Smallworld Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GE Smallworld
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Smallworld skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 362 418
Rank change year-on-year -13 +56 +99
Contract jobs citing Smallworld 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.017% 0.014%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.31% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £700 £475
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +47.37% -
75th Percentile £425 - £488
90th Percentile £440 - -
UK median daily rate £425 £700 £475
% change year-on-year -39.29% +47.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

Smallworld falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,623 1,702 2,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.63% 9.65% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,050 1,058 1,499
10th Percentile £220 £220 £202
25th Percentile £350 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £540 £569 £600
90th Percentile £625 £645 £678
UK median daily rate £485 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 56 112
10th Percentile £14.63 £18.82 £14.29
25th Percentile £20.47 £29.88 £18.27
Median hourly rate £34.99 £48.56 £46.09
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +5.36% +133.01%
75th Percentile £61.79 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.44 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £38.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -21.65% +122.99%

Smallworld
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Smallworld in the UK excluding London

Smallworld
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Smallworld.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Smallworld

Smallworld
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Smallworld.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Smallworld

Smallworld
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 Smallworld within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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 - 5 £400 - 7
Smallworld
UK

Smallworld
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 3 (60.00%) ArcGIS
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) GIS
2 4 (80.00%) Spatial Data
3 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) GIS Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Migration Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Fibre Planner
3 1 (20.00%) GIS Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) GIS Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) GIS Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
1 3 (60.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Data Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Benchmarking
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
4 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Network Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Magik
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ESRI
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle