PostgreSQL Contracts

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 156 145
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 720 945 1,647
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.67% 1.69% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.86% 9.54% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 661 1,213
10th Percentile £363 £405 £425
25th Percentile £432 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -7.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £734 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £513
% change year-on-year -3.55% -3.90% +10.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 3
10th Percentile £53.70 - -
25th Percentile £66.00 £21.24 £52.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £22.49 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +255.79% -59.12% +10.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £23.73 £57.70
90th Percentile - £38.62 £57.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £22.16 -
% change year-on-year +261.01% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +17 579 £550 +4.76% 370
London +22 365 £575 +9.52% 206
UK excluding London +3 262 £475 -3.55% 195
Work from Home -3 255 £500 - 226
South East +32 105 £482 -2.63% 49
Scotland -10 65 £461 -3.30% 18
North of England +9 49 £545 -5.75% 50
North West +19 27 £534 -12.96% 39
South West +6 22 £450 -18.18% 35
Midlands +29 18 £510 -2.86% 19
West Midlands +22 18 £510 -2.86% 13
Yorkshire +11 17 £600 +5.26% 10
North East +5 5 £550 -21.43% 1
Wales +19 2 £504 - 3
East of England -8 2 £675 +28.57% 14

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 96 (13.33%) Apache
2 86 (11.94%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (3.89%) Confluence
4 27 (3.75%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.25%) Drupal
5 9 (1.25%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.25%) WordPress
6 8 (1.11%) Site Server
7 7 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.83%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.83%) GeoServer
8 6 (0.83%) nginx
8 6 (0.83%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 5 (0.69%) Camunda
9 5 (0.69%) CMS
10 4 (0.56%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.56%) Luigi
11 3 (0.42%) ThingWorx
11 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.28%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.69%) Magento
4 4 (0.56%) Odoo
5 3 (0.42%) Endur
5 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.28%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 357 (49.58%) AWS
2 225 (31.25%) Azure
3 125 (17.36%) GCP
4 105 (14.58%) Serverless
5 80 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 78 (10.83%) GitHub
7 68 (9.44%) AWS Lambda
8 53 (7.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (5.56%) OpenShift
10 39 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (4.17%) Power Platform
12 27 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (2.22%) Azure Functions
17 15 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (2.08%) AWS CodePipeline
17 15 (2.08%) IaaS
18 14 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.08%) HTTP
2 12 (1.67%) DNS
3 8 (1.11%) BGP
3 8 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
3 8 (1.11%) MPLS
3 8 (1.11%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (1.11%) VPN
4 7 (0.97%) SAN
4 7 (0.97%) SSH
5 6 (0.83%) DHCP
5 6 (0.83%) Firewall
5 6 (0.83%) NAS
6 4 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.42%) SSL
8 2 (0.28%) Broadband
8 2 (0.28%) Internet
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.14%) Network Security
9 1 (0.14%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (15.42%) Relational Database
2 109 (15.14%) MySQL
3 102 (14.17%) MongoDB
4 89 (12.36%) NoSQL
5 88 (12.22%) SQL Server
6 65 (9.03%) Apache Ignite
7 59 (8.19%) Amazon RDS
8 45 (6.25%) Oracle Database
9 41 (5.69%) Amazon Aurora
9 41 (5.69%) RDBMS
10 31 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
11 29 (4.03%) GIS
11 29 (4.03%) Power BI
12 28 (3.89%) Redis
13 18 (2.50%) DynamoDB
14 17 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
15 16 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
15 16 (2.22%) Couchbase
16 12 (1.67%) Oracle Database 11g
16 12 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 105 (14.58%) Git
2 68 (9.44%) GitLab
3 60 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 54 (7.50%) Cypress.io
5 52 (7.22%) JIRA
6 40 (5.56%) JUnit
7 20 (2.78%) Selenium
8 12 (1.67%) Maven
9 10 (1.39%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.11%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.11%) Robot Framework
10 8 (1.11%) TestRail
11 7 (0.97%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.97%) JMeter
12 6 (0.83%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.69%) Checkstyle
13 5 (0.69%) Mockito
13 5 (0.69%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.69%) TestNG
13 5 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 125 (17.36%) Finance
2 124 (17.22%) Public Sector
3 108 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 92 (12.78%) Banking
5 67 (9.31%) Front Office
6 41 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (1.67%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.25%) Marketing
9 9 (1.25%) Publishing
10 8 (1.11%) Retail
11 7 (0.97%) Electronics
12 5 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.56%) French Language
13 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.42%) Dutch Language
14 3 (0.42%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 364 (50.56%) Developer
2 106 (14.72%) Python Developer
3 90 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 88 (12.22%) Full Stack Developer
5 80 (11.11%) React Developer
6 72 (10.00%) Python Engineer
7 68 (9.44%) Java Developer
8 67 (9.31%) Python Software Engineer
9 66 (9.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 54 (7.50%) DBA
11 45 (6.25%) Architect
12 43 (5.97%) Full Stack Engineer
13 42 (5.83%) Data Engineer
14 38 (5.28%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 36 (5.00%) Full Stack Python Developer
16 35 (4.86%) Senior
17 34 (4.72%) Lead
18 23 (3.19%) PostgreSQL DBA
19 20 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
20 19 (2.64%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (25.56%) React
2 121 (16.81%) REST
3 87 (12.08%) Spring
4 85 (11.81%) Spring Boot
5 79 (10.97%) Node.js
5 79 (10.97%) Redux
6 71 (9.86%) Kafka
7 68 (9.44%) gRPC
8 66 (9.17%) Material-UI
9 65 (9.03%) Protocol Buffers
10 55 (7.64%) AWS CDK
11 49 (6.81%) CSS
12 47 (6.53%) HTML
13 40 (5.56%) AngularJS
14 37 (5.14%) .NET
15 35 (4.86%) RESTful
16 29 (4.03%) Hibernate
17 27 (3.75%) XML
18 26 (3.61%) JSON
19 22 (3.06%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.86%) Hedge funds
2 69 (9.58%) Fixed Income
3 34 (4.72%) Equities
4 29 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 29 (4.03%) Replication
5 23 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
8 18 (2.50%) Clustering
9 12 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.67%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.53%) PKI
11 9 (1.25%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.11%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.83%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 78 (10.83%) Linux
2 34 (4.72%) Windows
3 19 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (2.64%) Unix
4 18 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.39%) VMS
6 8 (1.11%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.42%) Android
8 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.42%) CentOS
9 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Fedora
10 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
10 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (43.33%) Agile
2 181 (25.14%) DevOps
3 161 (22.36%) Full Stack Development
4 156 (21.67%) Software Engineering
5 138 (19.17%) Microservices
6 137 (19.03%) CI/CD
7 105 (14.58%) Scrum
8 86 (11.94%) Machine Learning
8 86 (11.94%) Migration
9 85 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
10 84 (11.67%) Artificial Intelligence
11 77 (10.69%) Unit Testing
12 74 (10.28%) Asset Management
13 68 (9.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 66 (9.17%) Test Automation
15 65 (9.03%) Automated Trading
15 65 (9.03%) Investment Management
15 65 (9.03%) Performance Tuning
16 61 (8.47%) ETL
17 60 (8.33%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 265 (36.81%) Python
2 248 (34.44%) SQL
3 172 (23.89%) Java
4 158 (21.94%) TypeScript
5 115 (15.97%) JavaScript
6 51 (7.08%) Bash
7 49 (6.81%) C#
8 47 (6.53%) PowerShell
9 35 (4.86%) Go
10 26 (3.61%) PL/SQL
11 19 (2.64%) Ruby
12 18 (2.50%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.94%) Scala
13 14 (1.94%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.39%) C
15 9 (1.25%) Groovy
15 9 (1.25%) Korn
16 8 (1.11%) C++
17 6 (0.83%) PHP
18 5 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 190 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 161 (22.36%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.19%) Degree
4 40 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 31 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.42%) OCP
9 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.28%) HND
10 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.28%) MCSE
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.31%) Accessibility
2 22 (3.06%) QA
3 11 (1.53%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.53%) MiFID
4 6 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (0.69%) SLA
6 2 (0.28%) GDPR
6 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.14%) EMIR
7 1 (0.14%) FATCA
7 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.14%) NIST
7 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 135 (18.75%) Docker
2 19 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.08%) vSphere
5 7 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.28%) iptables
7 2 (0.28%) KVM
7 2 (0.28%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.14%) Ceph
8 1 (0.14%) HDFS
8 1 (0.14%) Lustre
8 1 (0.14%) NFS
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.14%) Postfix
8 1 (0.14%) Samba
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 150 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 74 (10.28%) Grafana
3 69 (9.58%) Ansible
4 60 (8.33%) Terraform
5 29 (4.03%) Kibana
6 25 (3.47%) Prometheus
7 17 (2.36%) Istio
8 14 (1.94%) Argo
9 10 (1.39%) Packer
10 9 (1.25%) Puppet
11 8 (1.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (0.97%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.97%) vRealize
13 5 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.69%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.56%) Nessus
14 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.56%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 177 (24.58%) Oracle
2 105 (14.58%) Google
3 73 (10.14%) Microsoft
4 25 (3.47%) VMware
5 24 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 22 (3.06%) Splunk
7 18 (2.50%) Sparx
8 17 (2.36%) SAP
9 15 (2.08%) ESRI
9 15 (2.08%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.94%) Informatica
11 13 (1.81%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.53%) SolarWinds
13 10 (1.39%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.83%) Databricks
14 6 (0.83%) New Relic
15 5 (0.69%) Arqiva
15 5 (0.69%) CyberArk
15 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
15 5 (0.69%) Veritas