PostgreSQL Contracts in the South East

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 104 93 136
Rank change year-on-year -11 +43 +7
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 55 118 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.83% 2.12% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.38% 19.41% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 73 57
10th Percentile £313 £356 £384
25th Percentile £408 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +4.26% -6.00%
75th Percentile £588 £660 £554
90th Percentile £661 £688 £575
England median daily rate £548 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -0.45% +2.33% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year - +215.88% -
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 411 608 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.65% 10.94% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 374 606
10th Percentile £333 £319 £317
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £684
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 39
10th Percentile £23.24 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.40 £21.55 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%
75th Percentile £49.38 £67.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £76.44
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 South East

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South East.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the South East 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
Thames Valley +12 39 £463 -22.88% 26
Berkshire -8 28 £483 -19.58% 8
Buckinghamshire - 11 £410 - 11
Hampshire +18 7 £520 +9.47% 16
Surrey +18 5 - - 9
West Sussex -6 4 £300 -22.48% 7
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.64%) Camunda
3 1 (1.82%) Gunicorn
Cloud Services
1 24 (43.64%) AWS
2 18 (32.73%) Azure
3 13 (23.64%) GitHub
4 8 (14.55%) Serverless
5 6 (10.91%) Azure AKS
5 6 (10.91%) GCP
6 4 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Functions
6 4 (7.27%) PaaS
6 4 (7.27%) SaaS
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (3.64%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.64%) Miro
9 1 (1.82%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.82%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Firewall
1 2 (3.64%) HTTP
1 2 (3.64%) MQTT
1 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.45%) MySQL
2 11 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 9 (16.36%) Oracle Database
4 7 (12.73%) MongoDB
5 6 (10.91%) Oracle Database 11g
5 6 (10.91%) Redis
5 6 (10.91%) SQL Server
6 4 (7.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (7.27%) RDBMS
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (5.45%) Hadoop
7 3 (5.45%) MariaDB
7 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (3.64%) Apache Hive
8 2 (3.64%) Big Data
8 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.64%) IBM InfoSphere
8 2 (3.64%) OLAP
8 2 (3.64%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 9 (16.36%) Git
3 7 (12.73%) JIRA
4 6 (10.91%) GitLab
5 3 (5.45%) JUnit
5 3 (5.45%) Mockito
6 2 (3.64%) DBeaver
6 2 (3.64%) JMeter
6 2 (3.64%) Maven
6 2 (3.64%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.82%) DbUnit
7 1 (1.82%) jMock
7 1 (1.82%) Poetry
7 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (16.36%) Public Sector
1 9 (16.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.09%) Finance
3 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.64%) Automotive
5 2 (3.64%) Banking
5 2 (3.64%) Military
6 1 (1.82%) Electronics
6 1 (1.82%) Legal
6 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (45.45%) Developer
2 8 (14.55%) Python Developer
3 7 (12.73%) DBA
3 7 (12.73%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Architect
6 4 (7.27%) Senior
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Administrator
7 3 (5.45%) AWS Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Backend Developer
7 3 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 3 (5.45%) React Developer
7 3 (5.45%) SQL DBA
8 2 (3.64%) Big Data Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Hadoop Developer
8 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.64%) RESTful
2 10 (18.18%) Kafka
2 10 (18.18%) REST
3 7 (12.73%) GraphQL
3 7 (12.73%) React
3 7 (12.73%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.91%) FastAPI
4 6 (10.91%) Flask
4 6 (10.91%) Node.js
4 6 (10.91%) Web Services
5 5 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 5 (9.09%) Django
5 5 (9.09%) HTML
5 5 (9.09%) Spring
5 5 (9.09%) XML
6 4 (7.27%) Hibernate
6 4 (7.27%) Keycloak
6 4 (7.27%) Prisma
7 3 (5.45%) .NET
7 3 (5.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.64%) Infotainment
2 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.64%) PKI
2 2 (3.64%) Replication
3 1 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Solaris
2 2 (3.64%) Unix
2 2 (3.64%) Windows
2 2 (3.64%) Windows 10
2 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Microservices
2 17 (30.91%) CI/CD
3 14 (25.45%) DevOps
4 11 (20.00%) Migration
5 10 (18.18%) Agile
5 10 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 9 (16.36%) Data Migration
6 9 (16.36%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (14.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (12.73%) Clean Code
8 7 (12.73%) Front End Development
8 7 (12.73%) Software Engineering
8 7 (12.73%) TDD
8 7 (12.73%) Test Automation
9 6 (10.91%) API Design
9 6 (10.91%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (10.91%) Secure Coding
9 6 (10.91%) Software Testing
9 6 (10.91%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) SQL
2 14 (25.45%) Python
3 12 (21.82%) Java
4 7 (12.73%) PL/SQL
5 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
6 5 (9.09%) Go
6 5 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.27%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.64%) C#
8 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.82%) Bash
9 1 (1.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (41.82%) Security Cleared
2 20 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.73%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.82%) OCP
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.82%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.82%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 13 (23.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.09%) Grafana
2 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.45%) Terraform
4 2 (3.64%) Kibana
5 1 (1.82%) Ansible
5 1 (1.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) Oracle
2 6 (10.91%) Splunk
3 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.45%) Google
4 3 (5.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.64%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.64%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.64%) IBM
5 2 (3.64%) Spotify
5 2 (3.64%) VMware
6 1 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.82%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.82%) Remedy
6 1 (1.82%) SAP