PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in the North of England

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 85 123
Rank change year-on-year -72 +38 +21
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 103 106 48
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.36% 2.65% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.44% 15.70% 8.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 72 30
10th Percentile £406 £400 £375
25th Percentile £462 £450 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £547 £546 £644
90th Percentile £596 £599 £654
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.95% - -

All Database & BI 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 987 675 599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.05% 16.89% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 467 387
10th Percentile £350 £313 £354
25th Percentile £413 £376 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% -3.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £669 £625 £646
England median daily rate £505 £512 £550
% change year-on-year -1.46% -6.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 5 9
10th Percentile £17.75 - £17.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £21.02 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +10.77% -18.75%
75th Percentile £72.83 £40.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £69.25 £65.95
England median hourly rate £39.00 £42.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -7.13% +15.85% -34.09%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the North of England

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the North of England

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PostgreSQL

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 16 September 2026. 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
Yorkshire -32 51 £500 - 39
North West -50 46 £520 +9.47% 71
North East -50 6 £425 -22.68% 16
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (1.94%) CMS
1 2 (1.94%) Confluence
1 2 (1.94%) Palantir Foundry
1 2 (1.94%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.78%) AWS
2 31 (30.10%) Azure
3 22 (21.36%) GCP
3 22 (21.36%) GitHub
4 15 (14.56%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (8.74%) Serverless
6 6 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.88%) LangSmith
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.91%) Cloud Run
10 2 (1.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.94%) npm
11 1 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) DNS
1 2 (1.94%) Firewall
1 2 (1.94%) Network Security
1 2 (1.94%) VPN
2 1 (0.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (34.95%) SQL Server
2 29 (28.16%) MySQL
3 15 (14.56%) MongoDB
4 13 (12.62%) Relational Database
5 12 (11.65%) NoSQL
5 12 (11.65%) Oracle Database
6 9 (8.74%) Redis
7 6 (5.83%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.88%) Metadata
8 4 (3.88%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (3.88%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.97%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.97%) Db2
10 1 (0.97%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.97%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (26.21%) Jenkins
2 22 (21.36%) Git
3 11 (10.68%) JIRA
4 9 (8.74%) Gatling
4 9 (8.74%) GitLab
4 9 (8.74%) Maven
5 6 (5.83%) Artifactory
5 6 (5.83%) JUnit
5 6 (5.83%) Mockito
6 3 (2.91%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.91%) Flyway
6 3 (2.91%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.94%) git-flow
7 2 (1.94%) Mocha
7 2 (1.94%) Selenium
7 2 (1.94%) Toad
8 1 (0.97%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.97%) ERwin
8 1 (0.97%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.74%) Finance
2 9 (8.74%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.83%) Banking
4 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.94%) Law
6 1 (0.97%) Legal
6 1 (0.97%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (30.10%) DBA
1 31 (30.10%) Developer
2 21 (20.39%) Administrator
3 18 (17.48%) Senior
4 15 (14.56%) Java Developer
5 13 (12.62%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Senior Developer
7 9 (8.74%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (8.74%) Java Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Oracle DBA
9 7 (6.80%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 7 (6.80%) Python Developer
10 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (5.83%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) SC Cleared DBA
10 6 (5.83%) SQL DBA
11 5 (4.85%) AWS Software Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (26.21%) Spring
2 25 (24.27%) REST
3 24 (23.30%) Terraform
4 21 (20.39%) Spring Boot
5 18 (17.48%) RESTful
6 17 (16.50%) Kafka
7 14 (13.59%) React
8 13 (12.62%) Node.js
9 11 (10.68%) Playwright
10 9 (8.74%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (6.80%) Express.js
11 7 (6.80%) HTML
11 7 (6.80%) JSON
12 6 (5.83%) CSS
12 6 (5.83%) Spring MVC
12 6 (5.83%) Spring Security
13 5 (4.85%) AngularJS
13 5 (4.85%) Nunjucks
14 4 (3.88%) FastAPI
14 4 (3.88%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.56%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.74%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (8.74%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.77%) Replication
4 7 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.85%) Autonomous Agent
6 4 (3.88%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.94%) Clustering
8 2 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.56%) Solaris
2 6 (5.83%) Unix
3 4 (3.88%) Linux
4 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (47.57%) CI/CD
2 35 (33.98%) Microservices
3 33 (32.04%) Agile
3 33 (32.04%) DevOps
4 29 (28.16%) Software Engineering
5 23 (22.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 23 (22.33%) Observability
6 20 (19.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (17.48%) Containerisation
7 18 (17.48%) Event-Driven
8 16 (15.53%) Migration
9 14 (13.59%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (13.59%) Validation
10 13 (12.62%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (12.62%) Roadmaps
11 12 (11.65%) API Development
11 12 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (10.68%) High Availability
12 11 (10.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (46.60%) SQL
2 44 (42.72%) Java
3 25 (24.27%) Python
4 10 (9.71%) TypeScript
5 9 (8.74%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.74%) Scala
6 4 (3.88%) Bash
7 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.94%) Bicep
8 2 (1.94%) Groovy
8 2 (1.94%) PHP
8 2 (1.94%) PromQL
9 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (36.89%) Security Cleared
2 34 (33.01%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.88%) Degree
6 3 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.91%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.94%) OCP
8 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.97%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.97%) GRC
4 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.97%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (42.72%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 46 (44.66%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.68%) Prometheus
3 10 (9.71%) Grafana
3 10 (9.71%) HAProxy
4 5 (4.85%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (3.88%) Ansible
5 4 (3.88%) Control-M
5 4 (3.88%) IBM Guardium
5 4 (3.88%) Kustomize
5 4 (3.88%) Nessus
6 3 (2.91%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.94%) Consul
7 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (1.94%) Nagios
7 2 (1.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.94%) Rancher
7 2 (1.94%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.97%) Istio
8 1 (0.97%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (35.92%) Oracle
2 32 (31.07%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.74%) Google
4 4 (3.88%) Tenable
5 3 (2.91%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.94%) Foundry
6 2 (1.94%) Palantir
6 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.94%) Solace
7 1 (0.97%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.97%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.97%) Splunk
7 1 (0.97%) Varonis