PostgreSQL Contracts in the North West

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 111 134
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 -11
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 32 41 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.19% 1.32% 1.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.57% 8.23% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 27
10th Percentile £375 £386 £383
25th Percentile £456 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £459 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% -3.42% -4.04%
75th Percentile £540 £620 £572
90th Percentile £585 £680 £586
England median daily rate £550 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% +13.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 423 498 741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.78% 16.04% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 364 555
10th Percentile £350 £338 £313
25th Percentile £406 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £634 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 37
10th Percentile £26.85 £35.00 £10.78
25th Percentile £39.44 £38.70 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £49.57 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +109.16% +0.98%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.60 £61.20
England median hourly rate £40.25 £58.59 £42.92
% change year-on-year -31.30% +36.52% +71.67%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the North West

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the North West

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the North West

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester +34 27 £534 +11.54% 17
Cheshire -14 3 £463 +3.93% 6
Lancashire +2 1 - - 1
Merseyside - 1 £350 -
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Alfresco
2 1 (3.13%) Camunda
2 1 (3.13%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Serverless
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Azure
4 2 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.13%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.13%) dbt
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.13%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (62.50%) Relational Database
2 14 (43.75%) MongoDB
3 12 (37.50%) NoSQL
3 12 (37.50%) RDBMS
4 10 (31.25%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (18.75%) MySQL
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.13%) GIS
6 1 (3.13%) Metadata
6 1 (3.13%) Power BI
6 1 (3.13%) QGIS
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) JUnit
3 3 (9.38%) Mocha
4 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Developer
2 11 (34.38%) DBA
2 11 (34.38%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 6 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Junior
5 2 (6.25%) Junior Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Junior Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Full Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (3.13%) GIS Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (43.75%) React
2 13 (40.63%) XML
3 11 (34.38%) JSON
3 11 (34.38%) Kafka
4 9 (28.13%) REST
5 8 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 6 (18.75%) Hibernate
6 6 (18.75%) JPA
6 6 (18.75%) Node.js
6 6 (18.75%) Spring
7 4 (12.50%) HTML
7 4 (12.50%) Redux
8 3 (9.38%) CSS
8 3 (9.38%) Jest
9 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
9 2 (6.25%) jQuery
10 1 (3.13%) Express.js
10 1 (3.13%) HTML5
10 1 (3.13%) PostGIS
10 1 (3.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Android
1 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Agile
1 19 (59.38%) DevOps
2 17 (53.13%) Mentoring
3 11 (34.38%) Database Security
3 11 (34.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (31.25%) Unit Testing
5 8 (25.00%) Microservices
6 7 (21.88%) Front End Development
6 7 (21.88%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 6 (18.75%) High Availability
7 6 (18.75%) Scrum
8 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.38%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (9.38%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (9.38%) Product Backlog
9 3 (9.38%) SDLC
9 3 (9.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Java
2 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (15.63%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) SQL
4 2 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) PHP
5 1 (3.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (9.38%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft