PostgreSQL Contracts in the Thames Valley

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 93 121
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 -11
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 63 57 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.41% 2.01% 1.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.03% 13.60% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 33 30
10th Percentile £375 £382 £363
25th Percentile £438 £410 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £688 £538 -
90th Percentile - £575 £547
South East median daily rate £485 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -2.02% -1.00% +5.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 331 419 584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.69% 14.78% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 285 437
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +1.00% +10.44%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £634
South East median daily rate £484 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 3
10th Percentile £19.59 £22.90 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.08 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £32.30 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.71% +115.33% -65.52%
75th Percentile - £75.75 £19.38
90th Percentile £65.50 £79.19 £22.00
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £56.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.72% +150.00% -43.04%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 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
Berkshire +8 59 £500 +7.24% 8
Oxfordshire +4 4 - - 4
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (14.29%) Apache
1 9 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.76%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.59%) JBoss
3 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.92%) AWS
2 11 (17.46%) OpenShift
3 9 (14.29%) Azure
4 5 (7.94%) GCP
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (6.35%) Azure AKS
5 4 (6.35%) Serverless
6 3 (4.76%) SaaS
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.29%) BGP
1 9 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
1 9 (14.29%) MPLS
1 9 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
1 9 (14.29%) VPN
2 4 (6.35%) DHCP
2 4 (6.35%) DNS
2 4 (6.35%) NAS
2 4 (6.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 15 (23.81%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (20.63%) Oracle Database 11g
4 11 (17.46%) MongoDB
5 10 (15.87%) NoSQL
6 9 (14.29%) MySQL
6 9 (14.29%) Relational Database
7 5 (7.94%) Redis
8 4 (6.35%) GIS
8 4 (6.35%) RDBMS
8 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.17%) DB2
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.59%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 11 (17.46%) GitLab
2 9 (14.29%) JIRA
2 9 (14.29%) Robot Framework
2 9 (14.29%) TestRail
3 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.76%) Git
5 2 (3.17%) JUnit
6 1 (1.59%) JMeter
6 1 (1.59%) Mockito
General
1 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
2 2 (3.17%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.59%) Finance
Job Titles
1 27 (42.86%) Developer
2 13 (20.63%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 11 (17.46%) Site Engineer
3 11 (17.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Network Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Test Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Full Stack Developer
5 4 (6.35%) GIS Developer
5 4 (6.35%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) DBA
6 3 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (4.76%) Ruby Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Database Specialist
7 2 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.22%) REST
2 13 (20.63%) Kafka
3 10 (15.87%) SOAP
4 9 (14.29%) NETCONF
4 9 (14.29%) RESTCONF
4 9 (14.29%) YANG
5 6 (9.52%) Django
6 5 (7.94%) Node.js
7 4 (6.35%) Celery
7 4 (6.35%) GeoPandas
7 4 (6.35%) OpenLayers
7 4 (6.35%) PostGIS
7 4 (6.35%) React
7 4 (6.35%) Spring
7 4 (6.35%) Spring Boot
7 4 (6.35%) Web Services
8 3 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (4.76%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (3.17%) Mustache
9 2 (3.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.35%) Fat Client
2 4 (6.35%) PKI
2 4 (6.35%) Thin Client
3 3 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) Ubuntu
2 4 (6.35%) Windows
2 4 (6.35%) Windows Server
2 4 (6.35%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.17%) Unix
4 2 (3.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) DevOps
2 25 (39.68%) Agile
2 25 (39.68%) Performance Tuning
3 23 (36.51%) Software Engineering
4 22 (34.92%) Containerisation
4 22 (34.92%) Unit Testing
5 16 (25.40%) CI/CD
5 16 (25.40%) Microservices
5 16 (25.40%) Migration
6 15 (23.81%) Architectural Design
6 15 (23.81%) Data Migration
6 15 (23.81%) Scrum
7 13 (20.63%) Clean Code
7 13 (20.63%) Secure Coding
7 13 (20.63%) Software Testing
8 12 (19.05%) Task Automation
9 11 (17.46%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (17.46%) GitOps
9 11 (17.46%) ITSM
9 11 (17.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.86%) SQL
2 18 (28.57%) Python
3 13 (20.63%) PL/SQL
4 9 (14.29%) Java
5 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.35%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.76%) Bash
7 3 (4.76%) Ruby
7 3 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.59%) C#
8 1 (1.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (53.97%) SC Cleared
1 34 (53.97%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) QA
1 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (25.40%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.35%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (31.75%) Kubernetes
2 12 (19.05%) Kibana
3 11 (17.46%) Argo
3 11 (17.46%) Grafana
3 11 (17.46%) Istio
3 11 (17.46%) Prometheus
4 7 (11.11%) Ansible
5 4 (6.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (6.35%) Nessus
5 4 (6.35%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (6.35%) vCenter Server
5 4 (6.35%) WSUS
5 4 (6.35%) ZABBIX
6 2 (3.17%) Packer
6 2 (3.17%) Terraform
6 2 (3.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (39.68%) Oracle
2 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 6 (9.52%) VMware
5 4 (6.35%) Google
5 4 (6.35%) Veeam
6 2 (3.17%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.59%) SAP
7 1 (1.59%) Splunk