ESRI Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ESRI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of ESRI products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited ESRI over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 535 701
Rank change year-on-year -75 +166 -83
Permanent jobs citing ESRI 15 6 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.021% 0.018% 0.049%
As % of the Vendors category 0.086% 0.043% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 20
10th Percentile £38,553 £41,260 £35,529
25th Percentile £39,579 £48,775 £37,431
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,351 £68,450 £41,322
Median % change year-on-year -39.59% +65.65% -7.97%
75th Percentile £51,500 £86,875 £55,000
90th Percentile - £92,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £41,351 £54,400 £52,250
% change year-on-year -23.99% +4.11% +2.57%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

ESRI falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,443 13,939 23,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.37% 41.24% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,229 7,385 16,078
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £67,625 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -13.04%

ESRI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ESRI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ESRI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ESRI
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ESRI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ESRI

ESRI
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ESRI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for ESRI in the UK excluding London

ESRI
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ESRI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Midlands -9 11 £50,000 +33.33%
West Midlands -23 7 - -
East Midlands - 4 £50,000 -
South East -12 2 £41,351 -39.59% 1
Wales -52 2 £39,511 -57.29%
ESRI
UK

ESRI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (80.00%) ArcGIS
2 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) GIS
2 10 (66.67%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (40.00%) Power BI
4 2 (13.33%) Spatial Data
General
1 7 (46.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 7 (46.67%) Local Government
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Welsh Language
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) GIS Technician
2 2 (13.33%) GIS Officer
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Service Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Management Information System
1 7 (46.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Analytics
2 11 (73.33%) Spatial Analysis
3 9 (60.00%) Data Analysis
4 8 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (46.67%) Asset Management
5 7 (46.67%) Data Analytics
6 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (26.67%) Data Management
7 3 (20.00%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) AI
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (20.00%) Data Science
7 3 (20.00%) ITIL
7 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (13.33%) Business Analytics
8 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
8 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
8 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
8 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Alteryx
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks