PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Essex

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.29% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £459 -
% change year-on-year +8.99% - -

All Database & BI Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 40 10 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 11.49% 8.70% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 4 10
10th Percentile £344 £355 £158
25th Percentile £367 £384 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £425 £225
Median % change year-on-year +18.82% +88.89% -55.00%
75th Percentile £600 £491 £350
90th Percentile £614 £564 £550
East of England median daily rate £505 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +0.95% +25.06% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £20.10 - £16.38
25th Percentile £20.25 - £16.99
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £17.99
Median % change year-on-year - - -68.51%
75th Percentile £40.50 - £19.00
90th Percentile £49.50 - £19.60
East of England median hourly rate £54.25 £31.64 £15.49
% change year-on-year +71.46% +104.26% -75.41%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Essex

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Essex region over the 6 months to 25 August 2026. 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
Basildon - 1 £350 - 1
PostgreSQL
East of England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java