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 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 38 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 40 72 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.54% 6.07% 4.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.48% 26.97% 23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 63 73
10th Percentile £414 £419 £413
25th Percentile £430 £438 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -4.20% +9.89%
75th Percentile £484 £508 £545
90th Percentile £494 £545 £564
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -3.16% -7.32% +12.64%

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 157 267 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.80% 22.51% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 208 258
10th Percentile £363 £394 £413
25th Percentile £416 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £495 £501
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -1.25% +12.64%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £570
90th Percentile £663 £630 £625
Scotland median daily rate £460 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.30
25th Percentile - - £19.50
Median hourly rate - - £21.75
75th Percentile - - £24.25
90th Percentile - - £25.60
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
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 (2.50%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 35 (87.50%) AWS
2 34 (85.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 31 (77.50%) Amazon S3
4 28 (70.00%) Serverless
5 26 (65.00%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (45.00%) OpenShift
7 14 (35.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (22.50%) AWS CodePipeline
10 8 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (7.50%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (7.50%) AWS CodeCommit
11 3 (7.50%) Textract
12 2 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (2.50%) AWS Fargate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (45.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (42.50%) MongoDB
3 13 (32.50%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (17.50%) Informix
5 5 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (10.00%) InfluxDB
7 3 (7.50%) GIS
8 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
9 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) GitLab
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 25 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Finance
3 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Developer
2 10 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Database Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Automation Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Database Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Developer
8 1 (2.50%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (2.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Python Data Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (85.00%) AWS CDK
2 8 (20.00%) React
2 8 (20.00%) REST
3 6 (15.00%) CSS
3 6 (15.00%) HTML
3 6 (15.00%) Node.js
4 5 (12.50%) PostGIS
4 5 (12.50%) SpaCy
5 4 (10.00%) Spring
5 4 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (7.50%) OAuth
6 3 (7.50%) OAuth2
6 3 (7.50%) PyTorch
6 3 (7.50%) Spring Security
7 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.50%) Kafka
8 1 (2.50%) Spring MVC
8 1 (2.50%) Spring Web Flow
8 1 (2.50%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Replication
2 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
1 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (67.50%) Agile
2 22 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (47.50%) Kanban
4 18 (45.00%) Scrum
5 14 (35.00%) CI/CD
6 13 (32.50%) Migration
7 11 (27.50%) DevOps
8 8 (20.00%) Machine Learning
9 7 (17.50%) Community of Practice
9 7 (17.50%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (17.50%) High Availability
9 7 (17.50%) Natural Language Processing
10 6 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (15.00%) Code Quality
10 6 (15.00%) Human-Centred Design
10 6 (15.00%) Microservices
10 6 (15.00%) Roadmaps
10 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
11 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 5 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (67.50%) TypeScript
2 18 (45.00%) Python
3 17 (42.50%) SQL
4 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.00%) Java
6 3 (7.50%) Bash
7 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.50%) Groovy
8 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) Accessibility
2 5 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (57.50%) Grafana
2 13 (32.50%) Ansible
3 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.00%) Kibana
5 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Oracle
2 3 (7.50%) Commvault
2 3 (7.50%) Red Hat