Remote Sensing Contract Job Trends

Remote Sensing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Remote Sensing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Remote Sensing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Remote Sensing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,866 32,988 44,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.46% 85.54% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,546 20,442 30,282
10th Percentile £300 £311 £313
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,786 1,512 1,511
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.71 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.09 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +43.10%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £43.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -47.37% +8.72% +71.96%

Remote Sensing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Sensing in the UK

Remote Sensing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing
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 Remote Sensing within the UK over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Work from Home - 2 £575 - 4
East of England - 1 - - 2
UK excluding London - 1 - - 2
England - 1 - - 5

Remote Sensing
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) QGIS
1 2 (66.67%) Spatial Data
2 1 (33.33%) GIS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Agriculture
2 1 (33.33%) Agrochemical
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Dask
1 2 (66.67%) GeoJSON
1 2 (66.67%) GeoPandas
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) Plotly
1 2 (66.67%) PostGIS
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Munging
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Network Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Spatial Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Biology
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google