PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Watford

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Watford citing PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	15	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL	3	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Watford	3.45%	-	-
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	33.33%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	3	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	-	-
75^th Percentile	£538	-	-
90^th Percentile	£545	-	-
Hertfordshire median daily rate	£525	-	-

All Database & BI Skills
Watford

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 citing database or business intelligence skills in Watford.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing database or business intelligence skills	9	16	11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Watford	10.34%	25.81%	15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted	7	13	5
10^th Percentile	£435	-	£333
25^th Percentile	£491	£475	£363
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£550	£450
Median % change year-on-year	-4.55%	+22.22%	-10.00%
75^th Percentile	£550	£575	£475
90^th Percentile	-	£595	-
Hertfordshire median daily rate	£550	£515	£450
% change year-on-year	+6.80%	+14.44%	-10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	3
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£20.75	-	£13.69
Median hourly rate	£21.50	-	£14.13
75^th Percentile	£22.25	-	£14.66
90^th Percentile	-	-	£14.71
Hertfordshire median hourly rate	£70.00	-	£53.00
% change year-on-year	-	-	-13.47%

PostgreSQL Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford.

PostgreSQL Daily Rate Trend in Watford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford

For the 6 months to 4 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing PostgreSQL also mentioned 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 across the Watford region citing PostgreSQL.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	DevOps	100.0%	3
1	Kafka	100.0%	3
1	Kubernetes	100.0%	3
1	Test Automation	100.0%	3
5	Azure	66.7%	2
5	Azure AKS	66.7%	2
5	Azure Key Vault	66.7%	2
5	Azure Monitor	66.7%	2
5	Azure Service Bus	66.7%	2
5	Bicep	66.7%	2
5	CI/CD	66.7%	2
5	DNS	66.7%	2
5	Docker	66.7%	2
5	Event-Driven	66.7%	2
5	Event-Driven Architecture	66.7%	2
5	GitHub	66.7%	2
5	GitHub Actions	66.7%	2
5	High Availability	66.7%	2
5	Microservices	66.7%	2
5	User Acceptance Testing	66.7%	2
21	.NET	33.3%	1
21	AI	33.3%	1
21	API Development	33.3%	1
21	Azure DevOps	33.3%	1
21	Clean Code	33.3%	1
21	Cloud Security	33.3%	1
21	Code Quality	33.3%	1
21	Containerisation	33.3%	1
21	Data Engineering	33.3%	1
21	Datadog	33.3%	1

PostgreSQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Kafka	100.0%	3
2	.NET	33.3%	1
2	FastAPI	33.3%	1
2	pytest	33.3%	1
2	RabbitMQ	33.3%	1
2	REST	33.3%	1
2	SQLAlchemy	33.3%	1
2	Terraform	33.3%	1