PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 79 81
Rank change year-on-year +28 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 32 2 15
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.53% 0.20% 1.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.89% 2.56% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 1 9
10th Percentile £330 - £463
25th Percentile £363 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% -17.39% +12.20%
75th Percentile £464 £488 £588
90th Percentile £521 - -
South East median daily rate £433 £508 £575
% change year-on-year -14.78% -11.74% +19.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 119 78 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 9.39% 7.95% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 59 101
10th Percentile £313 £357 £425
25th Percentile £375 £388 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -15.42% -
75th Percentile £548 £625 £640
90th Percentile £650 £678 £738
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile - - £21.00
25th Percentile - - £21.05
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.61%
75th Percentile £46.29 - £52.38
90th Percentile £50.06 - £63.75
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £48.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -16.98% -3.64% +125.63%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Hampshire

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Hampshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Hampshire

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Farnborough - 14 £423 -
Portsmouth +7 8 £435 -8.42% 9
Southampton - 1 £530 - 8
Fleet - 1 £447 -
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 27 (84.38%) AWS
2 24 (75.00%) GitHub
3 19 (59.38%) OpenShift
4 11 (34.38%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (21.88%) Datadog
6 6 (18.75%) Azure
7 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
8 4 (12.50%) GCP
9 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
10 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (3.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) SSH
2 1 (3.13%) SSL
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) NoSQL
2 8 (25.00%) HBase
3 7 (21.88%) MongoDB
3 7 (21.88%) Redis
4 6 (18.75%) DynamoDB
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.25%) Big Data
5 2 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.13%) MySQL
6 1 (3.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 21 (65.63%) Cucumber
2 20 (62.50%) Jenkins
3 17 (53.13%) JUnit
3 17 (53.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (31.25%) JMeter
5 9 (28.13%) Gradle
6 8 (25.00%) Artifactory
7 3 (9.38%) Git
7 3 (9.38%) GitLab
8 2 (6.25%) Gatling
9 1 (3.13%) MLflow
9 1 (3.13%) Poetry
9 1 (3.13%) PyCharm
9 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
9 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (59.38%) Developer
1 19 (59.38%) Java Developer
2 8 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior
4 6 (18.75%) AWS Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Java Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Kafka Developer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Backend Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Database Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (75.00%) Kafka
2 21 (65.63%) Spring
3 12 (37.50%) Spring Boot
4 8 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 7 (21.88%) Keycloak
6 6 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (15.63%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (12.50%) YAML
9 1 (3.13%) Apache Avro
9 1 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (3.13%) Flask
9 1 (3.13%) JPA
9 1 (3.13%) NumPy
9 1 (3.13%) Pandas
9 1 (3.13%) REST
9 1 (3.13%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.13%) Clustering
1 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 21 (65.63%) Observability
3 12 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 10 (31.25%) Agile
5 9 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (25.00%) DevOps
6 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (18.75%) Event-Driven
8 6 (18.75%) Microservices
8 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (18.75%) SOA
8 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
8 6 (18.75%) User Stories
9 5 (15.63%) Performance Testing
10 4 (12.50%) Epics
10 4 (12.50%) Immutable Infrastructure
10 4 (12.50%) Scrum
10 4 (12.50%) Test Scripting
11 3 (9.38%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (65.63%) Java
2 10 (31.25%) Bash
3 7 (21.88%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) OCP
1 10 (31.25%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) NCSC
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (71.88%) Kubernetes
2 17 (53.13%) Ansible
3 14 (43.75%) Grafana
4 9 (28.13%) Progress Chef
4 9 (28.13%) Terraform
5 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (12.50%) Argo
6 4 (12.50%) Packer
7 3 (9.38%) Istio
8 2 (6.25%) linkerd
9 1 (3.13%) Puppet
9 1 (3.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) VMware
2 7 (21.88%) Red Hat
2 7 (21.88%) Splunk
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.13%) PagerDuty