PostgreSQL Contracts in England

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 166 150
Rank change year-on-year +11 -16 +10
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 579 769 1,318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.58% 1.57% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.31% 8.77% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 529 972
10th Percentile £363 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £453 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% +13.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 2
10th Percentile £34.05 - £53.04
25th Percentile £57.94 £21.24 £53.85
Median hourly rate £75.00 £22.49 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year +233.56% -60.16% +69.40%
75th Percentile £85.00 £24.98 £57.79
90th Percentile - £44.32 £57.85
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
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,220 8,770 13,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.92% 17.91% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,477 6,306 10,112
10th Percentile £355 £375 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £660
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 168 179
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.37 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.25 £58.59 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% +30.20% +80.00%
75th Percentile £60.13 £73.72 £65.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +66.79%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
London +16 364 £575 +9.52% 176
South East +36 109 £490 +3.70% 41
North of England +6 52 £534 -2.02% 40
North West +14 32 £534 +18.67% 25
Midlands +30 18 £523 -0.48% 20
West Midlands +22 16 £486 -7.38% 13
Yorkshire +10 16 £600 +13.21% 15
South West +1 15 £450 -18.18% 35
North East +4 4 £550 -18.52%
East Midlands +22 2 £750 +87.50% 7
East of England +3 2 £675 +30.12% 20
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 87 (15.03%) Apache
2 71 (12.26%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (4.66%) SharePoint
4 25 (4.32%) Confluence
5 14 (2.42%) nginx
6 11 (1.90%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.38%) Site Server
8 7 (1.21%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (1.04%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.86%) Camunda
10 5 (0.86%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.69%) Luigi
12 3 (0.52%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.35%) GemFire
13 2 (0.35%) Gunicorn
13 2 (0.35%) JBoss
13 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.35%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 15 (2.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.86%) Endur
3 5 (0.86%) Odoo
4 3 (0.52%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.35%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 282 (48.70%) AWS
2 199 (34.37%) Azure
3 103 (17.79%) GCP
4 64 (11.05%) GitHub
5 58 (10.02%) Serverless
6 31 (5.35%) Amazon S3
6 31 (5.35%) Power Platform
7 26 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (3.11%) Azure Functions
9 16 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (2.59%) SaaS
11 13 (2.25%) IaaS
12 12 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (1.90%) PaaS
14 10 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.90%) BGP
1 11 (1.90%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (1.90%) MPLS
1 11 (1.90%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (1.90%) VPN
2 9 (1.55%) DNS
3 8 (1.38%) HTTP
4 7 (1.21%) SAN
4 7 (1.21%) SSH
5 6 (1.04%) DHCP
5 6 (1.04%) NAS
6 4 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.52%) Firewall
8 2 (0.35%) Broadband
8 2 (0.35%) SSL
8 2 (0.35%) VLAN
9 1 (0.17%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.17%) LAN
9 1 (0.17%) Network Security
9 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (17.27%) Relational Database
2 90 (15.54%) SQL Server
3 88 (15.20%) NoSQL
4 85 (14.68%) MySQL
5 72 (12.44%) MongoDB
6 57 (9.84%) Apache Ignite
7 45 (7.77%) RDBMS
8 36 (6.22%) Oracle Database
9 35 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (5.18%) Power BI
11 25 (4.32%) GIS
12 21 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (3.63%) Redis
13 20 (3.45%) Couchbase
14 16 (2.76%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (2.76%) Oracle Database 11g
15 15 (2.59%) DynamoDB
16 11 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (16.93%) Git
2 59 (10.19%) GitLab
3 47 (8.12%) JIRA
4 43 (7.43%) Jenkins
5 42 (7.25%) Cypress.io
6 37 (6.39%) JUnit
7 17 (2.94%) Selenium
8 12 (2.07%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.90%) Robot Framework
9 11 (1.90%) TestRail
10 10 (1.73%) Maven
10 10 (1.73%) SonarQube
11 8 (1.38%) Mockito
11 8 (1.38%) TestNG
12 7 (1.21%) Cucumber
13 6 (1.04%) JMeter
14 5 (0.86%) Checkstyle
14 5 (0.86%) EasyMock
14 5 (0.86%) Postman
15 4 (0.69%) git-flow
General
1 111 (19.17%) Finance
2 85 (14.68%) Social Skills
3 84 (14.51%) Public Sector
4 83 (14.34%) Banking
5 59 (10.19%) Front Office
6 41 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.42%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.73%) Marketing
9 9 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.38%) Publishing
11 7 (1.21%) Electronics
11 7 (1.21%) Retail
12 6 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.86%) German Language
14 4 (0.69%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.52%) Law
15 3 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.35%) Automotive
16 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 289 (49.91%) Developer
2 86 (14.85%) Python Developer
3 78 (13.47%) Full Stack Developer
4 77 (13.30%) Software Engineer
5 70 (12.09%) React Developer
6 60 (10.36%) Python Engineer
7 58 (10.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 58 (10.02%) Python Software Engineer
8 56 (9.67%) Java Developer
9 43 (7.43%) Architect
9 43 (7.43%) DBA
10 36 (6.22%) Full Stack Engineer
11 33 (5.70%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 32 (5.53%) Full Stack Python Developer
13 23 (3.97%) Data Engineer
13 23 (3.97%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 23 (3.97%) Senior
14 22 (3.80%) Lead
15 19 (3.28%) PostgreSQL Developer
16 16 (2.76%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (25.04%) React
2 100 (17.27%) REST
3 74 (12.78%) Spring Boot
4 71 (12.26%) Redux
5 69 (11.92%) Spring
6 61 (10.54%) Kafka
7 60 (10.36%) gRPC
8 58 (10.02%) Material-UI
9 57 (9.84%) Protocol Buffers
10 56 (9.67%) Node.js
11 34 (5.87%) AngularJS
12 31 (5.35%) .NET
13 29 (5.01%) JSON
14 27 (4.66%) XML
15 25 (4.32%) Hibernate
15 25 (4.32%) HTML
16 24 (4.15%) CSS
17 23 (3.97%) RESTful
18 22 (3.80%) JPA
18 22 (3.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.05%) Hedge funds
2 61 (10.54%) Fixed Income
3 26 (4.49%) Equities
4 20 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.28%) Replication
6 18 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.76%) Clustering
8 14 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (2.42%) Product Ownership
9 12 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.73%) PKI
11 9 (1.55%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.38%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.38%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.21%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.86%) Derivative
15 5 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 63 (10.88%) Linux
2 28 (4.84%) Windows
3 17 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (2.94%) Unix
4 15 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.42%) VMS
6 10 (1.73%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.38%) CentOS
8 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.52%) Android
9 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Fedora
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (41.80%) Agile
2 145 (25.04%) DevOps
3 140 (24.18%) Full Stack Development
4 127 (21.93%) Software Engineering
5 109 (18.83%) Microservices
6 96 (16.58%) CI/CD
7 79 (13.64%) Scrum
8 69 (11.92%) Machine Learning
9 68 (11.74%) Artificial Intelligence
10 66 (11.40%) Asset Management
11 64 (11.05%) Unit Testing
12 62 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
13 61 (10.54%) Migration
14 60 (10.36%) Performance Tuning
15 58 (10.02%) Investment Management
16 57 (9.84%) Automated Trading
17 50 (8.64%) Test Automation
18 46 (7.94%) Containerisation
18 46 (7.94%) Mentoring
19 44 (7.60%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 220 (38.00%) SQL
2 203 (35.06%) Python
3 134 (23.14%) Java
4 108 (18.65%) TypeScript
5 83 (14.34%) JavaScript
6 44 (7.60%) C#
7 43 (7.43%) Bash
8 42 (7.25%) PowerShell
9 33 (5.70%) Go
10 29 (5.01%) PL/SQL
11 16 (2.76%) Ruby
12 13 (2.25%) T-SQL
13 12 (2.07%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.55%) Korn
15 8 (1.38%) C++
16 6 (1.04%) PHP
17 5 (0.86%) Bicep
17 5 (0.86%) C
17 5 (0.86%) Groovy
17 5 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 173 (29.88%) Security Cleared
2 147 (25.39%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.64%) Degree
4 37 (6.39%) DV Cleared
5 25 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.73%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.35%) HND
10 2 (0.35%) MCSE
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.94%) QA
2 11 (1.90%) MiFID
3 10 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.86%) SLA
6 2 (0.35%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) EMIR
7 1 (0.17%) FATCA
7 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (18.31%) Docker
2 16 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.59%) vSphere
4 10 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.35%) iptables
7 2 (0.35%) KVM
7 2 (0.35%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.17%) Ceph
8 1 (0.17%) HDFS
8 1 (0.17%) Lustre
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Samba
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 112 (19.34%) Kubernetes
2 60 (10.36%) Terraform
3 53 (9.15%) Ansible
4 32 (5.53%) Grafana
5 20 (3.45%) Kibana
6 17 (2.94%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.42%) Istio
8 12 (2.07%) Packer
9 11 (1.90%) Argo
10 10 (1.73%) ZABBIX
11 8 (1.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (1.21%) vRealize
13 5 (0.86%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.69%) Nessus
14 4 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.69%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.69%) WSUS
15 3 (0.52%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 162 (27.98%) Oracle
2 85 (14.68%) Google
3 62 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 25 (4.32%) Red Hat
5 24 (4.15%) VMware
6 17 (2.94%) Sparx
7 15 (2.59%) ESRI
7 15 (2.59%) SAP
8 14 (2.42%) Informatica
8 14 (2.42%) Splunk
9 12 (2.07%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.90%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.04%) Adobe
12 5 (0.86%) Arqiva
12 5 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.86%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.86%) New Relic
12 5 (0.86%) Veritas
13 4 (0.69%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.69%) Databricks