ArcGIS Contracts

ESRI ArcGIS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ArcGIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ArcGIS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 643 798
Rank change year-on-year +121 +155 -126
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 53 39 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.070% 0.046%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.25% 0.64% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 16
10th Percentile £419 £429 £331
25th Percentile £433 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £528 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +11.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £630
90th Percentile £669 £756 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -8.84% -4.44% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile - £15.95 £33.48
25th Percentile - £17.38 £41.69
Median hourly rate £13.50 £20.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% -60.00% +338.60%
75th Percentile £35.00 £22.88 £56.25
90th Percentile £48.50 £24.45 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.50 £20.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -32.50% -60.00% +338.60%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

ArcGIS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,252 6,095 10,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 10.87% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,271 7,550
10th Percentile £258 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 148 208
10th Percentile £13.28 £16.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.08 £51.25 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% +125.27% +10.98%
75th Percentile £50.47 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +116.22% -2.63%

ArcGIS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ArcGIS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ArcGIS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ArcGIS within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +95 40 £500 - 36
Work from Home +114 29 £490 -6.67% 18
London +104 25 £513 +7.89% 4
UK excluding London +43 19 £490 -8.84% 32
North of England +29 11 £495 -5.71% 14
Yorkshire +25 8 £490 -18.33% 4
Scotland +42 6 £298 -40.50% 3
North West - 3 £500 - 10
South West +6 2 £500 - 5
South East +9 1 - - 6
Midlands - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 2

ArcGIS
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 1 (1.89%) Smallworld
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.55%) MicroStation
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.77%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (1.89%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.87%) Azure
2 6 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.55%) AWS
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.66%) Serverless
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.77%) GCP
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub
5 2 (3.77%) PaaS
5 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) 2G
1 5 (9.43%) 3G
1 5 (9.43%) 4G
1 5 (9.43%) 5G
1 5 (9.43%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.89%) DWDM
2 1 (1.89%) Internet
2 1 (1.89%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (88.68%) GIS
2 16 (30.19%) Geospatial Data
3 13 (24.53%) QGIS
4 9 (16.98%) Spatial Data
5 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.66%) Metadata
7 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.77%) Big Data
7 2 (3.77%) Power BI
7 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) JIRA
General
1 22 (41.51%) Social Skills
2 20 (37.74%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Local Government
5 3 (5.66%) Finance
5 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Electronics
7 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.89%) Marketing
7 1 (1.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) Architect
1 11 (20.75%) GIS Architect
1 11 (20.75%) Solutions Architect
2 10 (18.87%) Analyst
3 8 (15.09%) GIS Analyst
4 7 (13.21%) Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Business Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Senior
6 4 (7.55%) Radio Specialist
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Senior GIS Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) GIS Business Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) GIS Developer
7 3 (5.66%) GIS Technician
8 2 (3.77%) Consultant
8 2 (3.77%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Geospatial Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) IT Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) .NET
2 2 (3.77%) .NET Core
2 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET
2 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (3.77%) PostGIS
2 2 (3.77%) RESTful
2 2 (3.77%) SOAP
3 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.89%) Express.js
3 1 (1.89%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (5.66%) Lidar
1 3 (5.66%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.77%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.53%) Data Management
1 13 (24.53%) Migration
2 12 (22.64%) Agile
3 8 (15.09%) Data Analysis
3 8 (15.09%) DevOps
4 7 (13.21%) Visualisation
5 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (11.32%) Decision-Making
5 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (9.43%) Asset Management
6 5 (9.43%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (9.43%) Spatial Analysis
7 4 (7.55%) Computer Science
7 4 (7.55%) Customer Experience
7 4 (7.55%) Data Migration
7 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (7.55%) Project Management
7 4 (7.55%) Roadmaps
7 4 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (7.55%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (22.64%) Python
2 5 (9.43%) JavaScript
2 5 (9.43%) SQL
3 2 (3.77%) C#
3 2 (3.77%) Java
4 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (18.87%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.89%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.55%) QA
3 3 (5.66%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.77%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (45.28%) ESRI
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
3 8 (15.09%) Mapbox
4 2 (3.77%) Google
4 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.89%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.89%) IBM
5 1 (1.89%) SAP