Geospatial Data Job Trends in the East of England

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Geospatial Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 91 189
Rank change year-on-year -76 +98 +49
Permanent jobs citing Geospatial Data 4 67 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.074% 2.48% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.12% 14.47% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3 33 20
10th Percentile - - £32,000
25th Percentile - - £35,529
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £76,000 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +67.96% -21.30%
75th Percentile - - £50,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £43,875 £76,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -42.27% +68.89% -3.23%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

Geospatial Data 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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 357 463 911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.58% 17.15% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 220 303 782
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £39,938 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £62,806 £68,875 £64,688
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Geospatial Data relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Geospatial Data job vacancy trend in the East of England

Geospatial Data
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Geospatial Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Geospatial Data

Geospatial Data
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Geospatial Data within the East of England region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -63 3 £40,000 -47.37%
Bedfordshire +3 1 - -
Geospatial Data
England

Geospatial Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) GIS
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) GIS Officer
1 3 (75.00%) Information Officer
1 3 (75.00%) Information Systems Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linked Data
1 1 (25.00%) Semantic Web
1 1 (25.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Innovation
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Domain Models
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) RDF
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SHACL
1 1 (25.00%) SPARQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP