GIS Job Trends in the East of England

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring GIS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 150 125
Rank change year-on-year -2 -25 +111
Permanent jobs citing GIS 9 23 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.26% 0.55% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.60% 4.31% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile - £26,492 £28,800
25th Percentile £50,000 £28,730 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £33,555 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +63.91% -10.52% -26.83%
75th Percentile £60,000 £38,950 £42,500
90th Percentile £65,250 £41,530 £43,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £44,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +7.95% +1.15% -3.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 346 534 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 10.01% 12.80% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 294 252 267
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £35,650
25th Percentile £27,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £52,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% -5.41% +0.91%
75th Percentile £58,438 £65,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £66,575 £78,750 £85,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.08% -0.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

GIS job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GIS

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GIS in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for GIS in the East of England

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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 GIS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 November 2025. 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 +4 8 £55,000 +120.00% 2
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 4
GIS
England

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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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) SaaS
General
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) ServiceNow Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Technical Consultant
2 6 (66.67%) Support Consultant
2 6 (66.67%) Technical Support
2 6 (66.67%) Technical Support Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) CSS
1 8 (88.89%) HTML
1 8 (88.89%) JSON
1 8 (88.89%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Information Security
1 8 (88.89%) ITSM
1 8 (88.89%) Service Management
2 7 (77.78%) Incident Management
2 7 (77.78%) Problem Management
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
1 8 (88.89%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Computacenter
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft