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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 87 100
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 44 36 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.58% 1.66% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.03% 7.36% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 41
10th Percentile £411 £455 £350
25th Percentile £453 £472 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% - -13.22%
75th Percentile £593 £638 £613
90th Percentile £653 £714 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - -13.22%

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 399 489 731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.40% 22.50% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 337 452
10th Percentile £404 £400 £415
25th Percentile £463 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £689 £713 £733
90th Percentile £775 £800 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £20.13 - £42.50
25th Percentile £25.56 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £67.34 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.94 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.86 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -34.31% -42.32% +52.89%

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

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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 7 June 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 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 31 (70.45%) AWS
2 7 (15.91%) Amazon S3
3 6 (13.64%) Azure
4 3 (6.82%) GCP
4 3 (6.82%) Serverless
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.55%) dbt
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Run
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud9 IDE
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.27%) Slack
6 1 (2.27%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (38.64%) MongoDB
2 15 (34.09%) NoSQL
3 9 (20.45%) Relational Database
4 5 (11.36%) MySQL
4 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.82%) Oracle Database
5 3 (6.82%) Redis
6 2 (4.55%) Airbyte
6 2 (4.55%) CockroachDB
6 2 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.27%) Big Data
7 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.27%) DataStage
7 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) GitLab
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.27%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) JBehave
3 1 (2.27%) JUnit
3 1 (2.27%) Maven
General
1 15 (34.09%) Public Sector
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
2 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Front Office
4 3 (6.82%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Retail
4 3 (6.82%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Back Office
5 1 (2.27%) Billing
5 1 (2.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (63.64%) Developer
2 13 (29.55%) Java Developer
3 11 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 8 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Senior
6 3 (6.82%) .NET Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Database Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) DBA
6 3 (6.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Gen AI Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.82%) React Developer
6 3 (6.82%) SQL Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Administrator
7 2 (4.55%) Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.55%) MongoDB DBA
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (47.73%) React
2 20 (45.45%) Kafka
3 12 (27.27%) Spring
3 12 (27.27%) Spring Boot
4 5 (11.36%) HTML
4 5 (11.36%) JSON
4 5 (11.36%) REST
5 4 (9.09%) .NET
5 4 (9.09%) FastAPI
5 4 (9.09%) GraphQL
6 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.82%) Flask
6 3 (6.82%) Node.js
6 3 (6.82%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (6.82%) Svelte
7 2 (4.55%) CSS
7 2 (4.55%) RESTful
7 2 (4.55%) Web Services
8 1 (2.27%) LDAP
8 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Replication
2 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.55%) Private Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
1 3 (6.82%) Unix
2 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) Agile
2 19 (43.18%) Microservices
3 18 (40.91%) DevOps
4 15 (34.09%) API Development
5 13 (29.55%) Clean Code
6 12 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (27.27%) SOLID
7 10 (22.73%) CI/CD
8 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.91%) Containerisation
9 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling
11 5 (11.36%) ETL
11 5 (11.36%) Front End Development
11 5 (11.36%) High Availability
12 4 (9.09%) Cloud Security
12 4 (9.09%) TDD
12 4 (9.09%) Web Development
13 3 (6.82%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 26 (59.09%) SQL
2 18 (40.91%) JavaScript
3 17 (38.64%) Python
4 15 (34.09%) Java
5 6 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.82%) C#
7 2 (4.55%) Scala
7 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.55%) SPARQL
8 1 (2.27%) Bash
8 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.27%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (43.18%) SC Cleared
1 19 (43.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (43.18%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.36%) Terraform
3 4 (9.09%) Ansible
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.27%) Argo
5 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.27%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Oracle
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) IBM
4 1 (2.27%) Informatica
4 1 (2.27%) Okta