PostgreSQL Contracts in Central London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 86 101
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 58 47 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.90% 1.92% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.62% 8.87% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 37 48
10th Percentile £406 £442 £411
25th Percentile £455 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -0.94% -12.03%
75th Percentile £585 £638 £634
90th Percentile £625 £715 £761
London median daily rate £585 £575 £535
% change year-on-year +1.74% +7.48% -10.83%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 426 530 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.33% 21.67% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 360 520
10th Percentile £404 £411 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £685 £696 £725
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
London median daily rate £552 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £30.18 - £43.13
25th Percentile £31.85 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £67.34 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.94 - -
London median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Central London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in Central London.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in Central London

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Central London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in Central London

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +20 54 £585 +11.43% 35
West End of London - 2 £520 - 17
City of Westminster -3 1 £520 -20.00%
PostgreSQL
London

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) Luigi
2 1 (1.72%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 43 (74.14%) AWS
2 11 (18.97%) Azure
3 6 (10.34%) Amazon S3
4 5 (8.62%) Serverless
5 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (5.17%) AWS CodeCommit
6 3 (5.17%) Cloud9 IDE
6 3 (5.17%) Textract
7 2 (3.45%) dbt
7 2 (3.45%) GCP
7 2 (3.45%) Slack
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.72%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.72%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub
8 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (37.93%) MongoDB
2 21 (36.21%) NoSQL
3 10 (17.24%) SQL Server
4 9 (15.52%) Relational Database
5 7 (12.07%) Oracle Database
6 6 (10.34%) MySQL
7 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (6.90%) Redis
8 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (5.17%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (3.45%) Airbyte
9 2 (3.45%) CockroachDB
9 2 (3.45%) DataStage
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.72%) Big Data
10 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Git
2 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.34%) JIRA
3 4 (6.90%) JUnit
3 4 (6.90%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.17%) Maven
5 2 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.45%) GitLab
5 2 (3.45%) Mockito
5 2 (3.45%) Postman
5 2 (3.45%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.45%) SoapUI
5 2 (3.45%) Subversion
5 2 (3.45%) Xcode
5 2 (3.45%) XCTest
6 1 (1.72%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.72%) JBehave
6 1 (1.72%) Liquibase
General
1 20 (34.48%) Public Sector
2 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 13 (22.41%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Back Office
5 1 (1.72%) Billing
5 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Military
5 1 (1.72%) Retail
5 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (55.17%) Developer
2 19 (32.76%) Java Developer
3 16 (27.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Senior
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Data Scientist
7 3 (5.17%) Database Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) DBA
7 3 (5.17%) Lead
8 2 (3.45%) Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Implementation Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (43.10%) Kafka
2 24 (41.38%) React
3 21 (36.21%) Spring
4 20 (34.48%) Spring Boot
5 11 (18.97%) HTML
6 10 (17.24%) CSS
7 9 (15.52%) .NET
8 8 (13.79%) Web Services
9 6 (10.34%) RESTful
10 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
11 4 (6.90%) GraphQL
11 4 (6.90%) REST
12 3 (5.17%) JPA
12 3 (5.17%) NumPy
12 3 (5.17%) OpenCV
12 3 (5.17%) Pandas
12 3 (5.17%) scikit-learn
12 3 (5.17%) SciPy
12 3 (5.17%) Swagger
12 3 (5.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Replication
2 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
2 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.72%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Unix
2 4 (6.90%) Linux
3 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (56.90%) Agile
2 29 (50.00%) DevOps
3 23 (39.66%) Microservices
4 21 (36.21%) Clean Code
5 20 (34.48%) SOLID
6 18 (31.03%) API Development
7 15 (25.86%) CI/CD
7 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (15.52%) TDD
10 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
10 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
11 6 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
11 6 (10.34%) Code Quality
11 6 (10.34%) ETL
11 6 (10.34%) Front End Development
12 5 (8.62%) Cloud Security
12 5 (8.62%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (8.62%) High Availability
13 4 (6.90%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 37 (63.79%) SQL
2 28 (48.28%) JavaScript
3 25 (43.10%) Java
4 14 (24.14%) Python
5 5 (8.62%) C#
5 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.45%) Groovy
7 2 (3.45%) Scala
7 2 (3.45%) SPARQL
7 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.72%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.72%) Bash
8 1 (1.72%) COBOL
8 1 (1.72%) JCL
8 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (55.17%) SC Cleared
1 32 (55.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (27.59%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.45%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (18.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.62%) Terraform
3 4 (6.90%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.72%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Oracle
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.45%) Informatica
3 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) IBM
4 1 (1.72%) Okta
4 1 (1.72%) Salesforce