PostgreSQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 124 124
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -11
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 260 475 953
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.76% 1.99% 2.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.92% 10.63% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 344 703
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £430 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £729
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £22.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -59.71% -
75th Percentile - £33.58 £57.50
90th Percentile - £40.43 -
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 falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,914 4,470 9,288
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.75% 18.72% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,132 3,273 6,790
10th Percentile £356 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 78 85
10th Percentile £18.20 £23.86 £19.00
25th Percentile £22.25 £41.44 £21.17
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +37.89% +58.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

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 12 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 (3.85%) Apache
1 10 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.69%) Confluence
3 5 (1.92%) GeoServer
3 5 (1.92%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 4 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.54%) Drupal
4 4 (1.54%) Luigi
4 4 (1.54%) nginx
4 4 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.54%) WordPress
5 3 (1.15%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.77%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 119 (45.77%) AWS
2 56 (21.54%) Serverless
3 53 (20.38%) Azure
4 40 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 37 (14.23%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (13.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (8.85%) OpenShift
8 22 (8.46%) GitHub
9 18 (6.92%) GCP
10 16 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (3.85%) SaaS
14 9 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (2.69%) AWS CodePipeline
15 7 (2.69%) Snowflake
16 6 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (2.31%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.62%) HTTP
2 5 (1.92%) SSH
3 3 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.77%) DNS
4 2 (0.77%) Firewall
5 1 (0.38%) DHCP
5 1 (0.38%) Internet
5 1 (0.38%) MQTT
5 1 (0.38%) SSL
5 1 (0.38%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (20.38%) MongoDB
2 40 (15.38%) MySQL
3 33 (12.69%) NoSQL
4 29 (11.15%) Relational Database
4 29 (11.15%) SQL Server
5 28 (10.77%) Amazon Aurora
5 28 (10.77%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (8.08%) Oracle Database
7 16 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (5.77%) Redis
9 14 (5.38%) RDBMS
10 11 (4.23%) Oracle Database 11g
11 9 (3.46%) GIS
12 8 (3.08%) Informix
13 7 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (2.69%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (2.31%) DynamoDB
14 6 (2.31%) Flink
14 6 (2.31%) InfluxDB
15 5 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (11.15%) Jenkins
2 22 (8.46%) Git
3 18 (6.92%) GitLab
4 11 (4.23%) JIRA
5 5 (1.92%) Selenium
6 4 (1.54%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.54%) JUnit
6 4 (1.54%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.15%) Mockito
8 2 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.77%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.77%) Maven
8 2 (0.77%) Mocha
8 2 (0.77%) TestNG
8 2 (0.77%) webpack
9 1 (0.38%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.38%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (16.92%) Public Sector
1 44 (16.92%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.00%) Finance
3 14 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (1.92%) Banking
5 4 (1.54%) French Language
6 3 (1.15%) Dutch Language
6 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.15%) Marketing
6 3 (1.15%) Tech for Good
7 2 (0.77%) Arabic Language
7 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.77%) German Language
7 2 (0.77%) Japanese Language
7 2 (0.77%) Korean Language
7 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.77%) Spanish Language
7 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (45.00%) Developer
2 33 (12.69%) DBA
3 22 (8.46%) Full Stack Developer
3 22 (8.46%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 21 (8.08%) Senior
5 19 (7.31%) Data Engineer
6 16 (6.15%) Architect
7 14 (5.38%) Python Developer
8 13 (5.00%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 12 (4.62%) Lead
10 10 (3.85%) Consultant
10 10 (3.85%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.85%) Scala Developer
10 10 (3.85%) SQL Developer
11 8 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.08%) Node.js Developer
12 7 (2.69%) Java Engineer
12 7 (2.69%) React Developer
12 7 (2.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (17.69%) React
2 34 (13.08%) AWS CDK
3 31 (11.92%) Node.js
4 29 (11.15%) Kafka
5 27 (10.38%) REST
6 24 (9.23%) CSS
7 23 (8.85%) HTML
8 18 (6.92%) Spring
9 17 (6.54%) RESTful
9 17 (6.54%) Spring Boot
10 14 (5.38%) .NET
11 12 (4.62%) JSON
12 11 (4.23%) AngularJS
12 11 (4.23%) PostGIS
13 10 (3.85%) Akka
13 10 (3.85%) Django
13 10 (3.85%) Play Framework
13 10 (3.85%) XML
14 8 (3.08%) Web Services
15 7 (2.69%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.38%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (5.00%) Replication
4 7 (2.69%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.69%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.54%) Clustering
5 4 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.15%) Derivative
6 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.15%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.77%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (0.77%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.77%) IoT
7 2 (0.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.92%) Linux
2 11 (4.23%) Windows
3 7 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.69%) Unix
4 3 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (33.85%) Agile
2 71 (27.31%) DevOps
3 63 (24.23%) CI/CD
4 44 (16.92%) Microservices
4 44 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (15.00%) Full Stack Development
5 39 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (14.23%) Migration
7 36 (13.85%) Software Engineering
8 32 (12.31%) Scrum
9 30 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
10 28 (10.77%) Unit Testing
11 26 (10.00%) ETL
11 26 (10.00%) Kanban
12 25 (9.62%) Clean Code
13 24 (9.23%) Test Automation
14 23 (8.85%) TDD
15 21 (8.08%) Code Quality
16 20 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
16 20 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 101 (38.85%) SQL
2 82 (31.54%) Python
3 51 (19.62%) Java
4 46 (17.69%) JavaScript
5 38 (14.62%) TypeScript
6 21 (8.08%) C#
7 19 (7.31%) Go
7 19 (7.31%) PL/SQL
8 17 (6.54%) Bash
9 14 (5.38%) Scala
10 8 (3.08%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.08%) Ruby
11 6 (2.31%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.92%) C
13 4 (1.54%) Bicep
13 4 (1.54%) C++
13 4 (1.54%) Groovy
13 4 (1.54%) Perl
13 4 (1.54%) PHP
14 2 (0.77%) XPath
Qualifications
1 48 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.31%) Degree
4 11 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.31%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.92%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.92%) QA
3 4 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.54%) MiFID
4 3 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) EMIR
6 1 (0.38%) FATCA
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (16.54%) Docker
2 6 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) HDFS
4 1 (0.38%) iptables
4 1 (0.38%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 48 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 38 (14.62%) Grafana
3 37 (14.23%) Ansible
4 24 (9.23%) Terraform
5 13 (5.00%) Kibana
6 12 (4.62%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.69%) Puppet
8 5 (1.92%) Argo
9 4 (1.54%) Istio
9 4 (1.54%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.77%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.77%) TIBCO Hawk
11 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 1 (0.38%) logstash
11 1 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.38%) Packer
11 1 (0.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 56 (21.54%) Oracle
2 16 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.38%) Splunk
4 8 (3.08%) Google
5 6 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.31%) Sparx
6 5 (1.92%) CyberArk
6 5 (1.92%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.92%) Informatica
6 5 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.54%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.54%) IBM
7 4 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.15%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.15%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.15%) Commvault
9 2 (0.77%) New Relic
9 2 (0.77%) SAP
9 2 (0.77%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.38%) PagerDuty