PostgreSQL Contracts in the South East

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 134 139
Rank change year-on-year +33 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 105 82 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.86% 1.45% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.16% 10.01% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 55 76
10th Percentile £350 £383 £450
25th Percentile £387 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £568 £631
90th Percentile £688 £588 £688
England median daily rate £550 £530 £570
% change year-on-year +3.77% -7.02% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 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 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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 612 819 1,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.87% 14.52% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 575 951
10th Percentile £313 £319 £340
25th Percentile £380 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £610
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 37 41 27
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.91 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +64.29% -19.54%
75th Percentile £62.96 £75.00 £49.38
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.75 £58.16
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.68
% change year-on-year -33.33% +37.35% +77.28%

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 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the South East

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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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +22 60 £497 +9.72% 15
Berkshire +15 56 £497 +6.49% 5
West Sussex +25 22 £387 -38.08% 6
Hampshire +4 14 £479 -4.25% 6
Oxfordshire +3 4 - - 6
Surrey +8 3 £433 -22.56% 7
East Sussex - 3 £490 - 6
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 10 (9.52%) Apache
2 7 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.67%) Confluence
3 3 (2.86%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.90%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.90%) JBoss
5 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.71%) AWS
2 14 (13.33%) GitHub
3 12 (11.43%) Azure
3 12 (11.43%) OpenShift
4 6 (5.71%) GCP
5 5 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (4.76%) IaaS
5 5 (4.76%) SaaS
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.81%) Azure AKS
6 4 (3.81%) Serverless
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.90%) PaaS
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.95%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.67%) BGP
1 7 (6.67%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (6.67%) MPLS
1 7 (6.67%) Radio Access Network
1 7 (6.67%) VPN
2 5 (4.76%) DNS
2 5 (4.76%) SAN
3 4 (3.81%) DHCP
3 4 (3.81%) NAS
4 2 (1.90%) SSL
5 1 (0.95%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.95%) MongoDB
2 19 (18.10%) MySQL
3 17 (16.19%) Oracle Database
4 16 (15.24%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (13.33%) NoSQL
5 14 (13.33%) Relational Database
6 13 (12.38%) Couchbase
7 12 (11.43%) Oracle Database 11g
7 12 (11.43%) SQL Server
8 9 (8.57%) RDBMS
9 7 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (5.71%) GIS
11 5 (4.76%) Redis
12 2 (1.90%) CouchDB
12 2 (1.90%) DB2
13 1 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.95%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 26 (24.76%) GitLab
2 23 (21.90%) Git
3 17 (16.19%) JIRA
4 13 (12.38%) Jenkins
5 7 (6.67%) Robot Framework
5 7 (6.67%) TestRail
6 4 (3.81%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.81%) JMeter
7 3 (2.86%) JUnit
7 3 (2.86%) Subversion
8 2 (1.90%) Selenium
9 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.95%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.95%) Mockito
General
1 8 (7.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.81%) Finance
4 3 (2.86%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.90%) Automotive
5 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Banking
6 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (40.95%) Developer
2 13 (12.38%) Java Developer
3 12 (11.43%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 12 (11.43%) Site Engineer
3 12 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 8 (7.62%) Database Specialist
5 7 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (6.67%) Platform Specialist
6 6 (5.71%) Full Stack Developer
6 6 (5.71%) Network Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Test Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Cloud Developer
8 4 (3.81%) DBA
8 4 (3.81%) GIS Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (28.57%) Kafka
2 22 (20.95%) REST
3 13 (12.38%) Spring
4 8 (7.62%) AngularJS
4 8 (7.62%) Node.js
4 8 (7.62%) SOAP
5 7 (6.67%) NETCONF
5 7 (6.67%) RESTCONF
5 7 (6.67%) YANG
6 6 (5.71%) Django
6 6 (5.71%) OpenLayers
6 6 (5.71%) PostGIS
6 6 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (5.71%) React
7 5 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.76%) Vert.x
8 4 (3.81%) Celery
8 4 (3.81%) Flask
8 4 (3.81%) GeoPandas
8 4 (3.81%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (11.43%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.62%) Clustering
3 8 (7.62%) Replication
4 7 (6.67%) PKI
5 5 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.81%) Fat Client
6 4 (3.81%) Thin Client
7 3 (2.86%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.90%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.90%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.86%) Linux
2 10 (9.52%) Windows
3 9 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (8.57%) VMS
4 8 (7.62%) Windows Server
5 7 (6.67%) Unix
6 4 (3.81%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.95%) Solaris
7 1 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (47.62%) Agile
2 35 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 32 (30.48%) Scrum
4 31 (29.52%) DevOps
5 30 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 26 (24.76%) Migration
7 25 (23.81%) CI/CD
7 25 (23.81%) Containerisation
8 24 (22.86%) Data Migration
8 24 (22.86%) Microservices
9 22 (20.95%) Task Automation
10 20 (19.05%) Unit Testing
11 16 (15.24%) Software Testing
12 14 (13.33%) Test Automation
13 13 (12.38%) Architectural Design
13 13 (12.38%) Clean Code
13 13 (12.38%) High Availability
14 12 (11.43%) Full Stack Development
14 12 (11.43%) GitOps
14 12 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (33.33%) SQL
2 24 (22.86%) Python
3 20 (19.05%) Java
4 17 (16.19%) Bash
5 12 (11.43%) Go
5 12 (11.43%) PL/SQL
6 9 (8.57%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.71%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.86%) Ruby
10 2 (1.90%) C#
11 1 (0.95%) C++
11 1 (0.95%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (48.57%) Security Cleared
2 49 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.62%) Degree
4 1 (0.95%) OCP
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.95%) QA
1 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (21.90%) Docker
2 15 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (13.33%) vSphere
4 7 (6.67%) Active Directory
5 4 (3.81%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.86%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.90%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.95%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (30.48%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.00%) Ansible
3 14 (13.33%) Kibana
4 13 (12.38%) Grafana
5 12 (11.43%) Argo
5 12 (11.43%) Istio
5 12 (11.43%) Prometheus
6 10 (9.52%) Terraform
7 7 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 7 (6.67%) Packer
7 7 (6.67%) vRealize
8 4 (3.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.81%) Nessus
8 4 (3.81%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (3.81%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.81%) WSUS
8 4 (3.81%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.95%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (40.95%) Oracle
2 21 (20.00%) VMware
3 17 (16.19%) Red Hat
4 11 (10.48%) Microsoft
4 11 (10.48%) SolarWinds
5 5 (4.76%) Arqiva
5 5 (4.76%) Veritas
6 4 (3.81%) Google
6 4 (3.81%) Veeam
7 3 (2.86%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.86%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.86%) SAP
8 2 (1.90%) Splunk
9 1 (0.95%) Compaq
9 1 (0.95%) Dell
9 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace