PostgreSQL Contracts in South London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 30 31
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 13 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 7.88% 4.17% 4.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.26% 16.67% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - £465 £451
25th Percentile £611 £469 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% -2.50% -26.20%
75th Percentile £633 £550 -
90th Percentile - £653 £575
London median daily rate £600 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 46 54 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 27.88% 25.00% 18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 45 49
10th Percentile £447 £386 £413
25th Percentile £463 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £561 £519 £613
90th Percentile £673 £548 £820
London median daily rate £550 £551 £575
% change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.50
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - £19.50
London median hourly rate £35.00 £48.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -27.08% -8.57% +0.96%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in South London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in South London

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in South London

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 4 June 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 +8 13 £622 +27.59% 4
PostgreSQL
London

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Relational Database
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (76.92%) JUnit
2 10 (76.92%) Mockito
3 6 (46.15%) Git
4 5 (38.46%) Gradle
4 5 (38.46%) Liquibase
5 4 (30.77%) SonarQube
6 3 (23.08%) Maven
7 2 (15.38%) JMeter
8 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
8 1 (7.69%) DbUnit
8 1 (7.69%) jMock
8 1 (7.69%) Postman
8 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
8 1 (7.69%) Storybook
General
1 11 (84.62%) Public Sector
2 5 (38.46%) Electronics
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
2 5 (38.46%) Marketing
2 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Java Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) QA Automation Tester
5 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) QA Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) Spring
2 11 (84.62%) Spring Boot
3 6 (46.15%) Kafka
3 6 (46.15%) React
3 6 (46.15%) REST
4 5 (38.46%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (38.46%) Hibernate
4 5 (38.46%) OpenAPI
4 5 (38.46%) Swagger
5 4 (30.77%) Web Services
6 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
6 3 (23.08%) Bootstrap
6 3 (23.08%) JPA
6 3 (23.08%) SOAP
6 3 (23.08%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (15.38%) Apache Camel
7 2 (15.38%) jQuery
7 2 (15.38%) JSON
7 2 (15.38%) RESTful
7 2 (15.38%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
1 12 (92.31%) Microservices
2 11 (84.62%) TDD
3 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
4 9 (69.23%) Containerisation
4 9 (69.23%) DevOps
5 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (38.46%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (38.46%) Migration
6 5 (38.46%) Programme Management
6 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
7 4 (30.77%) Scrum
8 3 (23.08%) BDD
8 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
8 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (15.38%) Process Management
9 2 (15.38%) SDLC
9 2 (15.38%) Validation
9 2 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) Python
5 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Kibana
2 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.69%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft