QGIS Contracts

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring QGIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QGIS over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 563 667
Rank change year-on-year +20 +104 +186
Contract jobs citing QGIS 10 33 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.078% 0.039%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.17% 0.44% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile - £135 £460
25th Percentile £438 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £490 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -5.77% -20.00%
75th Percentile £490 £495 £540
90th Percentile - £669 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate - £145 £520
% change year-on-year - -72.12% +89.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £25.61
25th Percentile - - £29.68
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £36.45
Median % change year-on-year - -62.96% +30.18%
75th Percentile - - £43.23
90th Percentile - - £47.29
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - -73.00% +78.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

QGIS 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 5,956 7,489 9,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.27% 17.78% 17.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,035 5,342 6,751
10th Percentile £350 £350 £367
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 133 172
10th Percentile £19.56 £14.05 £21.07
25th Percentile £25.94 £20.75 £34.35
Median hourly rate £36.25 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% -30.00% +40.07%
75th Percentile £64.63 £51.91 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.62 £71.50 £79.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £32.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -3.39% -37.62% +50.00%

QGIS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QGIS in the UK

QGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QGIS in the UK

QGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for QGIS in the UK

QGIS
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QGIS within the UK over the 6 months to 18 July 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 +31 7 £455 -7.14% 44
London +23 6 £455 -7.14% 8
Work from Home +18 3 - - 19
UK excluding London +6 1 - - 40
East Midlands - 1 - - 3
Midlands - 1 - - 6

QGIS
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 5 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (30.00%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (10.00%) SPSS
1 1 (10.00%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Geospatial Data
1 9 (90.00%) GIS
2 6 (60.00%) Power BI
3 5 (50.00%) Tableau
4 2 (20.00%) Spatial Data
5 1 (10.00%) Metadata
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Python Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Data Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) AutoCAD Technician
4 1 (10.00%) CAD Technician
4 1 (10.00%) Data Science Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Geospatial Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Geospatial Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Geospatial Technician
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) PostGIS
2 5 (50.00%) GeoPandas
3 2 (20.00%) PySpark
4 1 (10.00%) GeoJSON
4 1 (10.00%) MapLibre
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (10.00%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
1 6 (60.00%) Visualisation
2 5 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (50.00%) Analytics
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 5 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Spatial Analysis
2 5 (50.00%) Workflow
3 3 (30.00%) Time Management
4 2 (20.00%) Data Management
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Databricks
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) ESRI