GIS Developer Contracts

GIS Developer
UK

The median GIS Developer daily rate in the UK is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 681 839
Rank change year-on-year +115 +158 -116
Contract jobs requiring a GIS Developer 18 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.029% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.030% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 5
10th Percentile £281 £406 £310
25th Percentile £375 £419 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £471
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -4.46% +8.28%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £488
90th Percentile £688 £763 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -8.57% -7.89% +18.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

GIS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured GIS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GIS Developer in the UK

GIS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GIS Developer in the UK

GIS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIS Developer in the UK

GIS Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS Developer in the UK

GIS Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +90 15 £516 -8.32% 1
UK excluding London +29 10 £400 -8.57%
London +89 8 £523 - 1
Work from Home +112 6 £450 +2.27% 2
South East +17 4 £425 -
Scotland +49 3 £288 -34.29%
North of England +18 3 £600 +6.67%
Yorkshire +14 2 £600 +6.67%
North West - 1 - -

GIS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, GIS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring GIS Developer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) GIS
2 13 (72.22%) Python
3 10 (55.56%) ESRI
3 10 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (50.00%) Azure
4 9 (50.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (33.33%) IaaS
5 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
6 5 (27.78%) PostGIS
6 5 (27.78%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) Secure Coding
6 5 (27.78%) OpenLayers
6 5 (27.78%) Spatial Data
6 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
7 4 (22.22%) Azure AKS
7 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (22.22%) GeoPandas
7 4 (22.22%) Celery
7 4 (22.22%) AWS
7 4 (22.22%) REST
7 4 (22.22%) Redis
7 4 (22.22%) Django
7 4 (22.22%) Finance
7 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (16.67%) ArcGIS
8 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (16.67%) Electronics
8 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
8 3 (16.67%) Oracle

GIS Developer Skill Set
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 3 (16.67%) ArcGIS
1 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 3 (16.67%) Site Server
2 1 (5.56%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) IaaS
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Azure AKS
3 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (100.00%) GIS
2 10 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (27.78%) Spatial Data
4 4 (22.22%) Redis
5 2 (11.11%) QGIS
6 1 (5.56%) Power BI
General
1 9 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Electronics
3 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 3 (16.67%) Marketing
3 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) OpenLayers
1 5 (27.78%) PostGIS
2 4 (22.22%) Celery
2 4 (22.22%) Django
2 4 (22.22%) GeoPandas
2 4 (22.22%) REST
3 3 (16.67%) React
4 2 (11.11%) Flask
4 2 (11.11%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) CSS
5 1 (5.56%) HTML
5 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps
1 5 (27.78%) Secure Coding
2 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Availability Management
3 3 (16.67%) Capacity Management
3 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 3 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (16.67%) ETL
3 3 (16.67%) Information Security
3 3 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 3 (16.67%) Prototyping
4 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) Econometrics
5 1 (5.56%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.56%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) Korn
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) ESRI
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft