PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 60 71
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 23 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.86% 0.94% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.71% 9.59% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 7
10th Percentile £443 £475 £505
25th Percentile £463 £554 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £658 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% +9.58% +24.68%
75th Percentile £578 £750 £738
90th Percentile £648 - £743
South West median daily rate £550 £570 £599
% change year-on-year -3.51% -4.80% +8.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - £59.70
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £62.05
75th Percentile £77.50 - £64.40
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £75.00 - £62.05
% change year-on-year - - +83.85%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 83 73 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 10.32% 9.77% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 42 115
10th Percentile £331 £351 £375
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £560
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -19.64% +12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £647 £650
90th Percentile £649 £773 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -1.18% -7.61% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £51.70 - £53.13
25th Percentile - £25.26 £59.70
Median hourly rate £65.00 £27.13 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +139.63% -61.25% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £37.87 £84.65
90th Percentile £68.75 £53.85 £87.86
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £28.56 £49.34
% change year-on-year +127.57% -42.11% -13.23%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Bristol

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 7 (30.43%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) npm
3 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
3 7 (30.43%) Snowflake
4 6 (26.09%) Azure
5 5 (21.74%) GCP
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub
6 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle ODI
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle Reports
1 7 (30.43%) Power BI
1 7 (30.43%) Star Schema
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 7 (30.43%) DBeaver
3 5 (21.74%) Git
General
1 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.04%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Electronics
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Lead
2 7 (30.43%) Data Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Quality Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Developer
4 3 (13.04%) ETL Tester
4 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Leader
4 3 (13.04%) Tester
5 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Database Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) DBA
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (60.87%) Node.js
1 14 (60.87%) React
2 7 (30.43%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
3 3 (13.04%) CSS
3 3 (13.04%) HTML
3 3 (13.04%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (13.04%) Spring
3 3 (13.04%) Vue
4 2 (8.70%) .NET
5 1 (4.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Replication
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) Mentoring
4 8 (34.78%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (34.78%) ETL
5 7 (30.43%) Analytics
5 7 (30.43%) Dimensional Modelling
5 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
5 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
6 6 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (17.39%) DevOps
8 4 (17.39%) Microservices
9 3 (13.04%) Code Quality
9 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
9 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
9 3 (13.04%) Web Development
10 2 (8.70%) Clean Code
10 2 (8.70%) Design Patterns
10 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) TypeScript
2 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
3 12 (52.17%) Python
4 10 (43.48%) SQL
5 4 (17.39%) Java
6 3 (13.04%) Ruby
7 2 (8.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) SC Cleared
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Argo
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Data Guard
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Google
3 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) SAP