GIS Contracts in the Midlands

Geographic Information System (GIS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 127 153
Rank change year-on-year +18 +26 +41
Contract jobs citing GIS 16 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.73% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.52% 1.64% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £375 £250 £346
25th Percentile £384 £278 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £375 £426
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -11.97% +9.94%
75th Percentile £615 £388 £483
90th Percentile £620 £394 £583
England median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 354 428 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.22% 14.53% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 310 362
10th Percentile £295 £299 £300
25th Percentile £388 £356 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -12.82% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £617 £689 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 5
10th Percentile £17.62 - £21.04
25th Percentile £18.50 - £24.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.55% -27.86%
75th Percentile £33.88 £27.83 £26.48
90th Percentile £35.78 £40.50 £31.64
England median hourly rate £34.19 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -14.53% -29.76% +41.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GIS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. 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
West Midlands +18 13 £600 +60.00% 10
East Midlands - 3 £425 - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (18.75%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (37.50%) Collibra
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) GitHub
4 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 2 (12.50%) AWS
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (37.50%) Delta Lake
2 5 (31.25%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle Database
3 4 (25.00%) Spatial Data
4 3 (18.75%) Power BI
5 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (6.25%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GDB
General
1 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Local Government
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) GIS Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Data Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Data Migration Specialist
3 3 (18.75%) Migration Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Geospatial Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) GIS Architect
4 2 (12.50%) GIS Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) AutoCAD Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) CAD Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Geospatial Technician
5 1 (6.25%) GIS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) GeoJSON
2 2 (12.50%) KML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) IoT
1 6 (37.50%) SCADA
2 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (6.25%) Lidar
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 7 (43.75%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
4 5 (31.25%) Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) Asset Management
4 5 (31.25%) Data Management
4 5 (31.25%) Data Mapping
4 5 (31.25%) ETL
5 4 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
6 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) RBAC
6 3 (18.75%) Validation
6 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 2 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
1 5 (31.25%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Databricks
2 6 (37.50%) Informatica
2 6 (37.50%) SAP
3 5 (31.25%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) ESRI
5 1 (6.25%) Trapeze
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