GIS Job Trends in Bristol

Geographic Information System (GIS)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring GIS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 121 120
Rank change year-on-year +40 -1 +57
Permanent jobs citing GIS 5 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.45% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.23% 1.89% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £41,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £11,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £12,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +540.00% -78.26% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £13,750 £68,750
90th Percentile - - £74,000
South West median annual salary £36,246 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% +5.26% -15.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Bristol

GIS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 155 317 433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 13.91% 13.36% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 118 179 379
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,438 £79,375 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.68% +12.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in Bristol

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Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing GIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing GIS

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Spatial Data
2 3 (60.00%) Geospatial Data
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared