PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Central London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 86 96
Rank change year-on-year -35 +10 0
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 26 53 37
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.02% 2.57% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.99% 11.75% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 35 26
10th Percentile £418 £359 £465
25th Percentile £510 £400 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £585 £553
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% +5.74% +5.38%
75th Percentile £714 £625 £647
90th Percentile £803 £675 £709
London median daily rate £535 £600 £569
% change year-on-year -10.83% +5.45% +8.38%

All Database & BI 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 434 451 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.00% 21.87% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 297 365
10th Percentile £363 £398 £403
25th Percentile £463 £434 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £710
90th Percentile £756 £780 £786
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.04 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £30.54 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £36.00 £48.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -25.00% -4.48% -16.25%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Central London

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Central London over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Central London

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PostgreSQL

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 17 August 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
City of London -32 23 £543 -8.44% 19
West End of London -7 2 £520 -
Southwark - 1 £650 -
PostgreSQL
London

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) GitHub
3 6 (23.08%) Azure
4 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.54%) Serverless
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.69%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.85%) CloudFront
7 1 (3.85%) Figma
7 1 (3.85%) Kong
7 1 (3.85%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) SSH
2 1 (3.85%) DHCP
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) SSL
2 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.69%) MySQL
3 2 (7.69%) Redis
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) CockroachDB
4 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) JUnit
3 3 (11.54%) Mockito
4 2 (7.69%) Git
4 2 (7.69%) Gradle
4 2 (7.69%) JIRA
4 2 (7.69%) Liquibase
5 1 (3.85%) Gatling
5 1 (3.85%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) Jasmine
5 1 (3.85%) JMeter
5 1 (3.85%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Developer
2 10 (38.46%) Senior
3 6 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Backend Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Backend Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) DBA
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Big Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) REST
2 9 (34.62%) Kafka
2 9 (34.62%) Spring
2 9 (34.62%) Spring Boot
3 5 (19.23%) React
4 3 (11.54%) .NET
4 3 (11.54%) HTML
4 3 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (11.54%) RESTful
4 3 (11.54%) SOAP
5 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.69%) Django
5 2 (7.69%) JSON
5 2 (7.69%) Node.js
5 2 (7.69%) OpenAPI
5 2 (7.69%) Spring Security
5 2 (7.69%) Svelte
5 2 (7.69%) Swagger
5 2 (7.69%) Web Services
6 1 (3.85%) Phoenix
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 6 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.69%) LIMS
2 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) PKI
2 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) Derivative
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) VMS
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (42.31%) Containerisation
2 11 (42.31%) Microservices
3 7 (26.92%) Agile
3 7 (26.92%) DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) Event-Driven
4 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (19.23%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (19.23%) Migration
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 3 (11.54%) AI
7 3 (11.54%) Design Patterns
7 3 (11.54%) Front End Development
7 3 (11.54%) High Availability
7 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) TypeScript
3 8 (30.77%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) Elixir
5 1 (3.85%) Groovy
5 1 (3.85%) Korn
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) Ruby
5 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (7.69%) GMP
2 2 (7.69%) GxP
2 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
3 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (46.15%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (26.92%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Bosun
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.85%) Informatica
4 1 (3.85%) New Relic
4 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) VMware