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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 693 721 883
Rank change year-on-year +28 +162 +157
Permanent jobs citing Geospatial Data 18 191 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.19% 0.083%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.24% 1.04% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15 85 37
10th Percentile £39,600 £31,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,120 £38,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,065 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% -9.87% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £68,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £45,065 £45,000
% change year-on-year +27.59% +0.14% -5.26%

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 7,470 18,284 21,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.66% 17.90% 21.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,697 12,509 13,179
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,532 £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 £77,400 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Geospatial Data in the UK

Geospatial Data
Top 11 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 28 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
England +25 12 £60,000 +33.33% 226
UK excluding London +59 11 £57,500 +27.59% 206
Work from Home +91 9 £57,500 +27.69% 121
London +96 5 £60,000 +57.47% 40
Scotland +113 4 £57,500 - 8
South East +81 4 £56,250 +21.62% 58
South West +103 1 £80,000 +33.33% 28
West Midlands +63 1 £40,000 -7.31% 19
Midlands +48 1 £40,000 -55.56% 35
North of England -7 1 £77,500 +93.12% 35
North West -31 1 £77,500 +103.24% 15

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 3 (16.67%) ArcGIS
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) CMS
3 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
3 1 (5.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GNU Octave
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) AutoCAD
2 1 (5.56%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) GIS
2 6 (33.33%) Big Data
3 4 (22.22%) Data Lake
4 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
4 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (11.11%) Spatial Data
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) QGIS
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
1 5 (27.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Electronics
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Agriculture
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Blazor Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.56%) GIS Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) GIS Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) GIS Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Big Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) PySpark
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) Flask
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) Pandas
2 2 (11.11%) PostGIS
2 2 (11.11%) React
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Cordova
3 1 (5.56%) Blazor
3 1 (5.56%) D3.js
3 1 (5.56%) Django
3 1 (5.56%) Entity Framework
3 1 (5.56%) Next.js
3 1 (5.56%) Node.js
3 1 (5.56%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
3 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 3 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) DataOps
5 2 (11.11%) Business Development
5 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (11.11%) Control Theory
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (11.11%) Image Processing
5 2 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (11.11%) MLOps
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 3 (16.67%) C#
5 2 (11.11%) C
5 2 (11.11%) C++
5 2 (11.11%) Embedded C
5 2 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) MATLAB
5 2 (11.11%) Scala
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.11%) Def Stans
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Cloudera
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
1 2 (11.11%) EMC
1 2 (11.11%) ESRI
2 1 (5.56%) Autodesk
2 1 (5.56%) Mapinfo
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Sun