Geospatial Data Job Trends

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Geospatial Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 571 682
Rank change year-on-year -18 +111 +171
Permanent jobs citing Geospatial Data 53 136 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.25% 0.095%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.82% 1.43% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 28 64 39
10th Percentile £40,000 £57,125 £27,000
25th Percentile £44,231 - £36,120
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £76,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.68% +76.74% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62,575 - £64,898
90th Percentile £68,103 - £70,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,122 £76,000 £45,990
% change year-on-year -36.68% +65.25% +8.21%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,449 9,520 11,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.88% 17.80% 20.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,106 5,323 8,972
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £45,303
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Geospatial Data job vacancy trend in the UK

Geospatial Data
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Geospatial Data

Geospatial Data
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Geospatial Data over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Geospatial Data in the UK

Geospatial Data
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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 +2 40 £52,987 -30.28% 18
UK excluding London -48 34 £48,122 -36.68% 11
Work from Home +66 24 £48,122 -16.31% 12
London +64 14 £88,750 -24.47% 9
South West +22 10 £64,350 -8.07% 2
Wales - 10 £48,122 - 1
North of England +12 5 £45,974 -40.68% 1
East of England -41 4 £40,000 -47.37%
West Midlands +24 3 £42,750 +42.50%
Midlands +21 3 £42,750 +42.50%
North East - 3 - -
North West +31 2 £45,974 -40.68% 1
South East -4 2 £35,976 -52.66% 6

Geospatial Data
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 7 (13.21%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.89%) GeoServer
Applications
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (11.32%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.89%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.89%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.89%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.89%) SmartSuite
3 1 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.87%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (9.43%) AWS
2 5 (9.43%) SaaS
3 4 (7.55%) Azure
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.77%) GitHub
4 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.89%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (66.04%) GIS
2 12 (22.64%) Metadata
2 12 (22.64%) QGIS
3 10 (18.87%) Spatial Data
4 6 (11.32%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (9.43%) Metadata Repository
6 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.89%) Big Data
8 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.89%) Looker
8 1 (1.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) Cucumber
2 2 (3.77%) GitLab
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.77%) JUnit
2 2 (3.77%) Selenium
General
1 26 (49.06%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (35.85%) Finance
3 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
6 6 (11.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (11.32%) Legal
6 6 (11.32%) Marketing
7 4 (7.55%) Agriculture
7 4 (7.55%) Law
8 3 (5.66%) German Language
9 1 (1.89%) Digital Economy
9 1 (1.89%) Electronics
9 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.89%) Military
9 1 (1.89%) Retail
9 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Lead
2 8 (15.09%) GIS Technician
3 7 (13.21%) Analyst
3 7 (13.21%) Senior
4 6 (11.32%) Architect
4 6 (11.32%) GIS Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Operations Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Operations Technician
5 5 (9.43%) Data Architect
5 5 (9.43%) Graduate
6 4 (7.55%) Account Executive
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Account Executive
6 4 (7.55%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) GIS Officer
7 3 (5.66%) Information Officer
7 3 (5.66%) Information Systems Officer
8 2 (3.77%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Graduate 1st Line Support
8 2 (3.77%) Graduate Technical Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Graduate Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) PostGIS
2 2 (3.77%) Django
2 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.77%) Flask
2 2 (3.77%) Leaflet
2 2 (3.77%) MapLibre
2 2 (3.77%) OpenLayers
2 2 (3.77%) pytest
2 2 (3.77%) React
2 2 (3.77%) Spring
2 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.89%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.89%) GeoPandas
3 1 (1.89%) JSON
3 1 (1.89%) JSON-LD
3 1 (1.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.08%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (26.42%) Management Information System
3 7 (13.21%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (11.32%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (9.43%) Reference Data
6 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.77%) e-Learning
6 2 (3.77%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.89%) Linked Data
7 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.89%) Semantic Web
7 1 (1.89%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (52.83%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (33.96%) Data Management
2 18 (33.96%) Decision-Making
3 11 (20.75%) Asset Management
3 11 (20.75%) Programme Management
3 11 (20.75%) Risk Management
4 10 (18.87%) Document Management
4 10 (18.87%) Technical Analysis
5 8 (15.09%) AI
6 7 (13.21%) Analytics
6 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (13.21%) Visualisation
7 6 (11.32%) Data Analysis
7 6 (11.32%) Data Transformation
7 6 (11.32%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (11.32%) Mentoring
7 6 (11.32%) Roadmaps
7 6 (11.32%) Service Delivery
8 5 (9.43%) Data Governance
8 5 (9.43%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.30%) Python
2 13 (24.53%) SQL
3 3 (5.66%) Java
4 2 (3.77%) C#
4 2 (3.77%) Delphi
4 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.89%) R
5 1 (1.89%) Scala
5 1 (1.89%) SHACL
5 1 (1.89%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 28 (52.83%) Degree
2 11 (20.75%) DBS Check
3 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.66%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.75%) ESRI
3 4 (7.55%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.66%) Hitachi
5 2 (3.77%) Google
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle
6 1 (1.89%) Adobe
6 1 (1.89%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.89%) Databricks
6 1 (1.89%) SAP
6 1 (1.89%) YouTube