PostgreSQL Contracts in the North of England

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 80 134 133
Rank change year-on-year +54 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 90 51 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.73% 1.07% 1.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.49% 7.31% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 37 70
10th Percentile £404 £375 £419
25th Percentile £447 £500 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £570
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -5.26% +4.83%
75th Percentile £557 £625 £620
90th Percentile £593 £650 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -0.45% +2.33% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
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
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 581 698 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.63% 14.64% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 521 612
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 19
10th Percentile £22.72 £11.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £14.00 £39.80
Median hourly rate £26.47 £40.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -17.86% +78.18%
75th Percentile £33.11 £44.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.34 £50.69 £65.20
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 the North of England

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the North of England

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the North of England

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the North of England

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the North of England

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +44 59 £475 -11.05% 114
Yorkshire +18 26 £530 -11.67% 36
North East +1 5 £465 -15.45% 6
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (13.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Camunda
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.89%) AWS
2 13 (14.44%) Azure
2 13 (14.44%) Serverless
3 9 (10.00%) Slack
4 7 (7.78%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (5.56%) Kong
6 4 (4.44%) dbt
6 4 (4.44%) GCP
6 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.22%) GitHub
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.11%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) HTTP
2 4 (4.44%) NAS
2 4 (4.44%) SAN
2 4 (4.44%) SSL
3 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.11%) Firewall
4 1 (1.11%) LAN
4 1 (1.11%) VLAN
4 1 (1.11%) VPN
4 1 (1.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (41.11%) MongoDB
2 36 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 33 (36.67%) MySQL
4 24 (26.67%) NoSQL
5 13 (14.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 13 (14.44%) SQL Server
6 12 (13.33%) RDBMS
7 10 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (4.44%) Airbyte
9 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.22%) Big Data
9 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.22%) InfluxDB
9 2 (2.22%) Metadata
10 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.11%) Pentaho
10 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (28.89%) Git
2 20 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 20 (22.22%) JUnit
3 17 (18.89%) JIRA
4 13 (14.44%) GitLab
5 10 (11.11%) Cucumber
5 10 (11.11%) Gradle
5 10 (11.11%) Jasmine
5 10 (11.11%) Liquibase
5 10 (11.11%) Mockito
6 6 (6.67%) Maven
7 5 (5.56%) Artifactory
7 5 (5.56%) gulp
7 5 (5.56%) Postman
7 5 (5.56%) Selenium
7 5 (5.56%) SonarQube
7 5 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.22%) JMeter
8 2 (2.22%) Subversion
8 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (31.11%) Public Sector
2 20 (22.22%) Finance
3 16 (17.78%) Social Skills
4 10 (11.11%) Electronics
4 10 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 10 (11.11%) Marketing
4 10 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.78%) Banking
6 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Aviation
7 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (41.11%) Developer
2 22 (24.44%) Java Developer
3 19 (21.11%) Senior
4 13 (14.44%) DBA
5 11 (12.22%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 10 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (10.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 9 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 8 (8.89%) React Developer
9 7 (7.78%) Java Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Architect
10 6 (6.67%) Data Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (5.56%) Administrator
11 5 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 5 (5.56%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 4 (4.44%) QA Engineer
12 4 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (36.67%) Kafka
2 31 (34.44%) Spring
2 31 (34.44%) Spring Boot
3 21 (23.33%) React
4 20 (22.22%) RESTful
4 20 (22.22%) Swagger
5 19 (21.11%) OpenAPI
6 14 (15.56%) Node.js
7 12 (13.33%) JSON
7 12 (13.33%) XML
8 11 (12.22%) Spring Security
9 10 (11.11%) Spring Batch
10 9 (10.00%) AngularJS
10 9 (10.00%) Express.js
10 9 (10.00%) REST
11 6 (6.67%) Hibernate
11 6 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (5.56%) Apache CXF
12 5 (5.56%) JAX-RS
12 5 (5.56%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (4.44%) Clustering
3 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.22%) Replication
4 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.00%) Linux
2 13 (14.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.22%) Unix
3 2 (2.22%) Windows
4 1 (1.11%) CentOS
4 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (46.67%) Microservices
2 40 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 36 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 32 (35.56%) Agile
5 31 (34.44%) DevOps
6 26 (28.89%) TDD
7 23 (25.56%) Software Engineering
8 21 (23.33%) Mentoring
9 19 (21.11%) Test Automation
10 18 (20.00%) Event-Driven
10 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (18.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 17 (18.89%) Migration
12 16 (17.78%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (15.56%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (15.56%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (14.44%) BDD
15 12 (13.33%) Database Security
16 11 (12.22%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 49 (54.44%) SQL
2 42 (46.67%) Java
3 22 (24.44%) Python
4 18 (20.00%) Bash
5 13 (14.44%) TypeScript
6 10 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.44%) SPARQL
9 2 (2.22%) C++
9 2 (2.22%) Go
10 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) QA
2 4 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 38 (42.22%) Docker
2 5 (5.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 33 (36.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.00%) Terraform
3 7 (7.78%) Ansible
3 7 (7.78%) Grafana
4 5 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.22%) Puppet
6 1 (1.11%) Graylog
6 1 (1.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 37 (41.11%) Oracle
2 10 (11.11%) SAP
3 6 (6.67%) Virgin Media
4 4 (4.44%) Confluent
4 4 (4.44%) Informatica
4 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.44%) Splunk
5 3 (3.33%) Databricks
5 3 (3.33%) Talend
6 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco
6 1 (1.11%) Google
6 1 (1.11%) IBM
6 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat