Geospatial Data Job Trends in the South West

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Geospatial Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 191 210
Rank change year-on-year +22 +19 +15
Permanent jobs citing Geospatial Data 10 1 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.024% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.25% 0.14% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £52,245 - -
25th Percentile £59,125 £65,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,350 £70,000 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% +54.70% +14.14%
75th Percentile £67,825 £75,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,195 - -
England median annual salary £52,987 £76,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -30.28% +76.74% -3.25%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 444 708 874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.85% 17.02% 18.28%
Number of salaries quoted 258 347 675
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,450 £35,200
25th Percentile £37,938 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £84,472
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.76%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Geospatial Data job vacancy trend in the South West

Geospatial Data
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Geospatial Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Geospatial Data

Geospatial Data
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Geospatial Data in the South West over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Geospatial Data in the South West

Geospatial Data
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Geospatial Data within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Bristol - 4 £82,500 - 2
Devon - 4 £64,350 - 2
Dorset - 2 £60,850 - 2
Geospatial Data
England

Geospatial Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (50.00%) Metadata
1 5 (50.00%) Metadata Repository
2 4 (40.00%) GIS
3 3 (30.00%) Spatial Data
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Django
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Flask
1 1 (10.00%) pytest
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (50.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Data Management
2 5 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Data Design
2 5 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 5 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 5 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Delphi
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle