PostgreSQL Contracts in Edinburgh

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 36 28
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +71
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 27 37 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.32% 4.54% 7.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.75% 25.34% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 90
10th Percentile £371 £415 £414
25th Percentile £435 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £460 £479
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -3.97% -2.24%
75th Percentile £494 £483 £508
90th Percentile £578 £508 £538
Scotland median daily rate £460 £472 £475
% change year-on-year -2.59% -0.58% -3.06%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

PostgreSQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 144 146 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.04% 17.91% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 106 256
10th Percentile £413 £381 £402
25th Percentile £450 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +1.64% -2.20%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £544
90th Percentile £612 £669 £625
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%

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 1 May 2025.

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 3 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.41%) CMS
2 2 (7.41%) GeoServer
2 2 (7.41%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) AWS
2 17 (62.96%) Amazon S3
3 14 (51.85%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (51.85%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (51.85%) Serverless
4 7 (25.93%) AWS CodePipeline
4 7 (25.93%) OpenShift
5 4 (14.81%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (14.81%) Azure
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (7.41%) Apigee
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (7.41%) GCP
7 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
7 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (29.63%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (14.81%) GIS
5 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
6 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (7.41%) MariaDB
6 2 (7.41%) MySQL
6 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
6 2 (7.41%) Power Query
6 2 (7.41%) PowerCenter
6 2 (7.41%) Redis
7 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.70%) InfluxDB
7 1 (3.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) GitLab
2 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.81%) Cypress.io
4 3 (11.11%) Git
5 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.70%) JIRA
5 1 (3.70%) Selenium
5 1 (3.70%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (48.15%) Public Sector
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
3 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Games
6 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Data Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Developer
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) e-Learning Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (55.56%) AWS CDK
2 7 (25.93%) Spring Boot
3 6 (22.22%) PostGIS
3 6 (22.22%) React
4 5 (18.52%) Next.js
4 5 (18.52%) REST
4 5 (18.52%) Spring
5 3 (11.11%) Node.js
6 2 (7.41%) ARM Templates
6 2 (7.41%) CSS
6 2 (7.41%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (7.41%) JSON
6 2 (7.41%) Middleware
6 2 (7.41%) OpenAPI
6 2 (7.41%) Playwright
6 2 (7.41%) RESTful
6 2 (7.41%) Spring Security
6 2 (7.41%) Swagger
6 2 (7.41%) Vitest
6 2 (7.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.41%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) Kanban
4 11 (40.74%) DevOps
5 10 (37.04%) Human-Centred Design
5 10 (37.04%) Inclusive Design
5 10 (37.04%) Migration
5 10 (37.04%) Scrum
6 9 (33.33%) Data Migration
6 9 (33.33%) TDD
7 7 (25.93%) Data Integration
7 7 (25.93%) Data Transformation
7 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (25.93%) Microservices
7 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
7 7 (25.93%) Unit Testing
8 5 (18.52%) Code Coverage
8 5 (18.52%) Code Quality
8 5 (18.52%) Pair Programming
8 5 (18.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) SQL
2 12 (44.44%) Python
3 11 (40.74%) Java
4 9 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
6 4 (14.81%) Bash
7 3 (11.11%) T-SQL
8 2 (7.41%) Bicep
8 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
9 1 (3.70%) Groovy
9 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Accessibility
2 4 (14.81%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Grafana
2 5 (18.52%) Ansible
3 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.41%) Terraform
5 1 (3.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Informatica
1 3 (11.11%) Teradata
2 2 (7.41%) ForgeRock
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Ping Identity
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) Imperva
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) StreamSets
3 1 (3.70%) TSYS