGIS
2 6 (8.82%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.41%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Maximo
2 3 (4.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.94%) SAP CRM
3 2 (2.94%) SAP ERP
3 2 (2.94%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.12%) Azure
2 9 (13.24%) AWS
2 9 (13.24%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.82%) Serverless
4 5 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.35%) Google Sheets
5 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 4 (5.88%) GitHub
5 4 (5.88%) SaaS
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.94%) Stripe
7 1 (1.47%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.47%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.47%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) LTE
1 3 (4.41%) Radio Access Network
1 3 (4.41%) TETRA
2 2 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (2.94%) XCAP
3 1 (1.47%) FTP
3 1 (1.47%) HTTP
3 1 (1.47%) Internet
3 1 (1.47%) Network Security
3 1 (1.47%) RNC
3 1 (1.47%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.06%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (20.59%) Geospatial Data
3 9 (13.24%) Power BI
4 7 (10.29%) Spatial Data
5 6 (8.82%) QGIS
5 6 (8.82%) Redis
6 4 (5.88%) Metadata
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.94%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (2.94%) Tableau
8 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.47%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.47%) GitLab
General
1 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (16.18%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.76%) Finance
5 5 (7.35%) Back Office
5 5 (7.35%) Retail
6 4 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.88%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.94%) Local Government
8 1 (1.47%) Billing
8 1 (1.47%) Legal
8 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) Developer
2 11 (16.18%) Analyst
2 11 (16.18%) GIS Developer
3 7 (10.29%) GIS Analyst
4 6 (8.82%) Architect
5 5 (7.35%) Digital Transformation
5 5 (7.35%) Digital Transformation Manager
5 5 (7.35%) Transformation Manager
6 4 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (5.88%) GIS Architect
6 4 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.88%) Web Developer
7 3 (4.41%) Applications Support
7 3 (4.41%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) GIS Business Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) GIS Technician
7 3 (4.41%) Report Developer
7 3 (4.41%) SCADA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.59%) PostGIS
2 10 (14.71%) OpenLayers
3 5 (7.35%) React
4 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.88%) AWS CDK
4 4 (5.88%) Celery
4 4 (5.88%) Django
4 4 (5.88%) Flask
4 4 (5.88%) GeoPandas
4 4 (5.88%) Node.js
5 3 (4.41%) CSS
5 3 (4.41%) REST
5 3 (4.41%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.94%) SignalR
6 2 (2.94%) Spring
6 2 (2.94%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (2.94%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (1.47%) OAuth
7 1 (1.47%) Spring Security
7 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.88%) SCADA
3 3 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.41%) Lidar
3 3 (4.41%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.47%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.47%) Linked Data
5 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.47%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Unix
1 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.29%) Agile
2 16 (23.53%) DevOps
3 12 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (10.29%) Data Analysis
5 7 (10.29%) Data Management
6 6 (8.82%) Full Stack Development
6 6 (8.82%) Line Management
6 6 (8.82%) User Experience
7 5 (7.35%) Analytics
7 5 (7.35%) CI/CD
7 5 (7.35%) Open Source
7 5 (7.35%) Service Management
7 5 (7.35%) Waterfall
8 4 (5.88%) CRM
8 4 (5.88%) Data Modelling
8 4 (5.88%) ERP
8 4 (5.88%) Scrum
8 4 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (5.88%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.88%) Python
2 10 (14.71%) SQL
3 8 (11.76%) Java
4 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.35%) C#
5 5 (7.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (7.35%) Degree
2 4 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (2.94%) GDPR
1 2 (2.94%) SLA
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) ESRI
2 5 (7.35%) Google
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.88%) SAP
4 2 (2.94%) Ericsson
4 2 (2.94%) Mapbox
4 2 (2.94%) Mapinfo
4 2 (2.94%) Remedy
5 1 (1.47%) Greenplum
5 1 (1.47%) Nokia
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) Pega