GIS Contracts in the North of England

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 183 238
Rank change year-on-year +26 +55 -56
Contract jobs citing GIS 28 19 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.35% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.88% 2.43% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 3
10th Percentile £480 £441 £365
25th Percentile £490 £450 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% +21.02%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £519
90th Percentile £700 £665 £538
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.40
25th Percentile £11.00 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £28.00
75th Percentile - - £42.13
90th Percentile £24.60 - £50.60
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
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 722 783 1,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.90% 14.39% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 558 878
10th Percentile £350 £350 £314
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +14.42%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £588
90th Percentile £638 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 49
10th Percentile £11.25 £28.26 £13.90
25th Percentile £19.08 £35.00 £16.23
Median hourly rate £40.25 £40.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% +29.03% +47.62%
75th Percentile £44.74 £54.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £48.49 £64.80 £77.50
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 the North of England

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for GIS in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GIS in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GIS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the North of England region 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
Yorkshire +19 18 £600 +14.29% 7
North West +20 6 £513 -26.79% 14
North East +8 4 £700 +33.33% 1
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (35.71%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.57%) GeoServer
2 1 (3.57%) Smallworld
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (14.29%) MicroStation
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.57%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (7.14%) SAP CRM
2 2 (7.14%) SAP ERP
2 2 (7.14%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (3.57%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) LTE
1 3 (10.71%) TETRA
2 1 (3.57%) DWDM
2 1 (3.57%) Internet
2 1 (3.57%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (17.86%) Spatial Data
3 4 (14.29%) QGIS
4 3 (10.71%) Metadata
5 2 (7.14%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (7.14%) Redis
6 1 (3.57%) Power BI
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) GIS Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) GIS Architect
3 3 (10.71%) GIS Developer
3 3 (10.71%) GIS Technician
3 3 (10.71%) SCADA Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Telecoms Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (7.14%) GIS Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) GIS Manager
4 2 (7.14%) GIS Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Trainer
5 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) OpenLayers
1 3 (10.71%) PostGIS
2 2 (7.14%) Node.js
2 2 (7.14%) SignalR
3 1 (3.57%) CSS
3 1 (3.57%) HTML
3 1 (3.57%) React
3 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (10.71%) Lidar
2 3 (10.71%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) Data Management
3 6 (21.43%) DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (14.29%) CRM
4 4 (14.29%) ERP
4 4 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 3 (10.71%) Analytics
5 3 (10.71%) Asset Management
5 3 (10.71%) Data Modelling
5 3 (10.71%) Image Processing
5 3 (10.71%) Open Source
5 3 (10.71%) User Experience
5 3 (10.71%) User Stories
6 2 (7.14%) Data Entry
6 2 (7.14%) Data Protection
6 2 (7.14%) Front End Development
6 2 (7.14%) Resource Management
6 2 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
1 3 (10.71%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (3.57%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) BC Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) ESRI
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.86%) SAP
4 2 (7.14%) Mapbox
5 1 (3.57%) Autodesk