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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 578 648
Rank change year-on-year +69 +70 +156
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 15 22 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.051% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.25% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 60
10th Percentile £407 £401 £425
25th Percentile £418 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £456 £479
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -4.75% -8.33%
75th Percentile £485 £483 £525
90th Percentile £578 £653 £569
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £441 £479
% change year-on-year +6.63% -7.88% +0.84%

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 6,670 8,884 13,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.74% 20.58% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,578 6,170 10,017
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £782 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 238 152
10th Percentile £27.22 £21.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.08 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.84 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.77% -27.94% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.61 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.90% +28.43%

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 6 May 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 6 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
UK excluding London +46 11 £471 +6.63% 7
Work from Home +45 9 £441 -1.94% 7
England +57 7 £455 +1.11% 8
Scotland +7 6 £471 +1.07%
South West - 3 £413 - 7
London +34 2 £440 -34.81%
South East +32 2 £595 +37.57%

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 (13.33%) GeoServer
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (40.00%) Serverless
3 5 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) PaaS
5 2 (13.33%) SaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
1 2 (13.33%) MQTT
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) GIS
1 9 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (40.00%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (20.00%) MySQL
4 3 (20.00%) Spatial Data
5 2 (13.33%) QGIS
5 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (6.67%) Power BI
6 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Automotive
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Tech for Good
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) GIS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) DBA
4 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (6.67%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) AWS CDK
2 5 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) GeoJSON
3 2 (13.33%) GeoPandas
3 2 (13.33%) React
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (13.33%) XML
4 1 (6.67%) NumPy
4 1 (6.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Infotainment
1 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 5 (33.33%) Human-Centred Design
3 5 (33.33%) Inclusive Design
3 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Code Coverage
5 3 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (20.00%) ETL
5 3 (20.00%) Kanban
5 3 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) TDD
5 3 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Nagios
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) ESRI
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle