PostgreSQL DBA Contracts in England

PostgreSQL Database Administrator
UK > England

The median PostgreSQL Database Administrator daily rate in England is £534 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 636 760
Rank change year-on-year +126 +124 -132
Contract jobs requiring a PostgreSQL DBA 25 27 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.068% 0.053% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.056% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 18
10th Percentile £520 £421 -
25th Percentile - £475 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £518 £586
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -11.73% +22.14%
75th Percentile £575 £662 £600
90th Percentile £613 £666 £642
UK median daily rate £534 £518 £600
% change year-on-year +3.19% -13.75% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

PostgreSQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured PostgreSQL DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL DBA in England

PostgreSQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL DBA in England

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL DBA in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL DBA in England

PostgreSQL DBA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +40 12 £534 -2.91% 1
North West +25 12 £534 +1.71% 1
London +98 11 £575 -8.37% 1
South East +20 1 £400 -20.00%
PostgreSQL DBA
UK

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, PostgreSQL DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring PostgreSQL DBA in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (64.00%) Database Security
3 15 (60.00%) DevOps
4 14 (56.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (52.00%) RDBMS
5 13 (52.00%) Oracle
5 13 (52.00%) Agile
5 13 (52.00%) Relational Database
5 13 (52.00%) NoSQL
6 12 (48.00%) Kafka
6 12 (48.00%) MongoDB
6 12 (48.00%) Mentoring
6 12 (48.00%) JSON
6 12 (48.00%) XML
6 12 (48.00%) Serverless
7 11 (44.00%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (44.00%) Security Cleared
8 9 (36.00%) SQL
9 7 (28.00%) DV Cleared
9 7 (28.00%) AWS
10 6 (24.00%) Bash
10 6 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (24.00%) Python
10 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
11 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
11 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
12 4 (16.00%) Dynatrace
12 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
12 4 (16.00%) Azure
12 4 (16.00%) Database Tuning

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Serverless
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Azure
4 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (52.00%) NoSQL
2 13 (52.00%) RDBMS
2 13 (52.00%) Relational Database
3 12 (48.00%) MongoDB
4 11 (44.00%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) JSON
1 12 (48.00%) Kafka
1 12 (48.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Clustering
1 1 (4.00%) Cybercrime
1 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Database Security
2 15 (60.00%) DevOps
3 14 (56.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (52.00%) Agile
5 12 (48.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (16.00%) Database Tuning
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.00%) Analytics
8 2 (8.00%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (8.00%) Incident Management
9 1 (4.00%) Capacity Management
9 1 (4.00%) CI/CD
9 1 (4.00%) Containerisation
9 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity
9 1 (4.00%) High Availability
9 1 (4.00%) Impact Analysis
9 1 (4.00%) Logical Data Model
9 1 (4.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 1 (4.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) Bash
2 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (24.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Ansible
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.00%) Sparx