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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 153 167
Rank change year-on-year +32 +14 -14
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 560 584 725
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.31% 1.59% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.13% 9.35% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 435 502
10th Percentile £400 £360 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £536
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% +2.61% -5.96%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £666
90th Percentile £838 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £510
% change year-on-year +0.95% +2.94% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 13
10th Percentile - £53.70 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £21.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +255.79% -59.12%
75th Percentile £67.50 £85.00 £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -18.75% +255.79% -59.12%

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 4,618 6,243 8,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.06% 16.98% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,207 4,511 6,027
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 136 159
10th Percentile £19.41 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £22.96 £20.70 £32.30
Median hourly rate £31.85 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.39% -33.33% +34.91%
75th Percentile £62.63 £55.63 £74.38
90th Percentile £75.63 £73.75 £82.60
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +33.33%

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 31 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
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 31 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 +20 336 £600 +4.35% 576
North of England +40 77 £475 -12.04% 155
North West +29 50 £475 -11.05% 128
South East -13 43 £446 -7.42% 75
Midlands +29 35 £500 -1.96% 36
West Midlands +22 28 £500 -1.96% 18
South West +46 22 £600 +33.33% 47
Yorkshire +17 20 £500 -16.67% 19
East of England +36 14 £450 -33.33% 33
North East +3 7 £465 -15.45% 8
East Midlands - 7 £500 - 16
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 32 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 23 (4.11%) Confluence
3 12 (2.14%) Apache
4 8 (1.43%) nginx
5 6 (1.07%) Camunda
6 5 (0.89%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.71%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.54%) Alfresco
8 3 (0.54%) CMS
8 3 (0.54%) JBoss
9 2 (0.36%) IIS
9 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.36%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.18%) Gunicorn
10 1 (0.18%) Magnolia
10 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.18%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle TCA
2 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 333 (59.46%) AWS
2 101 (18.04%) Azure
3 96 (17.14%) GCP
4 67 (11.96%) Serverless
5 64 (11.43%) Amazon S3
6 49 (8.75%) GitHub
7 47 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (6.43%) Amazon SQS
9 34 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
10 32 (5.71%) dbt
11 25 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (3.04%) Route 53
16 15 (2.68%) Power Platform
17 12 (2.14%) AWS KMS
17 12 (2.14%) Kong
17 12 (2.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.14%) HTTP
1 12 (2.14%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.79%) Firewall
3 5 (0.89%) DNS
3 5 (0.89%) VPN
4 4 (0.71%) DHCP
4 4 (0.71%) NAS
4 4 (0.71%) SAN
4 4 (0.71%) SSL
5 3 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.36%) MQTT
6 2 (0.36%) Skype
6 2 (0.36%) SSH
6 2 (0.36%) Wireless
7 1 (0.18%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.18%) LAN
7 1 (0.18%) Network Security
7 1 (0.18%) VLAN
7 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (21.61%) Relational Database
2 107 (19.11%) MongoDB
2 107 (19.11%) MySQL
3 69 (12.32%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (11.43%) NoSQL
5 48 (8.57%) SQL Server
6 40 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
6 40 (7.14%) DynamoDB
7 39 (6.96%) Redis
8 29 (5.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 28 (5.00%) Apache Iceberg
10 25 (4.46%) Apache Arrow
10 25 (4.46%) Dremio
10 25 (4.46%) RDBMS
11 24 (4.29%) Oracle Database
12 23 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (3.93%) Hadoop
14 19 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (3.21%) Big Data
16 13 (2.32%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 106 (18.93%) Jenkins
2 101 (18.04%) Git
3 71 (12.68%) JUnit
4 52 (9.29%) Mockito
5 47 (8.39%) GitLab
6 44 (7.86%) Maven
7 43 (7.68%) JIRA
8 33 (5.89%) Gradle
8 33 (5.89%) Liquibase
9 24 (4.29%) SonarQube
10 13 (2.32%) Postman
11 9 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (1.61%) Subversion
12 8 (1.43%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
13 7 (1.25%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.25%) DbUnit
13 7 (1.25%) jMock
13 7 (1.25%) Selenium
14 6 (1.07%) ERwin
General
1 156 (27.86%) Finance
2 130 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 91 (16.25%) Public Sector
4 84 (15.00%) Banking
5 64 (11.43%) Front Office
6 58 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (4.82%) Investment Banking
8 24 (4.29%) Telecoms
9 23 (4.11%) Marketing
10 21 (3.75%) Electronics
10 21 (3.75%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.61%) Military
12 8 (1.43%) Retail
13 7 (1.25%) Billing
14 4 (0.71%) Back Office
14 4 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.71%) Law
14 4 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 318 (56.79%) Developer
2 112 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 82 (14.64%) Software Engineer
4 73 (13.04%) Senior
5 56 (10.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 55 (9.82%) React Developer
7 52 (9.29%) Python Developer
8 51 (9.11%) Lead
8 51 (9.11%) Senior Developer
9 50 (8.93%) AWS Developer
10 48 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 34 (6.07%) AWS Engineer
11 34 (6.07%) Lead Developer
12 32 (5.71%) DBA
12 32 (5.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 31 (5.54%) Architect
14 28 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
14 28 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
15 25 (4.46%) AWS Software Engineer
16 24 (4.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (30.54%) React
2 138 (24.64%) Kafka
3 121 (21.61%) Node.js
4 120 (21.43%) Spring
5 112 (20.00%) Spring Boot
6 79 (14.11%) AngularJS
7 76 (13.57%) REST
8 64 (11.43%) RESTful
9 45 (8.04%) HTML
10 42 (7.50%) Hibernate
11 40 (7.14%) NumPy
11 40 (7.14%) Web Services
12 39 (6.96%) Pandas
12 39 (6.96%) Redux
12 39 (6.96%) Vue
13 38 (6.79%) Swagger
14 36 (6.43%) CSS
15 35 (6.25%) .NET
15 35 (6.25%) OpenAPI
16 33 (5.89%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.18%) Fixed Income
2 29 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (5.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (5.00%) Equities
4 15 (2.68%) Derivative
5 12 (2.14%) PKI
6 11 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.61%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.43%) Replication
9 7 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.25%) Market Risk
9 7 (1.25%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.07%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.89%) Clustering
11 5 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.89%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 59 (10.54%) Linux
2 17 (3.04%) Windows
3 16 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.79%) Unix
5 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.89%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.54%) CentOS
7 3 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (0.54%) Solaris
7 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.36%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (47.68%) Agile
2 170 (30.36%) CI/CD
3 169 (30.18%) Microservices
4 146 (26.07%) DevOps
5 141 (25.18%) Software Engineering
6 120 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 116 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
8 110 (19.64%) TDD
9 79 (14.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 73 (13.04%) Migration
11 65 (11.61%) Fintech
12 61 (10.89%) Asset Management
13 56 (10.00%) Investment Management
14 55 (9.82%) Continuous Integration
15 54 (9.64%) Test Automation
16 53 (9.46%) Mentoring
17 52 (9.29%) Clean Code
18 48 (8.57%) Scrum
19 45 (8.04%) Risk Management
20 44 (7.86%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 225 (40.18%) SQL
2 204 (36.43%) Java
3 201 (35.89%) Python
4 143 (25.54%) JavaScript
5 128 (22.86%) TypeScript
6 27 (4.82%) Bash
7 26 (4.64%) C#
8 22 (3.93%) Go
9 20 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.68%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.96%) RPG
11 11 (1.96%) RPG IV
12 10 (1.79%) Perl
12 10 (1.79%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.25%) PHP
13 7 (1.25%) Ruby
13 7 (1.25%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.07%) C++
14 6 (1.07%) Scala
14 6 (1.07%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 160 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 139 (24.82%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.21%) Degree
4 22 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.32%) Numerate Degree
6 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
7 11 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.54%) OCP
10 3 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.54%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.36%) MCSA
11 2 (0.36%) MCSE
12 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.18%) QA
2 18 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.25%) GDPR
4 3 (0.54%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.36%) NCSC
6 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.18%) HL7
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.18%) MiFID
6 1 (0.18%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 168 (30.00%) Docker
2 8 (1.43%) Postfix
3 5 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.89%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) iptables
5 2 (0.36%) zsh
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 144 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 63 (11.25%) Terraform
3 45 (8.04%) Grafana
4 33 (5.89%) Ansible
5 32 (5.71%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.14%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.61%) Puppet
8 8 (1.43%) Argo
8 8 (1.43%) Kibana
9 3 (0.54%) Control-M
9 3 (0.54%) Istio
9 3 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.54%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.36%) OPNET
10 2 (0.36%) Packer
10 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.36%) SCCM
10 2 (0.36%) SELinux
11 1 (0.18%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 106 (18.93%) Oracle
2 34 (6.07%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.11%) SAP
4 20 (3.57%) Google
5 17 (3.04%) Atlassian
6 15 (2.68%) Splunk
7 14 (2.50%) Databricks
8 13 (2.32%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.96%) CA Agile Central
9 11 (1.96%) Informatica
10 10 (1.79%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.43%) VMware
12 7 (1.25%) Solace
13 6 (1.07%) IBM
14 5 (0.89%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.89%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.89%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.89%) Talend
14 5 (0.89%) Virgin Media
15 4 (0.71%) Confluent