QGIS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring QGIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 357 400
Rank change year-on-year -18 +43 +102
Contract jobs citing QGIS 8 6 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.048% 0.036% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.31% 0.25% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £413 £135 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £145 £350
Median % change year-on-year +279.31% -58.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £575 £155 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £490 £600 £385
% change year-on-year -18.33% +55.84% -40.77%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

QGIS 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,595 2,363 2,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.41% 14.20% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,749 1,477 2,109
10th Percentile £304 £313 £305
25th Percentile £385 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £560 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 60 107
10th Percentile £20.94 £17.50 £15.56
25th Percentile £27.02 £19.77 £21.28
Median hourly rate £41.75 £30.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -35.04% +8.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.81 £69.38
90th Percentile £80.45 £64.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.90% -33.59% -5.00%

QGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QGIS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

QGIS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

QGIS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing QGIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing QGIS

QGIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QGIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QGIS in the UK excluding London

QGIS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing QGIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing QGIS

QGIS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QGIS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. 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 East - 8 £550 - 12
QGIS
UK

QGIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) GeoServer
1 6 (75.00%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) GIS
2 6 (75.00%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (37.50%) Metadata
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Data Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) GIS Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) GIS Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (37.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Migration
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) AI
3 6 (75.00%) Analytics
3 6 (75.00%) Data Migration
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (37.50%) Change Control
5 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
5 3 (37.50%) Data Stewardship
5 3 (37.50%) Data Validation
5 3 (37.50%) High Availability
5 3 (37.50%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
5 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (37.50%) Use Case
5 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Validation
5 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) ESRI
2 6 (75.00%) Intergraph