PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 118 143
Rank change year-on-year -46 +25 +16
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 804 691 727
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.35% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.75% 12.54% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 513 550
10th Percentile £363 £401 £363
25th Percentile £424 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £720 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £478 £468
% change year-on-year -3.50% +2.19% -5.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile £53.20 £53.50 £53.70
25th Percentile £63.25 £55.00 £66.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -25.00% +255.79%
75th Percentile £74.13 £65.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £66.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +20.91% -31.25% +261.01%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,481 5,511 7,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 18.76% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,005 3,742 5,323
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £762 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 104 156
10th Percentile £14.26 £19.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.87 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.75 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.99 £65.62 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.39 £78.34 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% -9.60% -40.26%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the UK

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 June 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
England -47 679 £513 -6.82% 243
UK excluding London -12 361 £461 -3.50% 139
London -49 348 £550 -8.33% 125
Work from Home -58 254 £500 -9.09% 156
North of England -35 122 £455 -4.21% 49
Midlands -5 97 £447 -10.60% 21
West Midlands -18 68 £450 -10.00% 10
South East -45 67 £478 +9.46% 39
North West -29 59 £450 -5.26% 32
Yorkshire -22 53 £475 -5.00% 10
Scotland -1 44 £425 -10.53% 4
East Midlands -5 27 £425 -15.00% 11
South West -23 23 £700 +16.67% 15
East of England -28 10 £575 +27.78% 10
North East -22 9 £425 -10.05% 7
Wales - 2 - - 3
Northern Ireland +1 1 £400 -20.00% 3

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 50 (6.22%) Confluence
2 43 (5.35%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.49%) Apache
5 11 (1.37%) nginx
6 8 (1.00%) Camunda
7 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.37%) Appian
9 3 (0.37%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.37%) IIS
9 3 (0.37%) SAS
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (0.75%) CPLEX
1 6 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Maya
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 444 (55.22%) AWS
2 252 (31.34%) Azure
3 139 (17.29%) GitHub
4 137 (17.04%) GCP
5 97 (12.06%) Serverless
6 96 (11.94%) Amazon S3
7 91 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
8 72 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (6.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 46 (5.72%) Amazon SQS
11 44 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (3.73%) Route 53
14 28 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (3.48%) Power Platform
15 27 (3.36%) OpenShift
16 25 (3.11%) AWS KMS
16 25 (3.11%) Snowflake
17 24 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.36%) DNS
2 17 (2.11%) Firewall
3 8 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.62%) HTTP
5 4 (0.50%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.50%) SSH
5 4 (0.50%) SSL
6 3 (0.37%) iSCSI
6 3 (0.37%) MQTT
6 3 (0.37%) SAN
6 3 (0.37%) VPN
6 3 (0.37%) WAN
7 2 (0.25%) DHCP
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) Network Security
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) Internet
8 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (18.78%) SQL Server
2 143 (17.79%) MongoDB
3 134 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 129 (16.04%) NoSQL
5 116 (14.43%) MySQL
6 72 (8.96%) Amazon RDS
7 67 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 61 (7.59%) DynamoDB
9 50 (6.22%) Redis
10 36 (4.48%) Big Data
11 34 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
12 28 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
12 28 (3.48%) RDBMS
13 23 (2.86%) Oracle Database
13 23 (2.86%) Power BI
14 21 (2.61%) Data Lake
15 19 (2.36%) Metadata
15 19 (2.36%) Tableau
16 18 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
17 16 (1.99%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 172 (21.39%) Jenkins
2 158 (19.65%) Git
3 84 (10.45%) JIRA
4 83 (10.32%) GitLab
5 80 (9.95%) JUnit
6 54 (6.72%) Mockito
7 36 (4.48%) Maven
8 30 (3.73%) Cucumber
9 24 (2.99%) Gradle
9 24 (2.99%) JMeter
9 24 (2.99%) Selenium
10 21 (2.61%) Liquibase
11 20 (2.49%) SonarQube
11 20 (2.49%) WebDriver
12 17 (2.11%) Gatling
13 14 (1.74%) DbUnit
14 13 (1.62%) jMock
15 11 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
16 9 (1.12%) Flyway
17 7 (0.87%) Cypress.io
General
1 175 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 166 (20.65%) Finance
3 110 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 86 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (7.46%) Banking
6 26 (3.23%) Front Office
7 19 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.62%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.49%) Law
10 7 (0.87%) Military
11 6 (0.75%) Legal
11 6 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.62%) Automotive
12 5 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.62%) Retail
13 4 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.37%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.37%) Marketing
14 3 (0.37%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 311 (38.68%) Developer
2 150 (18.66%) Senior
3 94 (11.69%) Java Developer
4 83 (10.32%) Software Engineer
5 80 (9.95%) Python Developer
6 75 (9.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 70 (8.71%) Data Engineer
7 70 (8.71%) DBA
8 68 (8.46%) Architect
9 65 (8.08%) Lead
10 60 (7.46%) Senior Developer
11 39 (4.85%) Java Engineer
12 33 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
13 30 (3.73%) Lead Developer
14 29 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 29 (3.61%) Senior Java Developer
15 28 (3.48%) Backend Developer
16 27 (3.36%) Administrator
16 27 (3.36%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 24 (2.99%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (23.26%) Kafka
1 187 (23.26%) Spring
2 160 (19.90%) React
3 152 (18.91%) RESTful
4 145 (18.03%) REST
5 144 (17.91%) Spring Boot
6 121 (15.05%) Node.js
7 67 (8.33%) FastAPI
8 61 (7.59%) AngularJS
9 42 (5.22%) .NET
9 42 (5.22%) GraphQL
10 41 (5.10%) JPA
11 39 (4.85%) WireMock
12 38 (4.73%) HTML
13 36 (4.48%) CSS
13 36 (4.48%) Hibernate
13 36 (4.48%) Web Services
14 35 (4.35%) Django
15 34 (4.23%) OpenAPI
15 34 (4.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 122 (15.17%) Cloud Native
2 98 (12.19%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.35%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.48%) Derivative
5 26 (3.23%) Replication
6 25 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 22 (2.74%) Equities
9 21 (2.61%) Fixed Income
9 21 (2.61%) Management Information System
10 20 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (2.36%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.87%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.37%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (1.24%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.12%) AI Agents
17 7 (0.87%) Clustering
17 7 (0.87%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 109 (13.56%) Linux
2 31 (3.86%) Unix
3 27 (3.36%) Windows
4 16 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.50%) Solaris
6 4 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.37%) Android
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.25%) zOS
9 1 (0.12%) AIX
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (44.78%) CI/CD
2 307 (38.18%) Agile
3 240 (29.85%) DevOps
4 238 (29.60%) Microservices
5 199 (24.75%) Containerisation
6 159 (19.78%) Software Engineering
7 149 (18.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 133 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (15.17%) Observability
10 115 (14.30%) Test Automation
11 106 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
12 105 (13.06%) AI
12 105 (13.06%) Data Modelling
12 105 (13.06%) TDD
13 95 (11.82%) Performance Tuning
14 94 (11.69%) Migration
15 86 (10.70%) Event-Driven
16 79 (9.83%) Analytics
16 79 (9.83%) Mentoring
16 79 (9.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 340 (42.29%) Python
2 309 (38.43%) SQL
3 290 (36.07%) Java
4 147 (18.28%) TypeScript
5 120 (14.93%) JavaScript
6 45 (5.60%) C#
7 44 (5.47%) Bash
8 42 (5.22%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.86%) Go
10 30 (3.73%) Scala
11 21 (2.61%) PL/SQL
12 19 (2.36%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.49%) PHP
13 12 (1.49%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.24%) Bicep
15 9 (1.12%) Groovy
15 9 (1.12%) Kotlin
16 8 (1.00%) Ruby
17 5 (0.62%) Rust
18 4 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 276 (34.33%) Security Cleared
2 227 (28.23%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.46%) Degree
4 36 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.62%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.75%) CISSP
13 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.50%) CISM
14 4 (0.50%) OCP
15 3 (0.37%) PhD
16 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.12%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.84%) QA
2 43 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.49%) WCAG
5 10 (1.24%) GDPR
6 9 (1.12%) SLA
7 8 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.00%) NIST
8 6 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.62%) NCSC
9 5 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.25%) GRC
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 299 (37.19%) Docker
2 11 (1.37%) Postfix
3 9 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.62%) Ceph
6 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.37%) HDFS
7 3 (0.37%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.12%) NFS
9 1 (0.12%) RACF
9 1 (0.12%) Samba
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 264 (32.84%) Kubernetes
2 127 (15.80%) Grafana
3 123 (15.30%) Terraform
4 93 (11.57%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.47%) Ansible
6 16 (1.99%) Control-M
6 16 (1.99%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (1.99%) Nessus
7 14 (1.74%) Argo
8 13 (1.62%) Oracle RMAN
9 12 (1.49%) Data Guard
9 12 (1.49%) Kibana
10 11 (1.37%) HAProxy
11 9 (1.12%) Istio
12 7 (0.87%) Rancher
13 4 (0.50%) linkerd
13 4 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.37%) Puppet
15 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (17.79%) Oracle
2 107 (13.31%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.35%) Databricks
4 26 (3.23%) Splunk
5 25 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.74%) Google
7 19 (2.36%) Red Hat
8 18 (2.24%) Atlassian
9 17 (2.11%) Informatica
9 17 (2.11%) Jaspersoft
10 16 (1.99%) Tenable
11 14 (1.74%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.74%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.74%) VMware
12 12 (1.49%) Talend
13 10 (1.24%) Confluent
14 9 (1.12%) Sybase
15 8 (1.00%) IBM
16 7 (0.87%) OpenAI
17 5 (0.62%) Ab Initio