Spatial Data Contracts in the UK excluding London

Spatial Data
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Spatial Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spatial Data over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 390 425
Rank change year-on-year +62 +35 +72
Contract jobs citing Spatial Data 7 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.034% 0.035%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.34% 0.27% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £309 - £131
25th Percentile £363 £550 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £600 £343
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +75.18% -38.51%
75th Percentile £425 £650 £474
90th Percentile £458 - £490
UK median daily rate £375 £600 £430
% change year-on-year -37.50% +39.53% -18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £13.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Spatial Data 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 2,061 2,568 3,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.02% 12.46% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 1,818 2,436
10th Percentile £313 £313 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £564 £579 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 107 105
10th Percentile £18.69 £13.61 £21.53
25th Percentile £22.72 £17.50 £32.30
Median hourly rate £31.64 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -39.13% +64.29%
75th Percentile £65.62 £59.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -17.60% -31.73% +30.20%

Spatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Spatial Data in the UK excluding London

Spatial Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Spatial Data in the UK excluding London

Spatial Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spatial Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spatial Data in the UK excluding London

Spatial Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Spatial Data in the UK excluding London

Spatial Data
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East +45 4 £375 - 26
Midlands - 2 £375 - 20
West Midlands - 2 £375 - 13
South West - 1 £463 - 12
Spatial Data
UK

Spatial Data
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 5 (71.43%) ArcGIS
2 3 (42.86%) Smallworld
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) GIS
2 3 (42.86%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GDB
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Local Government
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) GIS Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) GIS Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) GIS Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) GIS Manager
3 1 (14.29%) GIS Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) PostGIS
2 2 (28.57%) GeoJSON
2 2 (28.57%) KML
2 2 (28.57%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) NumPy
3 1 (14.29%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Management
1 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Spatial Data Management
2 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
2 2 (28.57%) Cartography
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Data Conversion
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) Open Source
2 2 (28.57%) Spatial Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Magik
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) ESRI
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle