GIS Specialist

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• A degree in GIS, Geography, Urban Planning or a related subject, or equivalent experience
• Experience of geocoding and working with GIS software, particularly ArcGIS Pro or QGIS
• Strong analytical and data management skills, including data quality assurance and basic SQL
• Excellent knowledge of the geography of Great Britain
• The ability to work accurately and independently while managing deadlines
• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Desirable: experience working with longitudinal datasets
• Desirable: experience with Ordnance Survey data, including AddressBase and MasterMap
• Desirable: experience with historic mapping
• Desirable: familiarity with the British National Grid coordinate system

Responsibilities:

• Support the manual geocoding of approximately 10,000 residential addresses across three UK longitudinal cohort studies: NCDS, BCS70 and Next Steps
• Use ArcGIS Pro, historic Ordnance Survey mapping and AddressBase data to identify residential property locations
• Assign accurate property centroids and, where available, Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs)
• Resolve incomplete or inaccurate address information using a range of spatial data sources

Technologies:

• GIS
• Support
• SQL

More:

We are seeking a detail-oriented GIS Specialist to support nationally important longitudinal research across NCDS, BCS70 and Next Steps. This is a contract role until the end of December 2026, with occasional office attendance at our Bloomsbury office rather than every week. The pay rate is £23.11 per hour PAYE plus holiday pay, or £31.34 per hour via an umbrella company, with an annual equivalent of £43,981. We offer the opportunity to apply strong GIS skills to challenging spatial data work that contributes to high-quality research.

last updated 31 week of 2026