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 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 175 189
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 -9
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 264 310 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.25% 1.36% 1.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.05% 9.24% 8.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 241 300
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £494 £516
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% -4.31% +10.07%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £664
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £50.88 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £22.16 -
Median % change year-on-year +261.01% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £22.49 £55.00
% change year-on-year +255.79% -59.12% +10.00%

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 2,626 3,356 5,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.45% 14.77% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,836 2,382 3,820
10th Percentile £313 £325 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £669 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 109 126
10th Percentile £13.67 £21.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%
75th Percentile £56.56 £73.71 £57.19
90th Percentile £72.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -33.33% +36.52% +62.90%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +38 105 £482 -2.63% 43
Scotland -5 65 £460 -3.16% 19
North of England +13 49 £550 -4.89% 49
South West +16 26 £450 -18.18% 34
North West +10 26 £534 -12.96% 37
Midlands +26 17 £493 -6.19% 17
West Midlands +20 17 £493 -6.19% 10
Yorkshire +5 17 £600 +5.26% 11
North East +7 6 £550 -21.43% 1
East of England -11 2 £675 +28.57% 8
Wales +18 1 £425 -32.00% 5
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 13 (4.92%) Apache
2 12 (4.55%) Confluence
3 6 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.89%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.14%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.76%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.38%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
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 (2.65%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.52%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.76%) Odoo
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 103 (39.02%) AWS
2 70 (26.52%) Serverless
3 53 (20.08%) AWS Lambda
4 52 (19.70%) Amazon S3
5 51 (19.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 41 (15.53%) OpenShift
7 38 (14.39%) Azure
8 29 (10.98%) GitHub
9 17 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (4.92%) AWS CodePipeline
11 11 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (3.41%) GCP
13 8 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (3.03%) SaaS
14 7 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (2.65%) Power Platform
15 6 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
15 6 (2.27%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.27%) BGP
1 6 (2.27%) DNS
1 6 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
1 6 (2.27%) MPLS
1 6 (2.27%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (2.27%) VPN
2 5 (1.89%) HTTP
2 5 (1.89%) SAN
3 4 (1.52%) DHCP
3 4 (1.52%) NAS
4 2 (0.76%) SSL
5 1 (0.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (21.97%) MongoDB
2 40 (15.15%) MySQL
3 37 (14.02%) Relational Database
4 33 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 29 (10.98%) NoSQL
6 27 (10.23%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (8.71%) Oracle Database
8 22 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (7.95%) SQL Server
10 17 (6.44%) RDBMS
11 15 (5.68%) GIS
12 14 (5.30%) Couchbase
13 11 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
14 10 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (3.79%) Redis
15 8 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
15 8 (3.03%) Informix
16 7 (2.65%) InfluxDB
17 6 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
17 6 (2.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (17.80%) Git
2 39 (14.77%) GitLab
3 33 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 22 (8.33%) JIRA
5 20 (7.58%) JUnit
6 8 (3.03%) Selenium
7 6 (2.27%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.27%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.27%) Robot Framework
7 6 (2.27%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.27%) TestRail
8 5 (1.89%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.89%) Checkstyle
8 5 (1.89%) Maven
9 4 (1.52%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.52%) JMeter
10 3 (1.14%) Mocha
10 3 (1.14%) Subversion
10 3 (1.14%) webpack
11 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 68 (25.76%) Public Sector
2 30 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 8 (3.03%) Finance
4 7 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.14%) Banking
6 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.14%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.76%) Automotive
7 2 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.38%) Electronics
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%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 118 (44.70%) Developer
2 36 (13.64%) Java Developer
3 19 (7.20%) DBA
4 17 (6.44%) Full Stack Developer
5 16 (6.06%) Data Engineer
5 16 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 13 (4.92%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 13 (4.92%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 12 (4.55%) Site Engineer
7 12 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (3.41%) Automation Developer
8 9 (3.41%) Lead
8 9 (3.41%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (3.41%) Senior
9 8 (3.03%) Architect
9 8 (3.03%) Database Engineer
9 8 (3.03%) Database Specialist
9 8 (3.03%) Full Stack Engineer
9 8 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (25.00%) REST
2 52 (19.70%) AWS CDK
2 52 (19.70%) React
3 42 (15.91%) Spring
4 40 (15.15%) Kafka
5 37 (14.02%) Node.js
6 33 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 26 (9.85%) HTML
8 24 (9.09%) CSS
9 18 (6.82%) XML
10 17 (6.44%) AngularJS
11 16 (6.06%) PostGIS
12 15 (5.68%) JSON
13 14 (5.30%) Hibernate
14 13 (4.92%) RESTful
15 12 (4.55%) JPA
15 12 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
16 11 (4.17%) SOAP
17 9 (3.41%) OpenLayers
18 8 (3.03%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (6.06%) Replication
3 14 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.03%) Clustering
5 7 (2.65%) PKI
6 5 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.52%) Fat Client
7 4 (1.52%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.52%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.14%) Smart Meter
9 2 (0.76%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.38%) FMCG
10 1 (0.38%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.26%) Linux
2 17 (6.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (5.30%) Windows
4 11 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.41%) Unix
5 9 (3.41%) VMS
6 8 (3.03%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.76%) Android
8 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.38%) CentOS
9 1 (0.38%) Fedora
9 1 (0.38%) Rocky
9 1 (0.38%) Solaris
9 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (53.41%) Agile
2 84 (31.82%) DevOps
3 72 (27.27%) Scrum
4 67 (25.38%) CI/CD
5 56 (21.21%) Microservices
6 53 (20.08%) Software Engineering
7 49 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 47 (17.80%) Unit Testing
9 45 (17.05%) Migration
10 42 (15.91%) Full Stack Development
11 40 (15.15%) Test Automation
12 38 (14.39%) Mentoring
12 38 (14.39%) Performance Tuning
13 37 (14.02%) Kanban
14 36 (13.64%) High Availability
15 32 (12.12%) Containerisation
16 29 (10.98%) Data Migration
16 29 (10.98%) TDD
17 28 (10.61%) Disaster Recovery
18 26 (9.85%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 82 (31.06%) SQL
2 75 (28.41%) Python
3 70 (26.52%) Java
4 62 (23.48%) TypeScript
5 51 (19.32%) JavaScript
6 29 (10.98%) Bash
7 13 (4.92%) Shell Script
8 12 (4.55%) PL/SQL
9 11 (4.17%) C#
9 11 (4.17%) Go
9 11 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.52%) Groovy
11 3 (1.14%) PHP
11 3 (1.14%) Ruby
12 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.38%) Bicep
13 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.38%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.38%) R
13 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 70 (26.52%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.44%) DV Cleared
4 15 (5.68%) Degree
5 11 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.76%) HND
6 2 (0.76%) OCP
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.23%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.03%) QA
3 6 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.52%) SLA
5 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 65 (24.62%) Docker
2 15 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.30%) vSphere
4 8 (3.03%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.14%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.76%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.38%) HDFS
8 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 63 (23.86%) Kubernetes
2 54 (20.45%) Grafana
3 52 (19.70%) Ansible
4 21 (7.95%) Kibana
5 20 (7.58%) Terraform
6 13 (4.92%) Prometheus
7 12 (4.55%) Argo
7 12 (4.55%) Istio
8 8 (3.03%) Packer
9 7 (2.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 7 (2.65%) vRealize
10 5 (1.89%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.52%) Nessus
11 4 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (1.52%) vCenter Server
11 4 (1.52%) WSUS
12 2 (0.76%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 69 (26.14%) Oracle
2 22 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 21 (7.95%) VMware
4 20 (7.58%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.17%) SolarWinds
6 10 (3.79%) Splunk
7 8 (3.03%) Google
8 6 (2.27%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.89%) Arqiva
9 5 (1.89%) Veritas
10 4 (1.52%) Commvault
10 4 (1.52%) SAP
10 4 (1.52%) Veeam
11 3 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.14%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.76%) ESRI
13 1 (0.38%) Adobe
13 1 (0.38%) Compaq
13 1 (0.38%) Informatica
13 1 (0.38%) Sage