PostgreSQL Contracts in the Thames Valley

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 63 75 95
Rank change year-on-year +12 +20 +27
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 39 71 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.58% 2.64% 1.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.81% 20.82% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 45 32
10th Percentile £363 £407 £400
25th Percentile £409 £425 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £600 £460
Median % change year-on-year -22.88% +30.43% -6.60%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £513
90th Percentile £663 - £575
South East median daily rate £463 £490 £470
% change year-on-year -5.56% +4.26% -6.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 232 341 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.35% 12.70% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 195 300
10th Percentile £325 £316 £331
25th Percentile £412 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £22.97 £19.59 £22.90
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.61 £26.08
Median hourly rate £32.05 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% +7.27% +266.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.60 £75.75
90th Percentile £65.62 £65.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -8 28 £483 -19.58% 20
Buckinghamshire - 11 £410 - 23
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (10.26%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) AWS
2 17 (43.59%) Azure
3 8 (20.51%) Serverless
4 6 (15.38%) Azure AKS
4 6 (15.38%) GCP
4 6 (15.38%) GitHub
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Functions
5 4 (10.26%) PaaS
5 4 (10.26%) SaaS
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (5.13%) Miro
8 1 (2.56%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) HTTP
1 2 (5.13%) MQTT
1 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.77%) MySQL
2 9 (23.08%) Oracle Database
3 8 (20.51%) Relational Database
4 7 (17.95%) MongoDB
5 6 (15.38%) Oracle Database 11g
5 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
6 4 (10.26%) RDBMS
6 4 (10.26%) Redis
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (7.69%) Hadoop
7 3 (7.69%) MariaDB
7 3 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (5.13%) Apache Hive
8 2 (5.13%) Big Data
8 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.13%) IBM InfoSphere
8 2 (5.13%) OLAP
8 2 (5.13%) Oracle OLAP
8 2 (5.13%) Spark SQL
9 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) GitLab
1 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.26%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) JIRA
3 3 (7.69%) JUnit
3 3 (7.69%) Mockito
4 2 (5.13%) DBeaver
4 2 (5.13%) JMeter
4 2 (5.13%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (2.56%) DbUnit
5 1 (2.56%) jMock
5 1 (2.56%) Maven
5 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Automotive
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) DBA
3 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Java Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Python Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Administrator
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Backend Developer
5 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 3 (7.69%) React Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.69%) SQL DBA
6 2 (5.13%) Big Data Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) RESTful
2 7 (17.95%) REST
3 6 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 6 (15.38%) Node.js
4 5 (12.82%) React
4 5 (12.82%) Spring Boot
5 4 (10.26%) HTML
5 4 (10.26%) Kafka
5 4 (10.26%) Prisma
5 4 (10.26%) XML
6 3 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.69%) Django
6 3 (7.69%) FastAPI
6 3 (7.69%) Flask
6 3 (7.69%) Hibernate
6 3 (7.69%) SOAP
6 3 (7.69%) Spring
6 3 (7.69%) Web Services
7 2 (5.13%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Infotainment
2 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.13%) Replication
3 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Microservices
2 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
2 11 (28.21%) DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) Migration
4 9 (23.08%) Data Migration
4 9 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (15.38%) Clean Code
6 6 (15.38%) CRUD
6 6 (15.38%) Front End Development
6 6 (15.38%) Prototyping
6 6 (15.38%) Secure Coding
6 6 (15.38%) Software Testing
6 6 (15.38%) Unit Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Agile
7 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
7 5 (12.82%) Data Modelling
7 5 (12.82%) TDD
8 4 (10.26%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (10.26%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) SQL
2 9 (23.08%) Python
3 8 (20.51%) Java
4 7 (17.95%) PL/SQL
5 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.13%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 13 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) NCSC
1 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Kibana
2 2 (5.13%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Oracle
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.13%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) IBM
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
3 2 (5.13%) Spotify
4 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (2.56%) Remedy