PostGIS Contracts in the UK excluding London

PostGIS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 325 382 408
Rank change year-on-year +57 +26 +84
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 11 17 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.082% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.46% 0.52% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 48
10th Percentile £406 £386 £434
25th Percentile £429 £415 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £441 £479
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -7.88% -1.24%
75th Percentile £491 £470 £503
90th Percentile £590 £481 £540
UK median daily rate £470 £456 £479
% change year-on-year +3.01% -4.75% -12.91%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PostGIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PostGIS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostGIS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PostGIS in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for PostGIS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostGIS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PostGIS in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostGIS within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +11 6 £471 +1.07%
South West - 3 £413 - 8
South East +42 2 £595 +37.57%
PostGIS
UK

PostGIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (18.18%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon S3
2 6 (54.55%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (54.55%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (54.55%) Serverless
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (27.27%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
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%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (63.64%) GIS
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (27.27%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (18.18%) MySQL
4 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
4 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
5 1 (9.09%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Automotive
2 2 (18.18%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) GIS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) AWS CDK
2 5 (45.45%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) React
3 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 2 (18.18%) XML
4 1 (9.09%) NumPy
4 1 (9.09%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Infotainment
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Data Integration
2 5 (45.45%) Human-Centred Design
2 5 (45.45%) Inclusive Design
2 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Unit Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Code Coverage
4 3 (27.27%) Community of Practice
4 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
4 3 (27.27%) ETL
4 3 (27.27%) Kanban
4 3 (27.27%) Requirements Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) TDD
4 3 (27.27%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) ESRI