QGIS Contracts in the UK excluding London

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring QGIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QGIS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 367 433
Rank change year-on-year +29 +66 +75
Contract jobs citing QGIS 1 32 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.15% 0.058%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.049% 1.23% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £309 -
25th Percentile - - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £350 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -32.69% +73.33%
75th Percentile - - £540
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate - £413 £520
% change year-on-year - -20.67% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -73.00% +78.57%
UK median hourly rate - £13.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year - -39.96% -31.34%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

QGIS 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 2,022 2,597 3,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 12.51% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,401 1,828 2,658
10th Percentile £318 £325 £350
25th Percentile £401 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -4.40% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £677 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 97 111
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.50 £32.30
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.48 £66.28
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -17.60% -31.73% +37.86%

QGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QGIS in the UK excluding London

QGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for QGIS in the UK excluding London

QGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for QGIS in the UK excluding London

QGIS
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 QGIS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Midlands +16 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
QGIS
UK

QGIS
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 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) AutoCAD
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AutoCAD Technician
1 1 (100.00%) CAD Technician
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) 3D Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) CAD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping