PostgreSQL Contracts in the City of London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 65 85 110
Rank change year-on-year +20 +25 -9
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 54 42 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.08% 1.91% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.78% 8.70% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 45
10th Percentile £411 £454 £406
25th Percentile £498 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% - -13.22%
75th Percentile - £628 £613
90th Percentile £625 £711 £763
Central London median daily rate £580 £525 £530
% change year-on-year +10.48% -0.94% -12.03%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 392 483 776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.32% 21.98% 21.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 324 491
10th Percentile £405 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £702 £728
90th Percentile £752 £796 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £41.16 - £43.13
25th Percentile £50.97 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £67.33 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £83.67 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.47 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the City of London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the City of London

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the City of London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the City of London

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Luigi
2 1 (1.85%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 41 (75.93%) AWS
2 9 (16.67%) Azure
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.56%) Serverless
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.70%) dbt
5 2 (3.70%) GCP
5 2 (3.70%) Slack
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.85%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Run
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud9 IDE
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (40.74%) MongoDB
2 21 (38.89%) NoSQL
3 10 (18.52%) SQL Server
4 9 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 6 (11.11%) MySQL
6 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database
8 2 (3.70%) Airbyte
8 2 (3.70%) CockroachDB
8 2 (3.70%) DataStage
8 2 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (3.70%) Redis
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.85%) Big Data
9 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Git
2 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.41%) JIRA
3 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.70%) GitLab
3 2 (3.70%) JUnit
3 2 (3.70%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.85%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.85%) JBehave
4 1 (1.85%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.85%) Maven
4 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (37.04%) Public Sector
2 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.37%) Finance
4 2 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Back Office
5 1 (1.85%) Billing
5 1 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Military
5 1 (1.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (57.41%) Developer
2 18 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 16 (29.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Database Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) DBA
7 3 (5.56%) Lead
8 2 (3.70%) Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Consultant
8 2 (3.70%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Implementation Consultant
8 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (44.44%) React
2 23 (42.59%) Kafka
3 19 (35.19%) Spring
4 18 (33.33%) Spring Boot
5 9 (16.67%) .NET
5 9 (16.67%) HTML
6 8 (14.81%) CSS
7 6 (11.11%) RESTful
7 6 (11.11%) Web Services
8 4 (7.41%) GraphQL
9 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 3 (5.56%) JSON
10 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
10 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
10 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (3.70%) FastAPI
10 2 (3.70%) Node.js
10 2 (3.70%) REST
11 1 (1.85%) OpenAPI
11 1 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.56%) Replication
2 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.70%) Private Cloud
2 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
1 4 (7.41%) Unix
2 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (57.41%) Agile
2 29 (53.70%) DevOps
3 21 (38.89%) Clean Code
3 21 (38.89%) Microservices
4 20 (37.04%) SOLID
5 18 (33.33%) API Development
6 15 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 12 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (14.81%) Containerisation
8 8 (14.81%) Software Engineering
9 7 (12.96%) TDD
10 6 (11.11%) ETL
11 5 (9.26%) Cloud Security
11 5 (9.26%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (9.26%) High Availability
12 4 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence
12 4 (7.41%) Code Quality
12 4 (7.41%) Domain-Driven Design
12 4 (7.41%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 33 (61.11%) SQL
2 26 (48.15%) JavaScript
3 23 (42.59%) Java
4 12 (22.22%) Python
5 5 (9.26%) C#
5 5 (9.26%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.70%) Scala
6 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.70%) SPARQL
6 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.85%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.85%) Bash
7 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.85%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (57.41%) SC Cleared
1 31 (57.41%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.63%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.70%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.26%) Terraform
3 4 (7.41%) Ansible
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.85%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.70%) Informatica
3 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) IBM
4 1 (1.85%) Okta
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce