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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 465 567
Rank change year-on-year -94 +102 +137
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 50 63 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.21% 0.058%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.29% 1.78% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 16
10th Percentile £400 £400 £388
25th Percentile £500 £403 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% -8.12%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £720 £679 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +10.53% -4.04% -10.00%
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 3,883 3,533 4,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 11.52% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,683 2,182 2,877
10th Percentile £300 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £690 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 69 171
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.11 £22.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £25.28 £41.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.34% +49.09% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.25 £63.75 £49.54
90th Percentile £81.10 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.31 £48.82 £24.00
% change year-on-year -46.10% +103.40% +29.73%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -74 34 £525 +10.53% 15
UK excluding London -89 23 £525 +10.53% 17
Work from Home -34 21 £575 -4.17% 9
South East -20 15 £720 -10.00% 6
London -39 14 £525 +20.00% 4
Scotland +10 4 £525 - 5
West Midlands -47 2 £400 - 2
Midlands -53 2 £400 - 2
North of England -80 2 £438 -5.41% 1
North West -43 1 £450 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire -63 1 £425 -

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 (10.00%) GeoServer
1 5 (10.00%) Smallworld
2 4 (8.00%) Oracle Spatial
3 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Maximo
2 3 (6.00%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) AWS
3 4 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (6.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (6.00%) PaaS
4 3 (6.00%) Serverless
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Storage
5 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (4.00%) RFID
1 2 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (82.00%) GIS
2 20 (40.00%) Spatial Data
3 16 (32.00%) Geospatial Data
4 7 (14.00%) QGIS
5 5 (10.00%) Metadata
6 4 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (8.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.00%) Power BI
8 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Aviation
5 2 (4.00%) Local Government
5 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Architect
2 13 (26.00%) Developer
3 8 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (14.00%) GIS Architect
4 7 (14.00%) GIS Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Geospatial Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Lead
6 4 (8.00%) Geospatial Developer
6 4 (8.00%) GIS Specialist
7 3 (6.00%) Consultant
7 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Customer Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Customer Support Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Data Scientist
8 2 (4.00%) GIS Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) SAP Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) REST
2 6 (12.00%) .NET
2 6 (12.00%) PostGIS
3 3 (6.00%) Next.js
3 3 (6.00%) OAuth
3 3 (6.00%) React
3 3 (6.00%) SAML
4 2 (4.00%) CSS
4 2 (4.00%) HTML
4 2 (4.00%) HTML5
4 2 (4.00%) RESTful
4 2 (4.00%) SAP Basis
4 2 (4.00%) Web Services
5 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.00%) CSS3
5 1 (2.00%) Dojo
5 1 (2.00%) jQuery
5 1 (2.00%) Middleware
5 1 (2.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (8.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.00%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
1 2 (4.00%) Unix
1 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) Migration
2 11 (22.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (16.00%) Agile
3 8 (16.00%) Analytics
3 8 (16.00%) Decision-Making
4 7 (14.00%) Asset Management
4 7 (14.00%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (12.00%) Data Governance
5 6 (12.00%) Data Management
5 6 (12.00%) DevOps
5 6 (12.00%) Validation
6 5 (10.00%) Event-Driven
6 5 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.00%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (8.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (8.00%) Spatial Data Management
7 4 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) Python
2 13 (26.00%) SQL
3 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.00%) Java
5 4 (8.00%) C#
6 3 (6.00%) Magik
6 3 (6.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (14.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.00%) GDPR
3 2 (4.00%) SLA
4 1 (2.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Terraform
2 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 26 (52.00%) ESRI
2 7 (14.00%) Oracle
3 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.00%) SAP
4 5 (10.00%) IBM
5 2 (4.00%) Intergraph
5 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.00%) Mapinfo
6 1 (2.00%) Progress