GeoServer Contract Job Trends

GeoServer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring GeoServer skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 568 619
Rank change year-on-year +23 +51 +193
Contract jobs citing GeoServer 6 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.005% 0.024%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.17% 0.049% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £408 - £448
25th Percentile £409 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -25.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile £548 - £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -5.56% -7.69% +0.83%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

GeoServer 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 3,475 4,102 5,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.66% 10.83% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,245 2,642 3,407
10th Percentile £275 £265 £258
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £825 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -1.10% -4.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 76 151
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.08 £16.13
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £34.98 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% -24.21% +112.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £66.91
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.44 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.33 £48.56 £46.09
% change year-on-year -31.37% +5.36% +133.84%

GeoServer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GeoServer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GeoServer in the UK

GeoServer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GeoServer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GeoServer

GeoServer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GeoServer over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GeoServer in the UK

GeoServer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GeoServer.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GeoServer

GeoServer
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GeoServer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 +29 6 £425 - 2
UK excluding London +7 6 £425 -5.56% 2
South East - 6 £425 - 2
Work from Home +29 2 - - 6

GeoServer
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 6 (100.00%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 6 (100.00%) GIS
1 6 (100.00%) QGIS
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) GIS Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Change Control
3 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Data Stewardship
3 3 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (50.00%) High Availability
3 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (50.00%) Use Case
3 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) ESRI
1 6 (100.00%) Intergraph