Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GIS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 408 634
Rank change year-on-year -101 +226 +101
Permanent jobs citing GIS 185 615 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.62% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.49% 3.38% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 124 192 129
10th Percentile £36,246 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,405 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +43.33% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £76,000 £60,194 £65,000
90th Percentile - £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,000 £45,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +68.89% -7.22% -3.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

GIS 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 7,431 18,186 22,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 18.47% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,213 12,623 13,902
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% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GIS.

Salary trend for GIS in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GIS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GIS in the UK

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Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 -40 179 £65,000 +44.44% 202
UK excluding London -61 141 £76,000 +68.89% 182
East of England +93 78 £76,000 +76.74% 32
London +62 39 £57,500 -0.86% 39
Work from Home -41 37 £44,000 -2.22% 83
South East +64 33 £76,000 +68.89% 54
South West +61 11 £36,246 -28.93% 27
Midlands +40 11 £53,300 -33.38% 29
West Midlands +46 9 £60,000 +36.97% 18
North of England -37 6 £37,000 -7.80% 31
North West -53 5 £36,000 -10.00% 14
East Midlands +16 2 £31,500 -66.84% 10
Scotland +59 1 - - 12
Yorkshire +38 1 £75,000 +17.65% 14
Wales +8 1 £92,500 +71.30% 6
Northern Ireland +6 1 £28,000 - 1

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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 8 (4.32%) IIS
2 7 (3.78%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.78%) ProjectWise
3 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.54%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.54%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 98 (52.97%) Power Platform
2 19 (10.27%) AWS
3 16 (8.65%) Azure
3 16 (8.65%) Snowflake
4 4 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.62%) GCP
5 3 (1.62%) SaaS
6 2 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.08%) IaaS
6 2 (1.08%) PaaS
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.54%) GitHub
7 1 (0.54%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.54%) iPaaS
7 1 (0.54%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.62%) Network Security
2 2 (1.08%) Internet
3 1 (0.54%) Broadband
3 1 (0.54%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (53.51%) Geospatial Data
2 98 (52.97%) Power BI
3 94 (50.81%) Power Query
4 17 (9.19%) Big Data
5 9 (4.86%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.62%) Spatial Data
7 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.08%) QGIS
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Git
2 1 (0.54%) GitLab
2 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (12.97%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (7.03%) Advertising
4 12 (6.49%) Finance
5 9 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.32%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.24%) Welsh Language
8 4 (2.16%) Local Government
8 4 (2.16%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.62%) Aviation
9 3 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.62%) Retail
10 2 (1.08%) Environmental Health
10 2 (1.08%) Marketing
11 1 (0.54%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.54%) Back Office
11 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Games
11 1 (0.54%) Legal
11 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (7.57%) Analytics Consultant
1 14 (7.57%) Consultant
1 14 (7.57%) GIS Consultant
1 14 (7.57%) Spatial Consultant
2 11 (5.95%) Lead
3 8 (4.32%) Applications Specialist
3 8 (4.32%) Applications Support
3 8 (4.32%) Applications Support Specialist
3 8 (4.32%) Senior
3 8 (4.32%) Support Specialist
4 7 (3.78%) Developer
5 6 (3.24%) Analyst
5 6 (3.24%) Technical Leader
6 5 (2.70%) Architect
6 5 (2.70%) Digital Engineer
6 5 (2.70%) Information Manager
6 5 (2.70%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (2.16%) Software Engineer
7 4 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.62%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.24%) MIDP
1 6 (3.24%) React
2 5 (2.70%) RESTful
3 4 (2.16%) CSS
3 4 (2.16%) GeoJSON
3 4 (2.16%) HTML
3 4 (2.16%) Svelte
4 3 (1.62%) .NET
5 2 (1.08%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.08%) REST
5 2 (1.08%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.08%) Vue
6 1 (0.54%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.54%) Blazor
6 1 (0.54%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.54%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (0.54%) SOAP
6 1 (0.54%) Vuex
6 1 (0.54%) Web Services
6 1 (0.54%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 96 (51.89%) Algorithms
2 6 (3.24%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.70%) Lidar
4 4 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.62%) Cybercrime
5 3 (1.62%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.62%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.62%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.08%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.54%) Kinect
7 1 (0.54%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.54%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.32%) Windows
2 7 (3.78%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.24%) Android
3 6 (3.24%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (61.62%) Business Intelligence
2 109 (58.92%) Asset Management
3 106 (57.30%) Problem-Solving
4 100 (54.05%) Strategic Planning
5 98 (52.97%) Data Management
5 98 (52.97%) Service Delivery
6 96 (51.89%) Actionable Insight
7 27 (14.59%) Analytics
8 19 (10.27%) Visualisation
9 14 (7.57%) Customer Insight
9 14 (7.57%) ETL
9 14 (7.57%) Performance Analysis
9 14 (7.57%) Predictive Modelling
9 14 (7.57%) Project Delivery
9 14 (7.57%) Spatial Analysis
10 13 (7.03%) Agile
11 12 (6.49%) Project Management
12 10 (5.41%) Computer Science
12 10 (5.41%) Data Analysis
13 9 (4.86%) Digital Engineering
Programming Languages
1 117 (63.24%) SQL
2 22 (11.89%) Python
3 9 (4.86%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.62%) C#
5 2 (1.08%) Java
6 1 (0.54%) C
6 1 (0.54%) C++
6 1 (0.54%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.54%) PHP
6 1 (0.54%) R
6 1 (0.54%) Rust
6 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (11.35%) Degree
2 11 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.24%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.16%) PhD
8 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.24%) WCAG
4 2 (1.08%) GDPR
5 1 (0.54%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (0.54%) Docker
1 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.62%) Computer Incident Response Team
2 1 (0.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.57%) Alteryx
3 10 (5.41%) ESRI
4 5 (2.70%) Google
5 4 (2.16%) Oracle
6 2 (1.08%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.54%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.54%) EMC
7 1 (0.54%) IFS
7 1 (0.54%) JDA
7 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.54%) Sun
7 1 (0.54%) Zoho