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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 695 778
Rank change year-on-year +46 +83 +220
Permanent jobs citing PostGIS 10 4 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.008% 0.029%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.036% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 13
10th Percentile £48,750 - £39,717
25th Percentile £60,000 £30,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £35,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% -48.15% +58.82%
75th Percentile £82,500 £46,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £102,750 £54,750 £85,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £35,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% +58.82%

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 7,415 11,132 17,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.48% 21.81% 23.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,462 6,608 14,265
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 4 February 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 4 February 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 +46 6 £67,500 +125.00% 3
Work from Home +49 3 £67,500 +125.00% 2
UK excluding London +20 2 £75,000 +114.29% 3
London - 2 £90,000 -
North West - 1 £75,000 -
South East - 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 £75,000 -

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 6 (60.00%) ArcGIS
2 2 (20.00%) GeoServer
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) dbt
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Geospatial Data
2 7 (70.00%) GIS
3 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (40.00%) QGIS
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
5 1 (10.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (10.00%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Geospatial Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Graduate
2 4 (40.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Graduate Technical Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
5 1 (10.00%) Developer
5 1 (10.00%) GIS Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior GIS Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Leaflet
1 5 (50.00%) MapLibre
1 5 (50.00%) OpenLayers
1 5 (50.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) GeoPandas
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) NetworkX
3 1 (10.00%) Prisma
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) Streamlit
3 1 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) AI
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (50.00%) Open Source
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Spatial Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 4 (40.00%) Physics
3 4 (40.00%) Web Development
4 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) ETL
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (20.00%) Data Science
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (40.00%) C#
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
5 2 (20.00%) Java
5 2 (20.00%) Scala
6 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Argo
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) ESRI
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Mapbox