PostgreSQL Contracts in Cheshire

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 53 57 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 -18 +16
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 5 1 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.11% 0.20% 4.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.67% 1.10% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 20
10th Percentile £386 - £403
25th Percentile £463 - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £445
75th Percentile £488 - £628
90th Percentile - - £680
North West median daily rate £475 £534 £463
% change year-on-year -11.05% +15.46% -2.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 75 91 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.70% 18.06% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 68 63
10th Percentile £334 £363 £330
25th Percentile £365 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +8.67% +8.56%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £586
90th Percentile £643 £610 £679
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.63 -
25th Percentile £39.85 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £49.90 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.41% +6.25% +29.03%
75th Percentile £59.95 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £65.98 - -
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
% change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Cheshire

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in Cheshire

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 5 £475 - 3
PostgreSQL
North West

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) CSS3
1 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) HTML5
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (80.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Task Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle