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Geographic information system

Technology category · O*NET

Geographic information system is a technology category in the O*NET database. Across U.S. occupations, 142 report using software or tools in this category. The named products below are the specific examples O*NET records for those jobs. The occupations that use it sit, on average, at the 82nd percentile of AI task-exposure ( high) — how much that work overlaps with what AI can do, not a sign the tool is being replaced. See where every tool category sits.

A Hot tag marks technologies O*NET sees frequently in employer job postings; In demand marks tools an occupation specifically requires.

Example software & tools

Ranked by how many occupations list each product. Each number is an occupation count — a job is counted once per product — so the product rows overlap and do not sum to the category total.

Software / tool Occupations Tags
ESRI ArcGIS software 90 Hot In demand
Geographic information system GIS software 71 In demand
Geographic information system GIS systems 60 In demand
ESRI ArcView 40 In demand
ESRI ArcInfo 17
Esri ArcGIS 9
ESRI software 6
Google Earth Pro 6
ESRI ArcGIS Spatial Analyst 5
ESRI ArcIMS 5
ESRI ArcPad 5
ESRI ArcView 3D Analyst 5
ESRI ArcMap 4
Caliper Maptitude 3
ESRI ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst 3
QGIS 3 In demand
ESRI ArcCatalog 2
ESRI ArcEditor 2
ESRI ArcLogistics 2
ESRI ArcSDE 2
ESRI What if? 2
ETAP 2 In demand
RockWare RockWorks 2
Trimble TerraSync 2
Cadcorp desktop GIS 1
DIVA-GIS 1
Delta Data Systems AGIS 1
ESRI ArcExplorer 1
ESRI ArcGIS (analytical or scientific feature) 1
ESRI ArcToolbox 1
ESRI MapObjects 1
ESRI Maplex 1
ESRI Personal Geodatabase 1
Geographic information system GIS databases 1
Govern Software GovMap 1
PlanGraphics Citywide GIS Utility 1
TatukGIS Editor 1

Occupations that use Geographic information system

Showing 40 of 142 occupations.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 39 occupations in occupations that use Geographic information system. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Agricultural Technicians Biological Technicians Construction and Building Inspectors Detectives and Criminal Investigators Conservation Scientists Agricultural Engineers Anthropologists and Archeologists Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers Biochemists and Biophysicists Civil Engineers Commercial and Industrial Designers Archivists Computer User Support Specialists Computer Systems Engineers/Architects AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that use Geographic information system, by AI task-overlap and median pay

How AI is used by roles that use Geographic information system

A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Geographic information system and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles, weighted by how much observed AI activity each one has. 58.5% of the 142 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (83 roles).

Across those roles, 61.1% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 33.6% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.81 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
task iteration 34.8% you and AI go back and forth
directive 31.6% AI does it; you give the instruction
learning 16.3% you ask AI to explain or teach
validation 10.0% you do it; AI checks your work
feedback loop 2.0% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback

Roles behind this signal

The roles using this category that have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Works with AI Autonomy
Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary 63.2% 4.0/5
Geography Teachers, Postsecondary 65.7% 3.3/5
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 66.2% 3.5/5
Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary 66.3% 4.0/5
History Teachers, Postsecondary 65.1% 3.5/5
Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary 65.3% 4.0/5
Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary 66.3% 4.0/5
Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary 65.7% 3.8/5
Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary 63.1% 4.0/5
Historians 45.3% 4.0/5
Operations Research Analysts 55.2% 4.0/5
Social Science Research Assistants 51.4% 4.0/5

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Roles list software categories in O*NET; this does not mean AI is used inside Geographic information system, only that people in those roles use AI. Some conversations are left unclassified, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Geographic information system matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Geographic information system (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5, or report using the tool category). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 12.5% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Geographic information system (measured across 67 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 4,029,040 37.4%
Wholesale Trade 1,709,010 28.3%
Manufacturing 1,573,230 12.3%
Construction 1,285,920 15.8%
Health Care and Social Assistance 1,196,300 5.2%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 1,109,930 12.3%
Finance and Insurance 1,060,330 17.0%
Educational Services 1,056,320 7.7%
Management of Companies and Enterprises 925,060 32.9%
Information 912,150 31.4%
Retail Trade 835,980 5.4%
Transportation and Warehousing 474,730 6.4%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Engineering Services National industry 5.09× 63.6%
Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities National industry 4.28× 53.5%
Utilities Sector 3.06× 38.2%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Sector 2.99× 37.4%
Testing Laboratories and Services National industry 2.87× 35.9%
Management of Companies and Enterprises Sector 2.63× 32.9%
Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction National industry 2.6× 32.5%
Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation National industry 2.58× 32.3%
Information Sector 2.51× 31.4%
Wholesale Trade Sector 2.26× 28.3%
Television Broadcasting Stations National industry 2.21× 27.6%
Newspaper Publishers National industry 2.09× 26.1%

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Geographic information system." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/tools/geographic-information-system

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Geographic information system. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/tools/geographic-information-system

BibTeX
@misc{singulariki-geographic-information-system,
  title  = {Geographic information system},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tools/geographic-information-system}
}

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