ESRI ArcGIS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ArcGIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ArcGIS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 638 810
Rank change year-on-year +109 +172 -194
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 47 46 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.081% 0.045%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.13% 0.74% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 38 14
10th Percentile £433 £379 £365
25th Percentile £463 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £575 £603 £606
90th Percentile £684 £715 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile - £15.95 £31.30
25th Percentile - £17.38 £36.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £20.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% -57.89% +319.43%
75th Percentile £14.16 £22.88 £56.25
90th Percentile £15.33 £24.45 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.50 £20.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -32.50% -60.00% +338.60%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

ArcGIS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,145 6,216 10,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 10.91% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,869 4,362 7,517
10th Percentile £258 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 147 220
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.09 £13.99
25th Percentile £15.45 £19.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.25 £45.00 £26.17
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +71.95% +17.86%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £53.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.91% +37.50% +5.26%

ArcGIS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ArcGIS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ArcGIS in the UK

ArcGIS
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ArcGIS within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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 +114 37 £500 +2.56% 32
London +106 24 £500 +5.26% 4
Work from Home +108 22 £490 +3.16% 19
UK excluding London +57 14 £500 -4.76% 26
North of England +32 10 £495 -3.41% 14
Yorkshire - 8 £490 - 4
Scotland +36 2 - -
South West +11 2 £500 - 4
North West - 2 £500 - 10
South East +11 1 £525 -4.55% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

ArcGIS
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:

Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.38%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.15%) Azure
2 6 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.51%) Serverless
4 3 (6.38%) AWS
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Functions
4 3 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (6.38%) PaaS
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.26%) GCP
5 2 (4.26%) GitHub
5 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) 2G
1 5 (10.64%) 3G
1 5 (10.64%) 4G
1 5 (10.64%) 5G
1 5 (10.64%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (89.36%) GIS
2 17 (36.17%) Geospatial Data
3 11 (23.40%) QGIS
4 9 (19.15%) Spatial Data
5 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (6.38%) Metadata
7 2 (4.26%) Big Data
7 2 (4.26%) Power BI
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Git
General
1 20 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 18 (38.30%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Local Government
5 3 (6.38%) Finance
6 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.13%) Electronics
7 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Military
7 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Architect
1 11 (23.40%) GIS Architect
1 11 (23.40%) Solutions Architect
2 9 (19.15%) Analyst
2 9 (19.15%) GIS Analyst
3 6 (12.77%) Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Senior
4 4 (8.51%) Radio Specialist
4 4 (8.51%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Senior GIS Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) GIS Business Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) GIS Developer
5 3 (6.38%) GIS Technician
6 2 (4.26%) Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Geospatial Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Service Manager
7 1 (2.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) .NET
2 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (4.26%) PostGIS
3 2 (4.26%) RESTful
3 2 (4.26%) SOAP
4 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (6.38%) Lidar
1 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.26%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.53%) Migration
2 11 (23.40%) Data Management
3 10 (21.28%) Agile
4 8 (17.02%) Data Analysis
5 7 (14.89%) DevOps
5 7 (14.89%) Visualisation
6 6 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
6 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.64%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (10.64%) Spatial Analysis
8 4 (8.51%) Computer Science
8 4 (8.51%) Customer Experience
8 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (8.51%) Project Delivery
8 4 (8.51%) Project Management
8 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
8 4 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (8.51%) Unit Testing
9 3 (6.38%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.66%) Python
2 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
3 6 (12.77%) SQL
4 3 (6.38%) C#
4 3 (6.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) Degree
2 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.51%) QA
3 3 (6.38%) WCAG
4 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (48.94%) ESRI
2 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.89%) Mapbox
4 2 (4.26%) Google
4 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) SAP