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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 502 545
Rank change year-on-year -60 +43 +120
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 54 25 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.085% 0.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.29% 0.75% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 14 32
10th Percentile £358 £285 £433
25th Percentile £375 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £495
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -7.07% -5.71%
75th Percentile £563 £569 £575
90th Percentile £720 £605 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £583 £500
% change year-on-year -14.24% +16.60% -4.76%
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 - - -32.50%

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 4,183 3,340 4,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.87% 11.40% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 2,233 2,872
10th Percentile £313 £277 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £724 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +2.75% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 77 160
10th Percentile £15.51 £16.55 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.06 £22.00 £15.42
Median hourly rate £29.44 £41.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.20% +54.72% -37.65%
75th Percentile £72.25 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.85 £76.00 £68.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.06 £46.18 £23.50
% change year-on-year -21.91% +96.51% -11.25%

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 May 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 9 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 May 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 -88 41 £500 +11.11% 15
UK excluding London -80 26 £500 -14.24% 10
South East -32 24 £500 +102.35% 6
Work from Home -22 20 £425 - 6
London -51 14 £525 +19.32% 4
North West -41 1 £450 -23.08% 3
West Midlands -61 1 £488 +30.00%
North of England -65 1 £450 -23.08% 4
Midlands -72 1 £488 +30.00%

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 3 (5.56%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
1 3 (5.56%) Smallworld
2 2 (3.70%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.85%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (1.85%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Maximo
1 3 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.85%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (7.41%) AWS
2 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.56%) Azure Functions
3 3 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (5.56%) PaaS
3 3 (5.56%) Serverless
4 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.85%) GCP
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.85%) SaaS
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (3.70%) RFID
1 2 (3.70%) VPN
2 1 (1.85%) DWDM
2 1 (1.85%) Internet
2 1 (1.85%) SDH
2 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (79.63%) GIS
2 16 (29.63%) Spatial Data
3 14 (25.93%) Geospatial Data
4 11 (20.37%) QGIS
5 4 (7.41%) Metadata
6 3 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.70%) Power BI
8 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Aviation
4 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.70%) Local Government
5 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Architect
2 11 (20.37%) Developer
3 8 (14.81%) GIS Architect
4 7 (12.96%) Lead
5 5 (9.26%) GIS Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Consultant
6 4 (7.41%) Geospatial Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Geospatial Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) GIS Specialist
6 4 (7.41%) PowerShell Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Integration Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Lead Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Technical Leader
8 2 (3.70%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.70%) GIS Consultant
8 2 (3.70%) GIS Technician
8 2 (3.70%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) REST
2 5 (9.26%) .NET
3 4 (7.41%) PostGIS
3 4 (7.41%) React
4 3 (5.56%) Next.js
4 3 (5.56%) OAuth
4 3 (5.56%) RESTful
4 3 (5.56%) SAML
5 2 (3.70%) SAP Basis
6 1 (1.85%) CSS
6 1 (1.85%) CSS3
6 1 (1.85%) GeoPandas
6 1 (1.85%) HTML
6 1 (1.85%) HTML5
6 1 (1.85%) JSON
6 1 (1.85%) Node.js
6 1 (1.85%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.41%) LLPG
2 4 (7.41%) NLPG
3 3 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
1 2 (3.70%) Unix
1 2 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.78%) Migration
2 11 (20.37%) Validation
3 9 (16.67%) Agile
3 9 (16.67%) Data Management
3 9 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 8 (14.81%) Data Modelling
4 8 (14.81%) DevOps
5 7 (12.96%) Analytics
5 7 (12.96%) Decision-Making
5 7 (12.96%) Event-Driven
5 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 5 (9.26%) Asset Management
7 5 (9.26%) CI/CD
7 5 (9.26%) Dashboard Development
7 5 (9.26%) Test Strategy
8 4 (7.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (7.41%) Non-Functional Testing
8 4 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (7.41%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.93%) Python
2 11 (20.37%) SQL
3 10 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.56%) C#
5 3 (5.56%) Java
6 2 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.85%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.85%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 8 (14.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (7.41%) BS7666
4 2 (3.70%) SLA
5 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Terraform
2 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.85%) Ansible
3 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (42.59%) ESRI
2 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.41%) SAP
4 3 (5.56%) Autodesk
4 3 (5.56%) IBM
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle
5 2 (3.70%) Intergraph
6 1 (1.85%) Mapinfo
6 1 (1.85%) Progress