PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 138 138
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 +56
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 361 271 352
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 2.02% 1.71% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.87% 11.48% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 193 259
10th Percentile £363 £375 £409
25th Percentile £413 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £506
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -3.16% +1.20%
75th Percentile £540 £601 £600
90th Percentile £603 £663 £676
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30.95
25th Percentile £40.00 - £35.74
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £46.28
75th Percentile £57.50 - £56.61
90th Percentile £69.50 - £61.29
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £62.05
% change year-on-year -6.98% -30.70% +40.02%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,602 2,360 2,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.57% 14.89% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,799 1,472 2,090
10th Percentile £307 £313 £310
25th Percentile £393 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £568 £590 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £535
% change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 55 98
10th Percentile £20.74 £18.20 £15.51
25th Percentile £29.06 £21.63 £21.01
Median hourly rate £49.36 £27.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +79.49% -40.45% +2.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.48 £64.48
90th Percentile £81.85 £65.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
North of England +26 137 £490 +3.11% 156
Midlands +9 73 £525 +5.00% 107
Yorkshire +9 71 £500 -16.67% 67
South East -29 63 £433 -14.78% 164
West Midlands +16 62 £531 +8.37% 54
North West +4 54 £440 -1.12% 76
Scotland -7 53 £450 -5.26% 31
South West +1 46 £550 -3.51% 78
North East +9 13 £613 - 14
East Midlands -17 11 £518 +3.50% 46
Northern Ireland +1 8 £400 - 7
Wales +1 4 £469 +20.97% 17
East of England -11 4 £450 +1.41% 97
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 22 (6.09%) Confluence
2 13 (3.60%) nginx
3 7 (1.94%) Oracle Application Server
4 5 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.55%) Alfresco
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.55%) CICS
6 2 (0.55%) Drupal
6 2 (0.55%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.55%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (3.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (2.22%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 210 (58.17%) AWS
2 118 (32.69%) Azure
3 98 (27.15%) GitHub
4 85 (23.55%) Serverless
5 81 (22.44%) GCP
6 50 (13.85%) Amazon S3
7 40 (11.08%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (9.97%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (8.59%) OpenShift
10 30 (8.31%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (7.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (7.20%) Snowflake
14 22 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (5.82%) AWS KMS
16 19 (5.26%) Route 53
17 16 (4.43%) Power Platform
18 15 (4.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 14 (3.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.43%) DNS
1 16 (4.43%) Firewall
2 13 (3.60%) SSH
3 12 (3.32%) HTTP
4 11 (3.05%) IMAP
4 11 (3.05%) OpenLDAP
4 11 (3.05%) SMTP
5 10 (2.77%) FTP
6 8 (2.22%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.11%) Internet
7 4 (1.11%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.83%) MQTT
8 3 (0.83%) SSL
9 1 (0.28%) FCoE
9 1 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.28%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.28%) LAN
9 1 (0.28%) NAS
9 1 (0.28%) SAN
9 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (20.78%) NoSQL
2 68 (18.84%) MySQL
3 65 (18.01%) Relational Database
4 58 (16.07%) MongoDB
5 38 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (9.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 33 (9.14%) Redis
8 30 (8.31%) SQL Server
9 25 (6.93%) DynamoDB
10 24 (6.65%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (6.65%) RDBMS
11 16 (4.43%) Power BI
12 14 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (3.60%) Oracle Reports
14 12 (3.32%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (2.77%) Parquet
16 9 (2.49%) BigQuery
17 8 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
17 8 (2.22%) HBase
18 7 (1.94%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 115 (31.86%) Jenkins
2 76 (21.05%) Git
3 45 (12.47%) GitLab
4 42 (11.63%) JIRA
5 21 (5.82%) Cucumber
5 21 (5.82%) JUnit
6 20 (5.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (4.16%) Gradle
8 11 (3.05%) Vagrant
9 10 (2.77%) JMeter
9 10 (2.77%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.49%) Liquibase
11 8 (2.22%) Artifactory
11 8 (2.22%) Cypress.io
11 8 (2.22%) PyCharm
12 7 (1.94%) DBeaver
13 6 (1.66%) Maven
13 6 (1.66%) Postman
14 5 (1.39%) SonarLint
15 4 (1.11%) Subversion
General
1 106 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 68 (18.84%) Finance
3 65 (18.01%) Public Sector
4 42 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.86%) Banking
6 16 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.32%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.39%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.11%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.11%) Electronics
9 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.11%) Marketing
10 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Games
10 3 (0.83%) Legal
11 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.28%) Automotive
12 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Military
12 1 (0.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 132 (36.57%) Developer
2 52 (14.40%) Senior
3 39 (10.80%) Java Developer
4 38 (10.53%) Architect
5 33 (9.14%) Data Engineer
6 32 (8.86%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (8.31%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (6.09%) Senior Developer
8 22 (6.09%) Software Engineer
9 21 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (4.99%) Python Developer
11 17 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (4.71%) DBA
11 17 (4.71%) Lead
11 17 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (4.43%) GCP Engineer
13 15 (4.16%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 15 (4.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 14 (3.88%) Backend Developer
15 13 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (18.01%) REST
2 63 (17.45%) RESTful
3 62 (17.17%) Kafka
4 56 (15.51%) Spring
5 50 (13.85%) Spring Boot
6 48 (13.30%) Node.js
7 39 (10.80%) React
8 29 (8.03%) GraphQL
9 25 (6.93%) Elastic Stack
10 24 (6.65%) FastAPI
11 23 (6.37%) .NET
12 21 (5.82%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (5.26%) Keycloak
14 18 (4.99%) Flask
14 18 (4.99%) OAuth
15 16 (4.43%) gRPC
15 16 (4.43%) JSON
15 16 (4.43%) WebSockets
16 15 (4.16%) CSS
17 14 (3.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (14.40%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.65%) Replication
4 19 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.43%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (4.43%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.32%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.49%) Clustering
7 9 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.22%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.66%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.66%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.11%) Online Banking
11 3 (0.83%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.83%) Autonomous Agent
11 3 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.83%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (19.94%) Linux
2 20 (5.54%) Windows
3 14 (3.88%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (3.05%) VMS
5 10 (2.77%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.39%) Unix
7 4 (1.11%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.55%) Solaris
9 2 (0.55%) zOS
10 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.28%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (52.91%) CI/CD
2 145 (40.17%) Agile
3 140 (38.78%) DevOps
4 119 (32.96%) Containerisation
5 112 (31.02%) Microservices
6 88 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (21.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 53 (14.68%) AI
8 53 (14.68%) Software Engineering
9 47 (13.02%) Computer Science
10 46 (12.74%) ETL
10 46 (12.74%) Full-Stack Development
11 44 (12.19%) Test Automation
12 42 (11.63%) Observability
13 41 (11.36%) Migration
14 39 (10.80%) Data Modelling
14 39 (10.80%) TDD
15 37 (10.25%) Performance Tuning
16 34 (9.42%) Mentoring
17 33 (9.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 192 (53.19%) Python
2 127 (35.18%) SQL
3 86 (23.82%) Java
4 49 (13.57%) Go
5 43 (11.91%) TypeScript
6 36 (9.97%) JavaScript
7 28 (7.76%) PowerShell
8 26 (7.20%) Bash
9 16 (4.43%) C#
9 16 (4.43%) Groovy
10 14 (3.88%) PHP
11 8 (2.22%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.66%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.66%) VBA
13 5 (1.39%) Ruby
14 4 (1.11%) Delphi
15 3 (0.83%) ANSI SQL
15 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.55%) Bicep
16 2 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 99 (27.42%) Security Cleared
2 74 (20.50%) SC Cleared
3 62 (17.17%) Degree
4 43 (11.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (7.20%) Azure Certification
6 25 (6.93%) AWS Certification
7 15 (4.16%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.32%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.05%) OCP
9 11 (3.05%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.66%) CISSP
11 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.83%) MCP
13 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.16%) QA
2 14 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.77%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.11%) GDPR
5 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.55%) NCSC
7 1 (0.28%) DICOM
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 131 (36.29%) Docker
2 11 (3.05%) Dovecot
2 11 (3.05%) Postfix
2 11 (3.05%) Squid
3 10 (2.77%) DFS Replication
4 7 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.55%) KVM
7 1 (0.28%) NDS
7 1 (0.28%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 1 (0.28%) NFS
7 1 (0.28%) SRDF
7 1 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 140 (38.78%) Kubernetes
2 100 (27.70%) Terraform
3 71 (19.67%) Grafana
4 56 (15.51%) Ansible
5 53 (14.68%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.82%) Nessus
7 13 (3.60%) Progress Chef
8 11 (3.05%) Argo
9 10 (2.77%) Control-M
9 10 (2.77%) IBM Guardium
9 10 (2.77%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.94%) Packer
11 6 (1.66%) Puppet
12 5 (1.39%) Istio
13 2 (0.55%) Kibana
13 2 (0.55%) linkerd
14 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.28%) logstash
14 1 (0.28%) Rancher
14 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (16.07%) Oracle
2 47 (13.02%) Microsoft
3 33 (9.14%) Google
4 29 (8.03%) Splunk
5 14 (3.88%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.88%) VMware
6 12 (3.32%) Greenplum
7 11 (3.05%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (2.77%) Tenable
9 9 (2.49%) Informatica
10 7 (1.94%) IBM
11 6 (1.66%) Gigya
12 5 (1.39%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.39%) SAP
13 4 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (1.11%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.11%) Pega
14 3 (0.83%) Cloudera
15 2 (0.55%) PagerDuty