PostGIS Contracts

PostGIS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 578 642
Rank change year-on-year +71 +64 +163
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 12 22 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.050% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.25% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 62
10th Percentile £406 £401 £425
25th Percentile £416 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £456 £479
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% -4.75% -12.91%
75th Percentile £488 £483 £525
90th Percentile £588 £653 £567
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £441 £479
% change year-on-year +6.63% -7.88% -1.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

PostGIS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostGIS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostGIS.

Hourly rate trend for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
UK excluding London +48 11 £471 +6.63% 8
Work from Home +46 7 £441 -1.94% 8
England +56 6 £444 -1.39% 9
Scotland +7 6 £471 +1.07%
South West - 3 £413 - 8
South East +39 2 £595 +37.57%
London +32 1 £425 -37.04%

PostGIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (16.67%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
1 2 (16.67%) MQTT
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (58.33%) GIS
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (25.00%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (25.00%) MySQL
5 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
5 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (8.33%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Automotive
2 2 (16.67%) Tech for Good
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) GIS Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) DBA
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 5 (41.67%) REST
3 2 (16.67%) React
3 2 (16.67%) Spring
3 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (8.33%) NumPy
4 1 (8.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Infotainment
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Data Integration
2 5 (41.67%) Human-Centred Design
2 5 (41.67%) Inclusive Design
2 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Code Coverage
4 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (25.00%) Community of Practice
4 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (25.00%) ETL
4 3 (25.00%) Kanban
4 3 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Nagios
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) ESRI
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle