PostgreSQL Contracts in the South West

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 137 134 150
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 -66
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 14 32 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.44% 0.90% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.64% 6.96% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 17
10th Percentile £425 £458 £400
25th Percentile £431 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £537 £591 £575
90th Percentile £612 £690 £650
England median daily rate £550 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £27.13 -
25th Percentile £75.00 £28.44 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £33.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +137.04% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £40.94 -
90th Percentile - £43.38 -
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 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 South West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 302 460 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.52% 12.97% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 336 431
10th Percentile £322 £363 £341
25th Percentile £420 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £638 £627 £600
90th Percentile £725 £736 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 25 20
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.00 £49.22
25th Percentile - £35.00 £58.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -5.87% +62.47%
75th Percentile £71.50 £75.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the South West

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the South West

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the South West

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the South West

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol 0 6 £575 -2.13% 20
Wiltshire +8 5 £533 -11.25% 1
Devon - 2 £450 - 3
Somerset +1 1 £450 -2.44% 8
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
1 5 (35.71%) SQLite
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) Metadata
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Git
2 5 (35.71%) Checkstyle
2 5 (35.71%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 3 (21.43%) German Language
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Database Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Database Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Database Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) REST
2 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) .NET Core
2 5 (35.71%) .NET Framework
2 5 (35.71%) JSON
2 5 (35.71%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (7.14%) PySpark
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 5 (35.71%) Code Quality
4 5 (35.71%) Design Patterns
4 5 (35.71%) OO
5 4 (28.57%) Business Case
5 4 (28.57%) Database Migration
5 4 (28.57%) Database Tuning
5 4 (28.57%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Database Security
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.14%) Architecture Governance
7 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Data Ingestion
7 1 (7.14%) Defect Management
7 1 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) HND
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat