PostGIS Job Trends

PostGIS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PostGIS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 672 664 796
Rank change year-on-year -8 +132 +183
Permanent jobs citing PostGIS 11 3 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.006% 0.041%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.029% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 21
10th Percentile £48,750 - £38,066
25th Percentile £60,000 - £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £30,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +137.50% -36.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £90,938 £36,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £106,125 £40,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £30,000 £43,250
% change year-on-year +150.00% -30.64% +1.76%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,931 10,385 18,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.96% 22.43% 22.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,811 6,820 14,909
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

PostGIS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostGIS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

PostGIS job vacancy trend in the UK

PostGIS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PostGIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PostGIS

PostGIS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostGIS over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostGIS within the UK over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +12 7 £71,250 +137.50% 9
UK excluding London -7 4 £75,000 +150.00% 10
Work from Home +41 3 £67,500 +125.00% 12
North of England - 3 £75,000 - 3
North West - 3 £75,000 - 2
London - 2 £90,000 - 4
South East - 1 - - 2

PostGIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) ArcGIS
2 4 (36.36%) GeoServer
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) dbt
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) Geospatial Data
1 9 (81.82%) GIS
2 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (45.45%) QGIS
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Geospatial Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Graduate
2 4 (36.36%) Graduate Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Graduate Technical Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) GIS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior GIS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Leaflet
1 7 (63.64%) OpenLayers
2 5 (45.45%) MapLibre
2 5 (45.45%) React
3 4 (36.36%) Node.js
4 3 (27.27%) .NET
5 2 (18.18%) GeoPandas
6 1 (9.09%) NetworkX
6 1 (9.09%) Prisma
6 1 (9.09%) Streamlit
6 1 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) e-Learning
2 3 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Open Source
1 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
1 7 (63.64%) Spatial Analysis
2 5 (45.45%) AI
2 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Data Science
3 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (36.36%) Mathematics
3 4 (36.36%) Physics
3 4 (36.36%) Web Development
4 3 (27.27%) Architectural Design
4 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (27.27%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
4 3 (27.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) SQL
6 1 (9.09%) Scala
6 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) ESRI
2 1 (9.09%) Mapbox