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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 140 124
Rank change year-on-year -31 -16 +138
Permanent jobs citing GIS 9 29 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.27% 0.65% 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.22% 5.85% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 4
10th Percentile £48,600 £32,459 £27,975
25th Percentile £50,000 £34,125 £31,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -6.67% -28.57%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £41,875
90th Percentile £63,500 - £43,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -8.05% -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 406 496 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 11.97% 11.08% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 315 282 272
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £29,250 £40,000 £43,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £78,750 £82,375
England median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year -6.92% +0.78% +7.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for GIS 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +11 9 £55,000 +120.00% 6
GIS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (11.11%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Advertising
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
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%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) CSS
1 8 (88.89%) HTML
1 8 (88.89%) JSON
1 8 (88.89%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
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%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
1 8 (88.89%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Computacenter