PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in the North East

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 34 43 32
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 0
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 13 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.45% 0.33% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.95% 2.22% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £446 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 42 45 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 11.14% 14.71% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £366 £349 £363
25th Percentile £425 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year +9.21% +8.08% -20.09%
75th Percentile £659 £587 £543
90th Percentile £750 £642 £591
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.76%
England median hourly rate £45.00 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +18.42% -17.71% -7.73%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the North East

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the North East

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +1 12 £725 - 13
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) MongoDB
2 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (15.38%) MySQL
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
4 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Military
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Architect
1 9 (69.23%) Security Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Security Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) BigQuery Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) CISSP Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) RESTful
1 3 (23.08%) Spring
1 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
2 2 (15.38%) Spring MVC
2 2 (15.38%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) Next.js
3 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Microservices
2 7 (53.85%) Security Architecture
3 5 (38.46%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) Application Security
4 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
4 4 (30.77%) Database Security
4 4 (30.77%) Technical Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (15.38%) MVC
6 2 (15.38%) SFIA
7 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis
7 1 (7.69%) Data Lineage
7 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
7 1 (7.69%) ETL
7 1 (7.69%) Identity Management
7 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft