PostgreSQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 161 206
Rank change year-on-year -11 +45 -26
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 262 366 394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.28% 1.56% 1.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.23% 10.15% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 285 277
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -3.05% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £558 £586
90th Percentile £675 £618 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile £33.15 - -
25th Percentile £50.88 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £22.16 -
Median % change year-on-year +261.01% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - £38.50 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £22.49 £55.00
% change year-on-year +233.56% -59.12% +65.07%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,560 3,607 5,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.50% 15.38% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,810 2,589 3,804
10th Percentile £316 £337 £327
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.61%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 114 130
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £61.50 £67.27 £55.69
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.68 £68.78
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
South East +40 109 £490 +4.26% 40
Scotland -16 66 £463 -2.63% 12
North of England +2 52 £534 -2.91% 37
North West +6 32 £534 +16.40% 22
Midlands +39 18 £523 -0.48% 24
West Midlands +26 16 £486 -7.38% 14
Yorkshire +10 16 £600 +13.21% 15
South West -3 14 £475 -13.64% 34
North East +1 4 £550 -18.52%
East Midlands +24 2 £750 +87.50% 10
Wales +20 2 £504 -4.05% 2
East of England -4 2 £675 +30.12% 20
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (6.49%) Apache
2 14 (5.34%) Confluence
3 10 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.91%) GeoServer
5 4 (1.53%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.76%) GemFire
6 2 (0.76%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.67%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.91%) Odoo
3 3 (1.15%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 109 (41.60%) AWS
2 69 (26.34%) Serverless
3 47 (17.94%) AWS Lambda
4 46 (17.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (17.18%) Amazon S3
6 38 (14.50%) Azure
7 30 (11.45%) OpenShift
8 26 (9.92%) GitHub
9 14 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (4.20%) AWS CodePipeline
12 10 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (3.82%) GCP
13 9 (3.44%) SaaS
14 8 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (3.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (2.67%) Amazon SageMaker
15 7 (2.67%) Power Platform
16 6 (2.29%) Azure Service Bus
17 5 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.82%) BGP
1 10 (3.82%) Ethernet VPN
1 10 (3.82%) MPLS
1 10 (3.82%) Radio Access Network
1 10 (3.82%) VPN
2 6 (2.29%) DNS
3 5 (1.91%) HTTP
3 5 (1.91%) SAN
4 4 (1.53%) DHCP
4 4 (1.53%) NAS
5 2 (0.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (25.57%) MongoDB
2 43 (16.41%) Relational Database
3 36 (13.74%) MySQL
4 35 (13.36%) NoSQL
5 32 (12.21%) Amazon Aurora
6 30 (11.45%) Oracle Database
7 25 (9.54%) SQL Server
8 22 (8.40%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (8.02%) RDBMS
10 19 (7.25%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (6.11%) Oracle Database 11g
12 15 (5.73%) GIS
13 13 (4.96%) Couchbase
13 13 (4.96%) Redis
14 10 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (3.82%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (2.29%) InfluxDB
15 6 (2.29%) Informix
15 6 (2.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 49 (18.70%) Git
2 42 (16.03%) GitLab
3 29 (11.07%) Jenkins
3 29 (11.07%) JIRA
4 17 (6.49%) JUnit
5 10 (3.82%) Robot Framework
5 10 (3.82%) TestRail
6 6 (2.29%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.91%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.91%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.91%) Checkstyle
8 4 (1.53%) JMeter
8 4 (1.53%) Selenium
9 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.15%) Mocha
9 3 (1.15%) Subversion
9 3 (1.15%) webpack
10 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.76%) Gradle
10 2 (0.76%) Maven
General
1 64 (24.43%) Public Sector
2 32 (12.21%) Social Skills
3 13 (4.96%) Finance
4 7 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (1.91%) Banking
5 5 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.15%) German Language
6 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.76%) Automotive
8 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.38%) Games
8 1 (0.38%) Legal
8 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.38%) Marketing
8 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (43.13%) Developer
2 30 (11.45%) Java Developer
3 20 (7.63%) DBA
4 16 (6.11%) Data Engineer
4 16 (6.11%) Senior
5 15 (5.73%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (5.34%) PostgreSQL Developer
6 14 (5.34%) Software Engineer
7 13 (4.96%) Architect
8 12 (4.58%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 10 (3.82%) Lead
10 9 (3.44%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (3.44%) Network Engineer
10 9 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.44%) Site Engineer
10 9 (3.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (3.44%) Test Engineer
11 8 (3.05%) Database Engineer
11 8 (3.05%) Database Specialist
11 8 (3.05%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (25.95%) REST
2 48 (18.32%) React
3 45 (17.18%) AWS CDK
4 40 (15.27%) Kafka
5 37 (14.12%) Node.js
6 35 (13.36%) Spring
7 29 (11.07%) Spring Boot
8 24 (9.16%) HTML
9 22 (8.40%) CSS
9 22 (8.40%) JSON
10 21 (8.02%) XML
11 16 (6.11%) PostGIS
11 16 (6.11%) SOAP
12 14 (5.34%) Hibernate
13 13 (4.96%) AngularJS
14 12 (4.58%) JPA
14 12 (4.58%) RESTful
15 11 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
16 10 (3.82%) NETCONF
16 10 (3.82%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.11%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (6.11%) Replication
3 14 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.05%) Clustering
5 6 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.29%) PKI
6 4 (1.53%) Fat Client
6 4 (1.53%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.53%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.15%) Smart Meter
8 2 (0.76%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.38%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.60%) Linux
2 16 (6.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (4.58%) Windows
4 10 (3.82%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.44%) Unix
5 9 (3.44%) VMS
6 8 (3.05%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.15%) Android
8 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.38%) CentOS
9 1 (0.38%) Fedora
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.38%) Rocky
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (53.44%) Agile
2 94 (35.88%) DevOps
3 74 (28.24%) Scrum
4 68 (25.95%) CI/CD
5 54 (20.61%) Microservices
5 54 (20.61%) Unit Testing
6 53 (20.23%) Migration
7 51 (19.47%) Software Engineering
8 46 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 42 (16.03%) Mentoring
10 41 (15.65%) Test Automation
11 40 (15.27%) High Availability
11 40 (15.27%) Performance Tuning
12 38 (14.50%) Full Stack Development
13 36 (13.74%) Data Migration
13 36 (13.74%) Disaster Recovery
13 36 (13.74%) Kanban
14 31 (11.83%) Containerisation
15 25 (9.54%) TDD
16 24 (9.16%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (34.73%) SQL
2 77 (29.39%) Python
3 64 (24.43%) Java
4 54 (20.61%) TypeScript
5 48 (18.32%) JavaScript
6 31 (11.83%) Bash
7 18 (6.87%) PL/SQL
8 15 (5.73%) Go
9 13 (4.96%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.96%) Shell Script
10 12 (4.58%) C#
11 6 (2.29%) Ruby
11 6 (2.29%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.91%) Groovy
13 4 (1.53%) PHP
14 1 (0.38%) C
14 1 (0.38%) C++
14 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
14 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 83 (31.68%) Security Cleared
2 74 (28.24%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.49%) DV Cleared
4 15 (5.73%) Degree
5 12 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.76%) HND
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.40%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (2.67%) QA
3 4 (1.53%) SLA
4 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 65 (24.81%) Docker
2 15 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.34%) vSphere
4 8 (3.05%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.76%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.38%) HDFS
8 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (22.90%) Kubernetes
2 43 (16.41%) Ansible
2 43 (16.41%) Grafana
3 26 (9.92%) Terraform
4 19 (7.25%) Kibana
5 12 (4.58%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.82%) Istio
7 9 (3.44%) Argo
8 8 (3.05%) Packer
9 7 (2.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 7 (2.67%) vRealize
10 5 (1.91%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.53%) Nessus
11 4 (1.53%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (1.53%) vCenter Server
11 4 (1.53%) WSUS
12 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.38%) Graylog
13 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 73 (27.86%) Oracle
2 21 (8.02%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.02%) VMware
3 20 (7.63%) Red Hat
4 11 (4.20%) SolarWinds
5 8 (3.05%) Atlassian
5 8 (3.05%) Google
6 6 (2.29%) Splunk
7 5 (1.91%) Arqiva
7 5 (1.91%) Veritas
8 4 (1.53%) Commvault
8 4 (1.53%) Veeam
9 3 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.15%) SAP
10 2 (0.76%) ESRI
11 1 (0.38%) Adobe
11 1 (0.38%) Compaq
11 1 (0.38%) Informatica
11 1 (0.38%) Teradata