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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 511 551
Rank change year-on-year -45 +40 +118
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 52 21 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.071% 0.10%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.27% 0.61% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 12 30
10th Percentile £395 £262 £424
25th Percentile £500 £447 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £579 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +18.16% -9.05%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £575
90th Percentile £720 £761 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £585 £500
% change year-on-year -10.26% +17.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £24.25 - -
Median hourly rate £24.50 - £13.50
75th Percentile £24.75 - £14.16
90th Percentile - - £15.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -46.00%

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 4,087 3,431 4,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.54% 11.64% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,820 2,210 2,859
10th Percentile £304 £256 £250
25th Percentile £404 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £454 £450
% change year-on-year +4.63% +0.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 71 176
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.15 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.36 £41.91 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.73% +67.64% +11.11%
75th Percentile £69.44 £64.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £71.25 £68.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.17 £50.91 £22.86
% change year-on-year -36.82% +122.72% +3.90%

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 13 March 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 11 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 13 March 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 -68 39 £525 -9.95% 13
UK excluding London -76 24 £525 -10.26% 14
Work from Home -12 21 £525 -10.10% 11
South East -37 19 £550 +5.05% 5
London -41 15 £525 +10.53% 2
North of England -66 2 £438 -25.21% 3
Scotland - 2 £525 - 3
North West -37 1 £450 -23.08% 3
Midlands -65 1 £400 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £425 -
West Midlands - 1 £400 - 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 6 (11.54%) Smallworld
2 5 (9.62%) GeoServer
3 4 (7.69%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.92%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (1.92%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Maximo
2 3 (5.77%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (5.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.92%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.77%) Azure Functions
4 3 (5.77%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (5.77%) PaaS
4 3 (5.77%) Serverless
5 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.92%) GCP
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.92%) SaaS
6 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (3.85%) RFID
1 2 (3.85%) VPN
2 1 (1.92%) DWDM
2 1 (1.92%) Internet
2 1 (1.92%) SDH
2 1 (1.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (78.85%) GIS
2 16 (30.77%) Spatial Data
3 15 (28.85%) Geospatial Data
4 8 (15.38%) QGIS
5 5 (9.62%) Metadata
6 4 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.85%) Power BI
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (19.23%) Public Sector
1 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Aviation
3 3 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.85%) Local Government
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Architect
2 11 (21.15%) Developer
3 8 (15.38%) GIS Architect
3 8 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (11.54%) Lead
5 5 (9.62%) Geospatial Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) GIS Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Geospatial Developer
6 4 (7.69%) GIS Specialist
7 3 (5.77%) Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Customer Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Customer Support Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.85%) Integration Architect
8 2 (3.85%) SAP Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) REST
2 6 (11.54%) .NET
2 6 (11.54%) PostGIS
3 3 (5.77%) Next.js
3 3 (5.77%) OAuth
3 3 (5.77%) React
3 3 (5.77%) RESTful
3 3 (5.77%) SAML
4 2 (3.85%) CSS
4 2 (3.85%) HTML
4 2 (3.85%) HTML5
4 2 (3.85%) SAP Basis
4 2 (3.85%) Web Services
5 1 (1.92%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.92%) CSS3
5 1 (1.92%) Dojo
5 1 (1.92%) JSON
5 1 (1.92%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.92%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.92%) LLPG
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) NLPG
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Unix
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Migration
2 10 (19.23%) Data Modelling
3 8 (15.38%) Agile
3 8 (15.38%) Decision-Making
3 8 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
3 8 (15.38%) Validation
4 7 (13.46%) Analytics
4 7 (13.46%) Asset Management
4 7 (13.46%) DevOps
5 6 (11.54%) Data Governance
5 6 (11.54%) Data Management
5 6 (11.54%) Event-Driven
6 5 (9.62%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.69%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (7.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) Python
1 13 (25.00%) SQL
2 9 (17.31%) JavaScript
3 6 (11.54%) Java
4 4 (7.69%) C#
5 3 (5.77%) Magik
5 3 (5.77%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.92%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.92%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 8 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.77%) SLA
3 2 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.92%) BS7666
4 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (48.08%) ESRI
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) Oracle
3 6 (11.54%) SAP
4 5 (9.62%) IBM
5 3 (5.77%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.85%) Intergraph
7 1 (1.92%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.92%) Mapinfo
7 1 (1.92%) Progress