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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 119 129
Rank change year-on-year -62 +10 +42
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 869 796 727
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.41% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.53% 13.22% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 591 543
10th Percentile £356 £375 £347
25th Percentile £425 £451 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £838 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £477
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.20% -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £24.88 - £48.23
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £65.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% -46.88% +22.00%
75th Percentile £63.06 £56.88 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 -
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 8,254 6,022 6,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.04% 18.25% 17.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,512 4,040 4,691
10th Percentile £355 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £532
Median % change year-on-year - -6.02% -1.48%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 87 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.13 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +15.69% -36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £60.78
90th Percentile £74.97 £83.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.39% +24.93% -45.21%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -78 691 £513 -4.87% 1,130
London -65 379 £525 -12.50% 759
UK excluding London -65 334 £475 -2.56% 469
Work from Home -64 272 £500 -16.67% 513
North of England -67 94 £501 +0.22% 138
Midlands -30 74 £445 -11.00% 53
South East -49 66 £460 +8.49% 103
West Midlands -35 51 £448 -10.50% 38
Yorkshire -34 46 £500 - 39
Scotland -31 44 £450 -7.69% 46
North West -57 42 £525 +10.53% 80
South West -36 33 £700 +28.44% 55
East of England -16 25 £500 +5.26% 39
East Midlands 0 22 £418 -19.32% 15
North East -54 6 £463 -15.86% 21
Wales -13 4 - - 14

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 38 (4.37%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.80%) Confluence
4 30 (3.45%) Apache
5 7 (0.81%) nginx
5 7 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.69%) CMS
7 5 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.35%) IIS
8 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
9 2 (0.23%) Appian
9 2 (0.23%) Camunda
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.69%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.23%) Finacle
3 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 451 (51.90%) AWS
2 285 (32.80%) Azure
3 166 (19.10%) GitHub
4 131 (15.07%) GCP
5 117 (13.46%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (11.28%) Amazon S3
6 98 (11.28%) Serverless
7 77 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (7.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 63 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
11 53 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (5.87%) Amazon SQS
13 42 (4.83%) Snowflake
14 32 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (2.99%) AWS KMS
18 24 (2.76%) OpenShift
19 20 (2.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.65%) DNS
2 18 (2.07%) Firewall
2 18 (2.07%) HTTP
2 18 (2.07%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.96%) SSH
4 9 (1.04%) Kerberos
5 8 (0.92%) HTTPS
5 8 (0.92%) SAN
6 6 (0.69%) 5G
7 5 (0.58%) 4G
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) VPN
8 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.35%) Network Security
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) FTP
10 2 (0.23%) IMAP
10 2 (0.23%) MQTT
10 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (20.37%) SQL Server
2 174 (20.02%) Relational Database
3 171 (19.68%) MySQL
4 169 (19.45%) MongoDB
5 110 (12.66%) NoSQL
6 107 (12.31%) Redis
7 89 (10.24%) Amazon RDS
8 82 (9.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (4.60%) DynamoDB
11 33 (3.80%) Metadata
12 32 (3.68%) RDBMS
13 29 (3.34%) Big Data
14 28 (3.22%) Oracle Database
15 25 (2.88%) Data Lake
16 21 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
17 16 (1.84%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.84%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 215 (24.74%) Git
2 195 (22.44%) Jenkins
3 101 (11.62%) GitLab
4 79 (9.09%) JIRA
5 67 (7.71%) JUnit
6 59 (6.79%) Mockito
7 56 (6.44%) Maven
8 39 (4.49%) Gradle
9 28 (3.22%) SonarQube
10 21 (2.42%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.96%) Selenium
12 16 (1.84%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.61%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.38%) Gatling
14 12 (1.38%) Mocha
15 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.04%) Flyway
16 9 (1.04%) JMeter
17 7 (0.81%) Claude Code
18 6 (0.69%) DbUnit
General
1 196 (22.55%) Social Skills
2 141 (16.23%) Public Sector
3 137 (15.77%) Finance
4 133 (15.30%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (6.67%) Banking
6 39 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (1.96%) Front Office
8 14 (1.61%) Retail
9 11 (1.27%) Military
9 11 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.04%) Legal
11 9 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.92%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.81%) Law
14 6 (0.69%) Billing
14 6 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.58%) Automotive
15 5 (0.58%) Marketing
15 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 323 (37.17%) Developer
2 165 (18.99%) Senior
3 123 (14.15%) Java Developer
4 101 (11.62%) DBA
5 74 (8.52%) Senior Developer
6 69 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 67 (7.71%) Data Engineer
8 62 (7.13%) Lead
8 62 (7.13%) Software Engineer
9 58 (6.67%) Administrator
10 52 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
10 52 (5.98%) Python Developer
11 47 (5.41%) Architect
12 37 (4.26%) Java Engineer
13 35 (4.03%) Python Engineer
14 31 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
15 28 (3.22%) Software Developer
16 27 (3.11%) Senior Java Developer
17 26 (2.99%) PostgreSQL DBA
18 25 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (28.77%) REST
2 193 (22.21%) Spring
3 192 (22.09%) Kafka
4 188 (21.63%) RESTful
5 171 (19.68%) Spring Boot
6 168 (19.33%) Terraform
7 152 (17.49%) React
8 101 (11.62%) Node.js
9 82 (9.44%) CSS
9 82 (9.44%) HTML
10 66 (7.59%) .NET
11 63 (7.25%) OAuth
12 59 (6.79%) AngularJS
13 55 (6.33%) Django
14 51 (5.87%) OAuth2
15 50 (5.75%) FastAPI
16 44 (5.06%) GraphQL
16 44 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
16 44 (5.06%) Web Services
17 43 (4.95%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 187 (21.52%) Cloud Native
2 108 (12.43%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.87%) Replication
4 46 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 37 (4.26%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.99%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.19%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.84%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
12 13 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.04%) Equities
14 9 (1.04%) LIMS
14 9 (1.04%) PKI
15 8 (0.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 120 (13.81%) Linux
2 53 (6.10%) Unix
3 41 (4.72%) Windows
4 29 (3.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.76%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.96%) Solaris
7 15 (1.73%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.15%) AIX
9 9 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 2 (0.23%) CentOS
11 2 (0.23%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.23%) Rocky
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (49.60%) CI/CD
2 305 (35.10%) Agile
3 300 (34.52%) DevOps
4 270 (31.07%) Microservices
5 195 (22.44%) Containerisation
6 176 (20.25%) Software Engineering
7 158 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (18.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 150 (17.26%) Test Automation
10 144 (16.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 135 (15.54%) AI
12 130 (14.96%) Data Modelling
12 130 (14.96%) Event-Driven
13 126 (14.50%) Observability
14 123 (14.15%) Performance Tuning
15 111 (12.77%) Migration
16 108 (12.43%) Scrum
17 101 (11.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 98 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
19 96 (11.05%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 338 (38.90%) SQL
2 316 (36.36%) Python
3 301 (34.64%) Java
4 157 (18.07%) TypeScript
5 123 (14.15%) JavaScript
6 58 (6.67%) C#
7 52 (5.98%) Bash
8 39 (4.49%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.91%) Go
10 29 (3.34%) Scala
11 23 (2.65%) Groovy
12 18 (2.07%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.96%) Perl
14 15 (1.73%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.50%) PL/SQL
15 13 (1.50%) T-SQL
16 12 (1.38%) PHP
17 10 (1.15%) Korn
17 10 (1.15%) Ruby
18 8 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 306 (35.21%) Security Cleared
2 266 (30.61%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.90%) Degree
4 49 (5.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (3.11%) AWS Certification
9 22 (2.53%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.84%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.27%) OCP
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.23%) CISSP
15 1 (0.12%) CISA
15 1 (0.12%) CISM
15 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (9.78%) QA
2 47 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 47 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.30%) GDPR
4 14 (1.61%) WCAG
5 8 (0.92%) GMP
5 8 (0.92%) GxP
5 8 (0.92%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 6 (0.69%) SLA
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.46%) SEPA
10 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 352 (40.51%) Docker
2 12 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.69%) Postfix
7 4 (0.46%) Squid
8 3 (0.35%) Ceph
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.12%) RACF
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 294 (33.83%) Kubernetes
2 116 (13.35%) Grafana
3 91 (10.47%) Prometheus
4 31 (3.57%) Ansible
5 29 (3.34%) Kibana
6 15 (1.73%) Argo
7 12 (1.38%) Karpenter
7 12 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
8 10 (1.15%) Data Guard
9 9 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 8 (0.92%) Control-M
11 7 (0.81%) Istio
11 7 (0.81%) Nessus
11 7 (0.81%) Puppet
12 6 (0.69%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.58%) Rancher
13 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.46%) Bosun
14 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 190 (21.86%) Oracle
2 126 (14.50%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.29%) Google
4 43 (4.95%) Databricks
5 35 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 26 (2.99%) Splunk
7 24 (2.76%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.07%) Informatica
8 18 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.73%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.27%) Talend
11 10 (1.15%) VMware
12 9 (1.04%) Jaspersoft
13 8 (0.92%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.92%) NetApp
13 8 (0.92%) Sybase
14 7 (0.81%) Foundry
14 7 (0.81%) IBM
14 7 (0.81%) TikTok
15 6 (0.69%) BeyondTrust