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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 826 1064
Rank change year-on-year +238 +238 -157
Permanent jobs citing PostGIS 350 121 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.62% 0.44% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 19 13 7
10th Percentile £36,500 - -
25th Percentile £38,066 £38,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £42,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -43.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68,750 £46,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £47,900 £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -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 21,541 27,618 70,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 29.18% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,014 17,838 29,844
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%
75th Percentile £78,750 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +206 298 £42,500 - 5
Work from Home +204 217 £85,000 +77.08% 2
England +147 215 £43,250 +1.76% 4
North of England +113 94 £40,138 -5.56% 1
North West +59 65 £40,144 - 1
Scotland -8 60 - - 1
London +75 32 £67,500 -
South East +19 31 £44,000 - 1
Midlands +8 30 £85,000 +88.89%
Yorkshire +80 29 £35,000 -17.65%
Northern Ireland +48 28 - -
Wales +31 28 £47,500 -
East Midlands +4 28 - -
South West -1 27 - - 1
West Midlands -15 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
1 342 (97.71%) ArcGIS
2 330 (94.29%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.29%) Confluence
3 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 336 (96.00%) Azure
2 331 (94.57%) AWS
3 4 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.29%) GitHub
4 1 (0.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (98.29%) GIS
2 342 (97.71%) PostgreSQL
3 332 (94.86%) QGIS
4 11 (3.14%) Geospatial Data
5 9 (2.57%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.29%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.00%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.00%) MySQL
7 7 (2.00%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.00%) Redis
8 4 (1.14%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.29%) Metadata
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Git
2 2 (0.57%) JIRA
General
1 7 (2.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (1.14%) Finance
3 1 (0.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 338 (96.57%) Software Engineer
2 215 (61.43%) Senior
3 214 (61.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 9 (2.57%) Developer
5 5 (1.43%) Geospatial Developer
5 5 (1.43%) Research Engineer
5 5 (1.43%) Research Software Engineer
5 5 (1.43%) Software Developer
6 4 (1.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 4 (1.14%) Django Developer
6 4 (1.14%) Geospatial Engineer
6 4 (1.14%) Python Developer
6 4 (1.14%) Python/Django Developer
7 2 (0.57%) Analytics Manager
7 2 (0.57%) Data Analytics Manager
7 2 (0.57%) Data Manager
7 2 (0.57%) Data Science Manager
8 1 (0.29%) C# Software Engineer
8 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Officer
8 1 (0.29%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (96.57%) React
2 334 (95.43%) Leaflet
2 334 (95.43%) OpenLayers
3 295 (84.29%) .NET
4 293 (83.71%) .NET Core
5 291 (83.14%) CSS
6 52 (14.86%) Django
7 12 (3.43%) AngularJS
7 12 (3.43%) Vue
8 9 (2.57%) HTML
9 8 (2.29%) Blazor
9 8 (2.29%) HTML5
9 8 (2.29%) Node.js
9 8 (2.29%) RESTful
9 8 (2.29%) Svelte
10 7 (2.00%) ASP.NET
10 7 (2.00%) JSON
10 7 (2.00%) XML
11 6 (1.71%) 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 (0.29%) Reference Data
3 1 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (16.00%) Linux
2 48 (13.71%) Ubuntu
3 7 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (97.14%) Software Engineering
2 339 (96.86%) Web Development
3 335 (95.71%) Agile
3 335 (95.71%) DevOps
4 330 (94.29%) Actionable Insight
5 8 (2.29%) OO
5 8 (2.29%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (2.00%) Code Quality
6 7 (2.00%) Decision-Making
6 7 (2.00%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (1.71%) Dependency Injection
7 6 (1.71%) Inversion of Control
7 6 (1.71%) MVC
7 6 (1.71%) MVVM
7 6 (1.71%) Open Source
7 6 (1.71%) System Testing
8 5 (1.43%) Prototyping
9 4 (1.14%) Analytics
9 4 (1.14%) Front End Development
9 4 (1.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 347 (99.14%) Python
2 345 (98.57%) JavaScript
3 189 (54.00%) C#
4 7 (2.00%) SQL
5 4 (1.14%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.29%) Java
6 1 (0.29%) PHP
6 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 330 (94.29%) SC Cleared
1 330 (94.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (0.57%) QA
2 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.29%) Docker
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.29%) Data Guard
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 340 (97.14%) ESRI
2 8 (2.29%) Oracle
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft