PostgreSQL DBA Contracts

PostgreSQL Database Administrator
UK

The median PostgreSQL Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £534 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 673 839
Rank change year-on-year +120 +166 -172
Contract jobs requiring a PostgreSQL DBA 26 27 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.045% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.048% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 20
10th Percentile £521 £421 -
25th Percentile - £475 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £518 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -13.75% +25.00%
75th Percentile £566 £662 £617
90th Percentile £613 £666 £651
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £500 £640
% change year-on-year +6.80% -21.88% +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

PostgreSQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured PostgreSQL DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL DBA in the UK

PostgreSQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL DBA in the UK

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL DBA over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL DBA in the UK

PostgreSQL DBA
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +112 25 £534 +3.19%
Work from Home +134 21 £537 +10.72%
UK excluding London +70 13 £534 +6.80%
North of England +34 12 £534 -2.91%
North West +29 12 £534 +1.71%
London +108 11 £575 -8.37%
South East +19 1 £400 -20.00%

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, PostgreSQL DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring PostgreSQL DBA in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (65.38%) Database Security
3 16 (61.54%) DevOps
4 15 (57.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (53.85%) RDBMS
5 14 (53.85%) Oracle
5 14 (53.85%) Agile
5 14 (53.85%) Relational Database
5 14 (53.85%) NoSQL
6 13 (50.00%) Kafka
6 13 (50.00%) MongoDB
6 13 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 13 (50.00%) JSON
6 13 (50.00%) XML
6 13 (50.00%) Serverless
7 12 (46.15%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
9 9 (34.62%) SQL
10 7 (26.92%) DV Cleared
10 7 (26.92%) AWS
11 6 (23.08%) Bash
11 6 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (23.08%) Python
11 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
12 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
12 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
13 4 (15.38%) Dynatrace
13 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
13 4 (15.38%) Azure
13 4 (15.38%) Database Tuning

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Serverless
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (53.85%) NoSQL
2 14 (53.85%) RDBMS
2 14 (53.85%) Relational Database
3 13 (50.00%) MongoDB
4 12 (46.15%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) JSON
1 13 (50.00%) Kafka
1 13 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Clustering
1 1 (3.85%) Cybercrime
1 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Database Security
2 16 (61.54%) DevOps
3 15 (57.69%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (53.85%) Agile
5 13 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (15.38%) Database Tuning
7 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (7.69%) Analytics
8 2 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (7.69%) Incident Management
9 1 (3.85%) CI/CD
9 1 (3.85%) Containerisation
9 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity
9 1 (3.85%) Data Migration
9 1 (3.85%) Impact Analysis
9 1 (3.85%) Logical Data Model
9 1 (3.85%) Physical Data Model
9 1 (3.85%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 1 (3.85%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) Bash
2 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) DV Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Ansible
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.85%) Sparx