ESRI Job Trends

ESRI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 14 January 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
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 669 673
Rank change year-on-year +40 +4 +229
Permanent jobs citing ESRI 24 30 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.056% 0.086%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.15% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9 27 29
10th Percentile £29,140 £28,600 £35,249
25th Percentile £52,469 £52,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +57.89% +18.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £60,025
90th Percentile £107,500 £80,000 £64,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £70,000 £45,250
% change year-on-year -5.36% +54.70% +17.53%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,903 19,941 21,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.51% 37.26% 39.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,702 10,075 16,773
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,750 £50,000 £47,657
% change year-on-year -14.50% +4.92% -4.69%

ESRI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ESRI job vacancy trend in the UK

ESRI
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ESRI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ESRI

ESRI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ESRI over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ESRI in the UK

ESRI
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ESRI within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +48 14 £70,000 -6.67% 11
UK excluding London +47 14 £66,250 -5.36% 11
Work from Home +69 11 £61,219 +11.31% 8
South East +38 5 £70,000 +27.27% 6
London +52 4 £67,500 -10.00% 1
North of England +8 4 - - 1
North East - 3 - -
Northern Ireland -11 2 £31,500 +14.55%
Midlands +20 1 - - 1
West Midlands +19 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -14 1 - -
Wales - 1 £54,939 -
Scotland - 1 £62,500 - 1

ESRI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (50.00%) ArcGIS
2 4 (16.67%) GeoServer
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (4.17%) Smallworld
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) AutoCAD
2 1 (4.17%) Acrobat
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Google Play
3 2 (8.33%) SaaS
3 2 (8.33%) TestFlight
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (91.67%) GIS
2 11 (45.83%) Geospatial Data
3 10 (41.67%) QGIS
4 7 (29.17%) Spatial Data
5 6 (25.00%) Metadata
5 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Android Studio
1 2 (8.33%) CMake
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
1 2 (8.33%) Xcode
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (25.00%) Legal
5 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (8.33%) Finance
6 2 (8.33%) Local Government
6 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (8.33%) Publishing
7 1 (4.17%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) GIS Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) GIS Technician
3 6 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) Operations Technician
4 4 (16.67%) Architect
4 4 (16.67%) GIS Architect
5 3 (12.50%) GIS Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Android Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Applications Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Graduate
6 2 (8.33%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Graduate Technical Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) iOS Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (16.67%) Django
2 4 (16.67%) React
3 3 (12.50%) PostGIS
4 2 (8.33%) CSS
4 2 (8.33%) Google Maps API
4 2 (8.33%) HTML
4 2 (8.33%) Leaflet
4 2 (8.33%) MapLibre
4 2 (8.33%) OpenGL
4 2 (8.33%) OpenLayers
4 2 (8.33%) OpenSceneGraph
4 2 (8.33%) QML
4 2 (8.33%) Qt
4 2 (8.33%) Qt Quick
4 2 (8.33%) Vulkan
5 1 (4.17%) GeoPandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
1 6 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.33%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (8.33%) e-Learning
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 3 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (8.33%) Android
3 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Visualisation
2 6 (25.00%) Data Management
2 6 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 6 (25.00%) Open Source
3 5 (20.83%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.83%) Scrum
3 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
4 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 3 (12.50%) AI
5 3 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 3 (12.50%) Spatial Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Web Development
6 2 (8.33%) Cross-Platform Development
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Python
2 11 (45.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) C#
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (8.33%) Bash
5 2 (8.33%) C
5 2 (8.33%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) Objective-C
5 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.17%) Magik
6 1 (4.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) Degree
2 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Ansible
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.33%) Apple
3 2 (8.33%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) Mapbox
3 2 (8.33%) Xamarin
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow