PostgreSQL DBA Contract Job Trends in England

PostgreSQL Database Administrator
UK > England

The median PostgreSQL Database Administrator daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 489 562
Rank change year-on-year -46 +73 +200
Contract jobs requiring a PostgreSQL DBA 9 33 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.030% 0.11% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.11% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 26 18
10th Percentile £343 £419 £400
25th Percentile £434 £425 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £533
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -15.57% -11.17%
75th Percentile £675 £591 £586
90th Percentile £690 £645 £615
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £533
% change year-on-year +22.22% -15.57% -11.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 27,745 29,203 36,890
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 92.93% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,747 17,857 25,486
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,697 1,114 1,429
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.12 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +41.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%

PostgreSQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

PostgreSQL DBA job vacancy trend in England

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PostgreSQL DBA job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PostgreSQL DBA job vacancies in England

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL DBA in England over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL DBA in England

PostgreSQL DBA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 23 November 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
London +14 8 £600 +1.91% 4
North West -28 1 £375 -15.73% 4
North of England -42 1 £375 -15.73% 4
PostgreSQL DBA
UK

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 November 2025, PostgreSQL DBA 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 England region featuring PostgreSQL DBA in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) AWK
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) Bash
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) GPFS
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) NFS
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (22.22%) Runbook
4 2 (22.22%) sed
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) DB2
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (22.22%) Runbook
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Optimisation
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Database Security
3 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) AWK
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) sed
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) GPFS
1 2 (22.22%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft