GIS Contracts

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GIS 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 435 525 646
Rank change year-on-year +90 +121 -66
Contract jobs citing GIS 140 158 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.92% 1.60% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 111 138
10th Percentile £363 £381 £341
25th Percentile £432 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £679 £695 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £492 £550
% change year-on-year -8.44% -10.64% +30.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 14
10th Percentile £11.00 £20.95 £16.88
25th Percentile £13.50 £21.24 £30.06
Median hourly rate £16.12 £22.49 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.31% -57.17% +311.93%
75th Percentile £25.66 £23.73 £75.00
90th Percentile £61.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.50 £21.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -37.93% -58.57% +360.53%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

GIS 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 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for GIS in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for GIS in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS 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 +89 113 £505 -3.81% 90
UK excluding London +29 75 £450 -8.44% 78
Work from Home +93 64 £490 -6.67% 46
London +102 53 £525 -4.55% 14
North of England +33 29 £600 +14.29% 21
Yorkshire +24 19 £600 +14.29% 5
South East +16 18 £413 -17.50% 13
Scotland +27 17 £470 +4.33% 6
North West +25 5 £513 -26.79% 16
North East +12 5 £675 +28.57%
East of England +2 5 - - 10
Midlands +24 4 £375 -12.18% 13
West Midlands +17 4 £375 -37.50% 9
South West -1 3 £513 +13.89% 13
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2

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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 47 (33.57%) ArcGIS
2 8 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.71%) Site Server
3 7 (5.00%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.71%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.86%) MicroStation
4 2 (1.43%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.71%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Maximo
2 3 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.43%) SAP CRM
3 2 (1.43%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.43%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.00%) Azure
2 24 (17.14%) AWS
3 15 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (8.57%) Amazon S3
4 12 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.86%) IaaS
6 6 (4.29%) Serverless
7 5 (3.57%) Google Sheets
8 4 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.86%) Azure AKS
8 4 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.86%) GitHub
8 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.86%) SaaS
9 3 (2.14%) GCP
10 2 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.43%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.43%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (3.57%) 2G
2 5 (3.57%) 3G
2 5 (3.57%) 4G
2 5 (3.57%) 5G
3 3 (2.14%) LTE
3 3 (2.14%) TETRA
4 2 (1.43%) Internet
4 2 (1.43%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.43%) XCAP
5 1 (0.71%) DWDM
5 1 (0.71%) FTP
5 1 (0.71%) HTTP
5 1 (0.71%) RNC
5 1 (0.71%) SDH
5 1 (0.71%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.71%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (17.14%) Geospatial Data
3 14 (10.00%) QGIS
3 14 (10.00%) Spatial Data
4 12 (8.57%) Power BI
5 7 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.29%) Redis
7 5 (3.57%) Big Data
8 4 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (2.14%) Metadata
10 2 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.43%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.43%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.43%) Tableau
11 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.71%) GitLab
General
1 45 (32.14%) Public Sector
2 38 (27.14%) Social Skills
3 20 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (13.57%) Finance
5 11 (7.86%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.71%) Back Office
6 8 (5.71%) Local Government
7 7 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.57%) Electronics
8 5 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.57%) Marketing
8 5 (3.57%) Retail
9 2 (1.43%) French Language
9 2 (1.43%) Italian Language
9 2 (1.43%) Military
9 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Billing
10 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (23.57%) Developer
2 19 (13.57%) GIS Developer
3 18 (12.86%) Analyst
4 14 (10.00%) Architect
5 13 (9.29%) GIS Architect
5 13 (9.29%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (8.57%) GIS Analyst
7 11 (7.86%) Senior
8 7 (5.00%) GIS Specialist
9 6 (4.29%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Digital Transformation
10 5 (3.57%) Digital Transformation Manager
10 5 (3.57%) Python Developer
10 5 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.57%) Transformation Manager
11 4 (2.86%) Applications Support
11 4 (2.86%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.86%) GIS Consultant
11 4 (2.86%) Operations Manager
11 4 (2.86%) Senior GIS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.14%) PostGIS
2 12 (8.57%) REST
3 10 (7.14%) OpenLayers
4 9 (6.43%) .NET
5 5 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.57%) React
6 4 (2.86%) AWS CDK
6 4 (2.86%) Celery
6 4 (2.86%) Django
6 4 (2.86%) Flask
6 4 (2.86%) GeoPandas
6 4 (2.86%) Node.js
7 3 (2.14%) CSS
7 3 (2.14%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.43%) RESTful
8 2 (1.43%) SignalR
8 2 (1.43%) SOAP
8 2 (1.43%) Spring
8 2 (1.43%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.71%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.57%) SCADA
3 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.14%) Lidar
4 3 (2.14%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.43%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.43%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (1.43%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.71%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.71%) Unix
1 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (25.00%) Agile
2 29 (20.71%) DevOps
3 24 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (12.14%) Data Management
5 16 (11.43%) Data Analysis
5 16 (11.43%) Migration
5 16 (11.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 15 (10.71%) ETL
7 13 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (9.29%) Project Management
7 13 (9.29%) Visualisation
8 10 (7.14%) Analytics
8 10 (7.14%) CRM
8 10 (7.14%) Data Modelling
8 10 (7.14%) Line Management
9 9 (6.43%) Asset Management
9 9 (6.43%) Budget Management
9 9 (6.43%) Scrum
10 8 (5.71%) Project Delivery
10 8 (5.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (31.43%) Python
2 19 (13.57%) SQL
3 10 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.43%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.71%) Korn
6 7 (5.00%) Java
7 6 (4.29%) C#
7 6 (4.29%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.43%) Tcl
9 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (12.86%) Degree
2 11 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.14%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.71%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
1 5 (3.57%) QA
2 3 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.43%) GDPR
3 2 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 44 (31.43%) ESRI
2 14 (10.00%) Oracle
3 13 (9.29%) SAP
4 11 (7.86%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.71%) Mapbox
6 7 (5.00%) Google
7 2 (1.43%) Remedy
7 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.71%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.71%) Ericsson
8 1 (0.71%) IBM
8 1 (0.71%) Mapinfo
8 1 (0.71%) Nokia