PostgreSQL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 87 128 119
Rank change year-on-year +41 -9 +11
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 284 259 519
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.87% 1.69% 2.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.54% 8.90% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 198 379
10th Percentile £412 £371 £413
25th Percentile £457 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% +1.40% -9.09%
75th Percentile £663 £612 £594
90th Percentile £838 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £508
% change year-on-year +0.95% +3.35% -7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £22.16
75th Percentile - - £43.63
90th Percentile - - £44.45
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £75.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -28.00% +233.56% -60.16%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

PostgreSQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PostgreSQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PostgreSQL
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.

PostgreSQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PostgreSQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PostgreSQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PostgreSQL
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 18 (6.34%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.93%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.93%) Confluence
3 4 (1.41%) nginx
4 3 (1.06%) Camunda
4 3 (1.06%) CMS
4 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.70%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.70%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.70%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.35%) Magnolia
6 1 (0.35%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Actimize
2 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 182 (64.08%) AWS
2 67 (23.59%) GCP
3 55 (19.37%) Azure
4 46 (16.20%) Serverless
5 32 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (10.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (9.86%) Amazon S3
8 27 (9.51%) GitHub
9 17 (5.99%) dbt
10 14 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (3.87%) Power Platform
14 10 (3.52%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.17%) SaaS
16 8 (2.82%) AWS CodePipeline
17 7 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (2.46%) Azure Functions
17 7 (2.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.63%) HTTP
2 7 (2.46%) Firewall
3 6 (2.11%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.41%) DHCP
4 4 (1.41%) DNS
4 4 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.70%) Skype
5 2 (0.70%) SSH
5 2 (0.70%) VPN
6 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (16.90%) MySQL
2 44 (15.49%) MongoDB
3 34 (11.97%) Relational Database
4 32 (11.27%) SQL Server
5 27 (9.51%) Redis
6 25 (8.80%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (8.10%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (7.04%) Apache Iceberg
9 19 (6.69%) NoSQL
10 16 (5.63%) Apache Arrow
10 16 (5.63%) Dremio
10 16 (5.63%) Oracle Database
11 15 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (4.93%) DynamoDB
13 13 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (4.58%) Hadoop
14 12 (4.23%) Big Data
15 9 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (3.17%) Power BI
16 8 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 49 (17.25%) Git
2 37 (13.03%) Jenkins
3 26 (9.15%) JIRA
4 22 (7.75%) GitLab
5 21 (7.39%) JUnit
6 14 (4.93%) Mockito
7 13 (4.58%) Liquibase
8 12 (4.23%) Gradle
8 12 (4.23%) Maven
9 7 (2.46%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket
10 6 (2.11%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.11%) Jasmine
10 6 (2.11%) Postman
11 5 (1.76%) git-flow
12 4 (1.41%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.41%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.41%) Poetry
13 3 (1.06%) TestNG
General
1 71 (25.00%) Finance
2 56 (19.72%) Banking
3 53 (18.66%) Social Skills
4 47 (16.55%) Front Office
5 29 (10.21%) Public Sector
6 26 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.28%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.06%) Law
9 3 (1.06%) Military
10 2 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.70%) Marketing
10 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Retail
10 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Police
11 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 153 (53.87%) Developer
2 66 (23.24%) Software Engineer
3 46 (16.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 43 (15.14%) Java Developer
5 39 (13.73%) Senior
6 32 (11.27%) React Developer
7 31 (10.92%) Lead
8 29 (10.21%) Python Developer
9 27 (9.51%) AWS Developer
9 27 (9.51%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (7.75%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (7.75%) Senior Developer
11 19 (6.69%) DBA
12 17 (5.99%) AWS Software Engineer
12 17 (5.99%) Data Engineer
13 16 (5.63%) Lead Developer
13 16 (5.63%) Senior Java Developer
14 15 (5.28%) Lead Java Developer
15 14 (4.93%) Node.js Developer
15 14 (4.93%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (34.86%) React
2 91 (32.04%) Node.js
3 56 (19.72%) Kafka
4 39 (13.73%) RESTful
5 38 (13.38%) AngularJS
6 37 (13.03%) Spring Boot
7 36 (12.68%) Redux
8 35 (12.32%) Spring
9 30 (10.56%) CSS
10 22 (7.75%) Swagger
10 22 (7.75%) Vue
11 21 (7.39%) HTML
12 20 (7.04%) NumPy
12 20 (7.04%) Pandas
12 20 (7.04%) REST
13 19 (6.69%) AWS CDK
13 19 (6.69%) OpenAPI
13 19 (6.69%) SciPy
14 17 (5.99%) .NET
14 17 (5.99%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.20%) Fixed Income
2 14 (4.93%) Equities
2 14 (4.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (3.52%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.76%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.76%) Replication
6 3 (1.06%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.06%) Derivative
6 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.06%) Market Risk
7 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.70%) PKI
7 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.70%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.27%) Linux
2 18 (6.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.52%) Unix
4 7 (2.46%) Windows
5 4 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.70%) CentOS
6 2 (0.70%) SUSE
6 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (52.11%) Agile
2 101 (35.56%) Software Engineering
3 90 (31.69%) CI/CD
4 72 (25.35%) Microservices
5 66 (23.24%) DevOps
6 53 (18.66%) Fintech
7 47 (16.55%) Asset Management
7 47 (16.55%) Containerisation
8 46 (16.20%) Investment Management
9 45 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (15.14%) Full-Stack Development
11 39 (13.73%) Migration
11 39 (13.73%) User Experience
12 37 (13.03%) TDD
13 33 (11.62%) Mentoring
13 33 (11.62%) Test Automation
14 28 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (9.51%) Scrum
16 24 (8.45%) Analytics
17 21 (7.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 124 (43.66%) Python
2 117 (41.20%) SQL
3 94 (33.10%) TypeScript
4 92 (32.39%) JavaScript
5 82 (28.87%) Java
6 20 (7.04%) Bash
7 12 (4.23%) C#
7 12 (4.23%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.17%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.11%) PHP
9 6 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.76%) Groovy
10 5 (1.76%) Perl
11 4 (1.41%) Go
12 3 (1.06%) R
13 2 (0.70%) C++
13 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.35%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 56 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.01%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.39%) Degree
4 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.82%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (1.41%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.70%) MCSA
7 2 (0.70%) MCSE
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.93%) QA
2 5 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.70%) GDPR
4 2 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.70%) NCSC
5 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 77 (27.11%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) HDFS
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (21.83%) Kubernetes
2 35 (12.32%) Terraform
3 29 (10.21%) Grafana
4 22 (7.75%) Ansible
5 10 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.82%) Argo
7 6 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.76%) Istio
8 5 (1.76%) Puppet
9 3 (1.06%) Control-M
9 3 (1.06%) Kibana
9 3 (1.06%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.70%) OPNET
10 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.70%) SCCM
11 1 (0.35%) Consul
11 1 (0.35%) linkerd
11 1 (0.35%) Packer
11 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (17.96%) Oracle
2 14 (4.93%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.17%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.82%) Google
5 4 (1.41%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.41%) Informatica
5 4 (1.41%) Virgin Media
6 3 (1.06%) IBM
6 3 (1.06%) Imperva
6 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.06%) Splunk
6 3 (1.06%) VMware
7 2 (0.70%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.70%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.70%) Databricks
7 2 (0.70%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.35%) Delphix
8 1 (0.35%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.35%) Okta