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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 - 364
Rank change year-on-year - - +46
Contract jobs citing QGIS 6 0 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% - 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.17% - 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £145
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.12%
75th Percentile £425 - £155
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £425 £490 £490
% change year-on-year -13.27% - -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 - - -62.96%

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 3,599 2,354 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.16% 15.47% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,373 1,568 1,663
10th Percentile £325 £300 £317
25th Percentile £406 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £663 £625 £656
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 47 69
10th Percentile £14.73 £18.38 £13.65
25th Percentile £23.00 £21.11 £17.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -41.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £57.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.00 £70.00 £70.10
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.86% - -36.36%

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 7 August 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 -
South West - 1 - -
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 4 (66.67%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) GIS
2 2 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Report Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Sustainability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (66.67%) LLPG
1 4 (66.67%) NLPG
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 4 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
1 4 (66.67%) Data Management
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Data Collection
2 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) BS7666
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) ESRI
1 4 (66.67%) Salesforce