KML Contracts

Keyhole Markup Language (KML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring KML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited KML over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 587 -
Rank change year-on-year +58 - -
Contract jobs citing KML 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.007% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.015% 0.034% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

KML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,669 8,933 13,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.75% 20.59% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,571 6,202 10,040
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 238 153
10th Percentile £27.22 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.08 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.84 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.77% -27.94% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.61 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%

KML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for KML in the UK

KML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for KML in the UK

KML
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KML within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +62 1 £375 - 2
Work from Home - 1 £375 -
UK excluding London - 1 £375 - 1
Midlands - 1 £375 -
West Midlands - 1 £375 -

KML
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 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) GIS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GeoJSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cartography
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Conversion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Spatial Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Spatial Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python