PostGIS Contracts with Work from Home Options

PostGIS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 427 579
Rank change year-on-year +101 +152 -124
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 11 40 46
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.073% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.30% 0.62% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 34 39
10th Percentile £375 £418 £423
25th Percentile £429 £452 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £520
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -7.84% +9.47%
75th Percentile £470 £534 £694
90th Percentile £542 £596 £700
UK median daily rate £456 £479 £525
% change year-on-year -4.75% -8.76% +16.67%
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,622 6,461 13,230
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.91% 25.26% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,540 4,808 9,769
10th Percentile £331 £394 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.46% +12.99%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 119
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%

PostGIS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PostGIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PostGIS trend for jobs with a WFH option

PostGIS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PostGIS.

PostGIS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PostGIS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PostGIS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

PostGIS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PostGIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (45.45%) GeoServer
2 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure AKS
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (81.82%) GIS
3 4 (36.36%) Redis
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Power BI
4 1 (9.09%) QGIS
4 1 (9.09%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Dutch Language
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) GIS Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Web Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Web Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Geospatial Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) OpenLayers
2 4 (36.36%) Celery
2 4 (36.36%) Django
2 4 (36.36%) Flask
2 4 (36.36%) GeoPandas
2 4 (36.36%) React
3 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 2 (18.18%) Node.js
3 2 (18.18%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) JSON Schema
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) Swagger
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Open Source
3 2 (18.18%) API Development
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) Web Development
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
4 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) Econometrics
4 1 (9.09%) Logical Data Model
4 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
4 1 (9.09%) Statistics
4 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft