Geospatial Data Jobs

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Geospatial Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Geospatial Data over the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 758 886
Rank change year-on-year +193 +128 +145
Permanent jobs citing Geospatial Data 116 136 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.55% 0.75% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 65 88 54
10th Percentile £53,750 £32,000 £30,725
25th Percentile - £36,500 £37,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -5.00%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £60,938
90th Percentile - £91,125 £66,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,000 £47,500 £45,750
% change year-on-year +60.00% +3.83% -3.68%

All Database and 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 7,484 18,116 22,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.42% 18.45% 21.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,236 12,588 14,042
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +5.56%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Geospatial Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Geospatial Data in the UK

Geospatial Data
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Geospatial Data.

Salary trend for Geospatial Data in the UK

Geospatial Data
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Geospatial Data over the 6 months to 27 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Geospatial Data in the UK

Geospatial Data
Top 12 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 27 April 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
England +160 110 £76,000 +60.00% 76
UK excluding London +215 107 £76,000 +60.00% 37
East of England +106 66 £76,000 +67.96% 9
South East +126 33 £76,000 +44.76% 8
Work from Home +151 14 £57,500 +27.59% 51
London +83 8 £77,500 +66.48% 40
Scotland +130 5 £57,500 - 3
South West +103 1 £80,000 +33.33% 12
Midlands +69 1 £40,000 -55.56% 3
West Midlands +49 1 £40,000 -7.31%
North of England +44 1 £77,500 +93.12% 4
North West +15 1 £77,500 +98.05% 2

Geospatial Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.72%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) GNU Octave
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 95 (81.90%) Power Platform
2 10 (8.62%) Azure
3 5 (4.31%) AWS
3 5 (4.31%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (1.72%) Azure Functions
4 2 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (1.72%) GCP
4 2 (1.72%) npm
4 2 (1.72%) SaaS
4 2 (1.72%) Serverless
5 1 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.86%) Google Sheets
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (85.34%) GIS
2 95 (81.90%) Power BI
3 94 (81.03%) Power Query
4 8 (6.90%) Big Data
5 6 (5.17%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.59%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.72%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.72%) Redis
9 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.86%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Git
2 2 (1.72%) ESLint
2 2 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.72%) Sinon.JS
2 2 (1.72%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.72%) webpack
3 1 (0.86%) Selenium
General
1 6 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (3.45%) Finance
3 3 (2.59%) Social Skills
3 3 (2.59%) Tech for Good
4 1 (0.86%) Back Office
4 1 (0.86%) Electronics
4 1 (0.86%) Legal
4 1 (0.86%) Marketing
4 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (8.62%) Senior
2 5 (4.31%) Data Engineer
2 5 (4.31%) Senior Data Engineer
3 4 (3.45%) Developer
4 3 (2.59%) Analyst
4 3 (2.59%) C# Developer
4 3 (2.59%) Data Analyst
5 2 (1.72%) Lead
5 2 (1.72%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (1.72%) Senior C# Developer
5 2 (1.72%) Senior Developer
5 2 (1.72%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (1.72%) Software Engineer
6 1 (0.86%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (0.86%) Blazor Developer
6 1 (0.86%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 1 (0.86%) GIS Specialist
6 1 (0.86%) Lead Big Data Engineer
6 1 (0.86%) Senior Big Data Engineer
6 1 (0.86%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.45%) .NET
1 4 (3.45%) PySpark
2 3 (2.59%) React
2 3 (2.59%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.72%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (1.72%) Jest
3 2 (1.72%) Kafka
3 2 (1.72%) Pandas
3 2 (1.72%) REST
4 1 (0.86%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.86%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (0.86%) Blazor
4 1 (0.86%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.86%) Flask
4 1 (0.86%) Node.js
4 1 (0.86%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.86%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (0.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 94 (81.03%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.59%) Life Science
2 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.72%) Data Fabric
3 2 (1.72%) IoT
4 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.59%) Linux
1 3 (2.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (87.93%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (81.90%) Asset Management
2 95 (81.90%) Business Intelligence
2 95 (81.90%) Data Management
3 94 (81.03%) Actionable Insight
3 94 (81.03%) Service Delivery
3 94 (81.03%) Strategic Planning
4 9 (7.76%) Artificial Intelligence
4 9 (7.76%) Machine Learning
5 8 (6.90%) DevOps
6 5 (4.31%) DataOps
6 5 (4.31%) MLOps
6 5 (4.31%) Roadmaps
7 4 (3.45%) Data Analysis
8 3 (2.59%) Analytics
8 3 (2.59%) Computer Science
8 3 (2.59%) Data Analytics
8 3 (2.59%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (2.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (2.59%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 102 (87.93%) SQL
2 15 (12.93%) Python
3 4 (3.45%) C#
4 2 (1.72%) Java
4 2 (1.72%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.72%) Scala
5 1 (0.86%) C
5 1 (0.86%) C++
5 1 (0.86%) Embedded C
5 1 (0.86%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.17%) Degree
2 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.86%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.86%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (0.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (3.45%) Databricks
2 2 (1.72%) Cloudera
3 1 (0.86%) EMC
3 1 (0.86%) ESRI
3 1 (0.86%) Google
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.86%) Sun