PostgreSQL Contracts in the South East

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 130 139
Rank change year-on-year +42 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 121 87 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.17% 1.49% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.61% 9.94% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 58 84
10th Percentile £357 £384 £354
25th Percentile £411 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% -5.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £655 £553 £631
90th Percentile £688 £575 £688
England median daily rate £550 £538 £563
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.44% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £42.40 - -
25th Percentile £50.88 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £22.16 -
Median % change year-on-year +215.88% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile £79.00 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £22.49 £57.89
% change year-on-year +233.56% -61.16% +73.74%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 617 875 1,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.09% 14.99% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 615 982
10th Percentile £315 £319 £338
25th Percentile £398 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £680
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 39 30
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £20.18
25th Percentile £22.08 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.95 £57.50 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +46.66% +21.57%
75th Percentile £69.38 £75.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.44 £62.49
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.92% +41.18% +70.00%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South East.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Thames Valley +21 74 £550 +19.57% 14
Berkshire +16 70 £550 +19.57% 7
West Sussex +23 22 £387 -38.08% 4
Hampshire +8 15 £475 -5.00% 11
Surrey +9 4 £433 -21.36% 4
Oxfordshire 0 4 - - 2
East Sussex - 3 £490 - 3
Sussex - 1 £350 - 3
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (10.74%) Apache
2 11 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (6.61%) Confluence
4 6 (4.96%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.65%) GemFire
5 2 (1.65%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.83%) JBoss
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.83%) Site Server
Business Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 39 (32.23%) AWS
2 20 (16.53%) Azure
3 14 (11.57%) GitHub
4 11 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 7 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (5.79%) OpenShift
5 7 (5.79%) Serverless
6 6 (4.96%) Amazon S3
6 6 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.96%) IaaS
7 5 (4.13%) SaaS
8 4 (3.31%) GCP
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.65%) PaaS
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.83%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.83%) MinIO
10 1 (0.83%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.09%) BGP
1 11 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (9.09%) MPLS
1 11 (9.09%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (9.09%) VPN
2 5 (4.13%) DNS
2 5 (4.13%) SAN
3 4 (3.31%) DHCP
3 4 (3.31%) NAS
4 2 (1.65%) SSL
5 1 (0.83%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.66%) MongoDB
2 23 (19.01%) Oracle Database
3 18 (14.88%) NoSQL
3 18 (14.88%) Oracle Database 11g
4 16 (13.22%) MySQL
5 15 (12.40%) Relational Database
6 14 (11.57%) Redis
7 13 (10.74%) Couchbase
8 12 (9.92%) SQL Server
9 11 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (5.79%) GIS
10 7 (5.79%) RDBMS
11 6 (4.96%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.65%) CouchDB
12 2 (1.65%) DB2
13 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 32 (26.45%) GitLab
2 25 (20.66%) Git
3 22 (18.18%) JIRA
4 16 (13.22%) Jenkins
5 11 (9.09%) Robot Framework
5 11 (9.09%) TestRail
6 5 (4.13%) JUnit
7 4 (3.31%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.48%) JMeter
8 3 (2.48%) Subversion
9 2 (1.65%) Selenium
10 1 (0.83%) Mockito
General
1 9 (7.44%) Public Sector
2 8 (6.61%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.79%) Finance
4 2 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.65%) Automotive
4 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.83%) Banking
5 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 53 (43.80%) Developer
2 15 (12.40%) Java Developer
2 15 (12.40%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 10 (8.26%) Network Engineer
3 10 (8.26%) Test Engineer
4 9 (7.44%) Full Stack Developer
5 8 (6.61%) Database Specialist
6 7 (5.79%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Platform Specialist
6 7 (5.79%) Site Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 5 (4.13%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Cloud Developer
9 4 (3.31%) Database Developer
9 4 (3.31%) DBA
9 4 (3.31%) GIS Developer
9 4 (3.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (26.45%) REST
2 23 (19.01%) Kafka
3 17 (14.05%) Node.js
4 15 (12.40%) SOAP
5 14 (11.57%) Spring
6 11 (9.09%) NETCONF
6 11 (9.09%) RESTCONF
6 11 (9.09%) YANG
7 10 (8.26%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.61%) RESTful
9 7 (5.79%) Spring Boot
9 7 (5.79%) Web Services
10 6 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (4.96%) OpenLayers
10 6 (4.96%) PostGIS
10 6 (4.96%) React
11 5 (4.13%) Django
11 5 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (3.31%) HTML
12 4 (3.31%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.61%) Clustering
2 8 (6.61%) Replication
3 7 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.79%) PKI
4 4 (3.31%) Fat Client
4 4 (3.31%) Thin Client
5 3 (2.48%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.65%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.65%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.01%) Linux
2 10 (8.26%) Windows
3 9 (7.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (7.44%) VMS
4 8 (6.61%) Windows Server
5 7 (5.79%) Unix
6 4 (3.31%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.31%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.83%) Solaris
7 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (42.98%) Agile
2 37 (30.58%) Scrum
3 36 (29.75%) Performance Tuning
4 34 (28.10%) Migration
5 33 (27.27%) Data Migration
6 32 (26.45%) DevOps
7 31 (25.62%) Containerisation
7 31 (25.62%) Software Engineering
8 30 (24.79%) Microservices
9 29 (23.97%) Unit Testing
10 26 (21.49%) CI/CD
11 20 (16.53%) Software Testing
12 19 (15.70%) Architectural Design
13 18 (14.88%) Clean Code
13 18 (14.88%) Secure Coding
13 18 (14.88%) Task Automation
14 16 (13.22%) Test Automation
15 14 (11.57%) Full Stack Development
15 14 (11.57%) Regression Testing
16 13 (10.74%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 45 (37.19%) SQL
2 26 (21.49%) Python
3 20 (16.53%) Java
4 19 (15.70%) PL/SQL
5 17 (14.05%) Bash
6 13 (10.74%) Go
7 10 (8.26%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.79%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.79%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.79%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.48%) C#
9 3 (2.48%) Ruby
10 1 (0.83%) C++
10 1 (0.83%) Korn
Qualifications
1 57 (47.11%) Security Cleared
2 54 (44.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.83%) QA
1 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (25.62%) Docker
2 15 (12.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (11.57%) vSphere
4 7 (5.79%) Active Directory
5 4 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.48%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.65%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (26.45%) Kubernetes
2 23 (19.01%) Ansible
3 10 (8.26%) Terraform
4 8 (6.61%) Grafana
4 8 (6.61%) Kibana
4 8 (6.61%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.79%) Argo
5 7 (5.79%) Istio
5 7 (5.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (5.79%) Packer
5 7 (5.79%) vRealize
6 4 (3.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.31%) Nessus
6 4 (3.31%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (3.31%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.31%) WSUS
6 4 (3.31%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 47 (38.84%) Oracle
2 22 (18.18%) VMware
3 16 (13.22%) Red Hat
4 11 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 9 (7.44%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.13%) Arqiva
6 5 (4.13%) Veritas
7 4 (3.31%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.31%) Veeam
8 3 (2.48%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.65%) Google
9 2 (1.65%) SAP
10 1 (0.83%) Compaq
10 1 (0.83%) Dell
10 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.83%) ESRI
10 1 (0.83%) Splunk