Geospatial Data Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Geospatial Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Geospatial Data over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 329 409
Rank change year-on-year +34 +80 +155
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 19 12 22
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.091% 0.098%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.92% 0.44% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 16
10th Percentile £365 £370 £413
25th Percentile £383 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £450 £640
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -29.69% +21.90%
75th Percentile £522 £600 £741
90th Percentile £575 £625 £750
UK median daily rate £459 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -23.54% +4.35% +9.52%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Geospatial Data 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,059 2,734 4,181
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 20.33% 20.72% 18.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,962 2,983
10th Percentile £356 £335 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £738
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.10% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 74
10th Percentile £21.02 £17.15 £21.59
25th Percentile £25.67 £20.88 £39.60
Median hourly rate £56.00 £35.50 £56.80
Median % change year-on-year +57.75% -37.49% +13.59%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.88 £70.19
90th Percentile £87.50 £72.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.41% -35.45% +35.04%

Geospatial Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Geospatial Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Geospatial Data trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Geospatial Data
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Geospatial Data.

Geospatial Data daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Geospatial Data
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Geospatial Data over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Geospatial Data daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Geospatial Data
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Geospatial Data.

Geospatial Data hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Geospatial Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (42.11%) ArcGIS
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) GIS
2 8 (42.11%) Spatial Data
3 6 (31.58%) QGIS
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
4 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.26%) Metadata
5 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) GDB
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Tech for Good
5 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) GIS Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
3 2 (10.53%) GIS Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) GIS Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Geospatial Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Geospatial Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Geospatial Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) GIS Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Maximo Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) PostGIS
2 6 (31.58%) GeoJSON
3 4 (21.05%) NumPy
3 4 (21.05%) Pandas
4 3 (15.79%) GeoPandas
5 2 (10.53%) CSS
5 2 (10.53%) Dask
5 2 (10.53%) HTML
5 2 (10.53%) KML
5 2 (10.53%) Plotly
5 2 (10.53%) scikit-learn
5 2 (10.53%) Streamlit
6 1 (5.26%) JSON
6 1 (5.26%) MapLibre
6 1 (5.26%) Matplotlib
6 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) IoT
1 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Visualisation
2 5 (26.32%) Analytics
2 5 (26.32%) Data Management
2 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) Data Science
3 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Spatial Analysis
3 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (21.05%) Statistics
4 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) Data Governance
4 3 (15.79%) Data Munging
4 3 (15.79%) ETL
4 3 (15.79%) Spatial Data Management
5 2 (10.53%) Cartography
5 2 (10.53%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (10.53%) Feature Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Network Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Perl
3 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.26%) PMP
4 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) ESRI
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) IBM