PostgreSQL DBA Contract Job Trends

PostgreSQL Database Administrator
UK

The median PostgreSQL Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 572 500 603
Rank change year-on-year -72 +103 +204
Contract jobs requiring a PostgreSQL DBA 12 38 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.10% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.11% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 31 19
10th Percentile £343 £413 £400
25th Percentile £434 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £533
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -15.57% -11.17%
75th Percentile £675 £583 £573
90th Percentile £690 £640 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £450 £533
% change year-on-year -16.67% -15.57% -5.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 32,516 34,282 43,523
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 92.79% 93.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,580 20,693 29,476
10th Percentile £280 £300 £291
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £649
90th Percentile £725 £738 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,925 1,305 1,549
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £74.37 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £33.54 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.01% -25.05% +83.48%

PostgreSQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'PostgreSQL DBA' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PostgreSQL DBA job vacancy trend in the UK

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PostgreSQL DBA job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PostgreSQL DBA job vacancies in the UK

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL DBA over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL DBA in the UK

PostgreSQL DBA
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 23 November 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
England -46 9 £550 +22.22% 8
London +14 8 £600 +1.91% 4
Work from Home +3 4 £600 +33.33% 5
UK excluding London -57 3 £375 -16.67% 5
Scotland -7 2 - -
North West -28 1 £375 -15.73% 4
North of England -42 1 £375 -15.73% 4

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 November 2025, PostgreSQL DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring PostgreSQL DBA in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) High Availability
3 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 4 (33.33%) Linux
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Oracle
5 3 (25.00%) Bash
5 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (25.00%) Runbook
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (16.67%) AWK
6 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (16.67%) DB2
6 2 (16.67%) GPFS
6 2 (16.67%) NFS
6 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
6 2 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (16.67%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
6 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (16.67%) sed
6 2 (16.67%) Serverless
6 2 (16.67%) SQL
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Optimisation
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (16.67%) DB2
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Replication
2 2 (16.67%) Clustering
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) High Availability
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 3 (25.00%) Runbook
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) Database Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Database Security
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (8.33%) Security Auditing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) AWK
2 2 (16.67%) sed
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) GPFS
1 2 (16.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft