PostgreSQL Contracts in Edinburgh

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 34 26 95
Rank change year-on-year -8 +69 -45
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 37 101 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.57% 7.83% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.34% 33.22% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 90 27
10th Percentile £415 £414 £395
25th Percentile £430 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £479 £490
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% -2.24% +8.89%
75th Percentile £483 £508 £538
90th Percentile £508 £538 £554
Scotland median daily rate £472 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -0.58% -3.06% +8.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 146 304 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.05% 23.57% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 253 210
10th Percentile £381 £401 £370
25th Percentile £431 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -2.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £575
90th Percentile £669 £623 £639
Scotland median daily rate £475 £496 £480
% change year-on-year -4.23% +3.33% +12.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.44
25th Percentile - - £16.76
Median hourly rate - - £21.75
75th Percentile - - £29.00
90th Percentile - - £33.50
Scotland median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Edinburgh

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in Edinburgh

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Edinburgh

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (2.70%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 31 (83.78%) AWS
1 31 (83.78%) AWS CloudFormation
2 28 (75.68%) Amazon S3
2 28 (75.68%) Serverless
3 26 (70.27%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (40.54%) OpenShift
5 9 (24.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (21.62%) AWS CodePipeline
7 7 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (13.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (8.11%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (5.41%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (5.41%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (5.41%) Azure
10 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
11 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (2.70%) Apigee
11 1 (2.70%) Azure API Management
11 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (51.35%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (29.73%) MongoDB
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (10.81%) Informix
5 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (8.11%) GIS
5 3 (8.11%) InfluxDB
6 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.70%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.70%) MySQL
7 1 (2.70%) Redis
7 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) GitLab
1 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.70%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) Gradle
3 1 (2.70%) gulp
3 1 (2.70%) Maven
3 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.70%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (62.16%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (51.35%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Data Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Full Stack Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Automation Developer
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Database Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Architect
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Developer
6 1 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Mobile Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (83.78%) AWS CDK
2 13 (35.14%) React
3 11 (29.73%) REST
4 9 (24.32%) CSS
4 9 (24.32%) HTML
5 6 (16.22%) Node.js
5 6 (16.22%) Spring
5 6 (16.22%) Spring Boot
6 5 (13.51%) OAuth
6 5 (13.51%) PostGIS
6 5 (13.51%) Spring Security
7 4 (10.81%) OAuth2
8 3 (8.11%) Spring MVC
8 3 (8.11%) Spring Web Flow
9 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (5.41%) RESTful
9 2 (5.41%) Thymeleaf
10 1 (2.70%) .NET
10 1 (2.70%) JSON
10 1 (2.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (13.51%) Replication
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Android
2 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (72.97%) Agile
2 20 (54.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (48.65%) CI/CD
4 16 (43.24%) Kanban
5 14 (37.84%) DevOps
5 14 (37.84%) Scrum
6 10 (27.03%) Microservices
7 9 (24.32%) Human-Centred Design
7 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
8 8 (21.62%) Inclusive Design
8 8 (21.62%) Migration
9 7 (18.92%) Unit Testing
10 6 (16.22%) Analytics
10 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
10 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
10 6 (16.22%) Pair Programming
10 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
10 6 (16.22%) TDD
11 5 (13.51%) Code Quality
11 5 (13.51%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (67.57%) TypeScript
2 21 (56.76%) Python
3 15 (40.54%) SQL
4 12 (32.43%) JavaScript
5 11 (29.73%) Java
6 4 (10.81%) Bash
7 2 (5.41%) C#
7 2 (5.41%) Go
7 2 (5.41%) Groovy
7 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.70%) PHP
8 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (29.73%) Accessibility
2 7 (18.92%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (51.35%) Grafana
2 9 (24.32%) Ansible
3 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.41%) Kibana
4 2 (5.41%) Terraform
5 1 (2.70%) Istio
5 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle
2 2 (5.41%) Commvault
2 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe
3 1 (2.70%) Confluent
3 1 (2.70%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) IBM
3 1 (2.70%) Teradata