PostgreSQL Contracts in England

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 116 149 169
Rank change year-on-year +33 +20 -19
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 579 597 768
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.38% 1.61% 1.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.52% 9.58% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 429 529
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +2.33% -4.87%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £813 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £508
% change year-on-year +0.95% +3.35% -7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 18
10th Percentile £44.95 £34.05 -
25th Percentile £47.88 £57.94 £21.24
Median hourly rate £54.00 £75.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +233.56% -61.16%
75th Percentile £61.38 £85.00 £39.91
90th Percentile £65.05 - £45.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £75.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -28.00% +233.56% -60.16%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in England.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in England.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +7 339 £585 +1.74% 555
North of England +54 90 £475 -12.04% 156
North West +44 59 £475 -11.05% 114
South East -11 55 £463 -5.56% 214
Midlands +28 26 £500 -4.31% 62
Yorkshire +18 26 £530 -11.67% 36
South West +55 24 £625 +25.00% 61
West Midlands +16 18 £550 +13.11% 33
East of England +40 12 £450 -33.33% 65
East Midlands +14 8 £500 -33.33% 25
North East +1 5 £465 -15.45% 6
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 37 (6.39%) Confluence
2 26 (4.49%) Apache Spark
3 25 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.59%) Apache
5 9 (1.55%) nginx
6 5 (0.86%) Camunda
6 5 (0.86%) CMS
6 5 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.69%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.35%) IIS
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.35%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.17%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Simulink
2 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Actimize
2 2 (0.35%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle TCA
3 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 322 (55.61%) AWS
2 104 (17.96%) Azure
3 79 (13.64%) GCP
4 64 (11.05%) Serverless
5 50 (8.64%) GitHub
6 44 (7.60%) Amazon S3
7 40 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
8 23 (3.97%) dbt
9 21 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (3.63%) Power Platform
9 21 (3.63%) Slack
10 20 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (2.25%) Kong
15 13 (2.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.80%) HTTP
2 15 (2.59%) Firewall
2 15 (2.59%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.55%) VPN
4 6 (1.04%) DNS
5 5 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.86%) SSL
6 4 (0.69%) DHCP
6 4 (0.69%) NAS
6 4 (0.69%) SAN
7 2 (0.35%) MQTT
7 2 (0.35%) Skype
7 2 (0.35%) SSH
7 2 (0.35%) Wireless
8 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.17%) LAN
8 1 (0.17%) Network Security
8 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (21.76%) MongoDB
2 117 (20.21%) MySQL
3 116 (20.03%) Relational Database
4 66 (11.40%) NoSQL
5 65 (11.23%) SQL Server
6 55 (9.50%) Amazon RDS
7 43 (7.43%) Redis
8 33 (5.70%) Oracle Database
9 31 (5.35%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (5.35%) Apache Cassandra
10 30 (5.18%) DynamoDB
11 23 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (3.97%) Hadoop
11 23 (3.97%) RDBMS
12 21 (3.63%) Apache Iceberg
13 20 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
14 19 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (3.28%) Power BI
15 16 (2.76%) Apache Arrow
15 16 (2.76%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 109 (18.83%) Git
2 89 (15.37%) Jenkins
3 73 (12.61%) JUnit
4 57 (9.84%) JIRA
5 45 (7.77%) GitLab
5 45 (7.77%) Mockito
6 32 (5.53%) Gradle
7 31 (5.35%) Maven
8 30 (5.18%) Liquibase
9 20 (3.45%) Cucumber
10 19 (3.28%) Jasmine
11 15 (2.59%) SonarQube
12 13 (2.25%) Postman
13 8 (1.38%) Bitbucket
14 7 (1.21%) Selenium
15 6 (1.04%) ERwin
15 6 (1.04%) Poetry
15 6 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
16 5 (0.86%) git-flow
16 5 (0.86%) gulp
General
1 144 (24.87%) Finance
2 128 (22.11%) Social Skills
3 101 (17.44%) Public Sector
4 68 (11.74%) Banking
5 56 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (8.81%) Front Office
7 26 (4.49%) Marketing
7 26 (4.49%) Telecoms
8 22 (3.80%) Electronics
8 22 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 21 (3.63%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.55%) Military
11 6 (1.04%) Billing
11 6 (1.04%) Retail
12 4 (0.69%) Back Office
12 4 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.69%) Legal
12 4 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.52%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 295 (50.95%) Developer
2 115 (19.86%) Java Developer
3 90 (15.54%) Software Engineer
4 80 (13.82%) Senior
5 58 (10.02%) Lead
6 51 (8.81%) Senior Developer
7 50 (8.64%) React Developer
8 46 (7.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 44 (7.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 40 (6.91%) DBA
11 39 (6.74%) Python Developer
11 39 (6.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 33 (5.70%) Data Engineer
12 33 (5.70%) Lead Developer
13 32 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
14 31 (5.35%) AWS Developer
15 29 (5.01%) Architect
15 29 (5.01%) Senior Java Developer
16 27 (4.66%) Lead Java Developer
17 22 (3.80%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (27.46%) React
2 132 (22.80%) Kafka
3 123 (21.24%) Spring
4 120 (20.73%) Spring Boot
5 100 (17.27%) Node.js
6 80 (13.82%) RESTful
7 63 (10.88%) AngularJS
8 54 (9.33%) REST
8 54 (9.33%) Swagger
9 50 (8.64%) OpenAPI
10 49 (8.46%) HTML
11 46 (7.94%) CSS
12 43 (7.43%) .NET
13 38 (6.56%) Redux
14 35 (6.04%) Hibernate
15 34 (5.87%) Web Services
16 31 (5.35%) NumPy
17 30 (5.18%) Pandas
18 28 (4.84%) Vue
19 27 (4.66%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.12%) Fixed Income
2 22 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 16 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (2.42%) Derivative
5 14 (2.42%) Equities
6 13 (2.25%) Replication
7 12 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.55%) PKI
10 8 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.21%) Clustering
11 7 (1.21%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.04%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.04%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.04%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.69%) Cloud Native
14 3 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (13.82%) Linux
2 40 (6.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (3.80%) Windows
4 11 (1.90%) Unix
5 9 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.52%) CentOS
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.35%) Solaris
9 2 (0.35%) SUSE
10 1 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (42.31%) Agile
2 179 (30.92%) CI/CD
3 171 (29.53%) Microservices
4 156 (26.94%) DevOps
5 150 (25.91%) Software Engineering
6 131 (22.63%) Containerisation
7 122 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (17.96%) TDD
9 81 (13.99%) Migration
10 76 (13.13%) Full-Stack Development
11 66 (11.40%) Test Automation
12 63 (10.88%) Continuous Integration
13 60 (10.36%) Clean Code
14 55 (9.50%) Fintech
15 52 (8.98%) Mentoring
16 51 (8.81%) Asset Management
17 49 (8.46%) BDD
18 46 (7.94%) Investment Management
19 45 (7.77%) ETL
19 45 (7.77%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 270 (46.63%) SQL
2 197 (34.02%) Java
3 193 (33.33%) Python
4 140 (24.18%) JavaScript
5 118 (20.38%) TypeScript
6 42 (7.25%) Bash
7 32 (5.53%) C#
8 28 (4.84%) PL/SQL
9 13 (2.25%) Go
9 13 (2.25%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.90%) RPG
10 11 (1.90%) RPG IV
10 11 (1.90%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.90%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.21%) PHP
12 6 (1.04%) C++
12 6 (1.04%) Perl
12 6 (1.04%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.86%) Ruby
13 5 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 192 (33.16%) Security Cleared
2 165 (28.50%) SC Cleared
3 46 (7.94%) Degree
4 22 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
6 16 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (1.38%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.69%) OCP
10 4 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.52%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.35%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.35%) MCSA
12 2 (0.35%) MCSE
12 2 (0.35%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.97%) QA
2 22 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.69%) GDPR
5 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.17%) MiFID
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 174 (30.05%) Docker
2 5 (0.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 5 (0.86%) Postfix
3 4 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.35%) iptables
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 159 (27.46%) Kubernetes
2 65 (11.23%) Terraform
3 38 (6.56%) Grafana
4 31 (5.35%) Ansible
5 24 (4.15%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.07%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.55%) Puppet
8 8 (1.38%) Argo
9 4 (0.69%) Istio
9 4 (0.69%) Kibana
10 3 (0.52%) Control-M
10 3 (0.52%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.35%) OPNET
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.35%) Packer
11 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.35%) SCCM
11 2 (0.35%) SELinux
11 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (21.42%) Oracle
2 34 (5.87%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.15%) SAP
4 21 (3.63%) Google
5 15 (2.59%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.59%) Splunk
6 13 (2.25%) Informatica
7 12 (2.07%) Databricks
8 11 (1.90%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.38%) Solace
10 7 (1.21%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (1.21%) VMware
11 6 (1.04%) Virgin Media
12 5 (0.86%) Confluent
12 5 (0.86%) IBM
12 5 (0.86%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.86%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.86%) Talend
13 4 (0.69%) Murex
13 4 (0.69%) TIBCO