Geographical information systems officer : Salary and conditions

Range of typical starting salaries: £19,000 - £23,000 (salary data collected Dec 2009).
Range of salaries with three to five years' experience: £20,000 - £25,000 (salary data collected Dec 2009).
Typical salaries at senior level/with experience: £35,000+ (salary data collected Dec 2009).
A typical working day is usually nine to five but, as with other project-based work, this may vary according to project deadlines.
Some geographical information systems (GIS) officer roles may involve significant amounts of field work for data capture or data validation.
After gaining significant experience, some GIS officers move into freelance or consultancy work, or progress into a GIS manager role.
At more junior levels, the role requires close, detailed PC-based work, but may also involve a lot of contact with colleagues and contacts outside the organisation.
A GIS officer may be involved in managing multidisciplinary work teams, where members have very different skills and experience. This may be challenging but also very stimulating.
Travel within a working day depends on how much client and customer liaison work the officer is involved in; with some posts this may be quite frequent.
Absence from home overnight is likely in some posts. Overseas contracts are a possibility but travel is infrequent.

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Written by Andrea Gregory, AGCAS

Date:

December 2009