GIS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GIS over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 355 430
Rank change year-on-year +32 +75 -48
Contract jobs citing GIS 78 82 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.95% 2.44% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 65 56
10th Percentile £281 £343 £288
25th Percentile £366 £427 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.75% -9.09% +30.95%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £628
90th Percentile £648 £650 £671
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 10
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.18 £20.48
25th Percentile £12.25 £17.94 £32.56
Median hourly rate £16.12 £21.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% -63.75% +426.32%
75th Percentile £28.63 £24.06 £75.00
90th Percentile £63.50 £24.93 -
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £22.49 £50.00
% change year-on-year -4.38% -55.03% +292.31%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

GIS 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 2,645 3,356 5,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.45% 14.77% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,846 2,382 3,805
10th Percentile £313 £325 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £672 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 109 125
10th Percentile £13.78 £21.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +40.00%
75th Percentile £53.29 £73.71 £56.25
90th Percentile £72.20 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -33.33% +36.52% +62.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GIS in the UK excluding London

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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 GIS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
North of England +39 29 £600 +14.29% 21
South East +22 19 £413 -17.50% 10
Yorkshire +16 18 £600 +14.29% 7
Scotland +35 17 £470 +4.33% 7
West Midlands +22 6 £375 -37.50% 6
Midlands +19 6 £375 -11.97% 9
North West +18 6 £513 -26.79% 14
North East +13 5 £675 +28.57% 1
East of England +3 5 - - 7
South West -5 3 £513 +13.89% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (20.51%) ArcGIS
2 6 (7.69%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.28%) Smallworld
Applications
1 10 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.13%) MicroStation
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.56%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (1.28%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Maximo
2 3 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.56%) SAP CRM
3 2 (2.56%) SAP ERP
3 2 (2.56%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.67%) Azure
2 10 (12.82%) Power Platform
3 9 (11.54%) AWS
4 6 (7.69%) Serverless
5 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.41%) Google Sheets
6 4 (5.13%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.13%) Azure AKS
6 4 (5.13%) GitHub
6 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.13%) SaaS
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.56%) Stripe
8 1 (1.28%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.28%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) LTE
1 3 (3.85%) TETRA
2 2 (2.56%) Internet
2 2 (2.56%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (2.56%) XCAP
3 1 (1.28%) DWDM
3 1 (1.28%) FTP
3 1 (1.28%) HTTP
3 1 (1.28%) RNC
3 1 (1.28%) SDH
3 1 (1.28%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.23%) Geospatial Data
1 15 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (12.82%) Power BI
3 9 (11.54%) QGIS
4 7 (8.97%) Spatial Data
5 6 (7.69%) Redis
6 3 (3.85%) Metadata
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.56%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (2.56%) Tableau
8 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.28%) GitLab
General
1 25 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (19.23%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.54%) Finance
5 6 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.41%) Back Office
6 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.41%) Retail
7 2 (2.56%) Billing
7 2 (2.56%) Legal
7 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (28.21%) Developer
2 11 (14.10%) Analyst
2 11 (14.10%) GIS Developer
3 5 (6.41%) Architect
3 5 (6.41%) Digital Transformation
3 5 (6.41%) Digital Transformation Manager
3 5 (6.41%) GIS Analyst
3 5 (6.41%) Transformation Manager
4 4 (5.13%) Business Analyst
4 4 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (5.13%) GIS Architect
4 4 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (5.13%) Web Developer
5 3 (3.85%) Applications Support
5 3 (3.85%) GIS Specialist
5 3 (3.85%) GIS Technician
5 3 (3.85%) Project Manager
5 3 (3.85%) Report Developer
5 3 (3.85%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.95%) PostGIS
2 10 (12.82%) OpenLayers
3 5 (6.41%) React
4 4 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.13%) AWS CDK
4 4 (5.13%) Celery
4 4 (5.13%) Django
4 4 (5.13%) Flask
4 4 (5.13%) GeoPandas
4 4 (5.13%) Node.js
5 3 (3.85%) CSS
5 3 (3.85%) REST
5 3 (3.85%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.56%) SignalR
6 2 (2.56%) Spring
6 2 (2.56%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (2.56%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (2.56%) Web Services
7 1 (1.28%) OAuth
7 1 (1.28%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.13%) SCADA
3 3 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.85%) Lidar
3 3 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.28%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Unix
1 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.49%) Agile
2 16 (20.51%) DevOps
3 13 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (14.10%) Data Management
5 10 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.26%) Data Analysis
7 6 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (7.69%) Line Management
7 6 (7.69%) User Experience
8 5 (6.41%) Analytics
8 5 (6.41%) CI/CD
8 5 (6.41%) Open Source
8 5 (6.41%) Service Management
8 5 (6.41%) User Stories
8 5 (6.41%) Visualisation
9 4 (5.13%) CRM
9 4 (5.13%) Data Modelling
9 4 (5.13%) ERP
9 4 (5.13%) Scrum
9 4 (5.13%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.64%) Python
2 10 (12.82%) SQL
3 7 (8.97%) Java
4 6 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.41%) C#
5 5 (6.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.28%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (6.41%) Degree
1 5 (6.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.28%) BC Cleared
3 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.56%) GDPR
2 2 (2.56%) SLA
3 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) ESRI
2 10 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.41%) Google
3 5 (6.41%) SAP
4 2 (2.56%) Mapbox
4 2 (2.56%) Remedy
5 1 (1.28%) Ariba
5 1 (1.28%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.28%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.28%) Mapinfo
5 1 (1.28%) Nokia
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle