PostgreSQL Contracts in Manchester

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 30 68 102
Rank change year-on-year +38 +34 +7
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 52 28 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 5.62% 1.85% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.00% 10.81% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 23 9
10th Percentile £406 £375 £418
25th Percentile £445 £500 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £534 £495
Median % change year-on-year -11.99% +7.88% -
75th Percentile £560 £545 £550
90th Percentile £586 £598 £570
North West median daily rate £475 £534 £463
% change year-on-year -11.05% +15.46% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
North West median hourly rate - - £45.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 200 259 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 21.60% 17.07% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 201 226
10th Percentile £378 £363 £351
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £656
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile - £35.45 £35.92
25th Percentile £24.25 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.36% +5.77% +348.28%
75th Percentile £40.75 £74.63 -
90th Percentile £69.55 £78.45 £65.80
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
% change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Manchester

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in Manchester

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Manchester

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in Manchester

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Manchester 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
Stockport - 2 - - 9
PostgreSQL
North West

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (5.77%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) Camunda
3 1 (1.92%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.92%) AWS
2 12 (23.08%) Serverless
3 11 (21.15%) Azure
4 4 (7.69%) dbt
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.85%) Slack
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.92%) GCP
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.92%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (65.38%) Relational Database
2 18 (34.62%) MongoDB
3 16 (30.77%) NoSQL
4 15 (28.85%) MySQL
5 11 (21.15%) RDBMS
6 9 (17.31%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
8 4 (7.69%) Airbyte
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.92%) Big Data
10 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.92%) HBase
10 1 (1.92%) Pentaho
10 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 12 (23.08%) JUnit
2 10 (19.23%) Gradle
2 10 (19.23%) Liquibase
2 10 (19.23%) Mockito
3 7 (13.46%) GitLab
4 4 (7.69%) Git
5 3 (5.77%) JIRA
6 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.85%) Jasmine
6 2 (3.85%) Maven
6 2 (3.85%) Subversion
6 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.92%) Appium
7 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.92%) gulp
7 1 (1.92%) Postman
7 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (28.85%) Finance
1 15 (28.85%) Public Sector
2 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Electronics
3 10 (19.23%) Manufacturing
3 10 (19.23%) Marketing
3 10 (19.23%) Telecoms
4 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Aviation
5 1 (1.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Developer
2 13 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (21.15%) DBA
4 10 (19.23%) Senior
5 8 (15.38%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 8 (15.38%) Software Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Data Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Administrator
7 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Java Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) React Developer
7 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Architect
8 4 (7.69%) Azure Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (46.15%) Kafka
2 15 (28.85%) Spring
2 15 (28.85%) Spring Boot
3 12 (23.08%) OpenAPI
3 12 (23.08%) React
3 12 (23.08%) Swagger
4 11 (21.15%) JSON
4 11 (21.15%) XML
5 8 (15.38%) Node.js
6 7 (13.46%) RESTful
7 5 (9.62%) Express.js
8 4 (7.69%) REST
9 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 2 (3.85%) Flask
10 2 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (3.85%) Spring Batch
10 2 (3.85%) Spring Security
11 1 (1.92%) Django
11 1 (1.92%) Java EE
11 1 (1.92%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
1 2 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Windows
3 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.00%) Microservices
2 22 (42.31%) Agile
2 22 (42.31%) CI/CD
2 22 (42.31%) DevOps
3 21 (40.38%) Containerisation
4 14 (26.92%) TDD
5 13 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 13 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 12 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 11 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (21.15%) Database Security
7 11 (21.15%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (21.15%) Migration
8 10 (19.23%) Digital Marketing
8 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (19.23%) Programme Management
9 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
10 7 (13.46%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (13.46%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (13.46%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 24 (46.15%) SQL
2 22 (42.31%) Java
3 13 (25.00%) Python
3 13 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (7.69%) SPARQL
5 3 (5.77%) Bash
6 2 (3.85%) C++
7 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.77%) QA
System Software
1 26 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) Grafana
3 1 (1.92%) Graylog
3 1 (1.92%) Packer
3 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Oracle
2 10 (19.23%) SAP
3 6 (11.54%) Virgin Media
4 4 (7.69%) Informatica
4 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.77%) Databricks
5 3 (5.77%) Talend
6 1 (1.92%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft