ArcGIS Contract Job Trends

ESRI ArcGIS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ArcGIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 462 580
Rank change year-on-year -73 +118 +131
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 43 72 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.22% 0.037%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.15% 2.01% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 10
10th Percentile £375 £365 £404
25th Percentile £456 £400 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -3.06% -10.91%
75th Percentile £720 £607 £566
90th Percentile - £693 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £720 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +60.00% -8.16% -8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £16.12

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 3,746 3,577 4,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.18% 11.04% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,191 2,888
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.22% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 75 130
10th Percentile £15.37 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.11 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.28 £35.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.76% +45.83% +34.38%
75th Percentile £68.90 £63.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.30 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year -35.98% +91.01% +27.36%

ArcGIS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ArcGIS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ArcGIS job vacancy trend in the UK

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ArcGIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ArcGIS

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ArcGIS over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ArcGIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ArcGIS

ArcGIS
Top 10 Contract Job 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 4 January 2026. 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 -75 32 £600 +29.73% 21
UK excluding London -74 23 £720 +60.00% 16
Work from Home -26 22 £720 +21.52% 7
South East -11 15 £720 +40.49% 8
London -18 11 £525 +10.53% 7
Scotland +3 4 £525 -
Midlands -42 3 £400 - 4
West Midlands -42 3 £400 - 4
Yorkshire -52 1 £425 -
North of England -71 1 £425 -5.56% 1

ArcGIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.63%) GeoServer
1 5 (11.63%) Smallworld
2 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Maximo
2 3 (6.98%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (32.56%) Azure
2 4 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.98%) Azure Functions
3 3 (6.98%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (6.98%) PaaS
3 3 (6.98%) Serverless
4 2 (4.65%) AWS
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Storage
4 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (4.65%) RFID
1 2 (4.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (76.74%) GIS
2 14 (32.56%) Geospatial Data
2 14 (32.56%) Spatial Data
3 4 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (9.30%) Metadata
4 3 (6.98%) QGIS
4 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.65%) Power BI
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Local Government
5 3 (6.98%) Aviation
6 2 (4.65%) Publishing
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (37.21%) Architect
2 12 (27.91%) Developer
3 9 (20.93%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (13.95%) GIS Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) GIS Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Geospatial Developer
6 4 (9.30%) GIS Analyst
6 4 (9.30%) GIS Specialist
7 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead
7 3 (6.98%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Customer Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Customer Support Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Geospatial Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Geospatial Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Maximo Architect
8 2 (4.65%) SAP Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) .NET
1 4 (9.30%) REST
2 3 (6.98%) Next.js
2 3 (6.98%) React
3 2 (4.65%) OAuth
3 2 (4.65%) PostGIS
3 2 (4.65%) SAML
3 2 (4.65%) SAP Basis
3 2 (4.65%) Web Services
4 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (2.33%) CSS
4 1 (2.33%) Dojo
4 1 (2.33%) HTML
4 1 (2.33%) HTML5
4 1 (2.33%) jQuery
4 1 (2.33%) RESTful
4 1 (2.33%) SAP PI
4 1 (2.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.98%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.65%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Migration
2 11 (25.58%) Asset Management
3 10 (23.26%) Data Modelling
4 9 (20.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (13.95%) Decision-Making
5 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.63%) Agile
6 5 (11.63%) Analytics
6 5 (11.63%) Data Governance
6 5 (11.63%) Data Management
6 5 (11.63%) DevOps
6 5 (11.63%) Roadmaps
6 5 (11.63%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (9.30%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (9.30%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (9.30%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (9.30%) SDLC
7 4 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (9.30%) Test Strategy
7 4 (9.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.26%) Python
2 8 (18.60%) SQL
3 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.30%) C#
5 3 (6.98%) Java
5 3 (6.98%) Magik
6 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) Accessibility
2 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.65%) GDPR
4 1 (2.33%) QA
4 1 (2.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Terraform
2 2 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (62.79%) ESRI
2 9 (20.93%) IBM
3 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.30%) Oracle
4 4 (9.30%) SAP
5 2 (4.65%) Intergraph
6 1 (2.33%) Mapinfo