PostgreSQL Contracts in the South East

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 102 135 136
Rank change year-on-year +33 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 103 81 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.79% 1.43% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.27% 10.21% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 55 79
10th Percentile £352 £383 £456
25th Percentile £400 £411 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -2.00% +1.42%
75th Percentile £588 £568 £622
90th Percentile £688 £588 £688
England median daily rate £550 £525 £574
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.50% +14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £42.40 - -
25th Percentile £50.88 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £22.16 -
Median % change year-on-year +215.88% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile £79.00 - -
England 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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 633 793 1,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.00% 14.00% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 551 948
10th Percentile £313 £315 £347
25th Percentile £394 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 42 28
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.18 £17.69
25th Percentile £22.61 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.18 £58.59 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.77% +160.40% -48.28%
75th Percentile £62.62 £74.69 £49.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.68 £57.53
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley +14 61 £497 +10.33% 17
Berkshire +13 55 £493 +6.59% 5
West Sussex +26 21 £387 -38.08% 6
Hampshire -3 13 £558 +11.50% 8
Oxfordshire -1 6 £500 - 9
Surrey +9 4 £433 -22.56% 4
East Sussex - 3 £490 - 5
Sussex - 1 £350 - 1
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (8.74%) Apache
2 6 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.83%) Confluence
3 3 (2.91%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.94%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.94%) JBoss
5 1 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.97%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 25 (24.27%) AWS
2 13 (12.62%) OpenShift
3 12 (11.65%) GitHub
4 11 (10.68%) Azure
5 5 (4.85%) GCP
5 5 (4.85%) SaaS
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.88%) Azure AKS
6 4 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.88%) IaaS
6 4 (3.88%) Serverless
7 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.94%) PaaS
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.97%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.97%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.83%) BGP
1 6 (5.83%) Ethernet VPN
1 6 (5.83%) MPLS
1 6 (5.83%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (5.83%) VPN
2 5 (4.85%) DNS
2 5 (4.85%) SAN
3 4 (3.88%) DHCP
3 4 (3.88%) NAS
4 2 (1.94%) Firewall
4 2 (1.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.48%) MongoDB
2 17 (16.50%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (16.50%) MySQL
3 16 (15.53%) Oracle Database
4 14 (13.59%) SQL Server
5 13 (12.62%) Relational Database
6 12 (11.65%) Couchbase
6 12 (11.65%) NoSQL
7 11 (10.68%) Oracle Database 11g
8 8 (7.77%) RDBMS
9 6 (5.83%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (5.83%) GIS
10 5 (4.85%) Redis
11 2 (1.94%) CouchDB
11 2 (1.94%) DB2
12 1 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.97%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 22 (21.36%) GitLab
2 19 (18.45%) Git
3 14 (13.59%) JIRA
4 11 (10.68%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.83%) Robot Framework
5 6 (5.83%) TestRail
6 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.88%) JMeter
7 3 (2.91%) JUnit
8 2 (1.94%) Selenium
8 2 (1.94%) Subversion
9 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.97%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.97%) Mockito
General
1 7 (6.80%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.85%) Public Sector
3 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.94%) Automotive
4 2 (1.94%) Finance
4 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.97%) Banking
5 1 (0.97%) Electronics
5 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (40.78%) Developer
2 13 (12.62%) Java Developer
2 13 (12.62%) Site Engineer
2 13 (12.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 12 (11.65%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 8 (7.77%) Database Specialist
5 7 (6.80%) Platform Specialist
6 6 (5.83%) Full Stack Developer
6 6 (5.83%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Network Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Test Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Cloud Developer
8 4 (3.88%) DBA
8 4 (3.88%) GIS Developer
9 3 (2.91%) Ruby Developer
9 3 (2.91%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (29.13%) Kafka
2 19 (18.45%) REST
3 13 (12.62%) Spring
4 8 (7.77%) AngularJS
4 8 (7.77%) Node.js
5 7 (6.80%) SOAP
6 6 (5.83%) Django
6 6 (5.83%) NETCONF
6 6 (5.83%) OpenLayers
6 6 (5.83%) PostGIS
6 6 (5.83%) React
6 6 (5.83%) RESTCONF
6 6 (5.83%) YANG
7 5 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (4.85%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.85%) Vert.x
8 4 (3.88%) Celery
8 4 (3.88%) Flask
8 4 (3.88%) GeoPandas
8 4 (3.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Cloud Native
1 13 (12.62%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (7.77%) PKI
3 7 (6.80%) Clustering
3 7 (6.80%) Replication
4 5 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.88%) Fat Client
5 4 (3.88%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.91%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.94%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.94%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.33%) Linux
2 11 (10.68%) Windows
3 9 (8.74%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (7.77%) VMS
5 6 (5.83%) Unix
6 4 (3.88%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.94%) Solaris
7 2 (1.94%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (44.66%) Agile
2 34 (33.01%) Performance Tuning
3 30 (29.13%) DevOps
4 28 (27.18%) Scrum
4 28 (27.18%) Software Engineering
5 24 (23.30%) Containerisation
5 24 (23.30%) Migration
6 22 (21.36%) Data Migration
6 22 (21.36%) Microservices
6 22 (21.36%) Task Automation
7 21 (20.39%) CI/CD
8 18 (17.48%) Unit Testing
9 14 (13.59%) Software Testing
10 13 (12.62%) Change Management
10 13 (12.62%) GitOps
10 13 (12.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (11.65%) Architectural Design
11 12 (11.65%) Collaborative Working
11 12 (11.65%) High Availability
11 12 (11.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (33.01%) SQL
2 24 (23.30%) Python
3 20 (19.42%) Java
4 15 (14.56%) Bash
5 11 (10.68%) PL/SQL
6 9 (8.74%) Go
6 9 (8.74%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.80%) PowerShell
7 7 (6.80%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.91%) Ruby
9 2 (1.94%) C#
10 1 (0.97%) C++
10 1 (0.97%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (48.54%) Security Cleared
2 47 (45.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) Degree
4 6 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.97%) OCP
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.97%) QA
1 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (19.42%) Docker
2 15 (14.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (11.65%) vSphere
4 7 (6.80%) Active Directory
5 4 (3.88%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.94%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.97%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (30.10%) Kubernetes
2 19 (18.45%) Ansible
3 15 (14.56%) Kibana
4 14 (13.59%) Grafana
5 13 (12.62%) Argo
5 13 (12.62%) Istio
5 13 (12.62%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.74%) Terraform
7 6 (5.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 6 (5.83%) Packer
7 6 (5.83%) vRealize
8 4 (3.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.88%) Nessus
8 4 (3.88%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (3.88%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.88%) WSUS
8 4 (3.88%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.97%) VxRail
Vendors
1 42 (40.78%) Oracle
2 20 (19.42%) VMware
3 17 (16.50%) Red Hat
4 11 (10.68%) Microsoft
5 10 (9.71%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.88%) Arqiva
6 4 (3.88%) Google
6 4 (3.88%) Veeam
6 4 (3.88%) Veritas
7 3 (2.91%) SAP
8 2 (1.94%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.94%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.94%) Splunk
9 1 (0.97%) Adobe
9 1 (0.97%) Compaq
9 1 (0.97%) Dell
9 1 (0.97%) Dynatrace