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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 121 139
Rank change year-on-year +22 +18 -16
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 341 369 502
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.73% 2.09% 1.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.27% 9.57% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 286 332
10th Percentile £400 £391 £401
25th Percentile £456 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £675
90th Percentile £850 £750 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -7.08%
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% -61.16%
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% -60.16%

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 2,779 3,854 5,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.28% 21.79% 20.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,964 2,846 3,934
10th Percentile £380 £377 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 36 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £26.89 £25.93 £24.50
Median hourly rate £36.56 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.89% -9.09% -0.35%
75th Percentile £57.50 £55.94 £76.00
90th Percentile £79.13 £69.75 £89.66
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.25 £58.59
% change year-on-year -20.37% -31.30% +36.52%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +16 57 £575 +6.98% 48
South London +3 9 £622 +27.59% 6
West London +18 3 £589 - 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 25 (7.33%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.69%) Confluence
3 9 (2.64%) Apache
4 8 (2.35%) nginx
5 4 (1.17%) CMS
5 4 (1.17%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.29%) Camunda
7 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.29%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.29%) IIS
7 1 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.29%) Luigi
7 1 (0.29%) Magnolia
7 1 (0.29%) MetaMask
7 1 (0.29%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Actimize
1 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.59%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle TCA
2 1 (0.29%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 230 (67.45%) AWS
2 70 (20.53%) GCP
3 63 (18.48%) Azure
4 32 (9.38%) Serverless
5 25 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (7.33%) GitHub
6 24 (7.04%) Amazon S3
7 22 (6.45%) dbt
8 20 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.81%) Power Platform
11 12 (3.52%) Amazon SageMaker
11 12 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.23%) Slack
13 10 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (2.64%) AWS CodeCommit
14 9 (2.64%) Cloud9 IDE
14 9 (2.64%) Textract
15 8 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.81%) HTTP
2 9 (2.64%) Firewall
2 9 (2.64%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.88%) VPN
5 2 (0.59%) DHCP
5 2 (0.59%) DNS
5 2 (0.59%) SSH
6 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (17.89%) MongoDB
2 51 (14.96%) Relational Database
3 46 (13.49%) MySQL
4 36 (10.56%) Redis
5 34 (9.97%) Amazon RDS
6 31 (9.09%) NoSQL
7 24 (7.04%) Amazon Athena
7 24 (7.04%) Apache Iceberg
8 23 (6.74%) SQL Server
9 20 (5.87%) Oracle Database
10 19 (5.57%) Apache Arrow
10 19 (5.57%) Dremio
11 15 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (3.81%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (3.81%) DynamoDB
13 12 (3.52%) Power BI
14 11 (3.23%) Hadoop
15 8 (2.35%) Tableau
16 7 (2.05%) Hazelcast
17 6 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 49 (14.37%) Git
2 46 (13.49%) Jenkins
3 36 (10.56%) JUnit
4 25 (7.33%) GitLab
5 23 (6.74%) JIRA
6 21 (6.16%) Mockito
7 17 (4.99%) Maven
8 16 (4.69%) Gradle
9 14 (4.11%) Liquibase
10 9 (2.64%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.35%) Jasmine
12 7 (2.05%) Postman
13 5 (1.47%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.47%) Poetry
13 5 (1.47%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.47%) SonarQube
14 4 (1.17%) CircleCI
14 4 (1.17%) Cypress.io
14 4 (1.17%) ERwin
14 4 (1.17%) MLflow
General
1 114 (33.43%) Finance
2 84 (24.63%) Social Skills
3 58 (17.01%) Banking
4 54 (15.84%) Front Office
5 49 (14.37%) Public Sector
6 32 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (7.04%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.11%) Marketing
9 13 (3.81%) Telecoms
10 11 (3.23%) Electronics
10 11 (3.23%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.35%) Retail
12 7 (2.05%) Billing
13 4 (1.17%) Back Office
13 4 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.17%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.88%) Military
15 2 (0.59%) Advertising
15 2 (0.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 201 (58.94%) Developer
2 73 (21.41%) Java Developer
3 69 (20.23%) Software Engineer
4 50 (14.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 41 (12.02%) React Developer
5 41 (12.02%) Senior
6 38 (11.14%) Lead
7 31 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
8 30 (8.80%) Python Developer
8 30 (8.80%) Senior Developer
9 29 (8.50%) AWS Developer
10 26 (7.62%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 25 (7.33%) Lead Developer
12 21 (6.16%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (5.87%) Lead Java Developer
14 19 (5.57%) AWS Software Engineer
15 17 (4.99%) Data Engineer
16 16 (4.69%) .NET Developer
17 15 (4.40%) Java Engineer
17 15 (4.40%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (34.60%) React
2 79 (23.17%) Kafka
3 73 (21.41%) Node.js
4 70 (20.53%) Spring
5 64 (18.77%) Spring Boot
6 40 (11.73%) RESTful
7 38 (11.14%) AngularJS
8 37 (10.85%) Redux
9 35 (10.26%) HTML
10 33 (9.68%) NumPy
10 33 (9.68%) Pandas
11 28 (8.21%) SciPy
12 26 (7.62%) CSS
12 26 (7.62%) Swagger
13 25 (7.33%) Vue
14 24 (7.04%) OpenAPI
15 23 (6.74%) .NET
16 20 (5.87%) REST
17 19 (5.57%) Hibernate
18 18 (5.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.96%) Fixed Income
2 20 (5.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (5.57%) Equities
4 15 (4.40%) Derivative
5 13 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.35%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.35%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.05%) Market Risk
9 6 (1.76%) Replication
10 5 (1.47%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.17%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.17%) PKI
11 4 (1.17%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.88%) Educational Technology
12 3 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.88%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.68%) Linux
2 14 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (2.93%) Windows
4 7 (2.05%) Unix
5 2 (0.59%) CentOS
5 2 (0.59%) SUSE
5 2 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (43.99%) Agile
2 98 (28.74%) Software Engineering
3 89 (26.10%) DevOps
4 88 (25.81%) CI/CD
5 77 (22.58%) Microservices
6 76 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (18.18%) TDD
8 59 (17.30%) Containerisation
9 56 (16.42%) Fintech
10 54 (15.84%) Asset Management
11 50 (14.66%) Investment Management
12 43 (12.61%) Clean Code
13 40 (11.73%) Full-Stack Development
13 40 (11.73%) User Experience
14 34 (9.97%) Migration
15 33 (9.68%) Risk Management
16 32 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
17 31 (9.09%) Visualisation
18 30 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
18 30 (8.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 142 (41.64%) SQL
2 129 (37.83%) Python
3 118 (34.60%) Java
4 109 (31.96%) JavaScript
5 88 (25.81%) TypeScript
6 21 (6.16%) C#
7 18 (5.28%) Bash
7 18 (5.28%) PL/SQL
8 11 (3.23%) RPG
8 11 (3.23%) RPG IV
9 8 (2.35%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.05%) Go
10 7 (2.05%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.47%) Perl
11 5 (1.47%) Scala
12 4 (1.17%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.88%) C++
13 3 (0.88%) Groovy
13 3 (0.88%) Ruby
14 2 (0.59%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 99 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 95 (27.86%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.92%) Degree
4 14 (4.11%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (3.23%) Numerate Degree
6 10 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.88%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.88%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.29%) OCP
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.29%) PhD
10 1 (0.29%) RHCE
10 1 (0.29%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.52%) QA
3 5 (1.47%) GDPR
4 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
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 97 (28.45%) Docker
2 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.59%) iptables
3 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 91 (26.69%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.97%) Terraform
3 15 (4.40%) Grafana
4 14 (4.11%) Ansible
5 11 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.05%) Kibana
6 7 (2.05%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.05%) Puppet
7 3 (0.88%) Control-M
7 3 (0.88%) Istio
7 3 (0.88%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.59%) SELinux
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.29%) Nagios
9 1 (0.29%) Salt
9 1 (0.29%) Sysdig
9 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 47 (13.78%) Oracle
2 15 (4.40%) Google
3 13 (3.81%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.81%) SAP
4 9 (2.64%) Databricks
4 9 (2.64%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.35%) Informatica
6 7 (2.05%) Solace
7 6 (1.76%) Splunk
8 4 (1.17%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.17%) Murex
8 4 (1.17%) TIBCO
8 4 (1.17%) VMware
9 3 (0.88%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (0.88%) Okta
10 2 (0.59%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.59%) IBM
10 2 (0.59%) Palantir
10 2 (0.59%) Talend