PostgreSQL Contracts in the North West

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 62 106 115
Rank change year-on-year +44 +9 +15
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 59 31 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.00% 1.13% 1.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.46% 7.42% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 24 29
10th Percentile £406 £358 £412
25th Percentile £445 £469 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £534 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +15.46% -2.63%
75th Percentile £547 £543 £620
90th Percentile £579 £596 £676
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 338 418 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.17% 15.17% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 318 374
10th Percentile £354 £346 £338
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £635 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 18
10th Percentile £22.72 £26.85 £35.00
25th Percentile £22.92 £39.44 £39.70
Median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
Median % change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%
75th Percentile £29.85 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £69.50 £65.30
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the North West

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the North West

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the North West

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the North West

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +38 52 £470 -11.99% 94
Cheshire +4 5 £475 - 20
Merseyside +4 1 £475 +35.71% 1
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (6.78%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) Camunda
3 1 (1.69%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.73%) AWS
2 13 (22.03%) Serverless
3 11 (18.64%) Azure
4 4 (6.78%) dbt
5 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.39%) Slack
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.69%) GCP
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.69%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (59.32%) Relational Database
2 20 (33.90%) MongoDB
3 18 (30.51%) NoSQL
4 16 (27.12%) MySQL
5 12 (20.34%) RDBMS
6 10 (16.95%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (15.25%) SQL Server
8 4 (6.78%) Airbyte
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.69%) Big Data
10 1 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.69%) HBase
10 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) Jenkins
2 12 (20.34%) JUnit
3 10 (16.95%) Git
3 10 (16.95%) Gradle
3 10 (16.95%) Liquibase
3 10 (16.95%) Mockito
4 8 (13.56%) JIRA
5 7 (11.86%) GitLab
6 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.39%) Jasmine
6 2 (3.39%) Maven
6 2 (3.39%) Subversion
6 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.69%) Appium
7 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.69%) ERwin
7 1 (1.69%) Selenium
7 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.69%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (28.81%) Public Sector
2 16 (27.12%) Finance
3 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
4 10 (16.95%) Electronics
4 10 (16.95%) Manufacturing
4 10 (16.95%) Marketing
4 10 (16.95%) Telecoms
5 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Aviation
6 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Developer
2 13 (22.03%) Java Developer
3 12 (20.34%) DBA
4 10 (16.95%) Senior
5 8 (13.56%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 8 (13.56%) Software Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Data Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Administrator
7 5 (8.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Java Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) React Developer
7 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Architect
8 4 (6.78%) Azure Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) MongoDB DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (42.37%) Kafka
2 16 (27.12%) Spring
3 15 (25.42%) Spring Boot
4 13 (22.03%) OpenAPI
4 13 (22.03%) React
4 13 (22.03%) Swagger
5 12 (20.34%) JSON
5 12 (20.34%) XML
6 9 (15.25%) Node.js
6 9 (15.25%) RESTful
7 5 (8.47%) Express.js
7 5 (8.47%) REST
8 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.39%) Flask
9 2 (3.39%) Hibernate
9 2 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (3.39%) Spring Batch
9 2 (3.39%) Spring Security
10 1 (1.69%) .NET
10 1 (1.69%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
1 2 (3.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Windows
3 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) CI/CD
1 28 (47.46%) DevOps
1 28 (47.46%) Microservices
2 25 (42.37%) Agile
3 22 (37.29%) Containerisation
4 15 (25.42%) Migration
5 14 (23.73%) Event-Driven
5 14 (23.73%) Software Engineering
5 14 (23.73%) TDD
6 13 (22.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 12 (20.34%) Database Security
7 12 (20.34%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (18.64%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (18.64%) Mentoring
8 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.95%) Digital Marketing
9 10 (16.95%) Programme Management
10 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
11 7 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (11.86%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 29 (49.15%) SQL
2 24 (40.68%) Java
3 18 (30.51%) Python
4 13 (22.03%) TypeScript
5 7 (11.86%) Bash
6 5 (8.47%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.78%) SPARQL
8 2 (3.39%) C++
8 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.39%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.08%) QA
System Software
1 28 (47.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (30.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.47%) Ansible
3 4 (6.78%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.08%) Terraform
5 1 (1.69%) Grafana
5 1 (1.69%) Graylog
5 1 (1.69%) Packer
5 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (49.15%) Oracle
2 10 (16.95%) SAP
3 6 (10.17%) Virgin Media
4 4 (6.78%) Informatica
4 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.08%) Databricks
5 3 (5.08%) Talend
6 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft