PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Manchester

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 65 92
Rank change year-on-year +14 +27 +24
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 37 19 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.70% 1.61% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.29% 10.27% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 11
10th Percentile £400 £375 £375
25th Percentile £444 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £553 £563 £688
90th Percentile £582 £650 £738
North West median daily rate £475 £463 £520
% change year-on-year +2.70% -11.06% +6.12%

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 166 185 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.60% 15.72% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 118 220
10th Percentile £317 £375 £315
25th Percentile £363 £406 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £536 £550 £606
90th Percentile £592 £600 £688
North West median daily rate £435 £450 £478
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.76% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £28.50 £33.84
25th Percentile £76.25 £37.81 £39.60
Median hourly rate £82.50 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% +2.27% -21.71%
75th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £67.38 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £30.64 £56.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% +7.14% -19.23%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Manchester

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing PostgreSQL

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 25 September 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 - -
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 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) AWS
2 15 (40.54%) Serverless
3 13 (35.14%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (27.03%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (24.32%) GCP
6 8 (21.62%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (18.92%) Azure
7 7 (18.92%) GitHub
8 6 (16.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (16.22%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (16.22%) Apigee
8 6 (16.22%) AWS Fargate
8 6 (16.22%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (16.22%) Datadog
8 6 (16.22%) SaaS
9 5 (13.51%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (13.51%) Loggly
9 5 (13.51%) Route 53
10 4 (10.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) DynamoDB
1 12 (32.43%) MySQL
1 12 (32.43%) Relational Database
2 10 (27.03%) NoSQL
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (21.62%) Redis
4 6 (16.22%) BigQuery
4 6 (16.22%) MongoDB
4 6 (16.22%) RDBMS
5 3 (8.11%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (5.41%) Power BI
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) Jenkins
2 11 (29.73%) Gradle
3 10 (27.03%) Git
4 9 (24.32%) Mockito
5 7 (18.92%) SonarQube
6 6 (16.22%) GitLab
6 6 (16.22%) JUnit
6 6 (16.22%) Liquibase
6 6 (16.22%) Maven
7 5 (13.51%) SonarLint
8 3 (8.11%) JIRA
9 2 (5.41%) Subversion
9 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio
10 1 (2.70%) Appium
10 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
10 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
10 1 (2.70%) gulp
10 1 (2.70%) Selenium
10 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (37.84%) Public Sector
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Electronics
3 6 (16.22%) Manufacturing
3 6 (16.22%) Marketing
3 6 (16.22%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Aviation
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Architect
3 8 (21.62%) Java Architect
3 8 (21.62%) Java Technical Architect
3 8 (21.62%) Technical Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Java Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior
6 3 (8.11%) Java Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Kafka Developer
6 3 (8.11%) React Developer
6 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.41%) DBA
7 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (45.95%) Spring Boot
2 12 (32.43%) Kafka
3 11 (29.73%) RESTful
3 11 (29.73%) Spring
4 10 (27.03%) React
5 8 (21.62%) GraphQL
6 7 (18.92%) Dropwizard
6 7 (18.92%) JWT
7 6 (16.22%) J2EE
7 6 (16.22%) Micronaut
7 6 (16.22%) OpenAPI
7 6 (16.22%) Swagger
8 5 (13.51%) Celery
8 5 (13.51%) Node.js
9 4 (10.81%) JAX-RS
10 3 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (8.11%) Express.js
10 3 (8.11%) Spring Batch
10 3 (8.11%) Spring Security
11 2 (5.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 6 (16.22%) N-Tier
2 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
1 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Containerisation
1 20 (54.05%) Microservices
2 18 (48.65%) Agile
2 18 (48.65%) CI/CD
3 17 (45.95%) TDD
4 12 (32.43%) Event-Driven
5 11 (29.73%) BDD
5 11 (29.73%) Clean Code
5 11 (29.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 10 (27.03%) DevOps
7 9 (24.32%) API Design
7 9 (24.32%) Migration
7 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (24.32%) Software Engineering
8 8 (21.62%) Design Patterns
8 8 (21.62%) Mentoring
8 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (21.62%) TOGAF
9 7 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (18.92%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Java
2 14 (37.84%) SQL
3 12 (32.43%) Python
4 11 (29.73%) TypeScript
5 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.81%) Bash
7 2 (5.41%) C++
8 1 (2.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) GDPR
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 22 (59.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (27.03%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Ansible
3 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.70%) Puppet
3 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Gigya
1 6 (16.22%) SAP
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.41%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.41%) Informatica
3 2 (5.41%) Pega
4 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft