PostgreSQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for PostgreSQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 116 124
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 -14
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 257 505 939
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.74% 2.05% 2.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.91% 10.78% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 365 705
10th Percentile £375 £402 £425
25th Percentile £430 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £686 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £504 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £36.75
25th Percentile - - £39.38
Median hourly rate - £22.16 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.76% -
75th Percentile - £27.87 £51.88
90th Percentile - £38.15 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £22.49 £55.00
% change year-on-year +233.56% -59.12% +65.07%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

PostgreSQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,885 4,683 9,550
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.54% 19.01% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,126 3,421 6,941
10th Percentile £356 £386 £371
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £549
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 79 90
10th Percentile £20.24 £22.16 £19.90
25th Percentile £22.61 £40.00 £22.73
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +36.84% +41.79%
75th Percentile £62.63 £74.38 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £46.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +27.37% +75.24%

PostgreSQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PostgreSQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL
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.

PostgreSQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

PostgreSQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PostgreSQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.89%) Confluence
2 9 (3.50%) Apache
3 8 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.11%) nginx
4 6 (2.33%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.95%) GeoServer
5 5 (1.95%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 4 (1.56%) Drupal
6 4 (1.56%) Luigi
6 4 (1.56%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.56%) WordPress
7 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.78%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Endur
2 2 (0.78%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 129 (50.19%) AWS
2 63 (24.51%) Serverless
3 62 (24.12%) Azure
4 37 (14.40%) Amazon S3
5 36 (14.01%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (11.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (7.78%) GitHub
8 19 (7.39%) OpenShift
9 17 (6.61%) GCP
10 16 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (3.50%) SaaS
15 8 (3.11%) Azure Functions
16 7 (2.72%) Azure AKS
16 7 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (2.72%) Power Platform
16 7 (2.72%) Snowflake
17 6 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.89%) HTTP
2 5 (1.95%) SSH
3 3 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.78%) Firewall
5 1 (0.39%) DHCP
5 1 (0.39%) DNS
5 1 (0.39%) MQTT
5 1 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (21.40%) MongoDB
2 39 (15.18%) NoSQL
3 36 (14.01%) MySQL
4 29 (11.28%) Amazon Aurora
4 29 (11.28%) SQL Server
5 28 (10.89%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (10.51%) Relational Database
7 22 (8.56%) Oracle Database
8 17 (6.61%) RDBMS
9 15 (5.84%) Redis
10 13 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (5.06%) Oracle Database 11g
11 11 (4.28%) GIS
12 10 (3.89%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (3.11%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (2.72%) Couchbase
14 7 (2.72%) Power BI
15 6 (2.33%) Informix
16 5 (1.95%) DB2
16 5 (1.95%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 28 (10.89%) Jenkins
2 24 (9.34%) Git
3 22 (8.56%) GitLab
4 16 (6.23%) JIRA
5 6 (2.33%) Selenium
6 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.95%) JUnit
7 4 (1.56%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.56%) Maven
7 4 (1.56%) Mockito
7 4 (1.56%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.17%) Postman
8 3 (1.17%) TestNG
8 3 (1.17%) webpack
9 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.78%) EasyMock
9 2 (0.78%) Mocha
10 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (16.34%) Public Sector
2 40 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.12%) Finance
4 16 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.72%) Banking
6 4 (1.56%) French Language
7 3 (1.17%) Dutch Language
7 3 (1.17%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.17%) Marketing
7 3 (1.17%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.78%) Arabic Language
8 2 (0.78%) German Language
8 2 (0.78%) Japanese Language
8 2 (0.78%) Korean Language
8 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.78%) Spanish Language
8 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 120 (46.69%) Developer
2 32 (12.45%) DBA
3 22 (8.56%) Full Stack Developer
4 19 (7.39%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 19 (7.39%) Senior
5 17 (6.61%) Data Engineer
6 14 (5.45%) Architect
6 14 (5.45%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 11 (4.28%) Lead
7 11 (4.28%) Python Developer
8 10 (3.89%) Analyst
8 10 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.89%) SQL Developer
9 9 (3.50%) Consultant
9 9 (3.50%) Node.js Developer
9 9 (3.50%) Software Developer
10 8 (3.11%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.11%) Scala Developer
11 7 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.72%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (16.73%) React
2 33 (12.84%) Node.js
3 31 (12.06%) AWS CDK
4 30 (11.67%) REST
5 27 (10.51%) Kafka
6 22 (8.56%) CSS
7 21 (8.17%) HTML
8 18 (7.00%) Spring
9 17 (6.61%) Spring Boot
10 15 (5.84%) JSON
11 14 (5.45%) .NET
12 13 (5.06%) XML
13 11 (4.28%) PostGIS
13 11 (4.28%) RESTful
14 10 (3.89%) AngularJS
15 8 (3.11%) Akka
15 8 (3.11%) Django
15 8 (3.11%) Play Framework
15 8 (3.11%) Web Services
16 7 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (4.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.28%) Replication
4 5 (1.95%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.95%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.95%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.56%) Clustering
5 4 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.17%) Derivative
6 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.78%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.06%) Linux
2 11 (4.28%) Windows
3 6 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.33%) Unix
4 5 (1.95%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.78%) CentOS
5 2 (0.78%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (34.63%) Agile
2 72 (28.02%) DevOps
3 62 (24.12%) CI/CD
4 49 (19.07%) Microservices
5 41 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (14.79%) Full Stack Development
7 35 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (12.84%) Migration
8 33 (12.84%) Scrum
8 33 (12.84%) Software Engineering
9 31 (12.06%) Kanban
10 29 (11.28%) Performance Tuning
11 26 (10.12%) Unit Testing
12 25 (9.73%) Disaster Recovery
12 25 (9.73%) ETL
13 24 (9.34%) Clean Code
14 23 (8.95%) Mentoring
15 22 (8.56%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (8.56%) TDD
15 22 (8.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 98 (38.13%) SQL
2 82 (31.91%) Python
3 49 (19.07%) Java
4 45 (17.51%) JavaScript
5 41 (15.95%) TypeScript
6 22 (8.56%) Go
7 20 (7.78%) PL/SQL
8 19 (7.39%) Bash
8 19 (7.39%) C#
9 11 (4.28%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.50%) Scala
11 7 (2.72%) Ruby
12 4 (1.56%) Bicep
12 4 (1.56%) C++
12 4 (1.56%) Groovy
12 4 (1.56%) PHP
12 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.56%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.17%) Perl
14 2 (0.78%) C
Qualifications
1 52 (20.23%) Security Cleared
2 43 (16.73%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.39%) Degree
4 12 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.11%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.39%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.95%) QA
3 4 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.56%) MiFID
4 3 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) EMIR
6 1 (0.39%) FATCA
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (17.12%) Docker
2 6 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) HDFS
4 1 (0.39%) iptables
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.39%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 48 (18.68%) Kubernetes
2 36 (14.01%) Grafana
3 31 (12.06%) Ansible
4 27 (10.51%) Terraform
5 12 (4.67%) Kibana
5 12 (4.67%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.33%) Puppet
7 4 (1.56%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.17%) Argo
8 3 (1.17%) Istio
9 2 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.78%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.78%) Packer
9 2 (0.78%) TIBCO Hawk
9 2 (0.78%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.39%) logstash
10 1 (0.39%) Salt
Vendors
1 65 (25.29%) Oracle
2 17 (6.61%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.67%) Splunk
4 8 (3.11%) Google
5 7 (2.72%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.33%) Sparx
7 5 (1.95%) CyberArk
7 5 (1.95%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.95%) Informatica
7 5 (1.95%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.56%) IBM
8 4 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.56%) SAP
8 4 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.17%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (1.17%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.78%) Commvault
10 2 (0.78%) ESRI
10 2 (0.78%) New Relic
10 2 (0.78%) TIBCO