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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 131 144
Rank change year-on-year +40 +13 +42
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 77 53 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.30% 1.13% 1.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.05% 7.60% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 37 51
10th Percentile £400 £375 £411
25th Percentile £447 £500 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £551 £625 £680
90th Percentile £575 £650 £700
England median daily rate £537 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -2.45% +2.61% -5.96%

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 590 697 795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.64% 14.81% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 518 568
10th Percentile £350 £350 £361
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £585 £625
90th Percentile £625 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 16
10th Percentile £21.61 £11.00 £32.50
25th Percentile £22.72 £15.69 £37.10
Median hourly rate £25.43 £40.25 £40.80
Median % change year-on-year -36.82% -1.34% +31.60%
75th Percentile £32.08 £44.74 £63.50
90th Percentile £55.78 £48.44 £65.50
England median hourly rate £31.85 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.39% -33.33% +34.91%

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 31 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 31 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 +29 50 £475 -11.05% 135
Yorkshire +17 20 £500 -16.67% 26
North East +3 7 £465 -15.45% 10
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 6 (7.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.30%) Camunda
2 1 (1.30%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.36%) AWS
2 16 (20.78%) Azure
3 13 (16.88%) Serverless
4 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.49%) Kong
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.19%) dbt
5 4 (5.19%) GCP
5 4 (5.19%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.60%) GitHub
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.30%) Miro
7 1 (1.30%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) NAS
1 4 (5.19%) SAN
1 4 (5.19%) SSL
2 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.30%) Firewall
3 1 (1.30%) HTTP
3 1 (1.30%) LAN
3 1 (1.30%) VLAN
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
3 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (42.86%) Relational Database
2 32 (41.56%) MongoDB
3 27 (35.06%) MySQL
3 27 (35.06%) NoSQL
4 10 (12.99%) RDBMS
4 10 (12.99%) SQL Server
5 8 (10.39%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (5.19%) Airbyte
6 4 (5.19%) Big Data
7 3 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.60%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.60%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.60%) Metadata
8 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.30%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (29.87%) Jenkins
2 22 (28.57%) Git
3 17 (22.08%) GitLab
4 11 (14.29%) JUnit
5 10 (12.99%) Gradle
5 10 (12.99%) JIRA
5 10 (12.99%) Liquibase
5 10 (12.99%) Mockito
6 9 (11.69%) SonarQube
7 8 (10.39%) Artifactory
7 8 (10.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (9.09%) Maven
9 5 (6.49%) gulp
9 5 (6.49%) Postman
9 5 (6.49%) Selenium
10 2 (2.60%) ERwin
10 2 (2.60%) JMeter
10 2 (2.60%) Subversion
10 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.30%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (32.47%) Public Sector
2 19 (24.68%) Finance
3 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.99%) Electronics
4 10 (12.99%) Manufacturing
4 10 (12.99%) Marketing
4 10 (12.99%) Telecoms
5 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.09%) Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.30%) Aviation
7 1 (1.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (38.96%) Developer
2 12 (15.58%) Full-Stack Developer
2 12 (15.58%) Java Developer
3 11 (14.29%) DBA
4 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 7 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Architect
5 6 (7.79%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) React Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Senior
6 5 (6.49%) Administrator
6 5 (6.49%) Java Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.19%) MongoDB DBA
7 4 (5.19%) Node.js Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (36.36%) Kafka
2 22 (28.57%) Spring
3 21 (27.27%) Node.js
3 21 (27.27%) React
3 21 (27.27%) Spring Boot
4 11 (14.29%) OpenAPI
4 11 (14.29%) Swagger
5 10 (12.99%) JSON
5 10 (12.99%) REST
5 10 (12.99%) RESTful
5 10 (12.99%) XML
6 9 (11.69%) AngularJS
6 9 (11.69%) Express.js
7 6 (7.79%) Apache CXF
7 6 (7.79%) Dropwizard
7 6 (7.79%) JAX-RS
7 6 (7.79%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (6.49%) MEAN Stack
8 5 (6.49%) MERN Stack
8 5 (6.49%) Mongoose
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.19%) Clustering
2 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.60%) NHS
2 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.60%) Replication
3 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.60%) Unix
2 2 (2.60%) Windows
3 1 (1.30%) CentOS
3 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.56%) CI/CD
2 31 (40.26%) Microservices
3 30 (38.96%) DevOps
4 28 (36.36%) Agile
5 23 (29.87%) Containerisation
6 18 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (22.08%) Event-Driven
7 17 (22.08%) Migration
8 16 (20.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 15 (19.48%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (18.18%) TDD
10 14 (18.18%) Test Automation
11 13 (16.88%) Mentoring
11 13 (16.88%) Software Engineering
12 11 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (12.99%) Database Security
13 10 (12.99%) Digital Marketing
13 10 (12.99%) Open Source
13 10 (12.99%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.65%) SQL
2 34 (44.16%) Java
3 21 (27.27%) Python
4 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.58%) TypeScript
5 7 (9.09%) Bash
6 6 (7.79%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.19%) SPARQL
8 2 (2.60%) C++
8 2 (2.60%) Go
9 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.90%) Degree
4 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (29.87%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 21 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.69%) Terraform
3 7 (9.09%) Ansible
3 7 (9.09%) Grafana
4 5 (6.49%) Progress Chef
4 5 (6.49%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.60%) Puppet
6 1 (1.30%) Graylog
6 1 (1.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (41.56%) Oracle
2 10 (12.99%) SAP
3 5 (6.49%) Virgin Media
4 4 (5.19%) Confluent
4 4 (5.19%) Informatica
4 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.19%) Splunk
5 3 (3.90%) Databricks
5 3 (3.90%) Talend
6 2 (2.60%) Brio
7 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco
7 1 (1.30%) Google
7 1 (1.30%) IBM
7 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.30%) Red Hat