PostgreSQL Contracts

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 145 156 153
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 -6
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 727 1,023 1,670
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 1.71% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.03% 9.49% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 727 1,262
10th Percentile £368 £413 £425
25th Percentile £450 £453 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -7.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £627 £616 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.05% -2.50% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 4
10th Percentile £34.05 - £40.25
25th Percentile £57.94 £21.24 £48.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £22.49 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year +233.56% -60.16% +69.40%
75th Percentile £85.00 £44.32 £59.51
90th Percentile - £45.00 £62.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year +190.91% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England +22 588 £550 +2.33% 359
London +32 362 £563 +5.14% 181
UK excluding London +7 284 £498 +2.05% 196
Work from Home -8 256 £508 +1.60% 247
South East +53 119 £490 +4.26% 38
Scotland -14 75 £472 -0.58% 22
North of England -4 53 £534 -4.64% 44
North West +3 33 £534 +17.36% 25
Midlands +32 21 £511 -2.62% 24
West Midlands +35 16 £486 -7.38% 15
Yorkshire +13 16 £600 +9.09% 15
South West +2 13 £533 -3.18% 36
East Midlands +22 5 £625 +56.25% 9
North East -1 4 £550 -8.33% 4
Wales +17 2 £504 -4.05% 2
East of England +6 2 £675 +31.71% 26

PostgreSQL
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:

Application Platforms
1 76 (10.45%) Apache
2 62 (8.53%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (4.81%) Confluence
4 30 (4.13%) SharePoint
5 17 (2.34%) OpenStack
6 15 (2.06%) nginx
7 11 (1.51%) Site Server
8 9 (1.24%) Drupal
9 8 (1.10%) WordPress
10 7 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.96%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.83%) GeoServer
12 5 (0.69%) Apache Spark
13 4 (0.55%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.55%) CMS
13 4 (0.55%) GemFire
13 4 (0.55%) Luigi
14 3 (0.41%) Camunda
15 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.28%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 15 (2.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.69%) Endur
3 5 (0.69%) Odoo
4 4 (0.55%) Magento
5 3 (0.41%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.28%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 369 (50.76%) AWS
2 222 (30.54%) Azure
3 117 (16.09%) Serverless
4 101 (13.89%) GCP
5 89 (12.24%) Amazon S3
6 75 (10.32%) GitHub
7 70 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
8 57 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 42 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (4.68%) OpenShift
11 33 (4.54%) Power Platform
12 24 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (2.61%) Azure Functions
16 18 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (2.34%) IaaS
18 16 (2.20%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.34%) HTTP
2 12 (1.65%) BGP
2 12 (1.65%) Ethernet VPN
2 12 (1.65%) MPLS
2 12 (1.65%) Radio Access Network
2 12 (1.65%) VPN
3 10 (1.38%) DNS
4 7 (0.96%) SAN
5 6 (0.83%) DHCP
5 6 (0.83%) NAS
6 5 (0.69%) Firewall
7 4 (0.55%) SSH
7 4 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.41%) SSL
9 2 (0.28%) Broadband
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
10 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.14%) LAN
10 1 (0.14%) Network Security
10 1 (0.14%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (16.23%) SQL Server
2 115 (15.82%) MongoDB
3 111 (15.27%) Relational Database
4 107 (14.72%) MySQL
5 102 (14.03%) NoSQL
6 54 (7.43%) Amazon RDS
7 53 (7.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 51 (7.02%) RDBMS
9 50 (6.88%) Oracle Database
10 41 (5.64%) Apache Ignite
11 37 (5.09%) Redis
12 32 (4.40%) GIS
12 32 (4.40%) Power BI
13 30 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 20 (2.75%) Couchbase
16 19 (2.61%) DynamoDB
17 18 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
17 18 (2.48%) Oracle Database 11g
18 16 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 120 (16.51%) Git
2 74 (10.18%) GitLab
3 73 (10.04%) Jenkins
4 70 (9.63%) JIRA
5 38 (5.23%) Cypress.io
6 35 (4.81%) JUnit
7 21 (2.89%) Maven
8 16 (2.20%) Postman
9 15 (2.06%) Selenium
10 12 (1.65%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.65%) Robot Framework
10 12 (1.65%) TestRail
11 11 (1.51%) SoapUI
12 10 (1.38%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.10%) TestNG
14 7 (0.96%) Mockito
15 6 (0.83%) Artifactory
16 5 (0.69%) Cucumber
16 5 (0.69%) TeamCity
16 5 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 129 (17.74%) Public Sector
2 102 (14.03%) Social Skills
3 99 (13.62%) Finance
4 67 (9.22%) Banking
5 44 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (5.91%) Front Office
7 13 (1.79%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.24%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.24%) Marketing
9 8 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.10%) Publishing
10 7 (0.96%) Electronics
10 7 (0.96%) German Language
10 7 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (0.96%) Retail
11 5 (0.69%) French Language
11 5 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.55%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 360 (49.52%) Developer
2 81 (11.14%) Python Developer
3 79 (10.87%) Full Stack Developer
4 64 (8.80%) Java Developer
5 62 (8.53%) DBA
5 62 (8.53%) Software Engineer
6 57 (7.84%) React Developer
7 48 (6.60%) Python Engineer
8 47 (6.46%) Architect
9 43 (5.91%) Python Software Engineer
10 42 (5.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 41 (5.64%) Data Engineer
12 39 (5.36%) Senior
13 32 (4.40%) Lead
14 28 (3.85%) Full Stack Engineer
15 26 (3.58%) PostgreSQL DBA
16 25 (3.44%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 24 (3.30%) Full Stack Python Developer
18 22 (3.03%) Node.js Developer
18 22 (3.03%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (22.83%) React
2 134 (18.43%) REST
3 93 (12.79%) Node.js
4 88 (12.10%) Spring Boot
5 87 (11.97%) Spring
6 68 (9.35%) Kafka
7 55 (7.57%) Redux
8 54 (7.43%) AWS CDK
9 53 (7.29%) CSS
9 53 (7.29%) HTML
10 44 (6.05%) gRPC
11 42 (5.78%) Material-UI
12 41 (5.64%) Protocol Buffers
13 38 (5.23%) .NET
14 37 (5.09%) JSON
15 35 (4.81%) RESTful
16 34 (4.68%) AngularJS
17 30 (4.13%) Hibernate
18 29 (3.99%) SOAP
19 28 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.60%) Hedge funds
2 45 (6.19%) Fixed Income
3 30 (4.13%) Cloud Native
4 29 (3.99%) Replication
5 23 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
7 20 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.06%) Equities
9 14 (1.93%) Clustering
9 14 (1.93%) Product Ownership
10 13 (1.79%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.51%) PKI
12 10 (1.38%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.10%) Reference Data
15 7 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.83%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 77 (10.59%) Linux
2 26 (3.58%) Windows
3 23 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (2.61%) Unix
5 15 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.93%) VMS
7 13 (1.79%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.10%) CentOS
9 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.28%) Android
10 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) Fedora
11 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.14%) Solaris
11 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (41.68%) Agile
2 202 (27.79%) DevOps
3 144 (19.81%) Microservices
4 142 (19.53%) CI/CD
5 138 (18.98%) Full Stack Development
6 124 (17.06%) Software Engineering
7 111 (15.27%) Scrum
8 85 (11.69%) Migration
8 85 (11.69%) Unit Testing
9 83 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
10 73 (10.04%) Test Automation
11 69 (9.49%) Performance Tuning
12 67 (9.22%) Containerisation
12 67 (9.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 64 (8.80%) Machine Learning
14 63 (8.67%) Mentoring
15 61 (8.39%) High Availability
16 60 (8.25%) Artificial Intelligence
17 56 (7.70%) Kanban
17 56 (7.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 282 (38.79%) SQL
2 243 (33.43%) Python
3 161 (22.15%) Java
4 144 (19.81%) TypeScript
5 117 (16.09%) JavaScript
6 59 (8.12%) Bash
7 51 (7.02%) PowerShell
8 44 (6.05%) C#
9 40 (5.50%) Go
10 31 (4.26%) PL/SQL
11 22 (3.03%) T-SQL
12 21 (2.89%) Ruby
13 19 (2.61%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.65%) Korn
14 12 (1.65%) Scala
15 10 (1.38%) PHP
16 8 (1.10%) C++
16 8 (1.10%) Groovy
17 6 (0.83%) C
18 5 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 190 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 159 (21.87%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.70%) Degree
4 39 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.28%) HND
10 2 (0.28%) MCSE
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 22 (3.03%) QA
3 13 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.51%) MiFID
5 9 (1.24%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.69%) SLA
7 2 (0.28%) GDPR
7 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.14%) EMIR
8 1 (0.14%) FATCA
8 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.14%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 144 (19.81%) Docker
2 18 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.06%) vSphere
4 14 (1.93%) Active Directory
5 10 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.28%) iptables
7 2 (0.28%) KVM
7 2 (0.28%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.14%) Ceph
8 1 (0.14%) HDFS
8 1 (0.14%) Lustre
8 1 (0.14%) NFS
8 1 (0.14%) Postfix
8 1 (0.14%) Samba
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 142 (19.53%) Kubernetes
2 78 (10.73%) Terraform
3 75 (10.32%) Ansible
4 71 (9.77%) Grafana
5 25 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 24 (3.30%) Kibana
7 13 (1.79%) Istio
8 12 (1.65%) Packer
9 11 (1.51%) Puppet
10 10 (1.38%) ZABBIX
11 9 (1.24%) Argo
12 8 (1.10%) Data Guard
12 8 (1.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 7 (0.96%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.96%) vRealize
14 4 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.55%) Nessus
14 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.55%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 192 (26.41%) Oracle
2 77 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 76 (10.45%) Google
4 29 (3.99%) Red Hat
5 27 (3.71%) VMware
6 21 (2.89%) Sparx
7 18 (2.48%) ESRI
8 17 (2.34%) Splunk
9 14 (1.93%) Informatica
9 14 (1.93%) SAP
10 13 (1.79%) Atlassian
11 12 (1.65%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.51%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.51%) SolarWinds
13 8 (1.10%) Adobe
14 7 (0.96%) IBM
15 5 (0.69%) Arqiva
15 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
15 5 (0.69%) New Relic
15 5 (0.69%) Veritas