QGIS Contracts

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 653 822
Rank change year-on-year +111 +169 -113
Contract jobs citing QGIS 37 31 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.055% 0.022%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.51% 0.31% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 14
10th Percentile £135 £342 £315
25th Percentile £245 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £520 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% -20.00% +62.50%
75th Percentile £495 £597 £700
90th Percentile - £661 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £145 £520 £275
% change year-on-year -72.12% +89.09% -31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 1
Median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.96% -19.70% +24.44%
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.50 £50.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year -73.00% +78.57% +24.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

QGIS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,302 9,963 17,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.67% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,237 7,078 12,316
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -0.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £755 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 177 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.99
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.40 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +64.97%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £72.75 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.45%

QGIS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QGIS in the UK

QGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QGIS in the UK

QGIS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for QGIS in the UK

QGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for QGIS in the UK

QGIS
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QGIS 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 +101 32 £490 -5.77% 25
UK excluding London +65 30 £145 -72.12% 22
Work from Home +125 29 £490 +22.50% 18
South West +22 21 - - 2
London +93 7 £490 -14.78% 2
Scotland +45 5 £145 -71.00% 2
North of England - 4 - - 13
Yorkshire - 3 - - 3
North West - 1 - - 10

QGIS
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 13 (35.14%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.70%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (8.11%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.41%) AWS
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.70%) Azure
3 1 (2.70%) GCP
3 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (54.05%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (13.51%) 2G
2 5 (13.51%) 3G
2 5 (13.51%) 4G
2 5 (13.51%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (37.84%) GIS
2 3 (8.11%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (8.11%) Metadata
2 3 (8.11%) Spatial Data
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) RAN Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Network Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Radio Specialist
4 3 (8.11%) GIS Technician
5 2 (5.41%) Developer
5 2 (5.41%) GIS Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Radio Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Radio Planner
6 1 (2.70%) Report Developer
6 1 (2.70%) RF Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) CSS
1 1 (2.70%) HTML
1 1 (2.70%) OpenLayers
1 1 (2.70%) PostGIS
1 1 (2.70%) React
1 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (8.11%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.22%) Visualisation
2 5 (13.51%) Data Analysis
3 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (10.81%) Customer Experience
4 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (8.11%) Data Management
4 3 (8.11%) Image Processing
4 3 (8.11%) User Experience
5 2 (5.41%) Decision-Making
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Machine Learning
6 1 (2.70%) CI/CD
6 1 (2.70%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (2.70%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (2.70%) MLOps
6 1 (2.70%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (2.70%) Product Roadmap
6 1 (2.70%) Roadmaps
6 1 (2.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) ESRI
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft