PostgreSQL Contracts in the South West

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 87 142 134
Rank change year-on-year +55 -8 +22
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 24 15 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.43% 0.47% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.91% 4.82% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 21
10th Percentile £506 £435 £460
25th Percentile £550 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £659 £549 £650
90th Percentile £750 £625 £750
England median daily rate £548 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -0.45% +2.33% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £27.13
25th Percentile - £75.00 £28.44
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year - +137.04% -
75th Percentile - £85.00 £40.94
90th Percentile - - £43.38
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 220 311 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.11% 9.72% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 213 344
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% -3.38% +3.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £720
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 24
10th Percentile £25.31 £16.53 £18.63
25th Percentile £52.56 - £34.35
Median hourly rate £68.75 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.88% -38.46% -5.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.75 £75.50
90th Percentile - £85.00 £78.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the South West

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the South West

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the South West

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the South West

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +34 9 £625 +17.37% 3
Gloucestershire - 9 £550 - 17
Bristol +16 3 £625 +8.70% 26
Dorset - 3 £675 - 4
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.33%) Skype for Business
3 1 (4.17%) IIS
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) GitHub
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (16.67%) Serverless
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (8.33%) Datadog
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.17%) Route 53
6 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) VPN
2 3 (12.50%) DNS
3 2 (8.33%) DHCP
3 2 (8.33%) Firewall
3 2 (8.33%) Skype
4 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 3 (12.50%) MySQL
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle Database
4 3 (12.50%) Power BI
4 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.17%) CockroachDB
6 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.17%) Flyway
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Data Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Support Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Data Migration Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Software Integration Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Support
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.33%) JavaFX
2 2 (8.33%) ModSecurity
2 2 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (4.17%) Django
3 1 (4.17%) JPA
3 1 (4.17%) LDAP
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) Spring
3 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) PKI
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (25.00%) Windows
3 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
5 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (16.67%) ETL
2 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 3 (12.50%) Migration
3 3 (12.50%) UML
4 2 (8.33%) Data Integration
4 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (8.33%) IT Strategy
4 2 (8.33%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (8.33%) Service Management
4 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) Java
4 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.17%) C++
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.17%) Fortran
5 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) MCSA
4 2 (8.33%) MCSE
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) OPNET
2 2 (8.33%) SCCM
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) Intel
4 1 (4.17%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (4.17%) VMware