Geospatial Data Contracts

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Geospatial Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Geospatial Data over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 624 758
Rank change year-on-year +81 +134 -119
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 48 94 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.66% 0.89% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 64 66
10th Percentile £398 £350 £413
25th Percentile £425 £415 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.43%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £600
90th Percentile £705 £720 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £500 £558
% change year-on-year +1.50% -10.31% -14.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 10
10th Percentile - - £15.00
25th Percentile - £21.24 -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.96% -70.02% +552.74%
75th Percentile - £23.73 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +598.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Geospatial Data 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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,284 10,606 17,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.88% 17.93% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,196 7,543 12,708
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £771 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 187 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.70 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +57.64%
75th Percentile £58.88 £73.11 £62.05
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +44.33%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Geospatial Data in the UK

Geospatial Data
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Geospatial Data over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Geospatial Data in the UK

Geospatial Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Geospatial Data in the UK

Geospatial Data
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Geospatial Data within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +74 45 £538 +2.38% 43
UK excluding London +32 24 £508 +1.50% 31
Work from Home +113 19 £470 -6.00% 20
London +92 19 £675 +35.00% 22
North of England +30 12 £545 -3.11% 5
Yorkshire +26 10 £490 -18.33% 1
South East +13 6 £525 -6.58% 8
South West +11 4 £525 -27.84% 5
Midlands +21 2 £400 +14.29% 2
West Midlands +18 2 £400 +14.29%
North East - 2 £650 -

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 17 (35.42%) ArcGIS
2 2 (4.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.25%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (4.17%) SAP CRM
2 2 (4.17%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.83%) Azure
2 9 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (10.42%) AWS
4 5 (10.42%) GCP
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (6.25%) PaaS
5 3 (6.25%) Serverless
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.17%) SaaS
6 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (4.17%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (47.92%) GIS
2 10 (20.83%) SQL Server
3 9 (18.75%) Power BI
4 7 (14.58%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 7 (14.58%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (14.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (12.50%) Metadata
6 5 (10.42%) Spatial Data
7 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (6.25%) BigQuery
7 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (6.25%) QGIS
8 2 (4.17%) Big Data
8 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) ClearCase
1 4 (8.33%) ClearQuest
1 4 (8.33%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (6.25%) Git
3 2 (4.17%) JIRA
3 2 (4.17%) Postman
3 2 (4.17%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (2.08%) Electronics
5 1 (2.08%) Local Government
5 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.08%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Military
5 1 (2.08%) Social Housing
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Developer
2 11 (22.92%) Analyst
3 8 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) Data Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Senior
6 5 (10.42%) GIS Analyst
6 5 (10.42%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (10.42%) Technical Business Analyst
7 4 (8.33%) Architect
8 3 (6.25%) GIS Architect
8 3 (6.25%) GIS Business Analyst
8 3 (6.25%) GIS Technician
8 3 (6.25%) Lead
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Service Manager
9 2 (4.17%) Full Stack Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Geospatial Architect
9 2 (4.17%) Geospatial Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) GIS Project Manager
9 2 (4.17%) Information Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) XML
2 5 (10.42%) .NET
3 3 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 3 (6.25%) PostGIS
3 3 (6.25%) React
4 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (4.17%) CSS
4 2 (4.17%) GeoPandas
4 2 (4.17%) HTML
4 2 (4.17%) Matplotlib
4 2 (4.17%) NumPy
4 2 (4.17%) PyTorch
4 2 (4.17%) RESTful
4 2 (4.17%) scikit-learn
4 2 (4.17%) SOAP
4 2 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (4.17%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.25%) Lidar
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Agile
2 16 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (27.08%) Scrum
4 12 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 11 (22.92%) Kanban
6 9 (18.75%) Project Management
7 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (14.58%) Data Engineering
8 7 (14.58%) Dimensional Modelling
8 7 (14.58%) ETL
8 7 (14.58%) Kimball Methodology
9 6 (12.50%) Data Governance
9 6 (12.50%) Data Management
9 6 (12.50%) DevOps
9 6 (12.50%) OO
10 5 (10.42%) Acceptance Criteria
10 5 (10.42%) Data Analysis
10 5 (10.42%) Decision-Making
10 5 (10.42%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) SQL
2 8 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 8 (16.67%) Python
3 7 (14.58%) PL/SQL
3 7 (14.58%) XPath
3 7 (14.58%) XQuery
4 5 (10.42%) C#
5 4 (8.33%) C
5 4 (8.33%) C++
6 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.17%) Java
7 2 (4.17%) R
7 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.58%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 4 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.25%) WCAG
3 2 (4.17%) QA
4 1 (2.08%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) HP ALM
2 3 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) ESRI
2 10 (20.83%) SAP
3 7 (14.58%) Oracle
4 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 5 (10.42%) Google
6 4 (8.33%) HP
6 4 (8.33%) Sparx
7 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
7 2 (4.17%) Xamarin
8 1 (2.08%) Mapbox