GIS Developer Contracts

GIS Developer
UK

The median GIS Developer daily rate in the UK is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 669 832
Rank change year-on-year +109 +163 -111
Contract jobs requiring a GIS Developer 19 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.027% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.028% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 5
10th Percentile £281 £430 £310
25th Percentile £394 £438 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £471
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +11.46% +8.28%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £488
90th Percentile £688 £763 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +18.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

GIS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured GIS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GIS Developer in the UK

GIS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS Developer.

Daily rate trend for GIS Developer in the UK

GIS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS Developer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIS Developer in the UK

GIS Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS Developer.

Hourly rate trend for GIS Developer in the UK

GIS Developer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +104 16 £521 -13.11% 2
UK excluding London +51 11 £425 -5.56% 1
London +107 8 £523 - 1
Work from Home +109 6 £450 -14.29% 1
North of England +31 4 £600 +6.67%
South East +12 4 £425 -
Scotland +39 3 £288 -36.11%
Yorkshire +21 2 £600 +6.67%
North East - 1 £650 -
North West - 1 - -

GIS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, GIS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring GIS Developer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) GIS
2 13 (68.42%) Python
3 11 (57.89%) ESRI
4 10 (52.63%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (47.37%) Azure
5 9 (47.37%) Public Sector
6 6 (31.58%) IaaS
6 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
7 5 (26.32%) DevOps
7 5 (26.32%) PostGIS
7 5 (26.32%) Secure Coding
7 5 (26.32%) Clean Code
7 5 (26.32%) OpenLayers
7 5 (26.32%) Spatial Data
8 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (21.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (21.05%) Azure AKS
8 4 (21.05%) GeoPandas
8 4 (21.05%) Celery
8 4 (21.05%) AWS
8 4 (21.05%) Django
8 4 (21.05%) REST
8 4 (21.05%) Redis
8 4 (21.05%) Finance
8 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (15.79%) Site Server
9 3 (15.79%) ArcGIS
9 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
9 3 (15.79%) Electronics
9 3 (15.79%) Telecoms

GIS Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (15.79%) ArcGIS
1 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
1 3 (15.79%) Site Server
2 1 (5.26%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) IaaS
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure AKS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub
6 1 (5.26%) GCP
6 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (100.00%) GIS
2 10 (52.63%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (26.32%) Spatial Data
4 4 (21.05%) Redis
5 2 (10.53%) QGIS
6 1 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (5.26%) Power BI
General
1 9 (47.37%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Electronics
3 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.79%) Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) OpenLayers
1 5 (26.32%) PostGIS
2 4 (21.05%) Celery
2 4 (21.05%) Django
2 4 (21.05%) GeoPandas
2 4 (21.05%) REST
3 3 (15.79%) React
4 2 (10.53%) Flask
4 2 (10.53%) Node.js
5 1 (5.26%) CSS
5 1 (5.26%) HTML
5 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Clean Code
1 5 (26.32%) DevOps
1 5 (26.32%) Secure Coding
2 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (21.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (15.79%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) Availability Management
3 3 (15.79%) Capacity Management
3 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
3 3 (15.79%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) ETL
3 3 (15.79%) Information Security
3 3 (15.79%) Programme Management
3 3 (15.79%) Prototyping
4 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.26%) Generative AI
5 1 (5.26%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (5.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) Korn
3 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) ESRI
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft