ArcGIS Contracts

ESRI ArcGIS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ArcGIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ArcGIS over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 554 663
Rank change year-on-year +56 +109 +158
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 26 46 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.11% 0.090%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.78% 1.11% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 44
10th Percentile £285 £433 £377
25th Percentile £400 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -5.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £605
90th Percentile £605 £684 £682
UK excluding London median daily rate £583 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +16.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £15.95
25th Percentile - - £17.38
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.50% -57.89%
75th Percentile - £14.16 £22.88
90th Percentile - £15.33 £24.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - -32.50% -60.00%

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 3,331 4,154 6,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.36% 9.63% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,856 4,520
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.10%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £719 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.67% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 159 153
10th Percentile £16.60 £13.00 £15.61
25th Percentile £22.13 £15.41 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.05 £27.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.89% -31.25% +77.78%
75th Percentile £64.31 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.75 £69.00 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.63 £26.48
% change year-on-year +95.47% -10.78% +43.14%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ArcGIS.

Daily rate trend for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ArcGIS over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ArcGIS.

Hourly rate trend for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Top 10 Contract 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 6 May 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 +48 23 £450 -10.00% 23
London +26 15 £440 -12.00% 11
Work from Home +39 13 £425 -13.27% 21
UK excluding London +48 8 £583 +16.60% 17
North West +14 5 £585 +17.00% 1
North of England +12 5 £585 +18.18% 2
Midlands - 2 £375 - 1
South East +36 1 £247 -52.93% 4
West Midlands - 1 £375 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (61.54%) GIS
2 6 (23.08%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (19.23%) Spatial Data
4 3 (11.54%) Power BI
4 3 (11.54%) QGIS
5 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.85%) Metadata
6 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) GDB
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Legal
3 1 (3.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Geospatial Architect
4 3 (11.54%) GIS Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Applications Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Geospatial Technician
5 2 (7.69%) GIS Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) CAD Technician
6 1 (3.85%) GIS Technician
6 1 (3.85%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Programme Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) React
2 2 (7.69%) GeoJSON
3 1 (3.85%) KML
3 1 (3.85%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.85%) Lidar
1 1 (3.85%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (26.92%) Data Analysis
3 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 5 (19.23%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (15.38%) Data Management
5 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.54%) DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) Visualisation
7 2 (7.69%) Agile
7 2 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (7.69%) Data Governance
7 2 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
7 2 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (3.85%) Data Science
8 1 (3.85%) Digital Twin
8 1 (3.85%) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
8 1 (3.85%) Storytelling
8 1 (3.85%) Strategic Thinking
8 1 (3.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
2 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
3 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) ESRI
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle