PostGIS Contracts in the UK excluding London

PostGIS
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 390 479
Rank change year-on-year +21 +89 -78
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 21 53 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.23% 0.092%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 1.24% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 47 21
10th Percentile £401 £434 £413
25th Percentile £419 £442 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +0.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £483 £505 £530
90th Percentile £533 £541 £550
UK median daily rate £472 £479 £520
% change year-on-year -1.41% -7.88% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London 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 3,243 4,275 6,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.83% 18.30% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,121 3,186 4,326
10th Percentile £325 £357 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 93 150
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.28 £20.70
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +24.27% +14.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.48
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.95 £75.39
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

PostGIS
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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 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
Scotland 0 8 £466 -2.71%
South East +22 6 £433 -
South West - 4 £533 - 2
North of England - 3 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North West - 1 - -
PostGIS
UK

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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 6 (28.57%) GeoServer
2 4 (19.05%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) Azure
3 9 (42.86%) Serverless
4 7 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 7 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (33.33%) OpenShift
5 6 (28.57%) GitHub
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon Cognito
6 4 (19.05%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (19.05%) Azure AKS
7 3 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (9.52%) Azure Functions
8 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (9.52%) SaaS
9 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (76.19%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (66.67%) GIS
3 6 (28.57%) Redis
4 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (19.05%) Triplestore
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (9.52%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (4.76%) Power BI
7 1 (4.76%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) GitLab
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (47.62%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) GIS Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (9.52%) Full Stack Web Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Web Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) REST
2 9 (42.86%) OpenLayers
3 7 (33.33%) AWS CDK
4 6 (28.57%) React
5 5 (23.81%) CSS
5 5 (23.81%) HTML
6 4 (19.05%) Apache Jena
6 4 (19.05%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (19.05%) Celery
6 4 (19.05%) Django
6 4 (19.05%) Flask
6 4 (19.05%) GeoPandas
6 4 (19.05%) GraphQL
6 4 (19.05%) Kafka
6 4 (19.05%) Node.js
7 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
8 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
8 2 (9.52%) SignalR
8 2 (9.52%) Spring
8 2 (9.52%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) DevOps
2 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 10 (47.62%) Agile
4 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 6 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
4 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 5 (23.81%) Data Migration
5 5 (23.81%) Inclusive Design
5 5 (23.81%) Migration
5 5 (23.81%) Open Source
5 5 (23.81%) Scrum
6 4 (19.05%) Analytics
6 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (19.05%) Human-Centred Design
6 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
6 4 (19.05%) Unit Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
7 3 (14.29%) Data Transformation
7 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (14.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Java
4 4 (19.05%) SPARQL
5 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Grafana
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft