PostgreSQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 169 171 188
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 -11
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 264 311 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.24% 1.37% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.92% 9.31% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 242 301
10th Percentile £374 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.76% +9.04%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £50.88 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £22.16 -
Median % change year-on-year +261.01% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,661 3,340 5,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.48% 14.72% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,857 2,374 3,802
10th Percentile £314 £325 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 106 125
10th Percentile £13.72 £21.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £31.84 £20.75
Median hourly rate £34.47 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.48% +62.71% +41.02%
75th Percentile £49.54 £73.74 £56.25
90th Percentile £71.50 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East +33 103 £482 -1.63% 46
Scotland 0 64 £460 -3.16% 21
North of England +4 50 £545 -5.75% 51
North West +13 27 £534 -12.96% 33
South West +6 26 £450 -18.18% 31
West Midlands +27 19 £510 -2.86% 9
Midlands +23 19 £510 -2.86% 14
Yorkshire +7 17 £600 +5.26% 16
North East +3 6 £550 -21.43% 2
East of England -8 2 £675 +28.57% 8
Wales +20 1 £425 -32.00% 4
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 13 (4.92%) Apache
2 11 (4.17%) Confluence
3 6 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.89%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.14%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.76%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.38%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.52%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.76%) Odoo
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 104 (39.39%) AWS
2 69 (26.14%) Serverless
3 53 (20.08%) Amazon S3
4 51 (19.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 51 (19.32%) AWS Lambda
5 43 (16.29%) OpenShift
6 38 (14.39%) Azure
7 27 (10.23%) GitHub
8 17 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (5.68%) AWS CodePipeline
10 11 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (3.41%) GCP
12 8 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (3.03%) SaaS
13 7 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.65%) Power Platform
14 6 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (2.27%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.27%) BGP
1 6 (2.27%) DNS
1 6 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
1 6 (2.27%) MPLS
1 6 (2.27%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (2.27%) VPN
2 5 (1.89%) HTTP
2 5 (1.89%) SAN
3 4 (1.52%) DHCP
3 4 (1.52%) NAS
4 2 (0.76%) Firewall
4 2 (0.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (21.21%) MongoDB
2 40 (15.15%) MySQL
3 36 (13.64%) Relational Database
4 33 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 29 (10.98%) Elasticsearch
6 28 (10.61%) NoSQL
7 24 (9.09%) Oracle Database
8 23 (8.71%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (7.58%) SQL Server
10 16 (6.06%) RDBMS
11 15 (5.68%) GIS
12 13 (4.92%) Couchbase
13 11 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
14 10 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (3.79%) Redis
15 8 (3.03%) Informix
16 7 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
16 7 (2.65%) InfluxDB
17 6 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
17 6 (2.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 44 (16.67%) Git
2 36 (13.64%) GitLab
3 31 (11.74%) Jenkins
4 20 (7.58%) JIRA
4 20 (7.58%) JUnit
5 8 (3.03%) Selenium
6 6 (2.27%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.27%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.27%) Robot Framework
6 6 (2.27%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.27%) TestRail
7 5 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.89%) Checkstyle
7 5 (1.89%) Maven
8 4 (1.52%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.52%) JMeter
9 3 (1.14%) Mocha
10 2 (0.76%) Subversion
10 2 (0.76%) webpack
11 1 (0.38%) IntelliJ
General
1 68 (25.76%) Public Sector
2 32 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 7 (2.65%) Finance
3 7 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.14%) Banking
5 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (1.14%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.76%) Automotive
6 2 (0.76%) Marketing
7 1 (0.38%) Electronics
7 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.38%) Games
7 1 (0.38%) Legal
7 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 116 (43.94%) Developer
2 35 (13.26%) Java Developer
3 19 (7.20%) DBA
4 18 (6.82%) Data Engineer
5 17 (6.44%) Full Stack Developer
6 15 (5.68%) Software Engineer
7 14 (5.30%) Site Engineer
7 14 (5.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 13 (4.92%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 13 (4.92%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 9 (3.41%) Automation Developer
9 9 (3.41%) Database Engineer
10 8 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.03%) Database Specialist
10 8 (3.03%) Full Stack Engineer
10 8 (3.03%) Lead
10 8 (3.03%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.03%) Senior
10 8 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (23.86%) REST
2 52 (19.70%) AWS CDK
3 51 (19.32%) React
4 42 (15.91%) Kafka
5 41 (15.53%) Spring
6 36 (13.64%) Node.js
7 33 (12.50%) Spring Boot
8 25 (9.47%) HTML
9 23 (8.71%) CSS
10 18 (6.82%) XML
11 16 (6.06%) AngularJS
11 16 (6.06%) PostGIS
12 15 (5.68%) JSON
12 15 (5.68%) RESTful
13 13 (4.92%) Hibernate
14 12 (4.55%) JPA
15 11 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
15 11 (4.17%) SOAP
16 9 (3.41%) OpenLayers
17 7 (2.65%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.95%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.68%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (5.68%) Replication
3 14 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.03%) PKI
5 7 (2.65%) Clustering
6 5 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.52%) Fat Client
7 4 (1.52%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.52%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.14%) Smart Meter
9 2 (0.76%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.38%) FMCG
10 1 (0.38%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.26%) Linux
2 16 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (5.68%) Windows
4 12 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.41%) Unix
6 8 (3.03%) Ubuntu
6 8 (3.03%) VMS
7 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.14%) Solaris
8 3 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.76%) Android
9 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.38%) CentOS
10 1 (0.38%) Fedora
10 1 (0.38%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (53.41%) Agile
2 86 (32.58%) DevOps
3 68 (25.76%) Scrum
4 64 (24.24%) CI/CD
5 55 (20.83%) Microservices
6 53 (20.08%) Software Engineering
7 48 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 47 (17.80%) Unit Testing
9 44 (16.67%) Migration
10 40 (15.15%) Full Stack Development
11 39 (14.77%) Performance Tuning
11 39 (14.77%) Test Automation
12 37 (14.02%) Mentoring
13 35 (13.26%) High Availability
13 35 (13.26%) Kanban
14 33 (12.50%) Containerisation
15 28 (10.61%) Data Migration
15 28 (10.61%) TDD
16 27 (10.23%) Disaster Recovery
16 27 (10.23%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (31.82%) SQL
2 76 (28.79%) Python
3 71 (26.89%) Java
4 61 (23.11%) TypeScript
5 52 (19.70%) JavaScript
6 27 (10.23%) Bash
7 14 (5.30%) Shell Script
8 12 (4.55%) PL/SQL
8 12 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.17%) C#
10 9 (3.41%) Go
11 4 (1.52%) Groovy
12 3 (1.14%) PHP
12 3 (1.14%) Ruby
13 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.38%) C++
14 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.38%) R
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
14 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (30.68%) Security Cleared
2 70 (26.52%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.44%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.92%) Degree
5 9 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.76%) HND
6 2 (0.76%) OCP
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.85%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.03%) QA
3 6 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.52%) SLA
6 2 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 62 (23.48%) Docker
2 15 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.55%) vSphere
4 8 (3.03%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.76%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.38%) HDFS
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 63 (23.86%) Kubernetes
2 56 (21.21%) Grafana
3 51 (19.32%) Ansible
4 23 (8.71%) Kibana
5 18 (6.82%) Terraform
6 15 (5.68%) Prometheus
7 14 (5.30%) Argo
7 14 (5.30%) Istio
8 7 (2.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 7 (2.65%) Packer
9 6 (2.27%) vRealize
10 5 (1.89%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.52%) Nessus
11 4 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (1.52%) vCenter Server
11 4 (1.52%) WSUS
12 2 (0.76%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.76%) Puppet
13 1 (0.38%) Graylog
Vendors
1 69 (26.14%) Oracle
2 22 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 20 (7.58%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.58%) VMware
4 10 (3.79%) SolarWinds
4 10 (3.79%) Splunk
5 8 (3.03%) Google
6 5 (1.89%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.52%) Arqiva
7 4 (1.52%) Commvault
7 4 (1.52%) SAP
7 4 (1.52%) Veeam
7 4 (1.52%) Veritas
8 3 (1.14%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.76%) ESRI
10 1 (0.38%) Confluent
10 1 (0.38%) Databricks
10 1 (0.38%) Denodo
10 1 (0.38%) Talend