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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 39 38
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +17
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 26 38 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.98% 4.42% 6.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.57% 25.85% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 32 64
10th Percentile £328 £414 £423
25th Percentile £450 £427 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -6.05% -4.68%
75th Percentile £502 £487 £508
90th Percentile £534 £494 £545
Scotland median daily rate £480 £460 £477
% change year-on-year +4.35% -3.56% -8.27%

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 148 147 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.66% 17.11% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 104 202
10th Percentile £413 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £464 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -6.03% -1.35%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £545
90th Percentile £596 £661 £613
Scotland median daily rate £474 £450 £497
% change year-on-year +5.22% -9.40% -0.66%

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 29 June 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 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.69%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 20 (76.92%) AWS
2 16 (61.54%) Amazon S3
3 13 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (50.00%) Serverless
4 11 (42.31%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (23.08%) Azure
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (11.54%) Power Automate
7 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
7 3 (11.54%) Snowflake
8 2 (7.69%) Apigee
8 2 (7.69%) GCP
8 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) MQTT
2 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (23.08%) MongoDB
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (15.38%) GIS
5 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (11.54%) MariaDB
5 3 (11.54%) MySQL
5 3 (11.54%) Power Query
5 3 (11.54%) Redis
5 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
6 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
6 2 (7.69%) PowerCenter
6 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.85%) NewSQL
7 1 (3.85%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Cypress.io
2 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) GitLab
4 2 (7.69%) Git
5 1 (3.85%) JIRA
5 1 (3.85%) Selenium
5 1 (3.85%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Finance
4 4 (15.38%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Lead
3 4 (15.38%) Software Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Technical Leader
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Data Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) DBA
6 1 (3.85%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) AWS CDK
2 9 (34.62%) React
3 7 (26.92%) Spring Boot
4 5 (19.23%) Next.js
4 5 (19.23%) Spring
5 4 (15.38%) PostGIS
6 3 (11.54%) ARM Templates
6 3 (11.54%) CSS
6 3 (11.54%) HTML
6 3 (11.54%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (11.54%) JSON
6 3 (11.54%) Node.js
6 3 (11.54%) YAML
7 2 (7.69%) OpenAPI
7 2 (7.69%) RESTful
7 2 (7.69%) Spring Security
7 2 (7.69%) Swagger
8 1 (3.85%) .NET
8 1 (3.85%) OAuth
8 1 (3.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (11.54%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Agile
2 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
2 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (34.62%) DevOps
3 9 (34.62%) Kanban
4 8 (30.77%) Human-Centred Design
4 8 (30.77%) Inclusive Design
5 7 (26.92%) Migration
6 6 (23.08%) Analytics
6 6 (23.08%) Architecture Roadmap
6 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 6 (23.08%) Microservices
6 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 5 (19.23%) Data Migration
7 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
7 5 (19.23%) Pair Programming
7 5 (19.23%) Product Roadmap
7 5 (19.23%) Scrum
7 5 (19.23%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) Java
3 10 (38.46%) SQL
3 10 (38.46%) TypeScript
4 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
5 5 (19.23%) Bash
6 3 (11.54%) Bicep
6 3 (11.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
6 3 (11.54%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.85%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) Accessibility
2 5 (19.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) DICOM
3 1 (3.85%) HL7
3 1 (3.85%) ISO 13485
3 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Grafana
2 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.54%) Ansible
3 3 (11.54%) Progress Chef
3 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
3 3 (11.54%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) Kibana
4 1 (3.85%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Informatica
1 3 (11.54%) Teradata
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) StreamSets
3 1 (3.85%) TSYS