NLPG Contract Job Trends

National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NLPG in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NLPG over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NLPG 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.007% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

NLPG falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 14,184 9,892 13,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.22% 33.61% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,915 6,217 8,666
10th Percentile £288 £278 £255
25th Percentile £408 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 346 876
10th Percentile £15.31 £16.95 £12.56
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.33 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +14.04% +26.75%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £83.20 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.32 £31.76 £26.66
% change year-on-year +14.36% +19.13% +21.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NLPG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

NLPG job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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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 NLPG within the UK over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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
South East - 1 £400 - 3
England - 1 £400 - 3
Work from Home - 1 £400 - 2
UK excluding London - 1 £400 - 3

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) QGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) LLPG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) BS7666
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce