GIS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GIS over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 359 547
Rank change year-on-year -76 +188 +14
Permanent jobs citing GIS 140 501 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.71% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.02% 4.07% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 89 150 79
10th Percentile £35,400 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £35,529 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £45,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% -2.17% -3.16%
75th Percentile - £54,375 £67,500
90th Percentile - £68,125 £74,500
UK median annual salary £64,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +43.33% -10.00% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,640 12,301 11,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.87% 17.33% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,042 8,166 6,762
10th Percentile £32,544 £32,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GIS in the UK excluding London

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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 GIS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2025. 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
East of England +73 78 £76,000 +76.74% 39
South East +57 32 £76,000 +68.89% 59
South West +63 11 £36,246 -28.93% 29
Midlands +23 11 £53,300 -33.38% 35
West Midlands +56 9 £60,000 +36.97% 23
North of England -61 6 £37,000 -7.50% 43
North West -83 5 £36,000 -10.00% 24
East Midlands +10 2 £31,500 -66.84% 11
Scotland +48 1 - - 15
Yorkshire +29 1 £75,000 +17.65% 12
Northern Ireland +12 1 £28,000 - 4
Wales +1 1 £92,500 +71.30% 5
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.71%) IIS
2 6 (4.29%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.29%) ProjectWise
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.71%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.71%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 96 (68.57%) Power Platform
2 12 (8.57%) Azure
3 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.43%) AWS
4 2 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (1.43%) IaaS
4 2 (1.43%) PaaS
4 2 (1.43%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.71%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) Internet
2 1 (0.71%) Broadband
2 1 (0.71%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (68.57%) Geospatial Data
1 96 (68.57%) Power BI
2 94 (67.14%) Power Query
3 9 (6.43%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.43%) QGIS
5 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.71%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (0.71%) GitLab
General
1 12 (8.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.86%) Advertising
3 8 (5.71%) Finance
4 6 (4.29%) Welsh Language
5 5 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Environmental Health
8 2 (1.43%) Marketing
8 2 (1.43%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.71%) Aviation
9 1 (0.71%) Electronics
9 1 (0.71%) Games
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Local Government
9 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (5.71%) Applications Specialist
1 8 (5.71%) Applications Support
1 8 (5.71%) Applications Support Specialist
1 8 (5.71%) Support Specialist
2 5 (3.57%) Senior
3 4 (2.86%) Analyst
4 3 (2.14%) Architect
4 3 (2.14%) Digital Engineer
4 3 (2.14%) Technical Support
5 2 (1.43%) Administrator
5 2 (1.43%) Data Analyst
5 2 (1.43%) Developer
5 2 (1.43%) Information Manager
5 2 (1.43%) Lead
5 2 (1.43%) Project Manager
5 2 (1.43%) Remote Sensing Specialist
5 2 (1.43%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.43%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (0.71%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (0.71%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.14%) MIDP
2 2 (1.43%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.43%) REST
2 2 (1.43%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.43%) Vue
3 1 (0.71%) .NET
3 1 (0.71%) Node.js
3 1 (0.71%) OAuth
3 1 (0.71%) OpenID
3 1 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.71%) React
3 1 (0.71%) Vuex
3 1 (0.71%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 96 (68.57%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.14%) Lidar
2 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.43%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.71%) Learning Management System
4 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.71%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.71%) Windows
2 7 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (73.57%) Asset Management
2 98 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
3 97 (69.29%) Data Management
3 97 (69.29%) Service Delivery
4 96 (68.57%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (67.86%) Actionable Insight
6 94 (67.14%) Strategic Planning
7 13 (9.29%) Project Delivery
8 9 (6.43%) Analytics
9 7 (5.00%) Project Planning
10 6 (4.29%) Agile
10 6 (4.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (4.29%) Data Analysis
10 6 (4.29%) Digital Engineering
11 5 (3.57%) Data Analytics
11 5 (3.57%) Decision-Making
11 5 (3.57%) IT Strategy
11 5 (3.57%) Mentoring
11 5 (3.57%) Project Management
12 4 (2.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 98 (70.00%) SQL
2 3 (2.14%) Python
3 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.71%) C
4 1 (0.71%) C#
4 1 (0.71%) C++
4 1 (0.71%) Embedded C
4 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.71%) PHP
4 1 (0.71%) Rust
4 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (7.86%) Degree
2 7 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.29%) DBS Check
4 5 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.86%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.14%) PhD
7 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (0.71%) Docker
1 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.57%) ESRI
3 3 (2.14%) Oracle
4 1 (0.71%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.71%) EMC
4 1 (0.71%) JDA
4 1 (0.71%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.71%) Salesforce