GIS Job Trends in the North East

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring GIS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - 119
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Permanent jobs citing GIS 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.22% - 0.098%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.82% - 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,000 - £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.86%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £40,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £53,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.63% +5.56% -10.00%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 177 79 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 7.80% 12.58% 18.10%
Number of salaries quoted 123 73 310
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,300 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,240
90th Percentile £77,424 £74,258 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

GIS job vacancy trend in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing GIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing GIS

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Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing GIS in the North East over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Salary histogram for GIS in the North East

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Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the North East region over the 6 months to 4 June 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
Tyne and Wear - 5 £67,500 - 1
GIS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) boto
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) Flask
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) Jinja
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) OpenLayers
1 5 (100.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (60.00%) CSS3
2 3 (60.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (40.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Parallel Computing
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes