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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 507 542
Rank change year-on-year -101 +35 +107
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 47 27 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.088% 0.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.06% 0.79% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 32
10th Percentile £334 £365 £414
25th Percentile £375 £398 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -13.27% -6.67%
75th Percentile £523 £459 £575
90th Percentile £550 £503 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £400 £470
% change year-on-year +15.63% -14.89% -10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £24.25 - -
Median hourly rate £24.50 - £13.50
75th Percentile £24.75 - £35.00
90th Percentile - - £48.50
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 4,453 3,431 4,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.66% 11.16% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,952 2,238 3,064
10th Percentile £313 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £626
90th Percentile £675 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 79 162
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.27 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.39 £16.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +63.48% -38.83%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £53.06 £32.12
% change year-on-year -34.03% +65.20% -31.30%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -109 34 £461 +8.47% 16
UK excluding London -84 22 £463 +15.63% 11
Work from Home -42 20 £400 +3.23% 9
South East -48 20 £463 +12.12% 3
London -75 11 £480 +12.22% 7
West Midlands -53 1 £488 +30.00% 4
Midlands -60 1 £488 +30.00% 5
North of England -75 1 £450 +11.11% 1
North West - 1 £450 - 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 3 (6.38%) Oracle Spatial
2 2 (4.26%) Smallworld
3 1 (2.13%) GeoServer
3 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.13%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.13%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.15%) Azure
2 4 (8.51%) AWS
2 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.13%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) PaaS
4 1 (2.13%) SaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) 2G
1 2 (4.26%) 3G
1 2 (4.26%) 4G
1 2 (4.26%) 5G
1 2 (4.26%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.13%) DWDM
2 1 (2.13%) Internet
2 1 (2.13%) SDH
2 1 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (76.60%) GIS
2 19 (40.43%) Spatial Data
3 13 (27.66%) QGIS
4 12 (25.53%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (8.51%) Metadata
5 4 (8.51%) Power BI
6 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.38%) Tableau
7 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.26%) Aviation
5 2 (4.26%) Publishing
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Finance
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (12.77%) Architect
1 6 (12.77%) Developer
1 6 (12.77%) GIS Architect
2 5 (10.64%) Geospatial Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Consultant
3 4 (8.51%) Lead
3 4 (8.51%) PowerShell Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) GIS Developer
4 3 (6.38%) GIS Technician
4 3 (6.38%) Integration Architect
4 3 (6.38%) Technical Leader
5 2 (4.26%) Dashboard Developer
5 2 (4.26%) GIS Consultant
5 2 (4.26%) GIS Specialist
5 2 (4.26%) Senior
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Fibre Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Geospatial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) PostGIS
2 6 (12.77%) REST
3 3 (6.38%) .NET
3 3 (6.38%) CSS
3 3 (6.38%) HTML
3 3 (6.38%) RESTful
4 2 (4.26%) GeoJSON
4 2 (4.26%) React
5 1 (2.13%) CSS3
5 1 (2.13%) GeoPandas
5 1 (2.13%) HTML5
5 1 (2.13%) JSON
5 1 (2.13%) Next.js
5 1 (2.13%) Node.js
5 1 (2.13%) OAuth
5 1 (2.13%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.13%) SAML
5 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (8.51%) LLPG
1 4 (8.51%) NLPG
2 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Unix
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.40%) Data Management
1 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (21.28%) Agile
3 9 (19.15%) ETL
3 9 (19.15%) Validation
4 7 (14.89%) Dashboard Development
4 7 (14.89%) Decision-Making
5 6 (12.77%) Analytics
5 6 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (12.77%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (12.77%) Migration
6 5 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (10.64%) Data Analysis
6 5 (10.64%) DevOps
6 5 (10.64%) Event-Driven
6 5 (10.64%) Visualisation
7 4 (8.51%) Customer Experience
7 4 (8.51%) Data Cleansing
7 4 (8.51%) Spatial Analysis
7 4 (8.51%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) Python
2 13 (27.66%) SQL
3 10 (21.28%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.38%) Java
6 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.13%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.13%) C#
7 1 (2.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.26%) Degree
5 1 (2.13%) BC Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.66%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.64%) Accessibility
3 4 (8.51%) BS7666
4 2 (4.26%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) ESRI
2 6 (12.77%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.51%) Autodesk
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
5 2 (4.26%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) Databricks
6 1 (2.13%) Intergraph
6 1 (2.13%) Progress
6 1 (2.13%) Sparx