PostgreSQL Contracts in Glasgow

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 74 60 66
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 5 22 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.63% 2.51% 1.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.81% 12.43% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 14
10th Percentile - £408 £424
25th Percentile £356 £473 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £498 £483
Median % change year-on-year -21.31% +2.95% -5.71%
75th Percentile £408 £509 £525
90th Percentile £426 £536 £563
Scotland median daily rate £460 £472 £475
% change year-on-year -2.59% -0.58% -3.06%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 178 177 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.31% 20.18% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 137 146
10th Percentile £288 £303 £376
25th Percentile £372 £381 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £533 £638
90th Percentile £589 £645 £750
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £20.16 - £24.95
25th Percentile £21.01 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £23.05 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.10% +50.00% -25.53%
75th Percentile £25.71 £53.75 £66.56
90th Percentile £26.93 - £67.88
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Glasgow

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in Glasgow

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) SOAP
2 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) SDLC
1 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (40.00%) API Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (60.00%) DocuSign