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

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 69 95
Rank change year-on-year -24 +26 +25
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 23 59 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.37% 2.50% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.46% 16.57% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 38 32
10th Percentile £306 £371 £376
25th Percentile £398 £452 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £500 £473
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +5.82% -4.55%
75th Percentile £481 £650 £578
90th Percentile £588 £663 £588
South East median daily rate £435 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -11.22% -2.00% -

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 272 356 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.24% 15.09% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 213 269
10th Percentile £325 £330 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £564 £623 £613
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £463 £494 £543
% change year-on-year -6.28% -8.94% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 10
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.75 £25.92
25th Percentile £21.51 £48.18 £32.30
Median hourly rate £24.00 £61.60 £43.65
Median % change year-on-year -61.04% +41.12% +123.85%
75th Percentile £31.14 - £68.13
90th Percentile £34.22 - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -56.36% - +144.44%

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

PostgreSQL
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 2 August 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 2 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
Berkshire -23 14 £437 -12.70% 7
Buckinghamshire +12 8 £463 - 3
Oxfordshire -16 1 £413 -17.50% 14
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 3 (13.04%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.70%) Camunda
2 2 (8.70%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) nginx
3 1 (4.35%) Gunicorn
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) GitHub
3 7 (30.43%) Azure
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (17.39%) GCP
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (13.04%) Serverless
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (8.70%) PaaS
7 2 (8.70%) SaaS
8 1 (4.35%) AWS KMS
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.35%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) MySQL
2 8 (34.78%) MongoDB
3 7 (30.43%) Relational Database
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
5 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (13.04%) Hadoop
5 3 (13.04%) Redis
6 2 (8.70%) Apache Hive
6 2 (8.70%) Big Data
6 2 (8.70%) IBM InfoSphere
6 2 (8.70%) OLAP
6 2 (8.70%) Oracle OLAP
6 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
6 2 (8.70%) Spark SQL
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
7 1 (4.35%) Impala
7 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 5 (21.74%) GitLab
2 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) JUnit
3 3 (13.04%) Mockito
4 2 (8.70%) JIRA
4 2 (8.70%) JMeter
4 2 (8.70%) Terragrunt
5 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.35%) DbUnit
5 1 (4.35%) jMock
5 1 (4.35%) Maven
5 1 (4.35%) Mocha
5 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.35%) Automotive
6 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Python Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Big Data Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Data Modeller
5 2 (8.70%) Finance Modeller
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Hadoop Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Java Technical Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) REST
1 6 (26.09%) RESTful
2 5 (21.74%) Django
2 5 (21.74%) Kafka
2 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
3 4 (17.39%) Web Services
4 3 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
4 3 (13.04%) FastAPI
4 3 (13.04%) Flask
4 3 (13.04%) GraphQL
4 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
4 3 (13.04%) jQuery
4 3 (13.04%) Node.js
4 3 (13.04%) OAuth
4 3 (13.04%) React
4 3 (13.04%) SOAP
4 3 (13.04%) Spring
5 2 (8.70%) Keycloak
5 2 (8.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) IoT
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
1 9 (39.13%) Microservices
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
3 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
3 5 (21.74%) ETL
4 4 (17.39%) Asynchronous Programming
4 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
4 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (17.39%) TDD
5 3 (13.04%) BDD
5 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (13.04%) Multithreading
5 3 (13.04%) Open Source
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Computer Science
6 2 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (8.70%) Process Management
6 2 (8.70%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) SQL
3 8 (34.78%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
1 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) NCSC
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
1 4 (17.39%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Kibana
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) IBM
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) Splunk
3 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) Jaspersoft