PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield 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 35 47 41
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 +21
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 50 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 7.22% 0.85% 2.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.47% 4.84% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 3 7
10th Percentile £418 - £425
25th Percentile £468 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +23.08% -20.41%
75th Percentile £529 £650 £700
90th Percentile £542 £680 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -16.67% +23.08% -20.41%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 154 62 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 22.22% 17.61% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 42 15
10th Percentile £318 £425 £335
25th Percentile £384 £485 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £552 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% +13.23% -15.95%
75th Percentile £525 £623 £700
90th Percentile £602 £700 £729
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £534 £450
% change year-on-year -11.05% +18.67% -21.74%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Sheffield

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Sheffield over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Sheffield

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (4.00%) CICS
1 2 (4.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (4.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 28 (56.00%) GCP
2 22 (44.00%) AWS
3 14 (28.00%) Serverless
4 13 (26.00%) Azure
5 11 (22.00%) GitHub
6 9 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (16.00%) AWS KMS
8 7 (14.00%) Azure AKS
9 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.00%) Collibra
9 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) Internet
2 2 (4.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.00%) FCoE
3 1 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.00%) LAN
3 1 (2.00%) Multicast
3 1 (2.00%) NAS
3 1 (2.00%) SAN
3 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (46.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (12.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (10.00%) Metadata
3 5 (10.00%) MySQL
3 5 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.00%) DataStage
4 2 (4.00%) DB2
4 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.00%) Power BI
5 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (62.00%) Jenkins
2 20 (40.00%) GitLab
3 12 (24.00%) JIRA
4 8 (16.00%) Liquibase
5 5 (10.00%) PyCharm
6 4 (8.00%) Git
7 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (52.00%) Finance
2 23 (46.00%) Banking
3 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 10 (20.00%) Financial Institution
5 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Developer
2 14 (28.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (28.00%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Software Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Python Developer
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (8.00%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) GCP Software Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Angular Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Architect
9 2 (4.00%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Senior
9 2 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 1 (2.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.00%) REST
2 16 (32.00%) RESTful
3 14 (28.00%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (24.00%) TensorFlow
5 10 (20.00%) FastAPI
5 10 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (14.00%) Hugging Face
6 7 (14.00%) OpenCV
6 7 (14.00%) PyTorch
6 7 (14.00%) Regular Expression
6 7 (14.00%) SpaCy
7 5 (10.00%) NumPy
7 5 (10.00%) Pandas
8 4 (8.00%) .NET
9 2 (4.00%) CSS
9 2 (4.00%) HTML
9 2 (4.00%) HTML5
9 2 (4.00%) LDAP
9 2 (4.00%) Middleware
9 2 (4.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.00%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (28.00%) Public Cloud
3 8 (16.00%) Cloud Native
4 6 (12.00%) Onboarding
5 5 (10.00%) Clustering
6 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
7 3 (6.00%) Online Banking
8 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
8 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (4.00%) Mainframe
8 2 (4.00%) Reference Data
8 2 (4.00%) Replication
9 1 (2.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Solaris
2 2 (4.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) zOS
3 1 (2.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (70.00%) Agile
2 34 (68.00%) CI/CD
3 32 (64.00%) DevOps
4 30 (60.00%) Containerisation
5 21 (42.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (36.00%) Microservices
7 17 (34.00%) Computer Science
8 14 (28.00%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (28.00%) Cryptography
8 14 (28.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (26.00%) Software Engineering
10 12 (24.00%) AI
10 12 (24.00%) API Development
10 12 (24.00%) Continuous Delivery
10 12 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (24.00%) Data Security
10 12 (24.00%) Deep Learning
10 12 (24.00%) Machine Learning
10 12 (24.00%) Natural Language Processing
10 12 (24.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (78.00%) Python
2 15 (30.00%) Go
3 8 (16.00%) Java
4 7 (14.00%) SQL
5 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.00%) Bash
6 2 (4.00%) Groovy
6 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (36.00%) Degree
2 14 (28.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (26.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 21 (42.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.00%) KVM
3 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.00%) NFS
4 1 (2.00%) SRDF
4 1 (2.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (2.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (72.00%) Kubernetes
2 25 (50.00%) Grafana
2 25 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 23 (46.00%) Terraform
4 16 (32.00%) Ansible
5 10 (20.00%) Control-M
5 10 (20.00%) IBM Guardium
5 10 (20.00%) Nessus
6 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) Splunk
2 10 (20.00%) Google
2 10 (20.00%) Tenable
3 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) Cisco
5 2 (4.00%) EMC
5 2 (4.00%) F5
5 2 (4.00%) Informatica
5 2 (4.00%) NetApp
5 2 (4.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) Pure Storage