PostGIS Contracts in Scotland

PostGIS
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 110 121 111
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +53
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 6 8 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.36% 1.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.55% 1.71% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 48
10th Percentile £440 £414 £434
25th Percentile £470 £416 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £466 £479
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -2.71% +3.23%
75th Percentile £482 £477 £503
90th Percentile £489 £483 £540
UK median daily rate £470 £456 £479
% change year-on-year +3.01% -4.75% -12.91%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
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 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 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
Edinburgh +5 6 £471 +4.43%
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 2 (33.33%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (66.67%) GIS
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) React
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Human-Centred Design
2 5 (83.33%) Inclusive Design
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Code Coverage
4 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (50.00%) Community of Practice
4 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (50.00%) Kanban
4 3 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 3 (50.00%) User Experience
5 2 (33.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Grafana