QGIS Contracts in the UK excluding London

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for QGIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QGIS over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 421 502
Rank change year-on-year +74 +81 -74
Contract jobs citing QGIS 31 14 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.061% 0.013%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.21% 0.41% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - - £233
25th Percentile £135 £500 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £145 £520 £275
Median % change year-on-year -72.12% +89.09% -31.25%
75th Percentile £224 £540 £294
90th Percentile £266 - £298
UK median daily rate £483 £510 £650
% change year-on-year -5.39% -21.54% +62.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
Median hourly rate £13.50 £50.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.00% +78.57% +16.67%
UK median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £28.00
% change year-on-year -39.96% -19.70% +24.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

QGIS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,568 3,448 5,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.61% 15.05% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,826 2,465 3,821
10th Percentile £313 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £577 £598 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 108 130
10th Percentile £13.52 £21.73 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.15 £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.25 £55.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.53% +59.14% +44.93%
75th Percentile £60.50 £70.00 £62.23
90th Percentile £74.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.09% +28.99% +69.81%

QGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing QGIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QGIS in the UK excluding London

QGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QGIS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for QGIS in the UK excluding London

QGIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QGIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QGIS in the UK excluding London

QGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QGIS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for QGIS in the UK excluding London

QGIS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QGIS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +26 22 - - 2
Scotland +47 5 £145 -71.00% 2
North of England - 4 - - 14
Yorkshire - 3 - - 4
North West - 1 - - 10
QGIS
UK

QGIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (22.58%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.23%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (9.68%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.23%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) Azure
2 1 (3.23%) GCP
2 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (48.39%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) GIS
2 3 (9.68%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (9.68%) Metadata
2 3 (9.68%) Spatial Data
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) RAN Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Network Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) GIS Technician
4 2 (6.45%) Developer
4 2 (6.45%) GIS Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) CSS
1 1 (3.23%) HTML
1 1 (3.23%) OpenLayers
1 1 (3.23%) PostGIS
1 1 (3.23%) React
1 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (9.68%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (9.68%) Data Management
2 3 (9.68%) Image Processing
2 3 (9.68%) User Experience
3 1 (3.23%) Analytics
3 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Vision
3 1 (3.23%) Data Analytics
3 1 (3.23%) DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) Econometrics
3 1 (3.23%) Generative AI
3 1 (3.23%) Machine Learning
3 1 (3.23%) Open Source
3 1 (3.23%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (3.23%) Roadmaps
3 1 (3.23%) Statistics
3 1 (3.23%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.23%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) ESRI
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft