GIS Contracts in London

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring GIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GIS over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 439 522
Rank change year-on-year +89 +83 -72
Contract jobs citing GIS 50 43 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.26% 0.84% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 60
10th Percentile £463 - £341
25th Percentile £485 £463 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 2
10th Percentile - - £19.83
25th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £22.56
Median hourly rate £23.32 £22.49 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% -18.97% +38.75%
75th Percentile £25.66 £23.73 £33.56
90th Percentile - - £36.68
England median hourly rate £22.00 £22.49 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.16% -55.03% +236.30%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

GIS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,964 5,127 8,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.42% 20.39% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,948 3,762 5,974
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £475 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £587
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -2.00% +8.66%
75th Percentile £715 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 51 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.69
25th Percentile £25.63 £28.95 £34.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +85.43%
75th Percentile £54.03 £81.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.85 £90.00 £75.34
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South London - 5 £625 -
Central London - 5 £510 - 1
East London -10 4 - -
West London - 3 £488 - 1
GIS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 22 (44.00%) ArcGIS
2 8 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (16.00%) Site Server
3 1 (2.00%) GeoServer
3 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.00%) Azure
2 11 (22.00%) AWS
2 11 (22.00%) IaaS
3 10 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (16.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) 2G
1 5 (10.00%) 3G
1 5 (10.00%) 4G
1 5 (10.00%) 5G
1 5 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (12.00%) Geospatial Data
2 6 (12.00%) Spatial Data
3 5 (10.00%) QGIS
4 4 (8.00%) Big Data
4 4 (8.00%) Power BI
5 2 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (4.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (48.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (24.00%) Finance
3 7 (14.00%) Local Government
3 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Telecoms
5 5 (10.00%) Electronics
5 5 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 5 (10.00%) Marketing
6 3 (6.00%) Back Office
7 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Military
8 1 (2.00%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Developer
2 8 (16.00%) GIS Developer
2 8 (16.00%) Senior
3 6 (12.00%) Analyst
3 6 (12.00%) GIS Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Architect
4 4 (8.00%) GIS Architect
4 4 (8.00%) GIS Specialist
4 4 (8.00%) Operations Manager
4 4 (8.00%) Radio Specialist
4 4 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Senior GIS Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Applications Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Head of IT
5 3 (6.00%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Product Owner
5 3 (6.00%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Product Owner
5 3 (6.00%) Spatial Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) REST
2 6 (12.00%) .NET
3 3 (6.00%) PostGIS
4 2 (4.00%) RESTful
4 2 (4.00%) SOAP
5 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.00%) Express.js
5 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.00%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (4.00%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) ETL
2 12 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (20.00%) DevOps
3 10 (20.00%) Project Management
3 10 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 9 (18.00%) Agile
5 8 (16.00%) Migration
5 8 (16.00%) Project Delivery
6 7 (14.00%) Asset Management
6 7 (14.00%) Budget Management
6 7 (14.00%) Business Development
6 7 (14.00%) Visualisation
7 6 (12.00%) Business Case
7 6 (12.00%) CRM
7 6 (12.00%) Data Analysis
8 5 (10.00%) Analytics
8 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 5 (10.00%) Data Management
8 5 (10.00%) Programme Management
8 5 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.00%) Python
2 8 (16.00%) Korn
2 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 23 (46.00%) ESRI
2 9 (18.00%) Oracle
3 7 (14.00%) SAP
4 2 (4.00%) Google
4 2 (4.00%) Mapbox
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft