GIS Contracts in the North West

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 129 149 170
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 -28
Contract jobs citing GIS 6 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.21% 0.033% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.46% 0.21% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £503 - £365
25th Percentile £506 - £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £700 £475
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% +47.37% +6.74%
75th Percentile £519 - £519
90th Percentile £523 - £538
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £23.30 - £30.08
25th Percentile £25.25 - £33.19
Median hourly rate £28.50 - £40.25
75th Percentile £31.75 - £49.19
90th Percentile £33.70 - £53.43
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 412 486 727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.76% 16.14% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 356 538
10th Percentile £338 £325 £314
25th Percentile £401 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £631 £678 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 39
10th Percentile £22.83 £28.26 £13.47
25th Percentile £37.63 £35.00 £15.24
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +88.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £54.69 £75.00
90th Percentile £66.75 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for GIS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester - 5 £513 - 7
Lancashire - 1 - - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (50.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (16.67%) GeoServer
2 1 (16.67%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Autodesk Inventor
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DWDM
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
1 1 (16.67%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) QGIS
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) GIS Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Fibre Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) GIS Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) OpenLayers
1 1 (16.67%) PostGIS
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Management
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Data Entry
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design
4 1 (16.67%) Network Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) Process Management
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Statistics
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Mapbox
3 1 (16.67%) Autodesk
3 1 (16.67%) SAP