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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 116 127
Rank change year-on-year -52 +11 +30
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 880 787 720
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.64% 2.40% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.77% 13.22% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 589 540
10th Percentile £363 £382 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £483
% change year-on-year - -1.66% -2.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £25.45 - £52.05
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% -46.88% +49.46%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £72.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -53.08% -18.75% +28.93%

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 8,170 5,955 7,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.14% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,460 4,003 4,949
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 96 100
10th Percentile £15.75 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £22.91 £29.00 £19.90
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% +1.52% -37.34%
75th Percentile £58.13 £62.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.34% +6.83% -40.00%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -67 711 £500 -9.09% 301
UK excluding London -36 392 £475 - 176
London -72 351 £533 -11.25% 178
Work from Home -73 273 £500 -15.18% 144
North of England -33 127 £488 -2.50% 29
Midlands -7 95 £447 -10.60% 26
South East -30 71 £471 +8.16% 57
West Midlands -26 62 £448 -5.79% 12
North West -30 61 £500 +5.26% 14
Yorkshire -16 56 £500 - 9
Scotland -14 49 £425 -10.53% 21
East Midlands +6 32 £425 -17.07% 13
South West -22 32 £700 +40.00% 20
East of England -13 19 £513 +9.63% 13
North East -46 10 £425 -22.73% 6
Wales -15 4 - - 7

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 35 (3.98%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.75%) Confluence
3 26 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.27%) Apache
5 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.68%) CMS
6 6 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.57%) Camunda
8 4 (0.45%) nginx
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.34%) IIS
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.34%) SAS
9 3 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.91%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.45%) Trello
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.11%) Odoo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 464 (52.73%) AWS
2 290 (32.95%) Azure
3 163 (18.52%) GitHub
4 137 (15.57%) GCP
5 120 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
6 104 (11.82%) Serverless
7 89 (10.11%) Amazon S3
8 77 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (6.14%) Amazon SQS
13 53 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
14 31 (3.52%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (3.07%) AWS KMS
17 25 (2.84%) Power Platform
17 25 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (2.73%) Azure AKS
18 24 (2.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.39%) DNS
2 19 (2.16%) Firewall
3 15 (1.70%) SSH
4 12 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.25%) HTTP
6 10 (1.14%) HTTPS
7 7 (0.80%) SSL
8 6 (0.68%) SAN
9 5 (0.57%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.45%) VPN
11 3 (0.34%) 5G
11 3 (0.34%) Network Security
12 2 (0.23%) 4G
12 2 (0.23%) DHCP
12 2 (0.23%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.23%) MQTT
12 2 (0.23%) NaaS
12 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (20.11%) MongoDB
2 175 (19.89%) SQL Server
3 168 (19.09%) Relational Database
4 154 (17.50%) MySQL
5 117 (13.30%) NoSQL
6 97 (11.02%) Redis
7 75 (8.52%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (8.41%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (4.89%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (4.09%) RDBMS
12 31 (3.52%) Oracle Database
13 28 (3.18%) Big Data
14 26 (2.95%) Data Lake
15 24 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (2.50%) Metadata
16 22 (2.50%) Power BI
17 16 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
18 14 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
19 13 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 195 (22.16%) Jenkins
2 190 (21.59%) Git
3 97 (11.02%) GitLab
4 82 (9.32%) JIRA
5 69 (7.84%) JUnit
6 55 (6.25%) Mockito
7 45 (5.11%) Maven
8 34 (3.86%) Gradle
9 24 (2.73%) Liquibase
10 23 (2.61%) Cucumber
11 21 (2.39%) SonarQube
12 20 (2.27%) Selenium
13 17 (1.93%) Gatling
13 17 (1.93%) JMeter
14 16 (1.82%) Bitbucket
15 11 (1.25%) Flyway
15 11 (1.25%) WebDriver
16 10 (1.14%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.14%) Mocha
17 9 (1.02%) DbUnit
General
1 192 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.70%) Public Sector
3 141 (16.02%) Finance
4 117 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (5.57%) Banking
6 30 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.16%) Front Office
8 12 (1.36%) Military
9 11 (1.25%) Retail
10 10 (1.14%) Law
10 10 (1.14%) Legal
11 9 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.80%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
14 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.45%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.45%) Marketing
15 4 (0.45%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 330 (37.50%) Developer
2 167 (18.98%) Senior
3 109 (12.39%) Java Developer
4 105 (11.93%) DBA
5 78 (8.86%) Software Engineer
6 72 (8.18%) Lead
7 69 (7.84%) Data Engineer
8 68 (7.73%) Senior Developer
9 66 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 62 (7.05%) Python Developer
11 56 (6.36%) Administrator
12 50 (5.68%) Architect
13 41 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
13 41 (4.66%) Java Engineer
14 35 (3.98%) Software Developer
15 32 (3.64%) PostgreSQL DBA
16 30 (3.41%) Backend Developer
17 29 (3.30%) Lead Developer
18 27 (3.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 27 (3.07%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (25.45%) REST
2 195 (22.16%) Spring
3 188 (21.36%) Kafka
4 187 (21.25%) RESTful
5 162 (18.41%) React
5 162 (18.41%) Spring Boot
6 159 (18.07%) Terraform
7 117 (13.30%) Node.js
8 63 (7.16%) CSS
8 63 (7.16%) HTML
9 61 (6.93%) FastAPI
10 54 (6.14%) .NET
11 50 (5.68%) AngularJS
11 50 (5.68%) Django
12 49 (5.57%) OAuth
13 48 (5.45%) OpenAPI
13 48 (5.45%) Swagger
14 41 (4.66%) RabbitMQ
15 39 (4.43%) OAuth2
16 37 (4.20%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 169 (19.20%) Cloud Native
2 111 (12.61%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.23%) Replication
4 38 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 27 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
10 20 (2.27%) AI Agents
10 20 (2.27%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.93%) Equities
12 16 (1.82%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.70%) Derivative
14 13 (1.48%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.25%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.02%) Management Information System
17 8 (0.91%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 114 (12.95%) Linux
2 42 (4.77%) Unix
3 34 (3.86%) Windows
4 26 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.39%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.02%) Solaris
8 7 (0.80%) AIX
9 6 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.23%) VMS
10 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (47.27%) CI/CD
2 326 (37.05%) Agile
3 299 (33.98%) DevOps
4 269 (30.57%) Microservices
5 201 (22.84%) Containerisation
6 181 (20.57%) Software Engineering
7 158 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (16.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 143 (16.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 141 (16.02%) Test Automation
11 126 (14.32%) AI
12 125 (14.20%) Data Modelling
12 125 (14.20%) Performance Tuning
13 121 (13.75%) Observability
14 114 (12.95%) Event-Driven
15 113 (12.84%) Migration
16 98 (11.14%) TDD
17 97 (11.02%) Scrum
17 97 (11.02%) Validation
18 90 (10.23%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 332 (37.73%) Python
2 326 (37.05%) SQL
3 312 (35.45%) Java
4 159 (18.07%) TypeScript
5 114 (12.95%) JavaScript
6 54 (6.14%) C#
7 51 (5.80%) Bash
8 48 (5.45%) PowerShell
9 35 (3.98%) Go
10 30 (3.41%) Scala
11 20 (2.27%) PL/SQL
12 19 (2.16%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.70%) Groovy
14 14 (1.59%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.36%) Perl
15 12 (1.36%) Ruby
15 12 (1.36%) T-SQL
16 11 (1.25%) PHP
17 8 (0.91%) Korn
17 8 (0.91%) Rust
Qualifications
1 310 (35.23%) Security Cleared
2 260 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.25%) Degree
4 47 (5.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.52%) DV Cleared
6 25 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.70%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
9 10 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.14%) OCP
10 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.45%) CISSP
12 2 (0.23%) CISM
12 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.11%) CISA
13 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.11%) PhD
13 1 (0.11%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (8.07%) QA
2 50 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 44 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.05%) GDPR
5 16 (1.82%) WCAG
6 7 (0.80%) GMP
6 7 (0.80%) GxP
7 6 (0.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.57%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.57%) SLA
9 4 (0.45%) NIST
9 4 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) HL7
11 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 345 (39.20%) Docker
2 14 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.80%) Postfix
6 6 (0.68%) Ceph
7 5 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.45%) Squid
9 3 (0.34%) HDFS
10 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.11%) NFS
11 1 (0.11%) RACF
11 1 (0.11%) Samba
11 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 300 (34.09%) Kubernetes
2 111 (12.61%) Grafana
3 82 (9.32%) Prometheus
4 40 (4.55%) Ansible
5 22 (2.50%) Kibana
6 17 (1.93%) Oracle RMAN
7 15 (1.70%) Argo
8 12 (1.36%) Data Guard
9 10 (1.14%) Control-M
9 10 (1.14%) HAProxy
9 10 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 8 (0.91%) Karpenter
11 7 (0.80%) IBM Guardium
11 7 (0.80%) Nessus
12 6 (0.68%) Istio
12 6 (0.68%) Rancher
13 5 (0.57%) Puppet
14 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.34%) Bosun
15 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 190 (21.59%) Oracle
2 135 (15.34%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.43%) Google
4 33 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.52%) Databricks
6 23 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.50%) Splunk
8 17 (1.93%) Informatica
8 17 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.70%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.59%) VMware
11 12 (1.36%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.25%) Jaspersoft
13 10 (1.14%) CyberArk
14 9 (1.02%) Atlassian
14 9 (1.02%) Talend
15 8 (0.91%) Sybase
16 7 (0.80%) IBM
16 7 (0.80%) Tenable
16 7 (0.80%) TikTok