PostgreSQL DBA Contracts

PostgreSQL Database Administrator
UK

The median PostgreSQL Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £534 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 691 832
Rank change year-on-year +124 +141 -148
Contract jobs requiring a PostgreSQL DBA 24 27 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.046% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.048% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 21
10th Percentile £518 £421 -
25th Percentile - £475 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £518 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -13.75% +23.71%
75th Percentile £549 £662 £609
90th Percentile £613 £666 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £500 £640
% change year-on-year +6.80% -21.88% +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

PostgreSQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured PostgreSQL DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL DBA in the UK

PostgreSQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL DBA in the UK

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL DBA over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL DBA in the UK

PostgreSQL DBA
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +106 23 £534 +3.19% 3
Work from Home +141 19 £537 +10.72%
UK excluding London +66 12 £534 +6.80% 2
North of England +32 11 £534 -2.91% 1
North West +27 11 £534 +1.71% 1
London +97 10 £575 -8.37% 1
South East +16 1 £400 -20.00%

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, PostgreSQL DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring PostgreSQL DBA in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (66.67%) Database Security
3 15 (62.50%) DevOps
4 14 (58.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (54.17%) RDBMS
5 13 (54.17%) NoSQL
5 13 (54.17%) Relational Database
6 12 (50.00%) Kafka
6 12 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 12 (50.00%) Serverless
6 12 (50.00%) MongoDB
6 12 (50.00%) Agile
6 12 (50.00%) JSON
6 12 (50.00%) XML
6 12 (50.00%) Oracle
7 11 (45.83%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
8 8 (33.33%) SQL
9 7 (29.17%) DV Cleared
9 7 (29.17%) AWS
10 6 (25.00%) Bash
10 6 (25.00%) Python
10 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
10 6 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
12 4 (16.67%) Azure
12 4 (16.67%) Database Tuning
12 4 (16.67%) Dynatrace
12 4 (16.67%) Public Sector

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Serverless
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (54.17%) NoSQL
2 13 (54.17%) RDBMS
2 13 (54.17%) Relational Database
3 12 (50.00%) MongoDB
4 11 (45.83%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) JSON
1 12 (50.00%) Kafka
1 12 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Clustering
1 1 (4.17%) Cybercrime
1 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Database Security
2 15 (62.50%) DevOps
3 14 (58.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (50.00%) Agile
4 12 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (16.67%) Database Tuning
7 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.33%) Analytics
8 2 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (8.33%) Incident Management
9 1 (4.17%) Capacity Management
9 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
9 1 (4.17%) Containerisation
9 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity
9 1 (4.17%) Data Migration
9 1 (4.17%) Data Security
9 1 (4.17%) High Availability
9 1 (4.17%) Migration
9 1 (4.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Bash
2 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) DV Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds