PostgreSQL DBA Contracts with Work from Home Options

PostgreSQL Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median PostgreSQL Database Administrator daily rate in Work from Home is £537 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 463 611
Rank change year-on-year +138 +148 -129
Contract jobs requiring a PostgreSQL DBA 19 8 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.031% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.033% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 11
10th Percentile - £400 £565
25th Percentile £534 £419 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £485 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.72% -19.17% +23.71%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £620
90th Percentile £613 £580 £700
UK median daily rate £534 £518 £600
% change year-on-year +3.19% -13.75% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

PostgreSQL DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured PostgreSQL DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PostgreSQL DBA trend for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PostgreSQL DBA.

PostgreSQL DBA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PostgreSQL DBA over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

PostgreSQL DBA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring PostgreSQL DBA in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (68.42%) Database Security
2 13 (68.42%) DevOps
3 11 (57.89%) Relational Database
3 11 (57.89%) NoSQL
3 11 (57.89%) Oracle
3 11 (57.89%) RDBMS
4 10 (52.63%) XML
4 10 (52.63%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (52.63%) Agile
4 10 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (52.63%) Kafka
4 10 (52.63%) MongoDB
4 10 (52.63%) JSON
4 10 (52.63%) Mentoring
4 10 (52.63%) Serverless
5 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
6 7 (36.84%) SQL
7 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
7 5 (26.32%) AWS
8 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
8 4 (21.05%) Dynatrace
8 4 (21.05%) Bash
8 4 (21.05%) Azure
8 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
8 4 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (21.05%) Python
8 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
9 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (15.79%) Database Tuning

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (52.63%) Serverless
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (57.89%) NoSQL
2 11 (57.89%) RDBMS
2 11 (57.89%) Relational Database
3 10 (52.63%) MongoDB
3 10 (52.63%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) JSON
1 10 (52.63%) Kafka
1 10 (52.63%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Database Security
1 13 (68.42%) DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 10 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (52.63%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.79%) Database Tuning
3 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.26%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Bash
2 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Oracle
2 4 (21.05%) Dynatrace