ArcGIS Contracts

ESRI ArcGIS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ArcGIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ArcGIS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 554 659
Rank change year-on-year +59 +105 +150
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 24 46 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.11% 0.090%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.73% 1.10% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 45
10th Percentile £293 £433 £378
25th Percentile £404 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £605
90th Percentile £624 £684 £677
UK excluding London median daily rate £584 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +16.80% -4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £15.95
25th Percentile - - £17.38
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.50% -57.89%
75th Percentile - £14.16 £22.88
90th Percentile - £15.33 £24.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - -32.50% -60.00%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

ArcGIS 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,308 4,179 6,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 9.59% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,874 4,603
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 161 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.13 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

ArcGIS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ArcGIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ArcGIS.

Daily rate trend for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ArcGIS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ArcGIS.

Hourly rate trend for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ArcGIS within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +48 23 £470 -6.00% 24
London +25 15 £440 -12.00% 10
Work from Home +40 11 £465 -5.10% 21
UK excluding London +49 7 £584 +16.80% 17
North of England +23 5 £585 +18.18% 1
North West +14 5 £585 +17.00% 1
South East +43 1 £247 -52.93% 3
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

ArcGIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) PaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) GIS
2 4 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (12.50%) Power BI
4 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.33%) Spatial Data
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.17%) QGIS
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Aviation
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Local Government
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Architect
2 6 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Geospatial Architect
4 3 (12.50%) GIS Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Applications Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Geospatial Technician
5 2 (8.33%) GIS Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) AutoCAD Technician
6 1 (4.17%) CAD Technician
6 1 (4.17%) Digital Product Manager
6 1 (4.17%) GIS Technician
6 1 (4.17%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Programme Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) React
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
1 1 (4.17%) Lidar
1 1 (4.17%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (20.83%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (8.33%) Agile
5 2 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (8.33%) Data Management
5 2 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (4.17%) Business Process Analysis
6 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.17%) Code Quality
6 1 (4.17%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (4.17%) Digital Twin
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (4.17%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (4.17%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (4.17%) SDLC
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
3 4 (16.67%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) ESRI
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle