PostGIS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

PostGIS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 297 334 435
Rank change year-on-year +37 +101 +156
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 7 11 42
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.072% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.27% 0.30% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 36
10th Percentile £406 £375 £421
25th Percentile £410 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -6.10% -18.43%
75th Percentile £479 £470 £531
90th Percentile £488 £542 £590
UK median daily rate £470 £456 £479
% change year-on-year +3.01% -4.75% -12.91%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

PostGIS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PostGIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PostGIS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PostGIS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PostGIS.

PostGIS daily rate 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 2 (28.57%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
2 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) GIS
2 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (42.86%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (14.29%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) GIS Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) AWS CDK
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) NumPy
3 1 (14.29%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Human-Centred Design
2 3 (42.86%) Inclusive Design
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Code Coverage
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ESRI