PostgreSQL Specialist Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

PostgreSQL Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median PostgreSQL Specialist daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a PostgreSQL Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 £650 -

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 9,198 13,724 22,626
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.64% 95.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,183 9,248 16,034
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 558 533
10th Percentile £13.97 £14.27 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.00 £22.50 £24.73
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +25.79%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

PostgreSQL Specialist Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, PostgreSQL Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) AWK
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) sed
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) GPFS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

PostgreSQL Specialist 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) AWK
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) sed
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) GPFS
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat