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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 745 713
Rank change year-on-year +89 -32 +410
Permanent jobs citing PostGIS 10 6 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.009% 0.045%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.043% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile £43,750 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £31,875 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £40,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £43,625 -
90th Percentile £70,000 £52,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £40,000 -

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 7,608 14,047 15,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.45% 20.32% 27.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,832 8,550 12,254
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% +2.68%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +104 6 £53,750 +34.38% 8
Work from Home +64 4 £42,500 +41.67% 11
London - 4 £56,250 -

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 9 (90.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) AutoCAD
1 3 (30.00%) Blender
1 3 (30.00%) Civil 3D
1 3 (30.00%) Navisworks
1 3 (30.00%) ProjectWise
1 3 (30.00%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) GIS
1 9 (90.00%) QGIS
2 7 (70.00%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (50.00%) Spatial Data
3 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (30.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) Big Data
5 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Leaflet
2 1 (10.00%) OpenLayers
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) IoT
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (30.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Data Extraction
1 4 (40.00%) Data Science
1 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (40.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Building Information Modelling
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Digital Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Digital Twin
2 3 (30.00%) Information Management
2 3 (30.00%) Open Source
2 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (10.00%) Spatial Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) R
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Mapinfo
2 3 (30.00%) Autodesk
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) ESRI
3 1 (10.00%) Mapbox