QGIS Job Trends in the North of England

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring QGIS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 - 353
Rank change year-on-year - - +91
Permanent jobs citing QGIS 6 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.043% - 0.014%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.52% - 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £58,750 £42,500 £27,000
% change year-on-year +38.24% +57.41% -32.50%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

QGIS 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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,143 1,118 2,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.16% 16.15% 18.63%
Number of salaries quoted 727 724 2,237
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,850 £85,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

QGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

QGIS job vacancy trend in the North of England

QGIS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing QGIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing QGIS

QGIS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QGIS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 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
North East - 3 - -
North West - 3 £75,000 - 1
QGIS
England

QGIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 6 (100.00%) GIS
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata
2 3 (50.00%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
1 3 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Geospatial Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) GIS Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) GIS Technician
1 3 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Operations Technician
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) Leaflet
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
1 3 (50.00%) OpenLayers
1 3 (50.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
1 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (50.00%) Data Management
1 3 (50.00%) Data Science
1 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (50.00%) Kanban
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
1 3 (50.00%) Open Source
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Spatial Analysis
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
1 3 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ESRI