PostGIS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PostGIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PostGIS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 889 1020
Rank change year-on-year +321 +131 -161
Permanent jobs citing PostGIS 352 104 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.099% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 0.33% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 21 15 6
10th Percentile £38,066 - £56,250
25th Percentile £38,084 £38,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -43.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68,750 £46,875 £77,500
90th Percentile - £53,700 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,250 £42,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.76% -43.33% +28.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

PostGIS is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,028 31,808 62,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.42% 30.35% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,726 19,512 30,385
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

PostGIS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PostGIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PostGIS.

Salary trend for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostGIS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
Top 15 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 26 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +228 299 £43,250 +1.76% 2
Work from Home +247 219 £67,500 +45.16% 1
England +246 217 £56,250 +32.35% 3
North of England +124 94 £40,138 -5.56%
North West +70 65 £40,144 -
Scotland -4 60 - -
London +124 34 £67,500 -25.00% 1
South East +53 30 £44,000 - 2
Midlands +28 30 £85,000 +88.89%
Yorkshire +113 29 £35,000 -17.65%
South West +4 29 £67,500 +40.63%
Northern Ireland +53 28 - -
Wales +30 28 £47,500 -
East Midlands +5 28 - -
West Midlands +26 2 £85,000 +88.89%

PostGIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 341 (96.88%) ArcGIS
2 330 (93.75%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.28%) Confluence
3 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 339 (96.31%) Azure
2 331 (94.03%) AWS
3 8 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.28%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.28%) GitHub
4 1 (0.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (97.16%) GIS
2 340 (96.59%) PostgreSQL
3 331 (94.03%) QGIS
4 10 (2.84%) Geospatial Data
5 9 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.99%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.99%) MySQL
7 7 (1.99%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.99%) Redis
8 3 (0.85%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.28%) Metadata
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.56%) Git
2 2 (0.57%) JIRA
General
1 8 (2.27%) Finance
2 7 (1.99%) Social Skills
3 1 (0.28%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 338 (96.02%) Software Engineer
2 215 (61.08%) Senior
3 214 (60.80%) Senior Software Engineer
4 13 (3.69%) Developer
5 8 (2.27%) Django Developer
5 8 (2.27%) Python Developer
5 8 (2.27%) Python/Django Developer
6 5 (1.42%) Geospatial Developer
6 5 (1.42%) Research Engineer
6 5 (1.42%) Research Software Engineer
6 5 (1.42%) Software Developer
7 4 (1.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 4 (1.14%) Geospatial Engineer
8 2 (0.57%) Analytics Manager
8 2 (0.57%) Data Analytics Manager
8 2 (0.57%) Data Manager
8 2 (0.57%) Data Science Manager
9 1 (0.28%) C# Software Engineer
9 1 (0.28%) GIS Consultant
9 1 (0.28%) Senior GIS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (96.02%) React
2 334 (94.89%) Leaflet
2 334 (94.89%) OpenLayers
3 299 (84.94%) .NET
4 297 (84.38%) .NET Core
5 291 (82.67%) CSS
6 56 (15.91%) Django
7 16 (4.55%) AngularJS
7 16 (4.55%) Vue
8 9 (2.56%) HTML
9 8 (2.27%) Blazor
9 8 (2.27%) HTML5
9 8 (2.27%) Node.js
9 8 (2.27%) RESTful
9 8 (2.27%) Svelte
10 7 (1.99%) ASP.NET
10 7 (1.99%) JSON
10 7 (1.99%) XML
11 6 (1.70%) GeoJSON
12 4 (1.14%) GeoTools
Miscellaneous
1 4 (1.14%) NHS
2 2 (0.57%) Lidar
2 2 (0.57%) Virtual Team
3 1 (0.28%) Reference Data
3 1 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (15.91%) Linux
2 48 (13.64%) Ubuntu
3 7 (1.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (96.59%) Software Engineering
2 339 (96.31%) Agile
2 339 (96.31%) DevOps
2 339 (96.31%) Web Development
3 330 (93.75%) Actionable Insight
4 8 (2.27%) Front End Development
4 8 (2.27%) OO
4 8 (2.27%) Scrum
5 7 (1.99%) Code Quality
5 7 (1.99%) Decision-Making
5 7 (1.99%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (1.99%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (1.70%) Dependency Injection
6 6 (1.70%) Inversion of Control
6 6 (1.70%) MVC
6 6 (1.70%) MVVM
6 6 (1.70%) System Testing
7 5 (1.42%) Open Source
7 5 (1.42%) Prototyping
8 4 (1.14%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 351 (99.72%) Python
2 349 (99.15%) JavaScript
3 189 (53.69%) C#
4 11 (3.13%) SQL
5 8 (2.27%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.28%) PHP
6 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 330 (93.75%) SC Cleared
1 330 (93.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.28%) Docker
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.28%) Data Guard
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 340 (96.59%) ESRI
2 8 (2.27%) Oracle
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft