GIS Contracts

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GIS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 516 673
Rank change year-on-year +55 +157 -120
Contract jobs citing GIS 137 204 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.34% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.89% 1.89% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 149 123
10th Percentile £363 £344 £341
25th Percentile £429 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -1.52% +10.61%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £651 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £479 £543
% change year-on-year -6.05% -11.71% +27.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 20
10th Percentile £11.00 £20.95 £15.00
25th Percentile £12.88 £21.24 £26.60
Median hourly rate £16.12 £22.49 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.31% -57.17% +311.93%
75th Percentile £25.66 £23.73 £75.00
90th Percentile £46.58 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.50 £21.75 £67.50
% change year-on-year -37.93% -67.78% +492.11%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

GIS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GIS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GIS in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +103 113 £500 - 52
UK excluding London +31 72 £450 -6.05% 49
Work from Home +79 58 £490 +0.20% 25
London +95 53 £538 +13.16% 16
North of England +41 27 £600 +14.29% 15
Yorkshire +27 18 £600 - 3
South East +29 17 £413 -14.29% 8
Scotland +6 13 £475 +5.56% 7
West Midlands +35 6 £350 -41.67% 2
Midlands +27 6 £350 -31.84% 2
North East +20 5 £675 +28.57% 1
East of England +12 5 - - 6
North West +17 4 £513 +7.89% 11
South West +11 4 £525 +16.67% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2

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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 40 (29.20%) ArcGIS
2 11 (8.03%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.03%) Site Server
3 7 (5.11%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.73%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.19%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Maximo
2 3 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.46%) SAP CRM
3 2 (1.46%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.46%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 32 (23.36%) Azure
2 27 (19.71%) AWS
3 18 (13.14%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (10.95%) Amazon S3
5 14 (10.22%) IaaS
6 11 (8.03%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.38%) Serverless
8 5 (3.65%) Google Sheets
9 4 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.92%) Azure AKS
9 4 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.92%) GitHub
9 4 (2.92%) SaaS
10 3 (2.19%) GCP
11 2 (1.46%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.46%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (1.46%) Stripe
12 1 (0.73%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.03%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (3.65%) 2G
2 5 (3.65%) 3G
2 5 (3.65%) 4G
2 5 (3.65%) 5G
3 4 (2.92%) Network Security
4 3 (2.19%) LTE
4 3 (2.19%) TETRA
5 2 (1.46%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.46%) XCAP
6 1 (0.73%) FTP
6 1 (0.73%) HTTP
6 1 (0.73%) Internet
6 1 (0.73%) RNC
6 1 (0.73%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (23.36%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (16.79%) Geospatial Data
3 14 (10.22%) QGIS
3 14 (10.22%) Spatial Data
4 11 (8.03%) Power BI
5 6 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.38%) Redis
6 5 (3.65%) Big Data
7 4 (2.92%) Metadata
8 3 (2.19%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.46%) InterSystems Cache
9 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.46%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.46%) Tableau
10 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.73%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.73%) GitLab
General
1 41 (29.93%) Public Sector
2 32 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.41%) Finance
4 9 (6.57%) Local Government
4 9 (6.57%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.11%) Back Office
6 6 (4.38%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.65%) Retail
8 4 (2.92%) Electronics
8 4 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.92%) Marketing
9 2 (1.46%) French Language
9 2 (1.46%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.73%) Billing
10 1 (0.73%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Legal
10 1 (0.73%) Military
10 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (21.17%) Developer
2 18 (13.14%) Analyst
2 18 (13.14%) GIS Developer
3 16 (11.68%) Architect
4 14 (10.22%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (9.49%) GIS Architect
6 12 (8.76%) GIS Analyst
7 9 (6.57%) Senior
8 6 (4.38%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) GIS Specialist
9 5 (3.65%) Applications Support
9 5 (3.65%) Digital Transformation
9 5 (3.65%) Digital Transformation Manager
9 5 (3.65%) Python Developer
9 5 (3.65%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.65%) Transformation Manager
10 4 (2.92%) Consultant
10 4 (2.92%) Operations Manager
10 4 (2.92%) Senior GIS Analyst
10 4 (2.92%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.41%) PostGIS
2 15 (10.95%) REST
3 10 (7.30%) OpenLayers
4 9 (6.57%) .NET
5 5 (3.65%) React
6 4 (2.92%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.92%) AWS CDK
6 4 (2.92%) Celery
6 4 (2.92%) Django
6 4 (2.92%) Flask
6 4 (2.92%) GeoPandas
6 4 (2.92%) Node.js
7 3 (2.19%) CSS
7 3 (2.19%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.46%) RESTful
8 2 (1.46%) SignalR
8 2 (1.46%) SOAP
8 2 (1.46%) Spring
8 2 (1.46%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (1.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.68%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.65%) SCADA
3 4 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.92%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.92%) PACS
4 3 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.19%) Lidar
4 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.19%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.46%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.46%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.46%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.46%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (1.46%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.73%) CCTV
6 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.73%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.46%) Windows
2 1 (0.73%) Unix
2 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (24.82%) Agile
2 32 (23.36%) DevOps
3 22 (16.06%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (13.87%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 17 (12.41%) ETL
6 16 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (10.95%) Data Analysis
7 15 (10.95%) Migration
8 14 (10.22%) Data Management
8 14 (10.22%) Project Management
9 11 (8.03%) Data Modelling
9 11 (8.03%) Visualisation
10 10 (7.30%) Analytics
10 10 (7.30%) Asset Management
10 10 (7.30%) Decision-Making
10 10 (7.30%) Line Management
11 9 (6.57%) Budget Management
11 9 (6.57%) CRM
11 9 (6.57%) Project Delivery
12 8 (5.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.04%) Python
2 20 (14.60%) SQL
3 12 (8.76%) PowerShell
4 11 (8.03%) JavaScript
4 11 (8.03%) Korn
5 8 (5.84%) Java
6 6 (4.38%) C#
7 5 (3.65%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.73%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 18 (13.14%) Degree
2 14 (10.22%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.92%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.92%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.19%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.65%) QA
2 4 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.46%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.46%) GDPR
4 2 (1.46%) SLA
5 1 (0.73%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (4.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.46%) Grafana
Vendors
1 48 (35.04%) ESRI
2 17 (12.41%) Oracle
3 11 (8.03%) SAP
4 7 (5.11%) Google
4 7 (5.11%) Mapbox
5 6 (4.38%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.65%) Ericsson
6 5 (3.65%) Mapinfo
7 4 (2.92%) Greenplum
7 4 (2.92%) Pega
8 2 (1.46%) Remedy
8 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.73%) IBM
9 1 (0.73%) Nokia
78 GIS jobs Nationwide