PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in South London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London 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 14 35 35
Rank change year-on-year +21 0 -4
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 30 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in South London 14.35% 0.88% 4.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 62.50% 5.41% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 1 4
10th Percentile £462 - £386
25th Percentile £499 £463 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% +2.70% -15.91%
75th Percentile £577 £488 £522
90th Percentile £606 - £561
London median daily rate £575 £585 £581
% change year-on-year -1.71% +0.65% +1.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 48 37 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 22.97% 16.30% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 26 29
10th Percentile £381 £425 £231
25th Percentile £470 £500 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +19.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £571 £582 £519
90th Percentile £630 £738 £609
London median daily rate £525 £575 £568
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.89
25th Percentile - - £17.29
Median hourly rate - - £19.07
75th Percentile - - £20.97
90th Percentile - - £21.44
London median hourly rate £46.50 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -18.18%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in South London

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in South London

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London 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
Croydon +16 25 £525 +10.53% 2
Sutton - 5 £530 -
PostgreSQL
London

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 12 (40.00%) Confluence
2 11 (36.67%) nginx
3 5 (16.67%) SAS
4 4 (13.33%) MQSeries
5 1 (3.33%) IIS
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 24 (80.00%) AWS
2 15 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 15 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 15 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 11 (36.67%) Azure
4 10 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
4 10 (33.33%) AWS KMS
4 10 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (33.33%) Route 53
4 10 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (16.67%) IaaS
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) DNS
1 10 (33.33%) Firewall
1 10 (33.33%) FTP
1 10 (33.33%) HTTP
1 10 (33.33%) IMAP
1 10 (33.33%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (33.33%) SMTP
1 10 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (13.33%) Redis
5 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Git
1 12 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 12 (40.00%) JIRA
2 10 (33.33%) Vagrant
3 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 12 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 10 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 11 (36.67%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (26.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Site Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior
7 2 (6.67%) Administrator
7 2 (6.67%) DBA
7 2 (6.67%) Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead
7 2 (6.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) LDAP
2 7 (23.33%) Kafka
3 5 (16.67%) Node.js
3 5 (16.67%) React
4 4 (13.33%) EDIFACT
4 4 (13.33%) JSON
4 4 (13.33%) XML
5 2 (6.67%) Celery
5 2 (6.67%) Django
6 1 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (46.67%) Replication
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (53.33%) Linux
2 10 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 10 (33.33%) VMS
2 10 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 15 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 15 (50.00%) DevOps
3 12 (40.00%) Patch Management
3 12 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (33.33%) Change Management
4 10 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 10 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (26.67%) Agile
6 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.00%) Analytics
8 3 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (6.67%) Mathematics
9 2 (6.67%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (76.67%) Python
2 12 (40.00%) SQL
3 10 (33.33%) Groovy
3 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 6 (20.00%) Bash
5 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 4 (13.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 24 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) Degree
3 10 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 10 (33.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 25 (83.33%) Docker
2 10 (33.33%) DFS Replication
2 10 (33.33%) Dovecot
2 10 (33.33%) Postfix
2 10 (33.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 16 (53.33%) Grafana
2 15 (50.00%) Terraform
3 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (33.33%) Nessus
3 10 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 10 (33.33%) Proxmox
4 6 (20.00%) Puppet
5 5 (16.67%) Ansible
5 5 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (3.33%) Ambari
6 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 5 (16.67%) PagerDuty
3 4 (13.33%) Confluent
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle