PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
North West > Cheshire

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 50 62
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -15
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 10 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.48% 1.14% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.00% 6.85% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £348 £306 -
25th Percentile £355 £310 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% - -
75th Percentile £447 £360 -
90th Percentile £559 - -
North West median daily rate £441 £460 £533
% change year-on-year -4.24% -13.70% +8.78%

All Database & BI 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 100 73 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.84% 16.70% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 54 52
10th Percentile £329 £313 £265
25th Percentile £378 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +1.14% +2.63%
75th Percentile £542 £575 £541
90th Percentile £704 £639 £610
North West median daily rate £441 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -10.86% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile - £33.82 £27.63
25th Percentile - £39.85 £41.25
Median hourly rate £86.00 £49.90 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.34% +17.41% -
75th Percentile - £59.95 £43.75
90th Percentile - £65.98 -
North West median hourly rate £72.13 £25.43 £44.74
% change year-on-year +183.64% -43.16% -31.17%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Cheshire

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Cheshire

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing PostgreSQL

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 28 February 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
Knutsford -22 10 £402 +12.92% 1
PostgreSQL
North West

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) GitHub
1 5 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (30.00%) IaaS
2 3 (30.00%) PaaS
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (50.00%) MySQL
3 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (30.00%) DocumentDB
4 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) GitLab
2 5 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (50.00%) RESTful
1 5 (50.00%) Spring
1 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (40.00%) Spring MVC
2 4 (40.00%) Spring Security
3 3 (30.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (90.00%) Containerisation
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (80.00%) Microservices
4 5 (50.00%) API Design
4 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) MVC
4 5 (50.00%) TDD
4 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (40.00%) AI
5 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (30.00%) Observability
6 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
6 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (20.00%) CISSP
5 1 (10.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (10.00%) Varonis