PostGIS Contracts in Scotland

PostGIS
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 113 164
Rank change year-on-year -10 +51 -36
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 8 52 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% 1.82% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.72% 7.54% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 48 7
10th Percentile £414 £434 £418
25th Percentile £416 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £479 £464
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +3.23% +9.18%
75th Percentile £477 £503 £543
90th Percentile £483 £540 £549
UK median daily rate £456 £479 £550
% change year-on-year -4.75% -12.91% +20.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland 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 464 690 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.02% 24.13% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 526 486
10th Percentile £325 £406 £359
25th Percentile £410 £438 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

PostGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PostGIS in Scotland

PostGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for PostGIS in Scotland

PostGIS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostGIS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Edinburgh +6 6 £451 -5.85%
Glasgow -1 1 £483 -4.21%
PostGIS
UK

PostGIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (37.50%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Amazon S3
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
1 7 (87.50%) AWS CloudFormation
1 7 (87.50%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (87.50%) Serverless
2 4 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (62.50%) GIS
3 4 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) AWS CDK
2 4 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
4 2 (25.00%) React
4 2 (25.00%) Spring
5 1 (12.50%) OAuth
5 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
5 1 (12.50%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) Data Migration
3 5 (62.50%) Inclusive Design
3 5 (62.50%) Migration
4 4 (50.00%) Human-Centred Design
4 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Analytics
5 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
5 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
5 3 (37.50%) Data Transformation
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (37.50%) Kanban
5 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
5 3 (37.50%) Microservices
5 3 (37.50%) Scrum
6 2 (25.00%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana