PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.30% - 1.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.26% - 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
East of England median daily rate £588 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +30.56% -30.77% +10.64%

All Database & BI Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 39 18 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 12.66% 12.16% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 14 17
10th Percentile £413 - £366
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +13.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £638 £580 £550
90th Percentile - £650 £560
East of England median daily rate £500 £468 £463
% change year-on-year +6.95% +1.08% -11.90%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 March 2026. 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
Luton - 4 £500 -
PostgreSQL
East of England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) ETL Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Metadata Management
4 1 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Talend