PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 102 114
Rank change year-on-year -35 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 339 339 360
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 2.74% 2.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.38% 12.24% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 251 281
10th Percentile £394 £400 £381
25th Percentile £459 £469 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +7.38%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £650
90th Percentile £850 £850 £750
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - +2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -2.99% +197.98%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.22 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +4.95% -13.33% +233.56%

All Database & BI Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,265 2,769 3,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.14% 22.35% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,225 1,948 2,852
10th Percentile £363 £382 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 35
10th Percentile £18.19 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.32 £25.62
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60.88 £58.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.75 £70.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.43 £40.13
% change year-on-year +38.76% -19.18% -30.22%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in London

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in London

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. 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
Central London -35 36 £525 -6.83% 47
South London -5 21 £521 -16.32%
West London -22 4 £400 -32.03% 4
East London - 4 £540 - 3
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (7.37%) Apache Spark
2 18 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.13%) Apache
4 9 (2.65%) Confluence
5 8 (2.36%) Camunda
6 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.88%) Appian
7 3 (0.88%) nginx
7 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.59%) CMS
8 2 (0.59%) Drupal
8 2 (0.59%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.59%) WordPress
9 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.29%) CICS
9 1 (0.29%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.29%) IIS
9 1 (0.29%) SAS
9 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Maya
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 217 (64.01%) AWS
2 93 (27.43%) Azure
3 57 (16.81%) GCP
4 53 (15.63%) Amazon S3
5 47 (13.86%) GitHub
6 40 (11.80%) Serverless
7 39 (11.50%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (7.67%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (7.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (5.31%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (4.13%) Power Platform
14 13 (3.83%) Amazon MSK
14 13 (3.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 11 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (2.95%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.47%) DNS
1 5 (1.47%) Firewall
2 3 (0.88%) WAN
3 2 (0.59%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.59%) MQTT
3 2 (0.59%) NaaS
3 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.29%) DHCP
4 1 (0.29%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.29%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.29%) LAN
4 1 (0.29%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.29%) SSH
4 1 (0.29%) VLAN
4 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (19.17%) SQL Server
2 62 (18.29%) MongoDB
3 52 (15.34%) NoSQL
4 48 (14.16%) Relational Database
5 34 (10.03%) MySQL
6 30 (8.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 27 (7.96%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (4.72%) Apache Cassandra
10 15 (4.42%) DynamoDB
11 14 (4.13%) Big Data
12 13 (3.83%) BigQuery
12 13 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (3.83%) RDBMS
12 13 (3.83%) Redis
12 13 (3.83%) Tableau
13 12 (3.54%) DB2
14 11 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (2.95%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 56 (16.52%) Jenkins
2 49 (14.45%) Git
3 30 (8.85%) JUnit
4 29 (8.55%) Mockito
5 26 (7.67%) GitLab
6 19 (5.60%) Gradle
7 16 (4.72%) JIRA
8 12 (3.54%) Maven
9 11 (3.24%) Liquibase
10 7 (2.06%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.47%) ERwin
11 5 (1.47%) JMeter
11 5 (1.47%) Selenium
11 5 (1.47%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.18%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.18%) DbUnit
12 4 (1.18%) Gatling
12 4 (1.18%) jMock
12 4 (1.18%) Vite
13 3 (0.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 98 (28.91%) Finance
2 52 (15.34%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 35 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.32%) Banking
5 24 (7.08%) Front Office
6 10 (2.95%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.18%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.18%) Law
7 4 (1.18%) Retail
8 3 (0.88%) Legal
8 3 (0.88%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.59%) Billing
9 2 (0.59%) Local Government
9 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (38.94%) Developer
2 84 (24.78%) Senior
3 41 (12.09%) Software Engineer
4 40 (11.80%) Data Engineer
5 37 (10.91%) Java Developer
6 34 (10.03%) Senior Developer
7 33 (9.73%) Architect
7 33 (9.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (9.73%) Lead
8 26 (7.67%) Python Developer
9 25 (7.37%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.90%) Lead Developer
11 17 (5.01%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.01%) Python Engineer
12 16 (4.72%) React Developer
12 16 (4.72%) Senior Data Engineer
12 16 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
13 15 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
14 14 (4.13%) DBA
15 13 (3.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (30.09%) Kafka
2 92 (27.14%) React
3 81 (23.89%) Spring
4 64 (18.88%) Spring Boot
5 61 (17.99%) REST
6 60 (17.70%) RESTful
7 59 (17.40%) Node.js
8 31 (9.14%) AngularJS
9 24 (7.08%) Redux
10 23 (6.78%) .NET
11 21 (6.19%) CSS
11 21 (6.19%) HTML
12 20 (5.90%) GraphQL
13 16 (4.72%) JPA
14 15 (4.42%) Hibernate
14 15 (4.42%) WireMock
15 14 (4.13%) Django
15 14 (4.13%) OAuth
15 14 (4.13%) Vue
16 13 (3.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 52 (15.34%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (8.26%) Derivative
4 20 (5.90%) Equities
4 20 (5.90%) Fixed Income
5 13 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.83%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.24%) Replication
7 10 (2.95%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.36%) Market Risk
8 8 (2.36%) PACS
9 7 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.47%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.34%) Linux
2 13 (3.83%) Windows
3 11 (3.24%) Unix
4 6 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.18%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.18%) zOS
6 3 (0.88%) Android
6 3 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.88%) Solaris
6 3 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.29%) SUSE
7 1 (0.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (38.64%) CI/CD
2 108 (31.86%) Agile
3 93 (27.43%) DevOps
4 84 (24.78%) Microservices
5 72 (21.24%) Containerisation
5 72 (21.24%) Software Engineering
6 68 (20.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 55 (16.22%) Data Modelling
8 54 (15.93%) Test Automation
9 49 (14.45%) Event-Driven
10 46 (13.57%) Migration
11 45 (13.27%) Performance Tuning
11 45 (13.27%) TDD
12 44 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (12.39%) Mentoring
15 37 (10.91%) Observability
16 34 (10.03%) AI
17 33 (9.73%) Analytics
18 32 (9.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 150 (44.25%) SQL
2 148 (43.66%) Java
3 144 (42.48%) Python
4 81 (23.89%) TypeScript
5 74 (21.83%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.78%) C#
7 14 (4.13%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.83%) Scala
9 12 (3.54%) Bash
9 12 (3.54%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.95%) Go
11 9 (2.65%) PHP
11 9 (2.65%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.77%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.47%) Groovy
13 5 (1.47%) Perl
14 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.59%) C++
15 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 87 (25.66%) Security Cleared
2 73 (21.53%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.67%) Degree
4 11 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.88%) PhD
8 1 (0.29%) CISA
8 1 (0.29%) CISM
8 1 (0.29%) CISSP
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.29%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.60%) QA
3 9 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.06%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.18%) NIST
5 4 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.88%) SLA
7 2 (0.59%) NCSC
7 2 (0.59%) WCAG
8 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) GDPR
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.29%) ITGC
System Software
1 108 (31.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.88%) Postfix
3 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.59%) NFS
4 2 (0.59%) Xen
5 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.29%) Ceph
5 1 (0.29%) iptables
5 1 (0.29%) KVM
5 1 (0.29%) Lustre
5 1 (0.29%) RACF
5 1 (0.29%) Samba
5 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 81 (23.89%) Kubernetes
2 64 (18.88%) Terraform
3 37 (10.91%) Grafana
4 23 (6.78%) Prometheus
5 16 (4.72%) Ansible
6 8 (2.36%) Kibana
7 4 (1.18%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.18%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.88%) Argo
8 3 (0.88%) Puppet
9 2 (0.59%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.59%) Istio
9 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.29%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.29%) SELinux
Vendors
1 42 (12.39%) Oracle
2 34 (10.03%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.54%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.24%) Databricks
5 10 (2.95%) Confluent
5 10 (2.95%) Google
6 9 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.36%) IBM
8 7 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.06%) Splunk
9 6 (1.77%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.77%) Informatica
10 5 (1.47%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.47%) Sybase
11 4 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
12 3 (0.88%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.88%) Refinitiv
13 2 (0.59%) New Relic
13 2 (0.59%) Siemens