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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 541 779
Rank change year-on-year -118 +238 +89
Permanent jobs citing Geospatial Data 52 114 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.058% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.66% 1.51% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11 63 84
10th Percentile - £53,750 £32,000
25th Percentile - - £36,405
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £76,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +60.00% -5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 - £69,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £76,000 £46,282
% change year-on-year -47.37% +64.21% +5.45%

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 7,930 7,552 17,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.77% 17.20% 17.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,796 5,097 12,530
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -118 33 £40,000 -47.37% 15
UK excluding London -140 27 £40,000 -47.37% 15
London -14 9 £77,500 +29.17% 1
Midlands -27 9 - -
West Midlands -18 7 - -
North West -3 6 £40,000 -48.39%
North of England -44 6 £40,000 -48.39% 1
Work from Home +14 5 £47,226 -17.87% 7
East of England -74 4 £40,000 -47.37%
Scotland -4 3 - - 1
South East -49 3 £26,951 -64.54% 7
South West -48 2 - - 5
East Midlands - 2 - -

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 13 (25.00%) ArcGIS
2 5 (9.62%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Acrobat
2 1 (1.92%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.92%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.85%) AWS
1 15 (28.85%) Azure
2 9 (17.31%) Serverless
3 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.69%) SaaS
5 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.92%) GCP
6 1 (1.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (55.77%) GIS
2 5 (9.62%) QGIS
3 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.85%) Big Data
4 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.85%) Metadata
4 2 (3.85%) Power BI
4 2 (3.85%) Spatial Data
5 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.92%) Flink
5 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.85%) Git
General
1 11 (21.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (17.31%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Local Government
4 6 (11.54%) Marketing
4 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.69%) Agriculture
5 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Law
5 4 (7.69%) Social Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Retail
7 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.92%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (1.92%) Digital Economy
8 1 (1.92%) Electronics
8 1 (1.92%) French Language
8 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Data Manager
1 11 (21.15%) Data Quality Manager
1 11 (21.15%) Quality Manager
1 11 (21.15%) Senior
2 9 (17.31%) Software Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Geospatial Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) GIS Technician
5 6 (11.54%) Analyst
5 6 (11.54%) Architect
6 5 (9.62%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Account Executive
7 4 (7.69%) Data Analyst
7 4 (7.69%) Graduate
7 4 (7.69%) Graduate Software Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Graduate Technical Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Account Executive
7 4 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) GIS Officer
8 3 (5.77%) Information Officer
8 3 (5.77%) Information Systems Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) PostGIS
2 8 (15.38%) Leaflet
2 8 (15.38%) OpenLayers
3 5 (9.62%) REST
3 5 (9.62%) SAML
4 4 (7.69%) .NET
4 4 (7.69%) MapLibre
4 4 (7.69%) Node.js
4 4 (7.69%) React
5 1 (1.92%) D3.js
5 1 (1.92%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.92%) GeoPandas
5 1 (1.92%) JSON
5 1 (1.92%) JSON-LD
5 1 (1.92%) Kafka
5 1 (1.92%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.92%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Management Information System
2 7 (13.46%) Mobile App
3 4 (7.69%) e-Learning
3 4 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.85%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.92%) Blog
5 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.92%) IoT
5 1 (1.92%) Linked Data
5 1 (1.92%) PropTech
5 1 (1.92%) Semantic Web
5 1 (1.92%) Social Media
5 1 (1.92%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Analytics
1 18 (34.62%) Spatial Analysis
2 15 (28.85%) Software Engineering
3 11 (21.15%) Data Science
3 11 (21.15%) Decision-Making
4 9 (17.31%) AI
4 9 (17.31%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 9 (17.31%) DevOps
4 9 (17.31%) Open Source
4 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (15.38%) Asset Management
5 8 (15.38%) Data Analysis
6 7 (13.46%) Data Analytics
7 5 (9.62%) Computer Science
7 5 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (9.62%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (9.62%) High Availability
7 5 (9.62%) Mathematics
7 5 (9.62%) Physics
7 5 (9.62%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 19 (36.54%) Python
2 15 (28.85%) SQL
3 13 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.54%) Java
5 5 (9.62%) C#
6 2 (3.85%) R
7 1 (1.92%) C++
7 1 (1.92%) Julia
7 1 (1.92%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.92%) Scala
7 1 (1.92%) SHACL
7 1 (1.92%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Degree
2 7 (13.46%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) ESRI
2 11 (21.15%) Infor
3 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.85%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) Adobe
6 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.92%) Databricks
6 1 (1.92%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.92%) Mapbox
6 1 (1.92%) SAP