PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 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 28 29 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 3.27% 0.54% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.86% 2.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £415 - -
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.50% -3.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 35 40 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.29% 21.51% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 18
10th Percentile £374 £414 £185
25th Percentile £400 £463 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year +9.21% -3.80% -1.25%
75th Percentile £645 £538 £500
90th Percentile £826 - £516
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £535
% change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £12.08
25th Percentile - - £13.55
Median hourly rate - £22.48 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +40.50% -
75th Percentile - - £16.06
90th Percentile - - £16.10
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim - 8 £400 - 7
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Amazon S3
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Amazon QuickSight
2 6 (75.00%) Parquet
3 1 (12.50%) GIS
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Gradle
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
1 6 (75.00%) Test Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Data Migration Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Migration Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Test Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Test Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Apache Avro
1 6 (75.00%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) ETL
2 6 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (75.00%) Validation
3 5 (62.50%) Data Migration
3 5 (62.50%) Migration
4 4 (50.00%) API Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (50.00%) Data Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (12.50%) Data Science
5 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) Decision Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Fujitsu
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle