PostgreSQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 129 126 125
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -12
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 255 483 938
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.74% 2.00% 2.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.99% 10.62% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 351 696
10th Percentile £365 £400 £425
25th Percentile £430 £450 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £645
90th Percentile £685 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +3.35% -7.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £22.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -59.71% -
75th Percentile - £27.87 £57.50
90th Percentile - £38.15 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £22.49 £55.00
% change year-on-year +255.79% -59.12% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,835 4,548 9,402
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.37% 18.87% 21.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,093 3,337 6,861
10th Percentile £356 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 78 88
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.31 £19.35
25th Percentile £22.52 £41.44 £21.63
Median hourly rate £37.75 £64.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.47% +29.65% +65.83%
75th Percentile £58.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%

PostgreSQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PostgreSQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

PostgreSQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.53%) Apache
3 8 (3.14%) Confluence
4 5 (1.96%) GeoServer
4 5 (1.96%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 4 (1.57%) Drupal
5 4 (1.57%) Luigi
5 4 (1.57%) nginx
5 4 (1.57%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.57%) WordPress
6 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.18%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.78%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.39%) IIS
8 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.39%) Endur
2 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 121 (47.45%) AWS
2 58 (22.75%) Azure
2 58 (22.75%) Serverless
3 37 (14.51%) Amazon S3
4 35 (13.73%) AWS Lambda
5 31 (12.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (8.63%) GitHub
7 19 (7.45%) OpenShift
8 17 (6.67%) GCP
9 16 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.53%) SaaS
13 7 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.75%) Azure AKS
13 7 (2.75%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.35%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.92%) HTTP
2 5 (1.96%) SSH
3 3 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.78%) DNS
4 2 (0.78%) Firewall
5 1 (0.39%) DHCP
5 1 (0.39%) Internet
5 1 (0.39%) MQTT
5 1 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 40 (15.69%) MySQL
3 34 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 28 (10.98%) Relational Database
5 27 (10.59%) Amazon Aurora
5 27 (10.59%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (10.20%) SQL Server
7 21 (8.24%) Oracle Database
8 16 (6.27%) Redis
9 15 (5.88%) RDBMS
10 12 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (4.71%) Oracle Database 11g
11 11 (4.31%) GIS
12 8 (3.14%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (3.14%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (2.35%) Flink
13 6 (2.35%) Informix
14 5 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.96%) DB2
14 5 (1.96%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 29 (11.37%) Jenkins
2 23 (9.02%) Git
3 19 (7.45%) GitLab
4 13 (5.10%) JIRA
5 5 (1.96%) Selenium
6 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.57%) JUnit
7 3 (1.18%) Maven
7 3 (1.18%) Mockito
7 3 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.18%) webpack
8 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.78%) Mocha
8 2 (0.78%) TestNG
9 1 (0.39%) EasyMock
9 1 (0.39%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (16.47%) Public Sector
2 39 (15.29%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.59%) Finance
4 14 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (1.96%) Banking
6 4 (1.57%) French Language
7 3 (1.18%) Dutch Language
7 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.18%) Marketing
7 3 (1.18%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.78%) Arabic Language
8 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.78%) German Language
8 2 (0.78%) Japanese Language
8 2 (0.78%) Korean Language
8 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.78%) Spanish Language
8 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (45.49%) Developer
2 31 (12.16%) DBA
3 22 (8.63%) Full Stack Developer
4 21 (8.24%) Senior
5 20 (7.84%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 19 (7.45%) Data Engineer
7 15 (5.88%) Architect
8 13 (5.10%) PostgreSQL Developer
8 13 (5.10%) Python Developer
9 12 (4.71%) Lead
10 10 (3.92%) Consultant
10 10 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.92%) SQL Developer
11 9 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.53%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.53%) Node.js Developer
12 8 (3.14%) Scala Developer
13 7 (2.75%) Java Engineer
13 7 (2.75%) Software Developer
13 7 (2.75%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (17.25%) React
2 32 (12.55%) AWS CDK
2 32 (12.55%) Node.js
3 31 (12.16%) REST
4 27 (10.59%) Kafka
5 25 (9.80%) CSS
6 24 (9.41%) HTML
7 18 (7.06%) Spring
8 17 (6.67%) Spring Boot
9 14 (5.49%) .NET
10 13 (5.10%) JSON
11 11 (4.31%) AngularJS
11 11 (4.31%) PostGIS
11 11 (4.31%) RESTful
11 11 (4.31%) XML
12 10 (3.92%) Django
13 8 (3.14%) Akka
13 8 (3.14%) Play Framework
13 8 (3.14%) Web Services
14 7 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.71%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.31%) Replication
5 5 (1.96%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.57%) Clustering
6 4 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.18%) Derivative
7 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.18%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.18%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.78%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (0.78%) IoT
8 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.76%) Linux
2 11 (4.31%) Windows
3 6 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.35%) Unix
4 3 (1.18%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (33.33%) Agile
2 73 (28.63%) DevOps
3 61 (23.92%) CI/CD
4 45 (17.65%) Microservices
5 40 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (15.29%) Full Stack Development
7 36 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (14.12%) Migration
8 35 (13.73%) Software Engineering
9 30 (11.76%) Scrum
10 28 (10.98%) Performance Tuning
11 27 (10.59%) Unit Testing
12 26 (10.20%) Kanban
13 25 (9.80%) Test Automation
14 24 (9.41%) ETL
15 23 (9.02%) Clean Code
15 23 (9.02%) TDD
16 22 (8.63%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (7.84%) Data Modelling
17 20 (7.84%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 100 (39.22%) SQL
2 82 (32.16%) Python
3 51 (20.00%) Java
4 47 (18.43%) JavaScript
5 38 (14.90%) TypeScript
6 22 (8.63%) Go
7 19 (7.45%) C#
7 19 (7.45%) PL/SQL
8 17 (6.67%) Bash
9 10 (3.92%) Scala
10 8 (3.14%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.14%) Ruby
11 5 (1.96%) C
11 5 (1.96%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.57%) Bicep
12 4 (1.57%) C++
12 4 (1.57%) Groovy
12 4 (1.57%) Perl
12 4 (1.57%) PHP
13 2 (0.78%) XPath
Qualifications
1 47 (18.43%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.45%) Degree
4 12 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.14%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.14%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.45%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.96%) QA
3 4 (1.57%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.57%) MiFID
4 3 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) EMIR
6 1 (0.39%) FATCA
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (17.65%) Docker
2 6 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) HDFS
4 1 (0.39%) iptables
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.39%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 47 (18.43%) Kubernetes
2 33 (12.94%) Grafana
3 31 (12.16%) Ansible
4 24 (9.41%) Terraform
5 11 (4.31%) Kibana
6 10 (3.92%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.35%) Puppet
8 4 (1.57%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.18%) Argo
10 2 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.78%) Istio
10 2 (0.78%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.78%) TIBCO Hawk
11 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.39%) logstash
11 1 (0.39%) Packer
11 1 (0.39%) Salt
Vendors
1 59 (23.14%) Oracle
2 15 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.10%) Splunk
4 8 (3.14%) Google
5 6 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.35%) Sparx
6 5 (1.96%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.96%) CyberArk
6 5 (1.96%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.96%) Informatica
7 4 (1.57%) IBM
7 4 (1.57%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.57%) SAP
7 4 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.18%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.18%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.78%) Commvault
9 2 (0.78%) ESRI
9 2 (0.78%) New Relic
9 2 (0.78%) TIBCO