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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 541 653
Rank change year-on-year +29 +112 +189
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 27 49 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.11% 0.057%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.77% 1.11% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 32 23
10th Percentile £365 £414 -
25th Percentile £398 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% -6.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £459 £575 £600
90th Percentile £503 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £470 £525
% change year-on-year -14.89% -10.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £15.95
25th Percentile - - £17.38
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.50% -47.02%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £22.88
90th Percentile - £48.50 £24.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - -32.50% -47.02%

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 3,499 4,431 5,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.17% 10.19% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,270 3,076 4,088
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £645
90th Percentile £713 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 160 159
10th Percentile £17.45 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.35 £16.44 £21.13
Median hourly rate £51.25 £31.91 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.60% -39.21% +128.26%
75th Percentile £66.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £32.12 £46.75
% change year-on-year +63.48% -31.30% +133.75%

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 3 July 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 10 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 3 July 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 +45 24 £425 -15.00% 35
London +39 16 £428 -14.50% 3
Work from Home +20 13 £388 -20.92% 17
UK excluding London +22 8 £400 -14.89% 39
South East +44 4 £413 - 12
Midlands +16 3 £375 - 1
West Midlands +9 2 £375 -
Yorkshire 0 1 £405 -32.50% 4
North of England -1 1 £405 -26.36% 6
East Midlands - 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (11.11%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (77.78%) GIS
2 8 (29.63%) Geospatial Data
2 8 (29.63%) Spatial Data
3 4 (14.81%) Power BI
4 3 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 3 (11.11%) QGIS
5 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) GDB
General
1 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Architect
1 5 (18.52%) Developer
1 5 (18.52%) GIS Architect
2 3 (11.11%) Analyst
2 3 (11.11%) GIS Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Administrator
3 2 (7.41%) Applications Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) GIS Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Migration Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Geospatial Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Geospatial Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Geospatial Technician
4 1 (3.70%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (3.70%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) React
2 4 (14.81%) PostGIS
3 3 (11.11%) GeoJSON
3 3 (11.11%) Middleware
4 2 (7.41%) KML
5 1 (3.70%) CSS
5 1 (3.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.70%) Lidar
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) DevOps
2 5 (18.52%) Agile
2 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
2 5 (18.52%) Data Management
3 4 (14.81%) Data Migration
3 4 (14.81%) Migration
3 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (14.81%) TOGAF
3 4 (14.81%) Visualisation
4 3 (11.11%) Architectural Design
4 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (11.11%) Open Source
5 2 (7.41%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (7.41%) Machine Learning
5 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.41%) Spatial Data Management
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) Magik
3 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) ESRI
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) SAP