PostGIS Contract Job Trends in the South East

PostGIS
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring PostGIS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 - 209
Rank change year-on-year - - +55
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.087% - 0.071%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £405 - £475
25th Percentile £413 - £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £498
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.01%
75th Percentile £438 - £513
90th Percentile £445 - £516
England median daily rate £459 £533 £475
% change year-on-year -13.93% +12.21% +0.80%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 590 710 861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.09% 15.56% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 473 577
10th Percentile £288 £315 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £669 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 44
10th Percentile £24.69 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £54.89
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.25%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £73.72
90th Percentile £58.75 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% +5.59% -7.69%

PostGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PostGIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PostGIS in the South East

PostGIS
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PostGIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PostGIS

PostGIS
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PostGIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PostGIS

PostGIS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostGIS within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Berkshire - 3 £425 - 1
Thames Valley - 3 £425 - 1
PostGIS
England

PostGIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (100.00%) Smallworld
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) GIS
1 3 (100.00%) Spatial Data
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) GIS Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Migration Architect
3 1 (33.33%) GIS Specialist
3 1 (33.33%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Magik
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) ESRI
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle