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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 737 648 852
Rank change year-on-year -89 +204 -37
Permanent jobs citing PostGIS 12 9 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.020% 0.032%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.10% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 18
10th Percentile £60,500 £51,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £70,625 - £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £60,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +38.73% +1.76%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,500 - £75,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 - £41,322
% change year-on-year - - -2.77%

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 9,776 8,734 21,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 19.31% 20.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,315 5,742 16,457
10th Percentile £40,850 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -76 7 £76,250 +27.08%
UK excluding London - 5 £65,000 -
North of England - 5 £65,000 -
North West - 4 £75,000 -
London -25 2 £95,000 +58.33%
Work from Home +6 1 £112,500 +87.50%
North East - 1 £55,000 -

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 5 (41.67%) GeoServer
2 2 (16.67%) ArcGIS
3 1 (8.33%) Apache
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (8.33%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Geospatial Data
1 7 (58.33%) GIS
2 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) QGIS
3 3 (25.00%) Neo4j
4 1 (8.33%) Big Data
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) Flink
4 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Geospatial Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Database Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Graduate
3 2 (16.67%) Graduate Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Graduate Technical Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Leaflet
1 6 (50.00%) OpenLayers
2 5 (41.67%) Node.js
3 4 (33.33%) .NET
4 3 (25.00%) React
5 2 (16.67%) MapLibre
6 1 (8.33%) D3.js
6 1 (8.33%) EJB
6 1 (8.33%) GWT
6 1 (8.33%) JDBC
6 1 (8.33%) JPA
6 1 (8.33%) Kafka
6 1 (8.33%) Prisma
6 1 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) e-Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Spatial Analysis
2 6 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 6 (50.00%) Open Source
2 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Data Science
3 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 4 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 4 (33.33%) Kanban
4 4 (33.33%) Microservices
4 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (33.33%) TDD
4 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (25.00%) AI
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 7 (58.33%) Python
3 6 (50.00%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Scala
5 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) ESRI
2 1 (8.33%) Mapbox
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft