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 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 112 99 132
Rank change year-on-year -13 +33 +6
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 43 105 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.45% 1.87% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.21% 17.30% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 65 55
10th Percentile £287 £350 £383
25th Percentile £313 £387 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £482 £490
Median % change year-on-year -7.42% -1.63% -2.00%
75th Percentile £530 £650 £568
90th Percentile £588 £688 £588
England median daily rate £537 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -2.45% +2.61% -5.96%
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 £65.00 £80.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -18.75% +255.79% -59.12%

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 421 607 813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.22% 10.81% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 370 569
10th Percentile £311 £313 £319
25th Percentile £402 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £649 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 36 41
10th Percentile £14.01 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £22.84 £22.61 £26.25
Median hourly rate £29.91 £58.91 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.23% +2.44% +64.29%
75th Percentile £40.63 £64.10 £75.00
90th Percentile £64.43 £80.00 £75.75
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 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 31 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 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
Thames Valley +4 25 £463 -6.75% 42
Berkshire -10 16 £465 -6.34% 21
Hampshire +29 9 £520 +8.62% 23
Buckinghamshire - 8 £463 - 6
West Sussex -2 6 £294 -24.03% 2
Surrey +21 3 - - 5
Oxfordshire -1 1 £413 - 18
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 (11.63%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.65%) Camunda
3 1 (2.33%) Gunicorn
3 1 (2.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) AWS
2 12 (27.91%) Azure
2 12 (27.91%) GitHub
3 7 (16.28%) Serverless
4 6 (13.95%) GCP
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (9.30%) PaaS
6 4 (9.30%) SaaS
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.98%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.65%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
1 2 (4.65%) HTTP
1 2 (4.65%) MQTT
1 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (37.21%) MySQL
2 13 (30.23%) Relational Database
3 7 (16.28%) MongoDB
4 5 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (9.30%) RDBMS
5 4 (9.30%) Redis
6 3 (6.98%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (6.98%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.98%) Oracle Database
6 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.65%) Apache Hive
7 2 (4.65%) Big Data
7 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.65%) IBM InfoSphere
7 2 (4.65%) OLAP
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle OLAP
7 2 (4.65%) Spark SQL
8 1 (2.33%) Impala
8 1 (2.33%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 11 (25.58%) Git
1 11 (25.58%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.93%) JIRA
3 6 (13.95%) GitLab
4 3 (6.98%) JUnit
4 3 (6.98%) Mockito
4 3 (6.98%) Subversion
5 2 (4.65%) DBeaver
5 2 (4.65%) JMeter
5 2 (4.65%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.33%) DbUnit
6 1 (2.33%) jMock
6 1 (2.33%) Maven
6 1 (2.33%) Poetry
6 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Automotive
5 2 (4.65%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Military
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (58.14%) Developer
2 9 (20.93%) Python Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Architect
5 4 (9.30%) DBA
5 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Developer
6 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 3 (6.98%) React Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Big Data Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Hadoop Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Java Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Java Technical Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Ruby Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) REST
2 12 (27.91%) Kafka
3 11 (25.58%) RESTful
4 9 (20.93%) React
5 7 (16.28%) GraphQL
5 7 (16.28%) Node.js
5 7 (16.28%) Spring Boot
6 6 (13.95%) AngularJS
6 6 (13.95%) Django
6 6 (13.95%) FastAPI
6 6 (13.95%) Flask
6 6 (13.95%) Web Services
7 5 (11.63%) Spring
7 5 (11.63%) XML
8 4 (9.30%) gRPC
8 4 (9.30%) Hibernate
8 4 (9.30%) Keycloak
8 4 (9.30%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (6.98%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (6.98%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.65%) Infotainment
2 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.65%) PKI
3 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.33%) IoT
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Solaris
2 2 (4.65%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) Windows 10
2 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) CI/CD
1 17 (39.53%) Microservices
2 12 (27.91%) Agile
3 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
4 8 (18.60%) BDD
4 8 (18.60%) TDD
5 7 (16.28%) DevOps
5 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
6 6 (13.95%) Computer Science
6 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (13.95%) Scrum
7 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (11.63%) Kanban
8 4 (9.30%) ETL
8 4 (9.30%) Migration
8 4 (9.30%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (9.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
8 4 (9.30%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) Python
1 14 (32.56%) SQL
2 10 (23.26%) Java
3 7 (16.28%) Go
4 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.65%) Ruby
7 1 (2.33%) Bash
7 1 (2.33%) Rust
7 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 8 (18.60%) Degree
4 5 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) OCP
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.33%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (30.23%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Grafana
2 4 (9.30%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.98%) Terraform
4 2 (4.65%) Kibana
5 1 (2.33%) Ansible
5 1 (2.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Oracle
2 5 (11.63%) Splunk
3 4 (9.30%) Atlassian
3 4 (9.30%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.65%) Google
5 2 (4.65%) IBM
5 2 (4.65%) Spotify
5 2 (4.65%) VMware
6 1 (2.33%) Jaspersoft