PostGIS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PostGIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PostGIS over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 625 790
Rank change year-on-year +62 +165 -133
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 22 68 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.12% 0.067%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.25% 0.50% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 60 48
10th Percentile £401 £425 £413
25th Percentile £419 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £479 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% -8.33% +16.11%
75th Percentile £483 £525 £688
90th Percentile £653 £569 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £441 £479 £475
% change year-on-year -7.88% +0.84% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

PostGIS is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,851 13,495 23,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.67% 23.23% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,143 9,831 17,461
10th Percentile £340 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 153 234
10th Percentile £21.15 £31.60 £22.15
25th Percentile £42.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%

PostGIS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostGIS over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
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 PostGIS within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 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
UK excluding London +34 17 £441 -7.88% 3
England +105 13 £450 +4.05% 3
Work from Home +97 11 £450 -6.10%
Scotland +2 8 £466 -2.71%
South East +24 6 £433 -
London +85 4 £675 +68.75%
North of England - 3 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North West - 1 - -

PostGIS
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 7 (31.82%) GeoServer
2 2 (9.09%) ArcGIS
2 2 (9.09%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) Serverless
3 7 (31.82%) Amazon S3
3 7 (31.82%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (31.82%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (18.18%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 4 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (9.09%) SaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (95.45%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (77.27%) GIS
3 6 (27.27%) Redis
4 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (13.64%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (9.09%) Big Data
6 2 (9.09%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.55%) Power BI
7 1 (4.55%) QGIS
7 1 (4.55%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) GitLab
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Dutch Language
3 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Data Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) GIS Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Web Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Geospatial Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Geospatial Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) OpenLayers
2 7 (31.82%) AWS CDK
3 6 (27.27%) REST
4 5 (22.73%) React
5 4 (18.18%) Celery
5 4 (18.18%) Django
5 4 (18.18%) Flask
5 4 (18.18%) GeoPandas
5 4 (18.18%) Node.js
6 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
7 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 2 (9.09%) RESTful
7 2 (9.09%) SignalR
7 2 (9.09%) SOAP
7 2 (9.09%) Spring
7 2 (9.09%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (4.55%) CSS
8 1 (4.55%) HTML
8 1 (4.55%) Spring Security
8 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) DevOps
2 10 (45.45%) Agile
3 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Analytics
4 6 (27.27%) Full Stack Development
4 6 (27.27%) Machine Learning
4 6 (27.27%) Migration
4 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 5 (22.73%) Data Migration
5 5 (22.73%) Inclusive Design
5 5 (22.73%) Open Source
5 5 (22.73%) Scrum
6 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) Data Extraction
6 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
6 4 (18.18%) Human-Centred Design
6 4 (18.18%) Unit Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Data Transformation
7 3 (13.64%) Kanban
7 3 (13.64%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) ESRI
1 2 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft