PostgreSQL Contracts

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 153 145
Rank change year-on-year +19 -8 +6
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 719 908 1,660
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 1.67% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.96% 9.72% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 623 1,223
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £431 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £520
% change year-on-year -2.81% -6.01% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £51.88 - -
25th Percentile £69.00 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £45.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £57.60
90th Percentile - - £57.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,217 9,341 17,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.97% 17.19% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,137 6,534 12,389
10th Percentile £350 £363 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 164 171
10th Percentile £14.63 £20.91 £14.88
25th Percentile £20.19 £32.37 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £37.80
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +45.50% +40.00%
75th Percentile £59.34 £73.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £78.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £51.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -41.46% +46.43% +40.00%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +29 579 £550 +4.76% 143
London +27 381 £575 +9.52% 66
Work from Home +3 255 £500 - 112
UK excluding London +12 240 £475 -2.81% 111
South East +42 88 £493 -1.40% 33
Scotland -11 52 £460 -3.16% 5
North of England +27 48 £550 +10.00% 13
South West +16 32 £450 -25.16% 18
North West +32 22 £478 -8.13% 9
Yorkshire +20 20 £600 +23.08% 3
Midlands +18 16 £550 +4.76% 19
West Midlands +27 15 £575 -4.17% 15
North East +3 6 £550 -22.81% 1
Wales +12 4 £400 -36.00% 2
East of England -8 2 £675 +35.00% 6
East Midlands +1 1 £550 +4.76% 4

PostgreSQL
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:

Application Platforms
1 92 (12.80%) Apache
2 86 (11.96%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (3.76%) Confluence
4 25 (3.48%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.53%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.25%) Drupal
6 9 (1.25%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.25%) WordPress
7 8 (1.11%) Site Server
8 6 (0.83%) nginx
8 6 (0.83%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 5 (0.70%) Camunda
9 5 (0.70%) CMS
9 5 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.70%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.56%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.56%) JBoss
11 3 (0.42%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.42%) SAS
11 3 (0.42%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 5 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.70%) Magento
2 5 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.42%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.14%) Endur
4 1 (0.14%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 340 (47.29%) AWS
2 233 (32.41%) Azure
3 136 (18.92%) GCP
4 90 (12.52%) Serverless
5 77 (10.71%) Amazon S3
6 74 (10.29%) GitHub
7 57 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (7.09%) OpenShift
9 47 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 41 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (4.73%) Power Platform
12 31 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (2.78%) AWS CodePipeline
16 17 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (2.36%) Azure Functions
17 15 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
18 14 (1.95%) Amazon SQS
19 13 (1.81%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.50%) HTTP
2 10 (1.39%) DNS
3 8 (1.11%) Firewall
3 8 (1.11%) SSH
4 7 (0.97%) SAN
4 7 (0.97%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.83%) DHCP
5 6 (0.83%) NAS
6 3 (0.42%) SSL
7 2 (0.28%) BGP
7 2 (0.28%) Broadband
7 2 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.28%) Internet
7 2 (0.28%) MPLS
7 2 (0.28%) NaaS
7 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.28%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.28%) VLAN
7 2 (0.28%) VoIP
7 2 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (18.08%) MySQL
2 109 (15.16%) MongoDB
3 107 (14.88%) Relational Database
4 106 (14.74%) SQL Server
5 81 (11.27%) NoSQL
6 65 (9.04%) Apache Ignite
7 54 (7.51%) Amazon RDS
8 44 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
9 42 (5.84%) Oracle Database
10 34 (4.73%) Power BI
11 33 (4.59%) Redis
12 30 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
13 27 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
13 27 (3.76%) DynamoDB
14 24 (3.34%) RDBMS
15 22 (3.06%) GIS
16 14 (1.95%) Oracle Database 11g
17 13 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (1.81%) DB2
18 11 (1.53%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 119 (16.55%) Git
2 63 (8.76%) Jenkins
3 57 (7.93%) Cypress.io
3 57 (7.93%) GitLab
4 44 (6.12%) JUnit
5 43 (5.98%) JIRA
6 24 (3.34%) Selenium
7 16 (2.23%) Maven
8 12 (1.67%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.25%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.11%) JMeter
11 6 (0.83%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.83%) Gradle
11 6 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.70%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.70%) Checkstyle
12 5 (0.70%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.56%) Mocha
13 4 (0.56%) Mockito
General
1 133 (18.50%) Social Skills
2 117 (16.27%) Finance
3 104 (14.46%) Public Sector
4 103 (14.33%) Banking
5 69 (9.60%) Front Office
6 38 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (1.39%) Retail
8 9 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.25%) Telecoms
9 6 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 6 (0.83%) Marketing
9 6 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.83%) Publishing
10 5 (0.70%) Back Office
10 5 (0.70%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.56%) Electronics
11 4 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 337 (46.87%) Developer
2 103 (14.33%) Python Developer
3 99 (13.77%) Software Engineer
4 82 (11.40%) Full Stack Developer
5 78 (10.85%) React Developer
6 76 (10.57%) Python Engineer
7 71 (9.87%) Java Developer
8 69 (9.60%) Python Software Engineer
9 66 (9.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 57 (7.93%) DBA
11 55 (7.65%) Data Engineer
12 48 (6.68%) Full Stack Engineer
13 46 (6.40%) Senior
14 43 (5.98%) Architect
15 41 (5.70%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 39 (5.42%) Lead
17 36 (5.01%) Full Stack Python Developer
18 29 (4.03%) PostgreSQL DBA
19 22 (3.06%) Senior Developer
20 19 (2.64%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (25.31%) React
2 103 (14.33%) REST
3 97 (13.49%) Spring
4 85 (11.82%) Spring Boot
5 80 (11.13%) Kafka
6 77 (10.71%) Redux
7 69 (9.60%) gRPC
7 69 (9.60%) Node.js
8 68 (9.46%) Protocol Buffers
9 66 (9.18%) Material-UI
10 62 (8.62%) RESTful
11 49 (6.82%) CSS
12 47 (6.54%) HTML
13 45 (6.26%) AWS CDK
14 43 (5.98%) .NET
15 42 (5.84%) AngularJS
16 33 (4.59%) Hibernate
17 27 (3.76%) Django
17 27 (3.76%) Web Services
18 25 (3.48%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.87%) Hedge funds
2 69 (9.60%) Fixed Income
3 34 (4.73%) Cloud Native
3 34 (4.73%) Equities
4 30 (4.17%) Replication
5 29 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.36%) Algorithms
7 17 (2.36%) Clustering
8 15 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.81%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.67%) PKI
11 8 (1.11%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.11%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.97%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 90 (12.52%) Linux
2 47 (6.54%) Windows
3 26 (3.62%) Unix
4 18 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.11%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.97%) VMS
7 4 (0.56%) CentOS
7 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.42%) Android
8 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.42%) Solaris
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.14%) Fedora
10 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (43.81%) Agile
2 168 (23.37%) DevOps
3 165 (22.95%) Software Engineering
4 152 (21.14%) Full Stack Development
5 145 (20.17%) CI/CD
6 138 (19.19%) Microservices
7 101 (14.05%) Scrum
8 94 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (12.52%) Migration
10 89 (12.38%) Machine Learning
11 83 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
12 79 (10.99%) Performance Tuning
13 72 (10.01%) Unit Testing
14 68 (9.46%) Asset Management
15 67 (9.32%) Investment Management
15 67 (9.32%) TDD
16 65 (9.04%) Automated Trading
17 60 (8.34%) High Availability
17 60 (8.34%) Test Automation
18 59 (8.21%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 261 (36.30%) Python
2 250 (34.77%) SQL
3 187 (26.01%) Java
4 155 (21.56%) TypeScript
5 111 (15.44%) JavaScript
6 50 (6.95%) C#
7 46 (6.40%) PowerShell
8 33 (4.59%) Bash
9 32 (4.45%) PL/SQL
10 24 (3.34%) Go
10 24 (3.34%) Scala
11 15 (2.09%) Ruby
12 14 (1.95%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.39%) C
13 10 (1.39%) Groovy
14 9 (1.25%) Korn
15 8 (1.11%) C++
15 8 (1.11%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.70%) PHP
17 4 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 180 (25.03%) Security Cleared
2 156 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.62%) Degree
4 32 (4.45%) DV Cleared
5 29 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.56%) MCSE
8 4 (0.56%) OCP
8 4 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (0.56%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.28%) CCNA
9 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.28%) HND
9 2 (0.28%) RHCE
10 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.20%) Accessibility
1 23 (3.20%) QA
2 21 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.53%) MiFID
4 5 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (0.70%) SLA
5 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) EMIR
6 1 (0.14%) FATCA
6 1 (0.14%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) HL7
6 1 (0.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 126 (17.52%) Docker
2 20 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.39%) vSphere
5 6 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.28%) IAG
7 2 (0.28%) iptables
7 2 (0.28%) KVM
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.14%) Ceph
8 1 (0.14%) HDFS
8 1 (0.14%) Lustre
8 1 (0.14%) NFS
8 1 (0.14%) Samba
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 143 (19.89%) Kubernetes
2 86 (11.96%) Grafana
3 78 (10.85%) Ansible
4 56 (7.79%) Terraform
5 35 (4.87%) Kibana
6 34 (4.73%) Prometheus
7 22 (3.06%) Istio
8 20 (2.78%) Argo
9 8 (1.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 7 (0.97%) Puppet
10 7 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.83%) Packer
12 5 (0.70%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.70%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.56%) logstash
13 4 (0.56%) Nessus
13 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.56%) Salt
13 4 (0.56%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 161 (22.39%) Oracle
2 111 (15.44%) Google
3 79 (10.99%) Microsoft
4 26 (3.62%) Red Hat
5 25 (3.48%) Splunk
6 20 (2.78%) VMware
7 16 (2.23%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.95%) Sparx
9 13 (1.81%) Informatica
10 12 (1.67%) ESRI
10 12 (1.67%) SAP
10 12 (1.67%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.39%) SolarWinds
12 9 (1.25%) IBM
13 8 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.83%) Databricks
14 6 (0.83%) New Relic
15 5 (0.70%) Adobe
15 5 (0.70%) CyberArk
15 5 (0.70%) Dynatrace