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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 530 622
Rank change year-on-year +58 +92 +149
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 36 48 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.65% 0.65% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 64
10th Percentile £406 £398 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £626
90th Percentile £614 £705 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -11.33% +1.50% -11.50%
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 5,567 7,337 10,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.00% 16.91% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,836 5,241 7,525
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.95% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 143 186
10th Percentile £20.89 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £59.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -32.54% +36.70%
75th Percentile £65.46 £58.88 £73.41
90th Percentile £75.88 £72.50 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.19% +59.14%

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 7 May 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 13 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 7 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 +54 30 £500 -6.98% 62
London +52 16 £575 -14.81% 26
UK excluding London +43 15 £450 -11.33% 42
Work from Home +35 15 £450 -4.26% 37
South West +37 7 £450 -14.29% 13
North of England +9 4 £450 -17.43% 2
North West - 4 £450 -
Midlands +22 2 £375 -6.25% 2
South East +28 1 £525 - 12
West Midlands +17 1 £375 -6.25%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 - - 2

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 6 (16.67%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) GCP
4 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (55.56%) GIS
2 5 (13.89%) QGIS
2 5 (13.89%) Spatial Data
3 3 (8.33%) Tableau
4 2 (5.56%) Big Data
4 2 (5.56%) Metadata
4 2 (5.56%) ObjectStore
5 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.78%) GDB
3 1 (2.78%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.78%) Mocha
General
1 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Publishing
3 6 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.56%) Military
6 2 (5.56%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Developer
2 9 (25.00%) Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) GIS Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 4 (11.11%) Python Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Lead Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Lead Python Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (5.56%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.56%) GIS Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) GIS Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Node.js
1 6 (16.67%) PostGIS
2 5 (13.89%) GeoJSON
3 4 (11.11%) REST
4 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.33%) MapLibre
4 3 (8.33%) React
4 3 (8.33%) RESTful
5 2 (5.56%) .NET
5 2 (5.56%) GeoPandas
5 2 (5.56%) Google Maps API
5 2 (5.56%) Leaflet
6 1 (2.78%) CSS
6 1 (2.78%) Express.js
6 1 (2.78%) HTML
6 1 (2.78%) Jest
6 1 (2.78%) KML
6 1 (2.78%) NumPy
6 1 (2.78%) Nunjucks
6 1 (2.78%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.78%) Lidar
3 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Containerisation
2 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 8 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
2 8 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (22.22%) Visualisation
3 7 (19.44%) Decision-Making
4 6 (16.67%) Agile
4 6 (16.67%) Analytics
4 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 5 (13.89%) API Integration
5 5 (13.89%) Code Quality
5 5 (13.89%) Data Management
5 5 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (13.89%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (13.89%) Machine Learning
5 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
5 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
6 4 (11.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) Python
2 7 (19.44%) C#
3 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.33%) SQL
6 2 (5.56%) Java
7 1 (2.78%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.78%) PMP
3 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) ESRI
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) Mapbox
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) IBM