Spatial Data Jobs

Spatial Data
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Spatial Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Spatial Data 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 869 878 1177
Rank change year-on-year +9 +299 -236
Permanent jobs citing Spatial Data 35 41 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.044% 0.050%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.19% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 30 14 33
10th Percentile £35,529 £39,450 £40,500
25th Percentile £37,651 £50,939 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +60.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £122,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £140,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,470 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.78% +15.18% -14.98%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Spatial Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,558 19,753 48,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.89% 21.36% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,633 12,748 20,937
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

Spatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spatial Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spatial Data in the UK

Spatial Data
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Spatial Data.

Salary trend for Spatial Data in the UK

Spatial Data
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spatial Data over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Spatial Data in the UK

Spatial Data
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spatial Data within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +22 29 £60,000 -14.29% 8
UK excluding London -66 21 £60,000 -0.78% 6
East of England -2 9 £36,664 -20.30% 2
London +96 8 £60,000 -53.85% 2
Midlands -31 7 £90,000 -
Work from Home +17 5 £59,487 -15.02% 4
West Midlands -8 3 £85,000 -
South East -28 3 £53,494 -23.58% 1
North of England -5 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £47,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Spatial Data
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 15 (42.86%) ArcGIS
2 4 (11.43%) Apache
3 3 (8.57%) Smallworld
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (11.43%) AutoCAD
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) SAP CRM
1 3 (8.57%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) AWS
2 1 (2.86%) GitHub
2 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) Intranet
2 1 (2.86%) HTTP
2 1 (2.86%) Internet
2 1 (2.86%) RNC
2 1 (2.86%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (94.29%) GIS
2 24 (68.57%) Geospatial Data
3 10 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (14.29%) Metadata
5 4 (11.43%) Triplestore
6 2 (5.71%) QGIS
7 1 (2.86%) Power BI
7 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Local Government
3 6 (17.14%) Publishing
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.86%) Aeronautics
6 1 (2.86%) Aviation
6 1 (2.86%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Analyst
1 8 (22.86%) Architect
1 8 (22.86%) GIS Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) GIS Architect
2 7 (20.00%) GIS Data Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) Principal Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Consultant
3 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Data Science Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) GIS Consultant
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Analytics Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Data Analytics Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Data Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Data Science Manager
5 2 (5.71%) IT Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Transformation Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) GIS Officer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) CSS
1 8 (22.86%) HTML
2 4 (11.43%) PostGIS
2 4 (11.43%) RESTful
3 2 (5.71%) OpenLayers
4 1 (2.86%) Spring
4 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Structures
1 4 (11.43%) Linked Data
1 4 (11.43%) Reference Data
2 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Lidar
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (34.29%) Visualisation
3 11 (31.43%) Data Management
4 10 (28.57%) Data Analysis
4 10 (28.57%) Statistics
5 9 (25.71%) Agile
6 8 (22.86%) Decarbonisation
6 8 (22.86%) Project Planning
6 8 (22.86%) User Experience
6 8 (22.86%) UX Design
7 7 (20.00%) Business Case
7 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 7 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
7 7 (20.00%) Data Science
7 7 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
7 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 7 (20.00%) Spatial Analysis
7 7 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 7 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) Python
2 11 (31.43%) JavaScript
3 10 (28.57%) SQL
4 4 (11.43%) SPARQL
5 3 (8.57%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) Accessibility
2 6 (17.14%) Data Quality
3 5 (14.29%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) ESRI
2 7 (20.00%) Mapbox
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.43%) SAP
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.86%) Mapinfo
5 1 (2.86%) Nokia
5 1 (2.86%) Xamarin