Hybrid/Remote QGIS Contract Job Trends

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring QGIS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 319 397
Rank change year-on-year +18 +78 +190
Contract jobs citing QGIS 7 13 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.10% 0.099%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.36% 0.50% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £535 - -
25th Percentile £550 £135 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £145 £420
Median % change year-on-year +296.55% -65.48% -37.78%
75th Percentile - £155 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £490 £404 £420
% change year-on-year +21.37% -3.87% -16.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,943 2,575 3,682
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.79% 20.24% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,339 1,818 2,646
10th Percentile £355 £345 £369
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £642 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £543
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.84% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 25 63
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.82 £20.58
25th Percentile £33.53 £19.59 £33.02
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -38.10% +1.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £41.75 £67.38
90th Percentile £87.50 £62.02 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.66%

QGIS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QGIS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

QGIS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing QGIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing QGIS

QGIS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing QGIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing QGIS

QGIS
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 3 (42.86%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (57.14%) GIS
2 4 (57.14%) Spatial Data
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Local Government
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Geospatial Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Geospatial Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) GIS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) GeoJSON
1 3 (42.86%) PostGIS
2 2 (28.57%) Dask
2 2 (28.57%) GeoPandas
2 2 (28.57%) NumPy
2 2 (28.57%) Pandas
2 2 (28.57%) Plotly
2 2 (28.57%) scikit-learn
2 2 (28.57%) Streamlit
3 1 (14.29%) MapLibre
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (28.57%) Data Munging
2 2 (28.57%) Data Science
2 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
2 2 (28.57%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Network Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Open Source
2 2 (28.57%) Remote Sensing
2 2 (28.57%) Spatial Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Statistics
2 2 (28.57%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) Data Entry
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ESRI
1 2 (28.57%) Google