PostGIS Job Trends

PostGIS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PostGIS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 664 789 743
Rank change year-on-year +125 -46 +398
Permanent jobs citing PostGIS 12 7 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.009% 0.056%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.046% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £44,750 - -
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £48,000 -
90th Percentile £70,000 £55,200 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £44,000 -

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 7,921 15,360 16,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.02% 19.67% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,036 9,843 13,390
10th Percentile £38,825 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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

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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for PostGIS in the UK

PostGIS
Top 3 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 18 September 2025. 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 +112 8 £60,000 +36.36% 9
Work from Home - 6 £60,000 - 6
London - 6 £60,000 - 7

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 9 (75.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) AutoCAD
1 3 (25.00%) Blender
1 3 (25.00%) Civil 3D
1 3 (25.00%) Navisworks
1 3 (25.00%) ProjectWise
1 3 (25.00%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) GIS
2 9 (75.00%) QGIS
3 8 (66.67%) Geospatial Data
4 6 (50.00%) Spatial Data
5 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
6 3 (25.00%) Power BI
7 1 (8.33%) Big Data
7 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
7 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
7 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Blazor Developer
3 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) React Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Leaflet
2 3 (25.00%) React
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 2 (16.67%) Blazor
3 2 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
4 1 (8.33%) Google Maps API
4 1 (8.33%) OpenLayers
4 1 (8.33%) PySpark
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) IoT
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Data Extraction
1 4 (33.33%) Data Science
1 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
1 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 3 (25.00%) Building Information Modelling
2 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Digital Twin
2 3 (25.00%) Information Management
2 3 (25.00%) Open Source
2 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) ETL
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (41.67%) C#
4 3 (25.00%) R
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (8.33%) Java
6 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Mapinfo
2 3 (25.00%) Autodesk
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Mapbox
4 1 (8.33%) Cloudera
4 1 (8.33%) Databricks
4 1 (8.33%) ESRI
4 1 (8.33%) Google