Spatial Data Management Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Spatial Data Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Spatial Data Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spatial Data Management 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £422 - -
90th Percentile £450 - -
UK median daily rate £375 - £420
% change year-on-year - - +212.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Spatial Data Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,584 14,732 19,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.17% 82.94% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,164 8,537 12,631
10th Percentile £235 £247 £262
25th Percentile £368 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,412 1,226 1,261
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +6.17% +76.09%
75th Percentile £42.25 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%

Spatial Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Spatial Data Management in the UK excluding London

Spatial Data Management
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Spatial Data Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Spatial Data Management

Spatial Data Management
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 Spatial Data Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Midlands - 2 £375 -
West Midlands - 2 £375 -
Scotland - 1 - -
South West - 1 £463 -
Spatial Data Management
UK

Spatial Data Management
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 (75.00%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) GIS
1 4 (100.00%) Spatial Data
2 3 (75.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GDB
General
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) GIS Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) GIS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) GeoJSON
1 2 (50.00%) KML
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) PostGIS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Cartography
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Data Conversion
2 2 (50.00%) Spatial Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Parallel Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance