Hybrid/Remote PostGIS Contract Job Trends

PostGIS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring PostGIS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 326 401
Rank change year-on-year +29 +75 +159
Contract jobs citing PostGIS 7 9 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.071% 0.074%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile £453 £408 £330
25th Percentile £456 £436 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £453
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.08% -3.72%
75th Percentile £575 £533 £492
90th Percentile - - £526
UK median daily rate £463 £487 £463
% change year-on-year -5.03% +5.30% -2.37%

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 2,648 3,291 5,036
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.03% 25.88% 24.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,804 2,214 3,743
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £800 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 62 56
10th Percentile £31.25 £36.30 £38.25
25th Percentile £41.13 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -33.33% +2.18%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.95 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £54.70 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.20% +2.67% -4.00%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing PostGIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing PostGIS

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 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Geospatial Data
1 5 (71.43%) Spatial Data
2 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (42.86%) GIS
3 3 (42.86%) QGIS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (14.29%) MySQL
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Scientist
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Geospatial Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Geospatial Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) GeoJSON
2 3 (42.86%) GeoPandas
2 3 (42.86%) NumPy
2 3 (42.86%) Pandas
3 2 (28.57%) Dask
3 2 (28.57%) Plotly
3 2 (28.57%) scikit-learn
3 2 (28.57%) Streamlit
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) Flutter
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) Node.js
4 1 (14.29%) Symfony
4 1 (14.29%) Visualforce
4 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Munging
3 2 (28.57%) Feature Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Network Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Remote Sensing
3 2 (28.57%) Spatial Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Statistics
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
4 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
8 PostGIS jobs with hybrid/remote options