QGIS Job Trends in the North West

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
England > North West

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 - 229
Rank change year-on-year - - +66
Permanent jobs citing QGIS 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.014% - 0.015%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.21% - 0.083%
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 £36,250 £34,000 £27,000
% change year-on-year +6.62% +25.93% -32.50%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 481 731 1,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.89% 15.24% 18.65%
Number of salaries quoted 355 384 1,037
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,188 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,708 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,775 £77,500
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 West

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

QGIS job vacancy trend in the North West

QGIS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing QGIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing QGIS

QGIS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QGIS within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Merseyside - 1 £75,000 -
QGIS
England

QGIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (100.00%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Leaflet
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OpenLayers
1 1 (100.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Spatial Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform