PostgreSQL DBA Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

PostgreSQL Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median PostgreSQL Database Administrator daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £445, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 326 469
Rank change year-on-year +33 +143 +151
Contract jobs requiring a PostgreSQL DBA 11 19 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.12% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 7
10th Percentile £412 - £400
25th Percentile £430 £534 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £537 £485
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +10.72% -19.17%
75th Percentile £468 £566 £538
90th Percentile £530 £613 £580
UK median daily rate £445 £534 £518
% change year-on-year -16.67% +3.19% -13.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

PostgreSQL DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured PostgreSQL DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PostgreSQL DBA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PostgreSQL DBA.

PostgreSQL DBA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PostgreSQL DBA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

PostgreSQL DBA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, PostgreSQL DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring PostgreSQL DBA in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (54.55%) MySQL
2 6 (54.55%) Oracle
3 5 (45.45%) XML
3 5 (45.45%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (45.45%) RDBMS
3 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) JSON
3 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
3 5 (45.45%) NoSQL
3 5 (45.45%) Kafka
3 5 (45.45%) Database Security
3 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
3 5 (45.45%) Serverless
4 4 (36.36%) Banking
5 3 (27.27%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Statistics
6 2 (18.18%) Database Migration
7 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
7 1 (9.09%) Miro
7 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (9.09%) Clustering
7 1 (9.09%) Logistics
7 1 (9.09%) Google

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Serverless
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (54.55%) MySQL
3 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
3 5 (45.45%) NoSQL
3 5 (45.45%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (45.45%) RDBMS
3 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) DBeaver
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) JSON
1 5 (45.45%) Kafka
1 5 (45.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Clustering
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Database Security
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
1 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
2 2 (18.18%) Database Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Statistics
3 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Data Validation
3 1 (9.09%) High Availability
3 1 (9.09%) Logistics
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (9.09%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Google