Geospatial Data Job Trends in England

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Geospatial Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 516 694
Rank change year-on-year -93 +178 +153
Permanent jobs citing Geospatial Data 40 112 96
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.060% 0.29% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.64% 1.54% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14 62 82
10th Percentile £40,000 £53,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,481 - £35,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,925 £76,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% +68.89% -3.48%
75th Percentile £67,825 - £62,500
90th Percentile £78,375 - £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,850 £76,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -19.93% +68.89% -3.73%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,268 7,272 13,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.48% 18.85% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,936 4,707 11,082
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,588
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Geospatial Data job vacancy trend in England

Geospatial Data
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Geospatial Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Geospatial Data

Geospatial Data
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Geospatial Data in England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Geospatial Data in England

Geospatial Data
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 17 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
West Midlands +17 10 £42,750 +42.50% 1
London +16 10 £67,500 -12.90% 8
Midlands -10 10 £42,750 +42.50% 1
North of England -28 7 £75,000 -3.23% 7
South West -20 6 £62,600 -16.53% 7
North West -10 4 £75,000 -3.23% 5
East of England -73 4 £40,000 -47.37%
South East -39 3 £35,976 -52.66% 7
North East - 3 - -
Geospatial Data
UK

Geospatial Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (27.50%) ArcGIS
2 3 (7.50%) GeoServer
Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (15.00%) AutoCAD
3 1 (2.50%) Acrobat
3 1 (2.50%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.50%) Photoshop
3 1 (2.50%) SmartSuite
3 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) AWS
2 5 (12.50%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) SaaS
4 3 (7.50%) Serverless
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.00%) GitHub
5 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (60.00%) GIS
2 12 (30.00%) Metadata
3 9 (22.50%) QGIS
4 7 (17.50%) Spatial Data
5 5 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (10.00%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (5.00%) Power BI
7 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
7 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.50%) Big Data
8 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.50%) Git
3 2 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.00%) GitLab
3 2 (5.00%) JUnit
3 2 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 13 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
5 7 (17.50%) Local Government
5 7 (17.50%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (15.00%) Finance
6 6 (15.00%) Legal
7 5 (12.50%) Marketing
8 4 (10.00%) Agriculture
8 4 (10.00%) Law
9 1 (2.50%) Digital Economy
9 1 (2.50%) Electronics
9 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.50%) Military
9 1 (2.50%) Retail
9 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) GIS Technician
2 7 (17.50%) Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) Senior
3 6 (15.00%) Architect
3 6 (15.00%) GIS Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Operations Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Operations Technician
4 5 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Account Executive
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Account Executive
6 3 (7.50%) Geospatial Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) GIS Officer
6 3 (7.50%) Information Officer
6 3 (7.50%) Information Systems Officer
7 2 (5.00%) Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Data Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) GIS Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) PostGIS
2 3 (7.50%) .NET
2 3 (7.50%) Leaflet
2 3 (7.50%) Node.js
2 3 (7.50%) OpenLayers
3 2 (5.00%) Django
3 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.00%) Flask
3 2 (5.00%) pytest
3 2 (5.00%) Spring
3 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.50%) GeoPandas
4 1 (2.50%) JSON
4 1 (2.50%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Management Information System
2 8 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 6 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (15.00%) Renewable Energy
3 6 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (10.00%) Reference Data
5 3 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.50%) Linked Data
7 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.50%) Reinsurance
7 1 (2.50%) Semantic Web
7 1 (2.50%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Analytics
2 13 (32.50%) Spatial Analysis
3 12 (30.00%) Data Analysis
3 12 (30.00%) Data Management
4 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 8 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 8 (20.00%) Data Science
5 8 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 7 (17.50%) Decision-Making
6 7 (17.50%) Visualisation
7 6 (15.00%) Agile
7 6 (15.00%) AI
7 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
7 6 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 5 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) SQL
2 14 (35.00%) Python
3 5 (12.50%) Java
4 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.00%) Delphi
6 1 (2.50%) SHACL
6 1 (2.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.50%) Terraform
2 2 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) ESRI
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Adobe
5 1 (2.50%) Google
5 1 (2.50%) SAP