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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 104 131
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 +2
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 15 35 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.79% 1.25% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.46% 10.70% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 18
10th Percentile £375 - £458
25th Percentile £384 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £569 £475 £672
90th Percentile £653 £558 £711
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £59.70
Median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +28.93% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £64.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £80.00 £62.05
% change year-on-year -40.63% +28.93% +12.82%

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 201 327 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.61% 11.72% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 238 288
10th Percentile £300 £363 £388
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £669 £681 £720
England median daily rate £515 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.07% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 29
10th Percentile £38.90 - £17.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £17.50 £32.40
Median hourly rate £70.00 £30.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -54.55% +21.10%
75th Percentile £71.88 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £78.58 £85.00 £82.93
England median hourly rate £34.82 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.16% -31.82% +35.04%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 - 6 £550 - 2
Bristol -2 5 £538 +2.38% 19
Devon -5 3 £400 -11.11%
Gloucestershire +27 1 £663 +23.26% 19
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 3 (20.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (13.33%) Alfresco
2 2 (13.33%) Camunda
3 1 (6.67%) nginx
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (40.00%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) MySQL
3 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (20.00%) Star Schema
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) DBeaver
1 2 (13.33%) JUnit
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.67%) Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) DBA
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) JPA
2 2 (13.33%) Keycloak
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (13.33%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (13.33%) XML
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) PKI
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Solaris
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (40.00%) ETL
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
5 2 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Observability
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) SOLID
5 2 (13.33%) Sprint Review
5 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Go
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) C
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Argo
2 1 (6.67%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (6.67%) Podman
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) VMware