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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 139 142
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 +49
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 357 266 344
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.99% 1.76% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.83% 11.74% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 195 249
10th Percentile £363 £375 £405
25th Percentile £412 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £541 £625 £588
90th Percentile £603 £670 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30.95
25th Percentile - - £35.74
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £46.28
75th Percentile £45.00 - £56.61
90th Percentile £48.00 - £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 2,582 2,266 2,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.38% 14.97% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,788 1,423 2,026
10th Percentile £309 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 52 93
10th Percentile £20.75 £18.05 £15.50
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.94 £21.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.24 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +83.57% -41.02% +1.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.56 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £46.18
% change year-on-year +43.09% -34.17% -7.73%

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 14 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
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 14 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 +27 134 £486 +6.28% 104
Midlands +7 75 £525 +5.00% 56
Yorkshire +3 71 £500 -16.67% 47
West Midlands +10 64 £525 +0.96% 30
South East -11 63 £433 -20.64% 95
North West -2 54 £440 -0.28% 49
Scotland -9 51 £450 -5.46% 21
South West +5 46 £550 -8.33% 49
East Midlands -21 11 £515 +3.00% 23
North East - 10 £738 - 9
Northern Ireland 0 8 £400 - 3
Wales -2 4 £469 +20.97% 9
East of England -20 4 £450 +1.41% 52
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 19 (5.32%) Confluence
2 13 (3.64%) nginx
3 7 (1.96%) Oracle Application Server
4 5 (1.40%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.56%) Alfresco
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.56%) CICS
6 2 (0.56%) Drupal
6 2 (0.56%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.56%) 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%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (3.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (2.24%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 206 (57.70%) AWS
2 119 (33.33%) Azure
3 99 (27.73%) GitHub
4 86 (24.09%) Serverless
5 82 (22.97%) GCP
6 51 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 41 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (8.68%) OpenShift
10 30 (8.40%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (8.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (7.28%) Snowflake
14 22 (6.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (5.88%) AWS KMS
16 20 (5.60%) Route 53
17 16 (4.48%) Power Platform
17 16 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 14 (3.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.48%) DNS
1 16 (4.48%) Firewall
2 13 (3.64%) SSH
3 12 (3.36%) HTTP
4 11 (3.08%) IMAP
4 11 (3.08%) OpenLDAP
4 11 (3.08%) SMTP
5 10 (2.80%) FTP
6 8 (2.24%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.12%) Internet
7 4 (1.12%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.84%) MQTT
8 3 (0.84%) SSL
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) FCoE
9 1 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.28%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.28%) Multicast
9 1 (0.28%) NAS
9 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (20.45%) NoSQL
2 65 (18.21%) MySQL
2 65 (18.21%) Relational Database
3 55 (15.41%) MongoDB
4 39 (10.92%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 34 (9.52%) Redis
6 29 (8.12%) SQL Server
7 26 (7.28%) DynamoDB
8 24 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (6.72%) RDBMS
9 15 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (4.20%) Power BI
10 13 (3.64%) Oracle Reports
11 12 (3.36%) Apache Cassandra
12 10 (2.80%) Parquet
13 9 (2.52%) BigQuery
14 8 (2.24%) Amazon QuickSight
14 8 (2.24%) HBase
15 7 (1.96%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 117 (32.77%) Jenkins
2 74 (20.73%) Git
3 47 (13.17%) GitLab
4 39 (10.92%) JIRA
5 21 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 21 (5.88%) JUnit
6 20 (5.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (4.20%) Gradle
8 11 (3.08%) Vagrant
9 10 (2.80%) JMeter
9 10 (2.80%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.52%) Liquibase
11 8 (2.24%) Artifactory
11 8 (2.24%) Cypress.io
11 8 (2.24%) PyCharm
12 7 (1.96%) DBeaver
13 6 (1.68%) Maven
13 6 (1.68%) Postman
14 5 (1.40%) SonarLint
15 4 (1.12%) Subversion
General
1 104 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.77%) Finance
3 60 (16.81%) Public Sector
4 40 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.96%) Banking
6 16 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.36%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.12%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.12%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.84%) Electronics
9 3 (0.84%) Games
9 3 (0.84%) Legal
9 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.84%) Marketing
10 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.28%) Automotive
11 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 130 (36.41%) Developer
2 51 (14.29%) Senior
3 39 (10.92%) Java Developer
4 37 (10.36%) Architect
5 34 (9.52%) Data Engineer
6 31 (8.68%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (7.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (6.16%) Senior Developer
9 21 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.04%) Python Developer
11 17 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (4.76%) DBA
11 17 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (4.48%) GCP Engineer
12 16 (4.48%) Lead
13 15 (4.20%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 15 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 14 (3.92%) Backend Developer
15 13 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (18.21%) REST
2 64 (17.93%) Kafka
3 61 (17.09%) RESTful
4 54 (15.13%) Spring
5 48 (13.45%) Spring Boot
6 46 (12.89%) Node.js
7 39 (10.92%) React
8 29 (8.12%) GraphQL
9 25 (7.00%) Elastic Stack
10 24 (6.72%) FastAPI
11 22 (6.16%) .NET
12 21 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
13 20 (5.60%) Keycloak
14 18 (5.04%) Flask
15 17 (4.76%) JSON
15 17 (4.76%) OAuth
16 16 (4.48%) gRPC
16 16 (4.48%) WebSockets
17 15 (4.20%) CSS
18 14 (3.92%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (14.85%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.24%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.72%) Replication
4 19 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (4.48%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.36%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.52%) Clustering
7 9 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.24%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.68%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.68%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.12%) Online Banking
11 3 (0.84%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.84%) Autonomous Agent
11 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.84%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (19.61%) Linux
2 18 (5.04%) Windows
3 14 (3.92%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (3.08%) VMS
5 10 (2.80%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.40%) Unix
7 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.84%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.56%) Solaris
8 2 (0.56%) zOS
9 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.28%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (53.78%) CI/CD
2 141 (39.50%) Agile
2 141 (39.50%) DevOps
3 118 (33.05%) Containerisation
4 112 (31.37%) Microservices
5 87 (24.37%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (21.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (14.85%) AI
8 52 (14.57%) Software Engineering
9 48 (13.45%) Computer Science
10 47 (13.17%) ETL
11 44 (12.32%) Test Automation
12 43 (12.04%) Full-Stack Development
13 42 (11.76%) Migration
13 42 (11.76%) Observability
14 39 (10.92%) Data Modelling
15 38 (10.64%) TDD
16 37 (10.36%) Performance Tuning
17 35 (9.80%) Mentoring
18 33 (9.24%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 193 (54.06%) Python
2 123 (34.45%) SQL
3 84 (23.53%) Java
4 50 (14.01%) Go
5 43 (12.04%) TypeScript
6 37 (10.36%) JavaScript
7 27 (7.56%) PowerShell
8 25 (7.00%) Bash
9 17 (4.76%) C#
10 16 (4.48%) Groovy
11 14 (3.92%) PHP
12 8 (2.24%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.68%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.68%) VBA
14 5 (1.40%) Ruby
15 4 (1.12%) Delphi
16 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.56%) C
17 2 (0.56%) C++
17 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 97 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 71 (19.89%) SC Cleared
3 63 (17.65%) Degree
4 44 (12.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (7.56%) Azure Certification
6 25 (7.00%) AWS Certification
7 15 (4.20%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.36%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.08%) OCP
9 11 (3.08%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.68%) CISSP
11 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.84%) MCP
13 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.92%) Data Quality
1 14 (3.92%) QA
2 10 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.12%) GDPR
4 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
6 1 (0.28%) SLA
6 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 131 (36.69%) Docker
2 11 (3.08%) Dovecot
2 11 (3.08%) Postfix
2 11 (3.08%) Squid
3 10 (2.80%) DFS Replication
4 7 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.56%) KVM
7 1 (0.28%) HDFS
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
1 137 (38.38%) Kubernetes
2 100 (28.01%) Terraform
3 71 (19.89%) Grafana
4 56 (15.69%) Ansible
5 53 (14.85%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.88%) Nessus
7 13 (3.64%) Progress Chef
8 11 (3.08%) Argo
9 10 (2.80%) Control-M
9 10 (2.80%) IBM Guardium
9 10 (2.80%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.96%) Packer
11 6 (1.68%) Puppet
12 5 (1.40%) Istio
13 2 (0.56%) Kibana
13 2 (0.56%) 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 57 (15.97%) Oracle
2 48 (13.45%) Microsoft
3 33 (9.24%) Google
4 29 (8.12%) Splunk
5 14 (3.92%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.92%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.92%) VMware
6 12 (3.36%) Greenplum
7 11 (3.08%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (2.80%) Tenable
9 9 (2.52%) Informatica
10 7 (1.96%) IBM
11 6 (1.68%) Gigya
12 5 (1.40%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (1.12%) Cloudera
13 4 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.12%) Pega
13 4 (1.12%) SAP
14 3 (0.84%) Databricks