PostgreSQL Contracts in the South East

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 89 129 136
Rank change year-on-year +40 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 109 89 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.98% 1.56% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.11% 10.40% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 59 83
10th Percentile £353 £384 £420
25th Percentile £406 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £655 £556 £622
90th Percentile £688 £578 £683
England median daily rate £550 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £42.40 - -
25th Percentile £50.88 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £22.16 -
Median % change year-on-year +215.88% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile £79.00 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £22.49 £56.45
% change year-on-year +233.56% -60.16% +69.40%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 602 856 1,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.93% 15.05% 18.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 600 946
10th Percentile £315 £313 £341
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £606
90th Percentile £688 £675 £681
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 43 29
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £17.80
25th Percentile £21.55 £29.19 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +144.44% -44.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £74.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.60 £62.15
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 South East

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South East.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the South East 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
Thames Valley +15 64 £625 +35.87% 18
Berkshire +13 60 £625 +35.87% 10
West Sussex +25 22 £387 -38.08% 1
Hampshire +1 14 £475 -5.00% 8
Oxfordshire -1 4 - - 3
Surrey +14 3 £433 -21.36% 6
East Sussex - 3 £490 - 1
Sussex - 1 £350 -
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (11.01%) Apache
2 10 (9.17%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.42%) Confluence
4 4 (3.67%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.83%) GemFire
5 2 (1.83%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.83%) JBoss
6 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.11%) AWS
2 14 (12.84%) GitHub
3 13 (11.93%) Azure
4 9 (8.26%) OpenShift
5 5 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (4.59%) IaaS
5 5 (4.59%) SaaS
5 5 (4.59%) Serverless
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.67%) Azure AKS
6 4 (3.67%) GCP
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.83%) PaaS
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.92%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.92%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.17%) BGP
1 10 (9.17%) Ethernet VPN
1 10 (9.17%) MPLS
1 10 (9.17%) Radio Access Network
1 10 (9.17%) VPN
2 5 (4.59%) DNS
2 5 (4.59%) SAN
3 4 (3.67%) DHCP
3 4 (3.67%) NAS
4 2 (1.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.02%) MongoDB
2 21 (19.27%) Oracle Database
3 17 (15.60%) NoSQL
4 16 (14.68%) MySQL
4 16 (14.68%) Oracle Database 11g
5 13 (11.93%) Couchbase
5 13 (11.93%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (11.93%) Relational Database
6 12 (11.01%) SQL Server
7 7 (6.42%) RDBMS
7 7 (6.42%) Redis
8 6 (5.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (5.50%) GIS
9 2 (1.83%) CouchDB
9 2 (1.83%) DB2
10 1 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.92%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 29 (26.61%) GitLab
2 23 (21.10%) Git
3 20 (18.35%) JIRA
4 14 (12.84%) Jenkins
5 10 (9.17%) Robot Framework
5 10 (9.17%) TestRail
6 4 (3.67%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.67%) JMeter
6 4 (3.67%) JUnit
7 3 (2.75%) Subversion
8 2 (1.83%) Selenium
9 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.92%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.92%) Mockito
General
1 8 (7.34%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.42%) Finance
3 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.83%) Automotive
4 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.92%) Banking
5 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (39.45%) Developer
2 14 (12.84%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 13 (11.93%) Java Developer
4 9 (8.26%) Network Engineer
4 9 (8.26%) Site Engineer
4 9 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 9 (8.26%) Test Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) Database Specialist
6 7 (6.42%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (6.42%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) Platform Specialist
7 6 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Cloud Developer
8 4 (3.67%) DBA
8 4 (3.67%) GIS Developer
8 4 (3.67%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (24.77%) REST
2 26 (23.85%) Kafka
3 13 (11.93%) Spring
4 12 (11.01%) SOAP
5 10 (9.17%) NETCONF
5 10 (9.17%) RESTCONF
5 10 (9.17%) YANG
6 8 (7.34%) AngularJS
6 8 (7.34%) Node.js
7 6 (5.50%) OpenLayers
7 6 (5.50%) PostGIS
7 6 (5.50%) React
7 6 (5.50%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (4.59%) RESTful
8 5 (4.59%) Vert.x
8 5 (4.59%) Web Services
9 4 (3.67%) Django
9 4 (3.67%) GeoPandas
9 4 (3.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (7.34%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.34%) Clustering
2 8 (7.34%) Replication
3 6 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.50%) PKI
4 4 (3.67%) Fat Client
4 4 (3.67%) Thin Client
5 3 (2.75%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.83%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.18%) Linux
2 9 (8.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (8.26%) VMS
2 9 (8.26%) Windows
3 7 (6.42%) Unix
3 7 (6.42%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.67%) Ubuntu
4 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (46.79%) Agile
2 36 (33.03%) Performance Tuning
3 34 (31.19%) Scrum
4 32 (29.36%) Migration
4 32 (29.36%) Software Engineering
5 31 (28.44%) Data Migration
6 30 (27.52%) DevOps
7 27 (24.77%) CI/CD
7 27 (24.77%) Unit Testing
8 25 (22.94%) Containerisation
9 23 (21.10%) Microservices
10 20 (18.35%) Task Automation
11 19 (17.43%) Software Testing
12 17 (15.60%) Architectural Design
13 16 (14.68%) Clean Code
13 16 (14.68%) Secure Coding
13 16 (14.68%) Test Automation
14 14 (12.84%) High Availability
15 13 (11.93%) Regression Testing
16 12 (11.01%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 42 (38.53%) SQL
2 24 (22.02%) Python
3 18 (16.51%) Java
4 17 (15.60%) Bash
4 17 (15.60%) PL/SQL
5 12 (11.01%) Go
6 8 (7.34%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.42%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.59%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.75%) C#
9 3 (2.75%) Ruby
10 1 (0.92%) C++
10 1 (0.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (48.62%) Security Cleared
2 52 (47.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.34%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.92%) QA
1 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (23.85%) Docker
2 14 (12.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (12.84%) vSphere
3 7 (6.42%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.67%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.83%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.83%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (26.61%) Kubernetes
2 21 (19.27%) Ansible
3 11 (10.09%) Kibana
4 10 (9.17%) Grafana
4 10 (9.17%) Terraform
5 9 (8.26%) Argo
5 9 (8.26%) Istio
5 9 (8.26%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 7 (6.42%) Packer
6 7 (6.42%) vRealize
7 4 (3.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (3.67%) Nessus
7 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (3.67%) vCenter Server
7 4 (3.67%) WSUS
7 4 (3.67%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 45 (41.28%) Oracle
2 20 (18.35%) VMware
3 16 (14.68%) Red Hat
4 11 (10.09%) SolarWinds
5 9 (8.26%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.59%) Arqiva
6 5 (4.59%) Veritas
7 4 (3.67%) Veeam
8 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.75%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.83%) Google
9 2 (1.83%) SAP
9 2 (1.83%) Splunk
10 1 (0.92%) Compaq
10 1 (0.92%) Dell
10 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace