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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 517 639
Rank change year-on-year +46 +122 +114
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 11 20 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.045% 0.055% 0.017%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.27% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 4
10th Percentile £406 £391 £370
25th Percentile £409 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £516 £454
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +13.82% -3.97%
75th Percentile £473 £533 £556
90th Percentile £588 £652 £680
UK median daily rate £455 £475 £479
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.84% -4.20%

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 5,453 7,518 11,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.27% 20.63% 22.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,778 5,341 8,181
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -1.75%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £799 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 230 129
10th Percentile £32.65 £22.42 £25.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.95 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

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 18 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 18 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
London +43 4 £455 -32.59% 1
South East +39 4 £513 +18.50% 3
South West +37 3 £413 -22.61% 6
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UK

PostGIS
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (18.18%) ArcGIS
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Spatial
2 2 (18.18%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) MQTT
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) GIS
2 6 (54.55%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (27.27%) MySQL
3 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (27.27%) Power BI
3 3 (27.27%) QGIS
3 3 (27.27%) Spatial Data
3 3 (27.27%) Tableau
4 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
4 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
4 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 2 (18.18%) Automotive
3 2 (18.18%) Tech for Good
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Python Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) GIS Architect
3 2 (18.18%) GIS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Science Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) DBA
4 1 (9.09%) GIS Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) GeoPandas
2 2 (18.18%) Middleware
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) XML
3 1 (9.09%) NumPy
3 1 (9.09%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Algorithms
1 3 (27.27%) Distributed Computing
1 3 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (18.18%) Infotainment
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Architectural Design
3 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 3 (27.27%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (27.27%) Data Science
4 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
4 3 (27.27%) Mathematics
4 3 (27.27%) Open Source
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Spatial Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Time Management
4 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Magik
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Nagios
1 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) ESRI
2 3 (27.27%) Databricks
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Google