PostgreSQL Contracts in Scotland

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 60 46 117
Rank change year-on-year -14 +71 -37
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 75 157 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.40% 5.50% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.94% 25.91% 8.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 137 45
10th Percentile £414 £415 £362
25th Percentile £433 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -3.06% +8.89%
75th Percentile £506 £503 £538
90th Percentile £532 £538 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +3.35% -7.64% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 396 606 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.94% 21.23% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 483 383
10th Percentile £325 £400 £356
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +3.33% +12.94%
75th Percentile £559 £550 £563
90th Percentile £663 £685 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £13.33
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £38.25
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £43.20
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh -8 37 £460 -3.97% 11
Glasgow +6 22 £498 +2.95% 5
Lanarkshire - 2 £443 - 1
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (10.67%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 59 (78.67%) AWS
2 50 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 50 (66.67%) Serverless
3 49 (65.33%) Amazon S3
3 49 (65.33%) AWS Lambda
4 27 (36.00%) OpenShift
5 13 (17.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (14.67%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (14.67%) AWS CodePipeline
7 8 (10.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 7 (9.33%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (5.33%) npm
9 4 (5.33%) Rekognition
9 4 (5.33%) Textract
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (4.00%) AWS CodeCommit
10 3 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (4.00%) Azure
10 3 (4.00%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (46.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 23 (30.67%) MongoDB
3 15 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (12.00%) Oracle Database
5 8 (10.67%) SQL Server
6 7 (9.33%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (8.00%) InfluxDB
7 6 (8.00%) Informix
8 4 (5.33%) GIS
9 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.67%) MySQL
11 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
11 1 (1.33%) MariaDB
11 1 (1.33%) Redis
11 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 12 (16.00%) GitLab
3 8 (10.67%) JIRA
4 7 (9.33%) Cypress.io
5 5 (6.67%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.00%) webpack
7 1 (1.33%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.33%) Git
7 1 (1.33%) Gradle
7 1 (1.33%) gulp
7 1 (1.33%) Maven
7 1 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.33%) Travis CI
General
1 42 (56.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (14.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.33%) Finance
4 3 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Banking
5 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (44.00%) Developer
2 13 (17.33%) Data Engineer
3 11 (14.67%) Senior
4 9 (12.00%) Lead
4 9 (12.00%) Technical Leader
5 8 (10.67%) Software Developer
6 7 (9.33%) DBA
6 7 (9.33%) Senior DBA
6 7 (9.33%) Senior SQL DBA
6 7 (9.33%) Senior SQL Server DBA
6 7 (9.33%) SQL DBA
6 7 (9.33%) SQL Server DBA
7 6 (8.00%) Full Stack Developer
8 5 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Automation Developer
9 4 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Database Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (70.67%) AWS CDK
2 26 (34.67%) React
3 22 (29.33%) CSS
3 22 (29.33%) HTML
3 22 (29.33%) REST
4 15 (20.00%) Node.js
5 12 (16.00%) Spring
6 11 (14.67%) OAuth
6 11 (14.67%) Spring Boot
7 8 (10.67%) Spring Security
8 7 (9.33%) OAuth2
8 7 (9.33%) PostGIS
9 6 (8.00%) Spring MVC
9 6 (8.00%) Spring Web Flow
10 5 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (6.67%) Thymeleaf
11 3 (4.00%) GraphQL
12 2 (2.67%) RESTful
13 1 (1.33%) JSON
13 1 (1.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.67%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (10.67%) Replication
3 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.67%) Linux
2 5 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.33%) Android
4 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (62.67%) Agile
2 37 (49.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (42.67%) CI/CD
4 26 (34.67%) Kanban
5 25 (33.33%) DevOps
5 25 (33.33%) Scrum
6 21 (28.00%) Human-Centred Design
7 20 (26.67%) Inclusive Design
7 20 (26.67%) Microservices
7 20 (26.67%) Test Automation
8 17 (22.67%) Code Quality
9 16 (21.33%) Unit Testing
10 15 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (20.00%) High Availability
10 15 (20.00%) Roadmaps
10 15 (20.00%) User Experience
11 14 (18.67%) Community of Practice
11 14 (18.67%) Mentoring
12 13 (17.33%) Code Coverage
12 13 (17.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 44 (58.67%) TypeScript
2 35 (46.67%) Python
3 29 (38.67%) JavaScript
4 27 (36.00%) SQL
5 22 (29.33%) Java
6 12 (16.00%) Bash
7 8 (10.67%) PowerShell
8 7 (9.33%) T-SQL
9 6 (8.00%) Shell Script
10 4 (5.33%) Groovy
11 3 (4.00%) Go
12 2 (2.67%) C#
12 2 (2.67%) Ruby
13 1 (1.33%) C
13 1 (1.33%) Elixir
13 1 (1.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (36.00%) Accessibility
2 9 (12.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (29.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (48.00%) Grafana
2 13 (17.33%) Ansible
3 11 (14.67%) Kubernetes
4 6 (8.00%) Kibana
5 5 (6.67%) Terraform
6 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.33%) Istio
7 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Oracle
2 7 (9.33%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.33%) Commvault
4 3 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.67%) Google
5 2 (2.67%) Splunk
6 1 (1.33%) Adobe
6 1 (1.33%) Confluent
6 1 (1.33%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.33%) IBM
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.33%) Teradata
6 1 (1.33%) VMware