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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 120 144
Rank change year-on-year -45 +24 +13
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 800 684 723
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 2.34% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.65% 12.41% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 507 548
10th Percentile £363 £403 £363
25th Percentile £423 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.35%
75th Percentile £599 £650 £638
90th Percentile £719 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £480 £468
% change year-on-year -3.91% +2.62% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £53.20 - £53.70
25th Percentile £63.25 £62.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -18.75% +255.79%
75th Percentile £74.13 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 7,509 5,512 7,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 18.83% 17.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,024 3,745 5,279
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £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 235 102 152
10th Percentile £14.34 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.91 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £43.00 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.77% -14.53% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.34 £55.63
90th Percentile £81.43 £77.38 £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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -48 674 £513 -3.94% 244
UK excluding London -18 358 £461 -3.91% 130
London -40 347 £550 -8.33% 133
Work from Home -64 253 £500 -9.09% 401
North of England -33 121 £460 -3.16% 46
Midlands -4 97 £447 -10.60% 20
West Midlands -20 68 £450 -10.00% 9
South East -36 66 £475 +8.88% 36
North West -27 59 £450 -5.26% 29
Yorkshire -27 52 £475 -5.00% 10
Scotland +2 44 £425 -10.99% 5
East Midlands -7 27 £425 -15.42% 11
South West -28 23 £700 +16.67% 14
East of England -35 10 £575 +27.78% 8
North East -24 9 £425 -10.05% 7
Wales - 2 - - 3
Northern Ireland +1 1 £400 -20.00% 2

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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 43 (5.38%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.63%) Apache
5 11 (1.38%) nginx
6 8 (1.00%) Camunda
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.50%) SAS
8 4 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.38%) Appian
9 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
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 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (0.75%) CPLEX
1 6 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 446 (55.75%) AWS
2 254 (31.75%) Azure
3 140 (17.50%) GitHub
4 138 (17.25%) GCP
5 97 (12.13%) Serverless
6 96 (12.00%) Amazon S3
7 92 (11.50%) GitHub Actions
8 73 (9.13%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 45 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
10 45 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
13 31 (3.88%) Route 53
14 30 (3.75%) Power Platform
15 29 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (3.38%) OpenShift
17 25 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
17 25 (3.13%) AWS KMS
17 25 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.38%) DNS
2 17 (2.13%) Firewall
3 8 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.75%) HTTP
5 4 (0.50%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.50%) SSH
5 4 (0.50%) SSL
5 4 (0.50%) VPN
6 3 (0.38%) iSCSI
6 3 (0.38%) MQTT
6 3 (0.38%) SAN
6 3 (0.38%) WAN
7 2 (0.25%) DHCP
7 2 (0.25%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) Network Security
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.13%) Internet
8 1 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (19.00%) SQL Server
2 144 (18.00%) MongoDB
3 133 (16.63%) Relational Database
4 130 (16.25%) NoSQL
5 113 (14.13%) MySQL
6 72 (9.00%) Amazon RDS
7 67 (8.38%) Amazon Aurora
8 62 (7.75%) DynamoDB
9 47 (5.88%) Redis
10 36 (4.50%) Big Data
10 36 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
11 27 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (3.25%) RDBMS
13 25 (3.13%) Power BI
14 24 (3.00%) Data Lake
14 24 (3.00%) Oracle Database
15 21 (2.63%) Tableau
16 19 (2.38%) Metadata
17 18 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 173 (21.63%) Jenkins
2 157 (19.63%) Git
3 84 (10.50%) GitLab
4 83 (10.38%) JIRA
5 80 (10.00%) JUnit
6 56 (7.00%) Mockito
7 36 (4.50%) Maven
8 30 (3.75%) Cucumber
9 24 (3.00%) Gradle
9 24 (3.00%) JMeter
9 24 (3.00%) Selenium
10 21 (2.63%) Liquibase
11 20 (2.50%) SonarQube
11 20 (2.50%) WebDriver
12 14 (1.75%) DbUnit
13 13 (1.63%) Gatling
13 13 (1.63%) jMock
14 11 (1.38%) Bitbucket Server
15 9 (1.13%) Flyway
16 7 (0.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 172 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 166 (20.75%) Finance
3 108 (13.50%) Public Sector
4 84 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (7.38%) Banking
6 25 (3.13%) Front Office
7 19 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.63%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.50%) Law
10 6 (0.75%) Legal
10 6 (0.75%) Military
10 6 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.63%) Automotive
11 5 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.63%) Retail
12 4 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.38%) Private Banking
13 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 306 (38.25%) Developer
2 148 (18.50%) Senior
3 94 (11.75%) Java Developer
4 83 (10.38%) Software Engineer
5 79 (9.88%) Python Developer
6 75 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 70 (8.75%) Architect
7 70 (8.75%) Data Engineer
7 70 (8.75%) DBA
8 64 (8.00%) Lead
9 58 (7.25%) Senior Developer
10 39 (4.88%) Java Engineer
11 34 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 30 (3.75%) Lead Developer
13 29 (3.63%) Senior Java Developer
14 28 (3.50%) Administrator
15 27 (3.38%) PostgreSQL DBA
16 26 (3.25%) Backend Developer
17 24 (3.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (23.38%) Kafka
1 187 (23.38%) Spring
2 160 (20.00%) React
3 151 (18.88%) RESTful
4 144 (18.00%) Spring Boot
5 143 (17.88%) REST
6 120 (15.00%) Node.js
7 67 (8.38%) FastAPI
8 61 (7.63%) AngularJS
9 42 (5.25%) GraphQL
10 41 (5.13%) .NET
10 41 (5.13%) JPA
11 39 (4.88%) WireMock
12 37 (4.63%) HTML
13 36 (4.50%) Hibernate
13 36 (4.50%) Web Services
14 35 (4.38%) CSS
14 35 (4.38%) Django
15 33 (4.13%) OpenAPI
15 33 (4.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 121 (15.13%) Cloud Native
2 93 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.50%) Derivative
5 26 (3.25%) Replication
6 22 (2.75%) Equities
7 21 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
8 20 (2.50%) Fixed Income
9 19 (2.38%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.88%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.38%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.13%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.00%) AI Agents
15 7 (0.88%) Clustering
15 7 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 109 (13.63%) Linux
2 31 (3.88%) Unix
3 27 (3.38%) Windows
4 16 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.50%) Solaris
6 4 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) Android
7 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.25%) zOS
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.13%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 305 (38.13%) Agile
3 245 (30.63%) DevOps
4 233 (29.13%) Microservices
5 197 (24.63%) Containerisation
6 158 (19.75%) Software Engineering
7 150 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
8 132 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (15.25%) Observability
10 111 (13.88%) Test Automation
11 107 (13.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 106 (13.25%) Data Modelling
13 105 (13.13%) TDD
14 103 (12.88%) AI
15 93 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
16 90 (11.25%) Migration
17 86 (10.75%) Event-Driven
18 79 (9.88%) Mentoring
18 79 (9.88%) Scrum
19 77 (9.63%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 342 (42.75%) Python
2 303 (37.88%) SQL
3 289 (36.13%) Java
4 143 (17.88%) TypeScript
5 119 (14.88%) JavaScript
6 44 (5.50%) Bash
6 44 (5.50%) C#
7 42 (5.25%) PowerShell
8 32 (4.00%) Go
9 31 (3.88%) Scala
10 21 (2.63%) PL/SQL
11 19 (2.38%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.38%) PHP
13 10 (1.25%) Bicep
13 10 (1.25%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.13%) Groovy
15 8 (1.00%) Ruby
16 5 (0.63%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.63%) Rust
17 4 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 272 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 222 (27.75%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.63%) Degree
4 36 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (3.88%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.63%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.63%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.75%) CISSP
12 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.50%) CISM
13 4 (0.50%) OCP
14 3 (0.38%) PhD
15 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.75%) QA
2 43 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.50%) WCAG
5 10 (1.25%) GDPR
6 9 (1.13%) 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 (0.63%) NCSC
9 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.38%) 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
1 296 (37.00%) Docker
2 11 (1.38%) Postfix
3 9 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.63%) Ceph
6 4 (0.50%) HDFS
6 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.38%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.13%) NFS
9 1 (0.13%) RACF
9 1 (0.13%) Samba
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 262 (32.75%) Kubernetes
2 127 (15.88%) Grafana
2 127 (15.88%) Terraform
3 93 (11.63%) Prometheus
4 44 (5.50%) Ansible
5 16 (2.00%) Control-M
5 16 (2.00%) IBM Guardium
5 16 (2.00%) Nessus
6 14 (1.75%) Argo
7 13 (1.63%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.50%) Data Guard
8 12 (1.50%) Kibana
9 11 (1.38%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.13%) Istio
11 7 (0.88%) Rancher
12 4 (0.50%) linkerd
12 4 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.38%) Puppet
14 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 146 (18.25%) Oracle
2 104 (13.00%) Microsoft
3 37 (4.63%) Databricks
4 26 (3.25%) Splunk
5 25 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.75%) Google
7 19 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 18 (2.25%) Atlassian
8 18 (2.25%) Informatica
9 17 (2.13%) Jaspersoft
10 16 (2.00%) Tenable
11 14 (1.75%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.75%) VMware
12 13 (1.63%) Salesforce
13 12 (1.50%) Talend
14 10 (1.25%) Confluent
15 9 (1.13%) Sybase
16 8 (1.00%) IBM
17 7 (0.88%) OpenAI
18 5 (0.63%) Ab Initio