GIS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring GIS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 106 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing GIS 14 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.76% 0.31% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.05% 1.90% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 £250 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £620 £388 -
90th Percentile - £395 -
England median daily rate £490 £485 £573
% change year-on-year +1.03% -15.28% +14.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

GIS 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 346 316 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.84% 16.59% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 205 215
10th Percentile £350 £318 £315
25th Percentile £420 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £595 £625 £622
90th Percentile £648 £720 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £30.70 £34.04 -
25th Percentile £32.74 £34.20 -
Median hourly rate £34.43 £34.47 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +11.03% -
75th Percentile £35.24 £34.73 -
90th Percentile £35.69 £34.89 -
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £54.75
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.07% +10.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GIS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GIS

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Warwickshire - 7 £400 - 1
Coventry -5 6 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (28.57%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 6 (42.86%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (42.86%) Collibra
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (42.86%) Delta Lake
1 6 (42.86%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle Database
2 5 (35.71%) Spatial Data
3 3 (21.43%) Power BI
4 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) GDB
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) GIS Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Data Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Data Migration Specialist
3 3 (21.43%) GIS Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Migration Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Geospatial Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) GIS Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) GIS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) GeoJSON
2 2 (14.29%) KML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) IoT
1 6 (42.86%) SCADA
2 3 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Data Governance
2 6 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (35.71%) Analytics
3 5 (35.71%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (35.71%) Data Management
3 5 (35.71%) Data Mapping
3 5 (35.71%) ETL
3 5 (35.71%) Machine Learning
4 4 (28.57%) Asset Management
4 4 (28.57%) Data Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) TOGAF
5 3 (21.43%) Validation
5 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Data Quality
1 5 (35.71%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Databricks
1 6 (42.86%) Informatica
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 6 (42.86%) SAP
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle
3 4 (28.57%) ESRI