GIS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring GIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GIS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 287 367
Rank change year-on-year +11 +80 +161
Contract jobs citing GIS 28 58 110
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.38% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.33% 1.99% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 41 92
10th Percentile £390 £406 £341
25th Percentile £412 £433 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £489
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +0.20% -0.81%
75th Percentile £495 £501 £601
90th Percentile £504 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £471 £500 £483
% change year-on-year -5.75% +3.47% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.24
25th Percentile - - £21.78
Median hourly rate - - £23.38
75th Percentile - - £24.78
90th Percentile - - £25.21
UK median hourly rate £29.80 £16.12 £22.49
% change year-on-year +84.86% -28.31% -57.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

GIS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

GIS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GIS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

GIS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

GIS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 5 (17.86%) ArcGIS
2 3 (10.71%) Apache
3 2 (7.14%) Camunda
3 2 (7.14%) GeoServer
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
3 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (10.71%) Serverless
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Spatial Data
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) ObjectStore
4 2 (7.14%) Redis
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Tech for Good
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Local Government
4 1 (3.57%) Military
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) GIS Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Python Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 2 (7.14%) GIS Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Programme Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Project Support Officer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) PostGIS
2 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 4 (14.29%) React
2 4 (14.29%) Spring
2 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 3 (10.71%) AWS CDK
3 3 (10.71%) HTML
4 2 (7.14%) .NET
4 2 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (7.14%) GeoJSON
4 2 (7.14%) Google Maps API
4 2 (7.14%) Kafka
4 2 (7.14%) Keycloak
4 2 (7.14%) Leaflet
4 2 (7.14%) MapLibre
4 2 (7.14%) Node.js
4 2 (7.14%) RESTful
4 2 (7.14%) XML
5 1 (3.57%) NumPy
5 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) PKI
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Replication
2 1 (3.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) DevOps
2 5 (17.86%) Analytics
2 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
2 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
3 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 4 (14.29%) Microservices
3 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.71%) Agile
4 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.71%) Code Quality
4 3 (10.71%) Data Migration
4 3 (10.71%) Data Science
4 3 (10.71%) Digital Twin
4 3 (10.71%) ETL
4 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
4 3 (10.71%) Migration
4 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
5 2 (7.14%) GitOps
5 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Java
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.14%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) Perl
5 1 (3.57%) PHP
5 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Ruby
5 1 (3.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Grafana
3 2 (7.14%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) ESRI
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) Mapbox
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) IBM