TimescaleDB Contract Job Trends

TimescaleDB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring TimescaleDB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 700 552 -
Rank change year-on-year -148 - -
Contract jobs citing TimescaleDB 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.003% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.024% 0.017% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

TimescaleDB 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 8,168 6,036 6,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.89% 18.21% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,444 4,038 4,635
10th Percentile £353 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £484
% change year-on-year - -1.76% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 88 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.36 £39.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +12.80% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.13 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.86% +20.00% -42.86%

TimescaleDB
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TimescaleDB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

TimescaleDB job vacancy trend in the UK

TimescaleDB
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TimescaleDB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TimescaleDB

TimescaleDB
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TimescaleDB within the UK over the 6 months to 3 October 2026. 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 - 2 £550 - 69
East of England - 2 £550 - 6
UK excluding London - 2 £550 - 98
Work from Home -70 1 £550 +83.33% 104

TimescaleDB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) InfluxDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes