PostgreSQL Contracts in England

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 172 151
Rank change year-on-year +22 -21 +16
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 588 769 1,328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.59% 1.52% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.54% 8.46% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 531 993
10th Percentile £363 £413 £425
25th Percentile £450 £458 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -4.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +3.35% -7.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 3
10th Percentile £34.05 - £53.58
25th Percentile £57.94 £21.24 £55.20
Median hourly rate £75.00 £22.49 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year +233.56% -61.16% +73.74%
75th Percentile £85.00 £39.91 £61.13
90th Percentile - £45.00 £63.08
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £22.49 £56.45
% change year-on-year +233.56% -60.16% +69.40%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,162 9,092 14,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.67% 17.99% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,417 6,531 10,384
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 168 170
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £34.35 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%
75th Percentile £56.74 £70.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in England.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
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 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
London +32 362 £563 +5.14% 181
South East +53 119 £490 +4.26% 40
North of England -4 53 £534 -4.64% 44
North West +3 33 £534 +17.36% 25
Midlands +32 21 £511 -2.62% 24
West Midlands +35 16 £486 -7.38% 15
Yorkshire +13 16 £600 +9.09% 15
South West +2 13 £533 -3.18% 36
East Midlands +22 5 £625 +56.25% 9
North East -1 4 £550 -8.33% 4
East of England +6 2 £675 +31.71% 26
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
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:

Application Platforms
1 71 (12.07%) Apache
2 57 (9.69%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (5.10%) SharePoint
4 27 (4.59%) Confluence
5 14 (2.38%) nginx
6 13 (2.21%) OpenStack
7 11 (1.87%) Site Server
8 7 (1.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (1.19%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.68%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.68%) GemFire
9 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.68%) Luigi
10 3 (0.51%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.51%) Camunda
11 2 (0.34%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.34%) Gunicorn
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 15 (2.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.85%) Endur
3 5 (0.85%) Odoo
4 3 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.34%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 289 (49.15%) AWS
2 201 (34.18%) Azure
3 91 (15.48%) GCP
4 65 (11.05%) GitHub
5 63 (10.71%) Serverless
6 39 (6.63%) Amazon S3
7 33 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (5.44%) Power Platform
9 19 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (3.06%) Azure Functions
11 17 (2.89%) Amazon SQS
11 17 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (2.72%) IaaS
13 14 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (2.38%) SaaS
14 13 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (2.04%) Azure AKS
15 12 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.04%) BGP
1 12 (2.04%) Ethernet VPN
1 12 (2.04%) MPLS
1 12 (2.04%) Radio Access Network
1 12 (2.04%) VPN
2 10 (1.70%) DNS
3 9 (1.53%) HTTP
4 7 (1.19%) SAN
5 6 (1.02%) DHCP
5 6 (1.02%) NAS
6 4 (0.68%) Firewall
6 4 (0.68%) SSH
6 4 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.34%) Broadband
7 2 (0.34%) SSL
7 2 (0.34%) VLAN
8 1 (0.17%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.17%) LAN
8 1 (0.17%) Network Security
8 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (17.69%) SQL Server
2 102 (17.35%) Relational Database
3 90 (15.31%) NoSQL
4 87 (14.80%) MySQL
5 77 (13.10%) MongoDB
6 48 (8.16%) RDBMS
7 41 (6.97%) Apache Ignite
7 41 (6.97%) Oracle Database
8 37 (6.29%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (5.27%) Power BI
10 28 (4.76%) GIS
10 28 (4.76%) Redis
11 20 (3.40%) Couchbase
11 20 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (3.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (3.06%) Oracle Database 11g
13 17 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (2.55%) DynamoDB
15 14 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (2.04%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 111 (18.88%) Git
2 61 (10.37%) GitLab
3 58 (9.86%) JIRA
4 54 (9.18%) Jenkins
5 35 (5.95%) JUnit
6 30 (5.10%) Cypress.io
7 18 (3.06%) Maven
8 14 (2.38%) Postman
8 14 (2.38%) Selenium
9 12 (2.04%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.04%) Robot Framework
9 12 (2.04%) TestRail
10 10 (1.70%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.53%) SoapUI
12 8 (1.36%) TestNG
13 7 (1.19%) Mockito
14 5 (0.85%) Checkstyle
14 5 (0.85%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.85%) EasyMock
15 4 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 92 (15.65%) Finance
2 86 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 79 (13.44%) Social Skills
4 65 (11.05%) Banking
5 43 (7.31%) Front Office
6 40 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.53%) Marketing
9 8 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.36%) Publishing
10 7 (1.19%) Electronics
10 7 (1.19%) German Language
10 7 (1.19%) Retail
11 6 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.68%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.68%) Law
14 3 (0.51%) Japanese Language
14 3 (0.51%) Korean Language
14 3 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 290 (49.32%) Developer
2 73 (12.41%) Python Developer
3 68 (11.56%) Full Stack Developer
4 60 (10.20%) Software Engineer
5 57 (9.69%) Java Developer
6 55 (9.35%) React Developer
7 49 (8.33%) DBA
8 44 (7.48%) Architect
8 44 (7.48%) Python Engineer
9 42 (7.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 42 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
10 28 (4.76%) Full Stack Engineer
11 25 (4.25%) Data Engineer
11 25 (4.25%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 25 (4.25%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 25 (4.25%) Senior
12 24 (4.08%) Full Stack Python Developer
13 20 (3.40%) PostgreSQL Developer
14 19 (3.23%) Lead
15 18 (3.06%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (21.26%) React
2 105 (17.86%) REST
3 72 (12.24%) Spring Boot
4 69 (11.73%) Spring
5 67 (11.39%) Node.js
6 61 (10.37%) Kafka
7 53 (9.01%) Redux
8 44 (7.48%) gRPC
9 42 (7.14%) Material-UI
10 41 (6.97%) Protocol Buffers
11 34 (5.78%) AngularJS
12 33 (5.61%) JSON
13 30 (5.10%) .NET
14 27 (4.59%) HTML
14 27 (4.59%) SOAP
15 26 (4.42%) Hibernate
15 26 (4.42%) XML
16 25 (4.25%) RESTful
17 24 (4.08%) CSS
18 22 (3.74%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.16%) Hedge funds
2 45 (7.65%) Fixed Income
3 22 (3.74%) Cloud Native
4 20 (3.40%) Replication
5 19 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
6 15 (2.55%) Equities
7 14 (2.38%) Clustering
7 14 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.21%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.87%) PKI
10 10 (1.70%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.53%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.36%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.36%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.02%) Derivative
14 6 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 62 (10.54%) Linux
2 25 (4.25%) Windows
3 18 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (3.06%) Unix
4 14 (2.38%) VMS
4 14 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.70%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.36%) CentOS
7 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) Fedora
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.17%) Rocky
9 1 (0.17%) Solaris
9 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (40.48%) Agile
2 162 (27.55%) DevOps
3 122 (20.75%) Full Stack Development
4 111 (18.88%) Microservices
5 107 (18.20%) Software Engineering
6 95 (16.16%) CI/CD
7 81 (13.78%) Scrum
8 70 (11.90%) Migration
9 66 (11.22%) Unit Testing
10 63 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
10 63 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (10.03%) Containerisation
12 54 (9.18%) Machine Learning
13 52 (8.84%) Test Automation
14 51 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence
15 50 (8.50%) Asset Management
16 49 (8.33%) Data Migration
17 48 (8.16%) Mentoring
18 43 (7.31%) High Availability
19 42 (7.14%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 236 (40.14%) SQL
2 191 (32.48%) Python
3 128 (21.77%) Java
4 96 (16.33%) TypeScript
5 78 (13.27%) JavaScript
6 43 (7.31%) Bash
6 43 (7.31%) PowerShell
7 39 (6.63%) C#
8 31 (5.27%) Go
9 30 (5.10%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.55%) Ruby
11 14 (2.38%) T-SQL
12 13 (2.21%) Shell Script
13 12 (2.04%) Korn
14 9 (1.53%) PHP
15 8 (1.36%) C++
16 5 (0.85%) Bicep
16 5 (0.85%) C
16 5 (0.85%) Scala
17 4 (0.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 173 (29.42%) Security Cleared
2 145 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.33%) Degree
4 37 (6.29%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.36%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.34%) HND
10 2 (0.34%) MCSE
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.89%) QA
2 13 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.87%) MiFID
4 8 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.85%) SLA
6 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.17%) EMIR
7 1 (0.17%) FATCA
7 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 115 (19.56%) Docker
2 17 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.55%) vSphere
4 13 (2.21%) Active Directory
5 10 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.34%) iptables
7 2 (0.34%) KVM
7 2 (0.34%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.17%) Ceph
8 1 (0.17%) HDFS
8 1 (0.17%) Lustre
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Samba
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 116 (19.73%) Kubernetes
2 65 (11.05%) Terraform
3 56 (9.52%) Ansible
4 29 (4.93%) Grafana
5 17 (2.89%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.72%) Kibana
7 12 (2.04%) Istio
7 12 (2.04%) Packer
8 10 (1.70%) ZABBIX
9 9 (1.53%) Argo
10 8 (1.36%) Data Guard
10 8 (1.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (1.19%) vRealize
12 5 (0.85%) Puppet
13 4 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.68%) Nessus
13 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.68%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.68%) WSUS
14 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 172 (29.25%) Oracle
2 66 (11.22%) Google
3 64 (10.88%) Microsoft
4 26 (4.42%) Red Hat
4 26 (4.42%) VMware
5 20 (3.40%) Sparx
6 18 (3.06%) ESRI
7 14 (2.38%) Informatica
8 13 (2.21%) SAP
9 11 (1.87%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.87%) SolarWinds
9 11 (1.87%) Splunk
10 7 (1.19%) Adobe
11 6 (1.02%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.02%) IBM
12 5 (0.85%) Arqiva
12 5 (0.85%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.85%) New Relic
12 5 (0.85%) Veritas
13 4 (0.68%) Databricks