ArcGIS Contract Job Trends

ESRI ArcGIS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ArcGIS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 482 631
Rank change year-on-year -52 +149 +189
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 34 77 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.20% 0.041%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.96% 1.86% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 13
10th Percentile £359 £310 £436
25th Percentile £400 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £596 £575 £600
90th Percentile £720 £669 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £45.00 -

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 3,557 4,145 5,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.80% 10.76% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,307 2,728 3,455
10th Percentile £275 £263 £256
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +4.90% -4.67%
75th Percentile £595 £649 £643
90th Percentile £701 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 86 159
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.80 £21.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -27.62% +138.64%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £66.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £48.56 £47.04
% change year-on-year -21.68% +3.24% +143.03%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 -12 28 £428 -5.00% 66
Work from Home -5 18 £450 -5.26% 23
UK excluding London -41 16 £450 +5.88% 74
London +13 13 £428 -14.50% 5
South East +22 9 £685 +71.25% 17
West Midlands -10 4 £375 - 10
Midlands -16 4 £375 - 17
Scotland -8 2 - - 7
Yorkshire -22 1 £405 -4.71% 4
North of England -32 1 £405 -4.71% 8

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 (8.82%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (8.82%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) Azure
2 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (70.59%) GIS
2 14 (41.18%) Spatial Data
3 12 (35.29%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
4 3 (8.82%) Power BI
4 3 (8.82%) QGIS
5 2 (5.88%) Metadata
6 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) GDB
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Local Government
6 2 (5.88%) Publishing
7 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Architect
2 7 (20.59%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Developer
3 6 (17.65%) GIS Architect
4 5 (14.71%) GIS Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) GIS Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Maximo Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Administrator
6 2 (5.88%) Applications Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Geospatial Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) GIS Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) Migration Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Data Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Geospatial Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Geospatial Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Subject Matter Expert
7 1 (2.94%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) React
2 4 (11.76%) PostGIS
3 3 (8.82%) GeoJSON
3 3 (8.82%) Middleware
4 2 (5.88%) KML
5 1 (2.94%) CSS
5 1 (2.94%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Data Management
2 8 (23.53%) Migration
2 8 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (17.65%) Asset Management
3 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (14.71%) Agile
4 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
4 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
4 5 (14.71%) Spatial Data Management
4 5 (14.71%) Technology Roadmap
4 5 (14.71%) TOGAF
5 4 (11.76%) Architectural Design
5 4 (11.76%) Data Governance
5 4 (11.76%) DevOps
5 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (11.76%) ETL
5 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.76%) Validation
5 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
6 3 (8.82%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) Magik
2 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
3 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.94%) QA
Vendors
1 22 (64.71%) ESRI
2 6 (17.65%) IBM
3 5 (14.71%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) SAP