PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 65 51
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 +38
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 11 2 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.38% 0.25% 2.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.34% 1.49% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 18
10th Percentile £486 £478 -
25th Percentile £502 £490 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +1.46% -2.38%
75th Percentile £564 £540 £563
90th Percentile £580 £546 £700
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -3.51%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 97 134 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.19% 16.86% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 93 87
10th Percentile £313 £322 £300
25th Percentile £368 £360 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -13.16% -3.55%
75th Percentile £490 £490 £530
90th Percentile £537 £598 £672
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £20.55 - £11.27
25th Percentile £23.62 £21.25 £11.36
Median hourly rate £28.98 £22.50 £11.62
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% +93.59% -66.79%
75th Percentile £34.10 £23.75 £11.78
90th Percentile £37.01 - £11.81
England median hourly rate £43.50 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -34.09% +22.22%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the East Midlands

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Nottinghamshire +5 7 £510 +4.08% 5
Derbyshire - 2 £588 -
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) AWS CodeBuild
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (18.18%) ChatGPT
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) React Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Oracle Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
2 3 (27.27%) React
2 3 (27.27%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) Next.js
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Change Management
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Cost Management
5 2 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Service Management
6 1 (9.09%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) C#
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) PHP
3 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) PL/SQL
5 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 2 (18.18%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow