QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
UK

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 677 647 860
Rank change year-on-year -30 +213 +73
Permanent jobs citing QGIS 39 5 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.043% 0.011% 0.030%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.49% 0.067% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £73,750 - -
25th Percentile £83,125 £38,750 £21,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £42,500 £33,857
Median % change year-on-year +141.18% +25.53% -11.48%
75th Percentile £118,125 £46,250 £40,952
90th Percentile £125,250 - £45,664
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £42,500 £43,806
% change year-on-year +76.47% -2.98% +20.02%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

QGIS 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 7,919 7,507 17,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.76% 17.17% 17.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,784 5,051 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%

QGIS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

QGIS job vacancy trend in the UK

QGIS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing QGIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing QGIS

QGIS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing QGIS over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for QGIS in the UK

QGIS
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QGIS within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 -39 12 £102,500 +141.18% 2
London - 7 £130,000 - 1
Work from Home +17 5 - -
UK excluding London -37 5 £75,000 +76.47% 1
North of England - 4 £75,000 - 1
North West - 4 £75,000 - 1
South East - 1 - -

QGIS
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 27 (69.23%) ArcGIS
2 8 (20.51%) GeoServer
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (79.49%) AWS
2 29 (74.36%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.26%) Serverless
4 2 (5.13%) n8n
5 1 (2.56%) dbt
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (84.62%) GIS
2 23 (58.97%) Spatial Data
3 5 (12.82%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.26%) Power BI
4 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) Git
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.13%) Aviation
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Arabic Language
4 1 (2.56%) Finance
4 1 (2.56%) French Language
4 1 (2.56%) German Language
4 1 (2.56%) Kurdish Language
4 1 (2.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 20 (51.28%) Consultant
1 20 (51.28%) Machine Learning Consultant
1 20 (51.28%) Spatial Consultant
2 4 (10.26%) Architect
2 4 (10.26%) Geospatial Engineer
2 4 (10.26%) Report Specialist
2 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) Data Scientist
4 2 (5.13%) Geospatial Architect
4 2 (5.13%) GIS Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.56%) Analyst
5 1 (2.56%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Data Analyst
5 1 (2.56%) Data Analytics Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Data Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Geospatial Analyst
5 1 (2.56%) Senior
5 1 (2.56%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (58.97%) PyTorch
2 8 (20.51%) .NET
3 5 (12.82%) PostGIS
4 4 (10.26%) Django
4 4 (10.26%) Leaflet
4 4 (10.26%) Node.js
4 4 (10.26%) OpenLayers
5 1 (2.56%) GeoPandas
5 1 (2.56%) MapLibre
5 1 (2.56%) NetworkX
5 1 (2.56%) SciPy
5 1 (2.56%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 21 (53.85%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.26%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
1 4 (10.26%) Mac OS X
1 4 (10.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) Data Science
2 25 (64.10%) Analytics
2 25 (64.10%) Validation
3 24 (61.54%) Machine Learning
3 24 (61.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (56.41%) AI
4 22 (56.41%) Predictive Analytics
5 21 (53.85%) Data Analysis
5 21 (53.85%) Data Management
5 21 (53.85%) Feature Engineering
5 21 (53.85%) Predictive Modelling
5 21 (53.85%) Technical Leadership
6 20 (51.28%) Computer Vision
6 20 (51.28%) Data Acquisition
6 20 (51.28%) Data Integration
6 20 (51.28%) Error Analysis
6 20 (51.28%) Gradient Boosting
6 20 (51.28%) Project Management
6 20 (51.28%) Random Forest
6 20 (51.28%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 33 (84.62%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) Java
2 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.56%) R
4 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (51.28%) Accessibility
1 20 (51.28%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Ansible
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Apple
1 4 (10.26%) ESRI
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle
1 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.56%) Databricks
2 1 (2.56%) Google
2 1 (2.56%) Mapbox