PostgreSQL Contracts in the City of London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 105 129
Rank change year-on-year +14 +24 +4
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 36 45 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.70% 1.62% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.18% 8.18% 6.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 55
10th Percentile £498 £408 £421
25th Percentile £533 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +4.55% -5.38%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £750
90th Percentile £805 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £585 £578 £550
% change year-on-year +1.30% +5.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

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 requiring database or business intelligence skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 440 550 1,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.73% 19.81% 22.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 365 652
10th Percentile £406 £375 £425
25th Percentile £483 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year - +2.13% +3.07%
75th Percentile £710 £704 £713
90th Percentile £825 £789 £790
Central London median daily rate £590 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -1.67% +2.35% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £38.95 £45.20
25th Percentile £36.75 £40.38 £52.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £44.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +59.42%
75th Percentile £40.25 £48.88 £62.88
90th Percentile - £51.05 £76.80
Central London median hourly rate £40.00 £44.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -20.00% +59.42%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the City of London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the City of London

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the City of London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the City of London

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (11.11%) Apache
2 3 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (8.33%) Tomcat
2 3 (8.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.78%) nginx
3 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.78%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 23 (63.89%) AWS
2 8 (22.22%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 4 (11.11%) GCP
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (8.33%) Serverless
5 3 (8.33%) Slack
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Table
7 1 (2.78%) IaaS
7 1 (2.78%) MinIO
7 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) MongoDB
2 12 (33.33%) MySQL
2 12 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 6 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 5 (13.89%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (11.11%) CockroachDB
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
6 3 (8.33%) PowerCenter
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (5.56%) Big Data
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Spanner
7 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (5.56%) DB2
7 2 (5.56%) GIS
7 2 (5.56%) NewSQL
7 2 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) Git
2 4 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 4 (11.11%) GitLab
2 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.11%) JUnit
3 3 (8.33%) Jasmine
3 3 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.78%) Maven
4 1 (2.78%) Postman
4 1 (2.78%) Selenium
4 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.78%) Storybook
4 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (22.22%) Finance
4 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Java Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Python Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Lead
4 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Data Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Django Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) GIS Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Python/Django Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (30.56%) Spring
1 11 (30.56%) Spring Boot
2 10 (27.78%) Kafka
2 10 (27.78%) React
2 10 (27.78%) RESTful
3 4 (11.11%) .NET
3 4 (11.11%) Django
3 4 (11.11%) OpenAPI
3 4 (11.11%) Swagger
4 3 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (8.33%) Redux
4 3 (8.33%) REST
4 3 (8.33%) Spring Batch
4 3 (8.33%) Spring Security
5 2 (5.56%) CSS
5 2 (5.56%) CSS3
5 2 (5.56%) GraphQL
5 2 (5.56%) HTML
5 2 (5.56%) HTML5
5 2 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Unix
2 4 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Agile
1 10 (27.78%) DevOps
1 10 (27.78%) Microservices
1 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 8 (22.22%) Clean Code
4 7 (19.44%) API Development
5 5 (13.89%) ETL
5 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
5 5 (13.89%) SOLID
5 5 (13.89%) Task Automation
6 4 (11.11%) Analytics
6 4 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (11.11%) Migration
6 4 (11.11%) OO
6 4 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (11.11%) Scrum
6 4 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) SQL
2 17 (47.22%) Python
3 13 (36.11%) Java
4 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (16.67%) Bash
6 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.78%) C#
8 1 (2.78%) Korn
8 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Degree
5 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 15 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.89%) Grafana
2 5 (13.89%) Terraform
3 4 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.33%) Ansible
4 3 (8.33%) Control-M
4 3 (8.33%) Kibana
5 2 (5.56%) logstash
5 2 (5.56%) Salt
6 1 (2.78%) Argo
6 1 (2.78%) Consul
6 1 (2.78%) Istio
6 1 (2.78%) Kustomize
6 1 (2.78%) Packer
6 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Oracle
2 5 (13.89%) Google
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) ESRI
4 2 (5.56%) IBM
4 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.78%) Ab Initio
5 1 (2.78%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.78%) Brio
5 1 (2.78%) Databricks
5 1 (2.78%) SAP