PostgreSQL Contracts in London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 103 110 145
Rank change year-on-year +7 +35 -22
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 339 373 496
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.70% 2.09% 1.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.11% 9.71% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 282 327
10th Percentile £385 £383 £413
25th Percentile £452 £469 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +7.48% -10.83%
75th Percentile £719 £650 £675
90th Percentile £838 £750 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -0.45% +2.33% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 11
10th Percentile £44.95 - -
25th Percentile £47.88 - £21.24
Median hourly rate £54.00 £67.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +197.98% -63.03%
75th Percentile £61.38 - £23.73
90th Percentile £65.05 - £43.63
England median hourly rate £54.00 £75.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -28.00% +233.56% -61.16%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,800 3,842 5,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.31% 21.55% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 2,833 4,047
10th Percentile £375 £378 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 37 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.79 £24.50
Median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £64.73 £88.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in London

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in London

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in London

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the London 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
Central London +14 58 £580 +10.48% 60
South London +3 8 - -
West London +14 3 £409 - 25
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 22 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (5.31%) Confluence
3 15 (4.42%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.65%) nginx
5 8 (2.36%) Apache
6 4 (1.18%) CMS
6 4 (1.18%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.29%) Camunda
8 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.29%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.29%) IIS
8 1 (0.29%) JBoss
8 1 (0.29%) Luigi
8 1 (0.29%) Magnolia
8 1 (0.29%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) Actimize
2 2 (0.59%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle TCA
3 1 (0.29%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 224 (66.08%) AWS
2 68 (20.06%) Azure
3 66 (19.47%) GCP
4 34 (10.03%) Serverless
5 25 (7.37%) Amazon S3
5 25 (7.37%) GitHub
6 24 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (5.60%) dbt
9 14 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.13%) Power Platform
10 12 (3.54%) Amazon SageMaker
10 12 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (3.54%) Slack
11 10 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.65%) AWS CodeCommit
12 9 (2.65%) Cloud9 IDE
12 9 (2.65%) Textract
13 8 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.83%) HTTP
2 9 (2.65%) Firewall
2 9 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.88%) DNS
4 3 (0.88%) VPN
5 2 (0.59%) DHCP
5 2 (0.59%) SSH
6 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.29%) Network Security
6 1 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (19.47%) MongoDB
2 51 (15.04%) Relational Database
3 46 (13.57%) MySQL
4 39 (11.50%) Redis
5 35 (10.32%) NoSQL
6 33 (9.73%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (7.67%) SQL Server
8 21 (6.19%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (6.19%) Apache Iceberg
9 20 (5.90%) Oracle Database
10 16 (4.72%) Apache Arrow
10 16 (4.72%) Dremio
11 15 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
12 14 (4.13%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (3.83%) DynamoDB
13 13 (3.83%) Power BI
14 11 (3.24%) Hadoop
15 8 (2.36%) Hazelcast
15 8 (2.36%) Tableau
16 6 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 52 (15.34%) Git
2 45 (13.27%) Jenkins
3 37 (10.91%) JUnit
4 26 (7.67%) GitLab
5 25 (7.37%) JIRA
6 21 (6.19%) Mockito
7 17 (5.01%) Maven
8 16 (4.72%) Gradle
9 14 (4.13%) Liquibase
10 10 (2.95%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.65%) Jasmine
12 8 (2.36%) Postman
13 6 (1.77%) SonarQube
14 5 (1.47%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.47%) Poetry
14 5 (1.47%) REST Assured
15 4 (1.18%) CircleCI
15 4 (1.18%) Cypress.io
15 4 (1.18%) ERwin
15 4 (1.18%) MLflow
General
1 109 (32.15%) Finance
2 78 (23.01%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.34%) Banking
4 51 (15.04%) Front Office
4 51 (15.04%) Public Sector
5 32 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (6.19%) Investment Banking
7 15 (4.42%) Marketing
8 13 (3.83%) Telecoms
9 11 (3.24%) Electronics
9 11 (3.24%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.77%) Billing
10 6 (1.77%) Retail
11 4 (1.18%) Back Office
11 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.88%) Military
13 2 (0.59%) Advertising
13 2 (0.59%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.59%) Legal
13 2 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 196 (57.82%) Developer
2 70 (20.65%) Java Developer
3 65 (19.17%) Software Engineer
4 46 (13.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 39 (11.50%) Lead
6 38 (11.21%) React Developer
6 38 (11.21%) Senior
7 28 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (8.26%) Senior Developer
8 27 (7.96%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 26 (7.67%) Python Developer
10 25 (7.37%) AWS Developer
11 23 (6.78%) Lead Developer
12 20 (5.90%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (5.31%) Lead Java Developer
14 17 (5.01%) Data Engineer
15 16 (4.72%) .NET Developer
15 16 (4.72%) AWS Software Engineer
16 14 (4.13%) Java Engineer
16 14 (4.13%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (33.33%) React
2 79 (23.30%) Kafka
3 71 (20.94%) Spring
4 69 (20.35%) Node.js
5 66 (19.47%) Spring Boot
6 41 (12.09%) RESTful
7 36 (10.62%) AngularJS
7 36 (10.62%) Redux
8 34 (10.03%) HTML
9 30 (8.85%) NumPy
9 30 (8.85%) Pandas
10 28 (8.26%) Swagger
11 27 (7.96%) CSS
12 25 (7.37%) OpenAPI
12 25 (7.37%) SciPy
13 24 (7.08%) .NET
14 22 (6.49%) Vue
15 20 (5.90%) REST
16 19 (5.60%) Web Services
17 18 (5.31%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.86%) Fixed Income
2 15 (4.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (4.13%) Derivative
3 14 (4.13%) Equities
4 11 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 9 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.36%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.06%) Replication
8 6 (1.77%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.18%) PKI
11 3 (0.88%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.88%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.88%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.62%) Linux
2 17 (5.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (3.24%) Windows
4 7 (2.06%) Unix
5 3 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.59%) CentOS
6 2 (0.59%) SUSE
6 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.29%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (42.48%) Agile
2 92 (27.14%) DevOps
2 92 (27.14%) Software Engineering
3 88 (25.96%) CI/CD
4 81 (23.89%) Microservices
5 73 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (18.58%) Containerisation
7 58 (17.11%) TDD
8 52 (15.34%) Fintech
9 50 (14.75%) Asset Management
10 46 (13.57%) Investment Management
11 43 (12.68%) Clean Code
12 41 (12.09%) Full-Stack Development
13 38 (11.21%) User Experience
14 35 (10.32%) Migration
15 34 (10.03%) Visualisation
16 32 (9.44%) Continuous Integration
16 32 (9.44%) SOLID
17 30 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
18 29 (8.55%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 144 (42.48%) SQL
2 128 (37.76%) Python
3 115 (33.92%) Java
4 107 (31.56%) JavaScript
5 88 (25.96%) TypeScript
6 22 (6.49%) Bash
6 22 (6.49%) C#
7 19 (5.60%) PL/SQL
8 11 (3.24%) RPG
8 11 (3.24%) RPG IV
9 9 (2.65%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.36%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.47%) Go
11 5 (1.47%) Perl
11 5 (1.47%) Scala
12 4 (1.18%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.88%) C++
13 3 (0.88%) Groovy
13 3 (0.88%) Ruby
14 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 99 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 95 (28.02%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.67%) Degree
4 16 (4.72%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.95%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.88%) RHCSA
8 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.29%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.29%) OCP
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.29%) PhD
9 1 (0.29%) RHCE
9 1 (0.29%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.83%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.54%) QA
3 4 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.88%) GDPR
5 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
6 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 101 (29.79%) Docker
2 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.59%) iptables
4 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 94 (27.73%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.91%) Terraform
3 15 (4.42%) Ansible
4 14 (4.13%) Grafana
5 9 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.06%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.06%) Puppet
7 4 (1.18%) Istio
7 4 (1.18%) Kibana
8 3 (0.88%) Control-M
8 3 (0.88%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.59%) SELinux
9 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.29%) Argo
10 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.29%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (14.16%) Oracle
2 15 (4.42%) Google
2 15 (4.42%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.83%) SAP
4 11 (3.24%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.65%) Databricks
5 9 (2.65%) Informatica
6 8 (2.36%) Solace
7 7 (2.06%) Splunk
8 4 (1.18%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.18%) Murex
8 4 (1.18%) TIBCO
8 4 (1.18%) VMware
9 3 (0.88%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (0.88%) Okta
9 3 (0.88%) Palantir
10 2 (0.59%) F5
10 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.59%) Talend