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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 353 379
Rank change year-on-year -100 +26 +53
Contract jobs citing QGIS 7 1 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.007% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.20% 0.045% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £145
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.12%
75th Percentile £425 - £224
90th Percentile £455 - £266
UK median daily rate £450 £455 £490
% change year-on-year -1.10% -7.14% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
UK median hourly rate - - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -40.51%

All Database & BI 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 3,542 2,226 2,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.25% 15.40% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,325 1,488 1,843
10th Percentile £320 £312 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £656 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 59 109
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.69 £13.65
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +5.47% -45.45%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.60 £70.00 £64.12
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.67% -35.39%

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
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 8 July 2026. 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 - 5 £400 - 3
South West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 £450 -
North West - 1 £450 -
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 5 (71.43%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) GIS
2 2 (28.57%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Spatial Data
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Report Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Senior
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Sustainability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (57.14%) LLPG
1 4 (57.14%) NLPG
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Management
2 4 (57.14%) Customer Experience
2 4 (57.14%) Data Cleansing
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Data Collection
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Model Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) BS7666
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) ESRI
1 4 (57.14%) Salesforce