PostGIS Contracts in England

PostGIS
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring PostGIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PostGIS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 529 641
Rank change year-on-year +50 +112 +117
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 6 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.035% 0.024%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.17% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 7
10th Percentile £406 £375 £335
25th Percentile £408 £429 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £450 £433
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% +4.05% -10.82%
75th Percentile £558 £518 £506
90th Percentile £601 £688 £620
UK median daily rate £470 £456 £479
% change year-on-year +3.01% -4.75% -12.91%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

PostGIS falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

PostGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PostGIS in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PostGIS in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostGIS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostGIS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for PostGIS in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostGIS within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South West - 3 £413 - 8
South East +42 2 £595 +37.57%
London +35 1 £425 -37.04%
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) MQTT
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
1 3 (50.00%) GIS
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) Spatial Data
General
1 2 (33.33%) Automotive
1 2 (33.33%) Tech for Good
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) GIS Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) NumPy
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Infotainment
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Telematics
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Database Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Spatial Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ESRI
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle