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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 116 139
Rank change year-on-year -47 +23 +14
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 854 740 728
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.65% 2.33% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.83% 12.72% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 556 544
10th Percentile £358 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £453 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £534 £522
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.15% +3.21%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £836 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £479 £470
% change year-on-year -1.10% +2.02% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £32.40 £54.50 £53.70
25th Percentile £61.00 £57.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -18.75% +255.79%
75th Percentile £73.00 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.54% -18.75% +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 7,884 5,818 7,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.24% 18.32% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,204 3,939 5,415
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 103 152
10th Percentile £15.30 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.38 £20.68
Median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -7.89% -33.91%
75th Percentile £63.81 £63.75 £51.79
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £31.25
% change year-on-year +18.52% +1.25% -43.18%

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 5 July 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 5 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 16 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 5 July 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 -45 712 £521 -5.36% 339
UK excluding London -24 389 £474 -1.10% 173
London -47 358 £550 -8.33% 205
Work from Home -66 269 £500 -10.71% 183
North of England -40 128 £475 -5.00% 39
Midlands +1 98 £449 -10.30% 27
West Midlands -22 69 £449 -10.30% 17
South East -36 69 £473 +8.74% 50
North West -27 62 £475 - 22
Yorkshire -27 56 £481 -3.75% 8
Scotland -5 50 £425 -10.53% 13
South West -12 32 £700 +27.27% 23
East Midlands +7 27 £447 -10.15% 10
East of England -31 14 £575 +27.78% 15
North East -46 9 £425 -19.05% 9
Wales -15 3 - - 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 49 (5.74%) Confluence
2 45 (5.27%) Apache Spark
3 30 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.58%) Apache
5 10 (1.17%) nginx
6 7 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.70%) Camunda
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.47%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.35%) Appian
10 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.35%) IIS
10 3 (0.35%) JBoss
10 3 (0.35%) SAS
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Drupal
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.05%) CPLEX
2 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 447 (52.34%) AWS
2 288 (33.72%) Azure
3 147 (17.21%) GCP
4 140 (16.39%) GitHub
5 98 (11.48%) Serverless
6 97 (11.36%) Amazon S3
7 94 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (5.62%) Amazon SQS
12 45 (5.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 43 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (3.98%) Snowflake
15 29 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (3.16%) Power Platform
16 27 (3.16%) Route 53
17 26 (3.04%) Azure AKS
18 24 (2.81%) OpenShift
19 22 (2.58%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.87%) Firewall
2 13 (1.52%) DNS
3 10 (1.17%) SSH
4 9 (1.05%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.59%) HTTP
5 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.47%) SSL
6 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.35%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.35%) MQTT
7 3 (0.35%) Network Security
7 3 (0.35%) SAN
7 3 (0.35%) VPN
7 3 (0.35%) WAN
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) NaaS
8 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.12%) LAN
9 1 (0.12%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (20.49%) SQL Server
2 160 (18.74%) MongoDB
3 149 (17.45%) Relational Database
4 129 (15.11%) NoSQL
5 126 (14.75%) MySQL
6 72 (8.43%) Amazon RDS
7 63 (7.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 63 (7.38%) Redis
8 57 (6.67%) DynamoDB
9 40 (4.68%) Big Data
10 38 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.63%) RDBMS
12 30 (3.51%) Data Lake
13 26 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (3.04%) Oracle Database
14 23 (2.69%) Power BI
15 21 (2.46%) Metadata
16 19 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
17 17 (1.99%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.99%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 174 (20.37%) Jenkins
2 167 (19.56%) Git
3 96 (11.24%) JIRA
4 80 (9.37%) JUnit
5 69 (8.08%) GitLab
6 52 (6.09%) Mockito
7 38 (4.45%) Maven
8 30 (3.51%) Cucumber
9 24 (2.81%) Selenium
10 23 (2.69%) Gradle
10 23 (2.69%) JMeter
11 21 (2.46%) Liquibase
11 21 (2.46%) SonarQube
12 20 (2.34%) WebDriver
13 17 (1.99%) Gatling
14 14 (1.64%) DbUnit
15 13 (1.52%) jMock
16 11 (1.29%) Bitbucket Server
17 9 (1.05%) Flyway
18 8 (0.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 180 (21.08%) Social Skills
2 177 (20.73%) Finance
3 112 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 95 (11.12%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (6.67%) Banking
6 29 (3.40%) Front Office
7 21 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.29%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.17%) Military
11 9 (1.05%) Law
12 8 (0.94%) Legal
12 8 (0.94%) Retail
13 7 (0.82%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.59%) Automotive
15 5 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.47%) Private Banking
17 3 (0.35%) Health Technology
17 3 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 333 (38.99%) Developer
2 152 (17.80%) Senior
3 102 (11.94%) Java Developer
4 86 (10.07%) DBA
4 86 (10.07%) Full-Stack Developer
4 86 (10.07%) Python Developer
5 80 (9.37%) Software Engineer
6 76 (8.90%) Lead
7 71 (8.31%) Data Engineer
8 65 (7.61%) Architect
9 57 (6.67%) Senior Developer
10 38 (4.45%) Java Engineer
11 36 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
12 35 (4.10%) Administrator
12 35 (4.10%) Lead Developer
13 33 (3.86%) Backend Developer
14 29 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 28 (3.28%) Python Engineer
15 28 (3.28%) Software Developer
16 27 (3.16%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (22.83%) Spring
2 180 (21.08%) REST
3 178 (20.84%) Kafka
4 175 (20.49%) React
5 159 (18.62%) RESTful
6 153 (17.92%) Spring Boot
7 128 (14.99%) Node.js
8 73 (8.55%) FastAPI
9 65 (7.61%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.39%) OpenAPI
10 46 (5.39%) Swagger
11 44 (5.15%) .NET
12 43 (5.04%) Django
13 42 (4.92%) GraphQL
14 41 (4.80%) HTML
15 40 (4.68%) Web Services
16 39 (4.57%) CSS
17 38 (4.45%) JPA
17 38 (4.45%) WireMock
18 35 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 141 (16.51%) Cloud Native
2 102 (11.94%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.28%) Replication
5 27 (3.16%) Data Structures
5 27 (3.16%) Derivative
6 26 (3.04%) Distributed Architecture
7 24 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.81%) Equities
7 24 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.46%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (2.22%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.22%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.87%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.29%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.94%) Clustering
15 8 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 113 (13.23%) Linux
2 31 (3.63%) Unix
3 29 (3.40%) Windows
4 25 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.94%) Solaris
8 4 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Android
9 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.35%) VMS
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) AIX
10 2 (0.23%) zOS
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (43.68%) CI/CD
2 317 (37.12%) Agile
3 260 (30.44%) DevOps
4 257 (30.09%) Microservices
5 221 (25.88%) Containerisation
6 167 (19.56%) Software Engineering
7 162 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 141 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
9 117 (13.70%) AI
10 116 (13.58%) Test Automation
11 112 (13.11%) Observability
12 106 (12.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 103 (12.06%) TDD
14 102 (11.94%) Data Modelling
14 102 (11.94%) Migration
15 98 (11.48%) Performance Tuning
16 88 (10.30%) Event-Driven
17 86 (10.07%) Analytics
18 84 (9.84%) Scrum
18 84 (9.84%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 356 (41.69%) Python
2 317 (37.12%) SQL
3 295 (34.54%) Java
4 151 (17.68%) TypeScript
5 124 (14.52%) JavaScript
6 54 (6.32%) C#
7 46 (5.39%) PowerShell
8 38 (4.45%) Bash
9 31 (3.63%) Scala
10 29 (3.40%) Go
11 18 (2.11%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.76%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.52%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.41%) PHP
15 9 (1.05%) Groovy
15 9 (1.05%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.94%) Ruby
17 6 (0.70%) Rust
18 5 (0.59%) Bicep
18 5 (0.59%) C++
Qualifications
1 296 (34.66%) Security Cleared
2 245 (28.69%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.85%) Degree
4 35 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 27 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.76%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.76%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.70%) CISSP
12 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.47%) CISM
13 4 (0.47%) OCP
14 3 (0.35%) PhD
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.12%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.49%) QA
2 42 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.41%) GDPR
4 12 (1.41%) WCAG
5 5 (0.59%) ISO 9000
5 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.59%) NIST
5 5 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.47%) SLA
7 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.23%) GRC
8 2 (0.23%) HL7
9 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 321 (37.59%) Docker
2 12 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.29%) Postfix
4 10 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.17%) Oracle RAC
4 10 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.59%) Ceph
6 4 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.35%) HDFS
7 3 (0.35%) Squid
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) 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
1 283 (33.14%) Kubernetes
2 130 (15.22%) Terraform
3 118 (13.82%) Grafana
4 89 (10.42%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.80%) Ansible
6 17 (1.99%) Control-M
6 17 (1.99%) IBM Guardium
6 17 (1.99%) Nessus
7 13 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.41%) Data Guard
8 12 (1.41%) Kibana
9 10 (1.17%) Argo
9 10 (1.17%) HAProxy
10 7 (0.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 7 (0.82%) Rancher
11 5 (0.59%) Istio
12 4 (0.47%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.35%) Puppet
13 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 167 (19.56%) Oracle
2 133 (15.57%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.75%) Google
4 29 (3.40%) Databricks
4 29 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 21 (2.46%) Informatica
6 20 (2.34%) Splunk
7 18 (2.11%) Atlassian
8 17 (1.99%) Jaspersoft
8 17 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.99%) Tenable
9 16 (1.87%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.76%) Red Hat
11 13 (1.52%) Talend
12 11 (1.29%) OpenAI
13 10 (1.17%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.17%) IBM
13 10 (1.17%) Sybase
13 10 (1.17%) VMware
14 6 (0.70%) TikTok