PostgreSQL Contracts in West Sussex

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 23 17 38
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 +13
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 4 22 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.74% 8.43% 1.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.12% 44.90% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 1
10th Percentile - £253 -
25th Percentile - £353 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £387 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% -38.08% -0.95%
75th Percentile £325 £588 £638
90th Percentile £340 - -
South East median daily rate £463 £490 £470
% change year-on-year -5.56% +4.26% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year - +73.74% -
South East median hourly rate - £70.00 £22.16
% change year-on-year - +215.88% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 33 49 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 22.60% 18.77% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 20
10th Percentile £339 £183 £413
25th Percentile £354 £351 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £387 £525
Median % change year-on-year +29.20% -26.29% -0.94%
75th Percentile £538 £475 £593
90th Percentile £688 £588 £659
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.75 £18.20 -
Median hourly rate £34.50 £19.38 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +78.06% -12.57% -58.58%
75th Percentile £36.25 £25.47 £22.40
90th Percentile - £34.34 £22.84
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 West Sussex

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in West Sussex

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in West Sussex.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in West Sussex

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in West Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in West Sussex

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the West Sussex 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
Burgess Hill -4 4 £300 -17.01% 4
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
2 3 (75.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) gRPC
3 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central