Geospatial Data Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Geospatial Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 502 571
Rank change year-on-year -123 +69 -37
Permanent jobs citing Geospatial Data 47 36 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.10% 0.100%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.88% 0.91% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 28 28 20
10th Percentile £40,606 £34,750 £30,000
25th Percentile - £36,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £48,122 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.07% -31.25% +43.88%
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,563 £92,188
90th Percentile £84,128 £64,150 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £48,122 £70,000
% change year-on-year +35.07% -31.25% +33.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,356 3,969 6,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.16% 11.54% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,845 2,448 3,291
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,790 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Geospatial Data job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Geospatial Data
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Geospatial Data

Geospatial Data
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Geospatial Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Geospatial Data in the UK excluding London

Geospatial Data
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 Geospatial Data within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
South East -24 19 £65,000 +23.81% 15
South West -60 14 £70,000 +8.78% 9
Scotland +15 6 £65,000 - 7
North of England -62 4 £40,000 -12.99% 15
East Midlands -41 2 - - 3
Midlands -56 2 - - 4
North East -71 2 £40,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
East of England - 2 - -
Geospatial Data
UK

Geospatial Data
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 7 (14.89%) Confluence
2 4 (8.51%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 19 (40.43%) Azure
2 7 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (10.64%) AWS
4 4 (8.51%) GitHub
5 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.38%) SaaS
6 2 (4.26%) Azure AI
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.26%) Figma
6 2 (4.26%) GCP
6 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) GIS
2 7 (14.89%) Spatial Data
3 3 (6.38%) Power BI
4 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.26%) Metadata
4 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.26%) QGIS
4 2 (4.26%) Redis
4 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.26%) Spotfire
4 2 (4.26%) Tableau
5 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Git
2 7 (14.89%) JIRA
2 7 (14.89%) MSI
3 4 (8.51%) GitLab
General
1 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.64%) Finance
4 5 (10.64%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Retail
6 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Data Manager
1 14 (29.79%) Data Quality Manager
1 14 (29.79%) Quality Manager
2 8 (17.02%) Developer
2 8 (17.02%) Senior
3 6 (12.77%) Lead
4 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Consultant
7 2 (4.26%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Technical Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.26%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) RESTful
2 9 (19.15%) GeoJSON
2 9 (19.15%) Terraform
3 7 (14.89%) .NET
3 7 (14.89%) .NET Core
3 7 (14.89%) .NET Framework
3 7 (14.89%) ATL
3 7 (14.89%) COM
3 7 (14.89%) CSS
3 7 (14.89%) CSS3
3 7 (14.89%) HTML
3 7 (14.89%) HTML5
3 7 (14.89%) MFC
3 7 (14.89%) REST
3 7 (14.89%) WPF
4 4 (8.51%) Flask
5 2 (4.26%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.26%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.26%) Swagger
5 2 (4.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Cloud Native
2 8 (17.02%) Onboarding
3 5 (10.64%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.38%) Lidar
6 2 (4.26%) Driving Licence
6 2 (4.26%) Life Science
6 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.26%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.13%) PropTech
7 1 (2.13%) Robotics
7 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) Agile
2 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
3 12 (25.53%) Containerisation
4 10 (21.28%) Decision-Making
4 10 (21.28%) DevOps
5 9 (19.15%) Analytics
5 9 (19.15%) API Design
5 9 (19.15%) Data Governance
5 9 (19.15%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (19.15%) DevSecOps
5 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (19.15%) Microservices
5 9 (19.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 8 (17.02%) AI
6 8 (17.02%) Coaching
6 8 (17.02%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (17.02%) Mentoring
7 7 (14.89%) Dependency Management
7 7 (14.89%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) Python
2 9 (19.15%) Bicep
3 8 (17.02%) SQL
3 8 (17.02%) TypeScript
4 7 (14.89%) C#
4 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) Java
5 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
1 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) Degree
3 3 (6.38%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (36.17%) Data Quality
2 9 (19.15%) Accessibility
2 9 (19.15%) NCSC
3 7 (14.89%) WCAG
4 2 (4.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (31.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Databricks
2 5 (10.64%) ESRI
3 2 (4.26%) Foundry
3 2 (4.26%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.13%) Alteryx