GIS Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Geographic Information System (GIS)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring GIS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing GIS 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.070% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.87% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £52,000 - -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 115 68 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 8.05% 17.39% 21.06%
Number of salaries quoted 79 62 238
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,114 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,636 £39,288 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,688 £71,991
90th Percentile £75,474 £82,500 £83,759
North East median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% +0.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GIS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

GIS job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

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Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GIS

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Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £52,000 - 3
GIS
North East

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