PostgreSQL Contracts in Edinburgh

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for PostgreSQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PostgreSQL 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 38 34 54
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 36 79 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.14% 6.68% 3.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.53% 29.92% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 70 66
10th Percentile £415 £417 £413
25th Percentile £430 £438 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £501
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -4.44% +11.39%
75th Percentile £477 £508 £545
90th Percentile £494 £538 £564
Scotland median daily rate £461 £477 £513
% change year-on-year -3.30% -6.93% +13.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

PostgreSQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 153 264 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.59% 22.34% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 210 257
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £416 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -1.35% +13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £549 £575
90th Percentile £663 £626 £625
Scotland median daily rate £460 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -7.72% -0.30% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £19.10
25th Percentile - - £21.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £31.50
90th Percentile - - £34.50
Scotland median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Edinburgh

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in Edinburgh

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (2.78%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 31 (86.11%) AWS
1 31 (86.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 28 (77.78%) Amazon S3
3 25 (69.44%) Serverless
4 24 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (44.44%) OpenShift
6 11 (30.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (22.22%) AWS CodePipeline
9 5 (13.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (8.33%) Textract
11 2 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (5.56%) AWS CodeCommit
12 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (47.22%) Amazon Aurora
2 14 (38.89%) MongoDB
3 10 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (11.11%) Informix
5 3 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (8.33%) GIS
5 3 (8.33%) InfluxDB
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) GitLab
2 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
General
1 23 (63.89%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Developer
2 10 (27.78%) Data Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Automation Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Database Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Developer
6 1 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (86.11%) AWS CDK
2 8 (22.22%) React
2 8 (22.22%) REST
3 6 (16.67%) CSS
3 6 (16.67%) HTML
3 6 (16.67%) Node.js
4 5 (13.89%) PostGIS
4 5 (13.89%) SpaCy
5 4 (11.11%) Spring
5 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 3 (8.33%) OAuth
6 3 (8.33%) OAuth2
6 3 (8.33%) PyTorch
6 3 (8.33%) Spring Security
7 2 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.78%) Spring MVC
8 1 (2.78%) Spring Web Flow
8 1 (2.78%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (13.89%) Replication
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux
1 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Agile
2 20 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (44.44%) Kanban
4 15 (41.67%) Scrum
5 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
6 12 (33.33%) Migration
7 11 (30.56%) DevOps
8 8 (22.22%) Machine Learning
9 7 (19.44%) Natural Language Processing
10 6 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (16.67%) Code Quality
10 6 (16.67%) Community of Practice
10 6 (16.67%) Human-Centred Design
10 6 (16.67%) Microservices
10 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 5 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (13.89%) Inclusive Design
11 5 (13.89%) Pair Programming
11 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
11 5 (13.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 18 (50.00%) Python
3 14 (38.89%) SQL
4 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
5 6 (16.67%) Java
6 3 (8.33%) Bash
7 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (13.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (55.56%) Grafana
2 10 (27.78%) Ansible
3 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.56%) Kibana
5 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (5.56%) Commvault
2 2 (5.56%) Red Hat