PostgreSQL Specialist Contract Job Trends in the City of London

PostgreSQL Specialist
Central London > City of London

The median PostgreSQL Specialist daily rate in the City of London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a PostgreSQL Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,684 1,928 2,420
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 92.96% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,187 1,179 1,735
10th Percentile £328 £361 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £784 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £16.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £23.25 £19.51
Median hourly rate £31.00 £48.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.42% +95.92% -41.67%
75th Percentile £43.33 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £55.25 £129.85 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -24.09% +40.08% -38.31%

PostgreSQL Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'PostgreSQL Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

PostgreSQL Specialist job vacancy trend in the City of London

PostgreSQL Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PostgreSQL Specialist job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PostgreSQL Specialist job vacancies in the City of London

PostgreSQL Specialist Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, PostgreSQL Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring PostgreSQL Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWK
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) GPFS
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) sed
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

PostgreSQL Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) AWK
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) sed
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) GPFS
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat