Geospatial Data Contracts

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Geospatial Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Geospatial Data over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 552 622
Rank change year-on-year +65 +70 +135
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 32 48 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.58% 0.66% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 60
10th Percentile £406 £398 £350
25th Percentile £441 £425 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £649 £705 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £508 £494
% change year-on-year -11.33% +2.78% -12.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.24
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year - -39.96% -70.02%
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Geospatial Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Geospatial Data in the UK

Geospatial Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Geospatial Data in the UK

Geospatial Data
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Geospatial Data over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Geospatial Data in the UK

Geospatial Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Geospatial Data in the UK

Geospatial Data
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Geospatial Data within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 30 £513 -4.65% 47
London +32 16 £600 -11.11% 18
UK excluding London +44 14 £450 -11.33% 29
Work from Home +42 11 £450 -4.26% 39
South West +48 7 £450 -14.29% 12
North of England +20 4 £450 -17.43%
North West - 4 £450 -
South East +38 1 £525 - 9
Midlands +23 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

Geospatial Data
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 4 (12.50%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.13%) PaaS
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) GIS
2 2 (6.25%) Big Data
2 2 (6.25%) Metadata
2 2 (6.25%) ObjectStore
2 2 (6.25%) Tableau
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) QGIS
3 1 (3.13%) Spatial Data
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.13%) Jasmine
3 1 (3.13%) Mocha
General
1 7 (21.88%) Publishing
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Finance
5 2 (6.25%) Military
5 2 (6.25%) Tech for Good
5 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.13%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Developer
2 10 (31.25%) Architect
3 6 (18.75%) Python Developer
4 4 (12.50%) GIS Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead Python Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Python Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Node.js
2 5 (15.63%) REST
3 3 (9.38%) .NET
3 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
3 3 (9.38%) PostGIS
3 3 (9.38%) React
3 3 (9.38%) RESTful
4 2 (6.25%) GeoJSON
4 2 (6.25%) Google Maps API
4 2 (6.25%) Leaflet
4 2 (6.25%) MapLibre
5 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.13%) Express.js
5 1 (3.13%) HTML
5 1 (3.13%) Jest
5 1 (3.13%) NumPy
5 1 (3.13%) Nunjucks
5 1 (3.13%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Lidar
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Containerisation
2 9 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.75%) Agile
5 6 (18.75%) API Integration
5 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 5 (15.63%) Analytics
6 5 (15.63%) Code Quality
6 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (15.63%) Decision-Making
6 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
6 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
6 5 (15.63%) Visualisation
7 4 (12.50%) Data Management
7 4 (12.50%) Data Science
7 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) C#
3 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.38%) SQL
6 2 (6.25%) Java
7 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.13%) PMP
3 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (9.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) ESRI
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Google
2 2 (6.25%) Mapbox
3 1 (3.13%) IBM