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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 122 158
Rank change year-on-year -14 +36 +31
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 763 669 694
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.05% 2.10% 1.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.19% 11.51% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 492 490
10th Percentile £363 £350 £409
25th Percentile £419 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £632
90th Percentile £700 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.09% +1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile - - £34.14
25th Percentile £29.00 - £43.73
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -30.70% +175.96%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £69.03
90th Percentile £58.00 - £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £46.28
% change year-on-year - - +37.11%

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 6,261 5,810 7,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.78% 18.26% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,321 3,825 5,052
10th Percentile £331 £350 £350
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.45% -3.14%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 79 157
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.78 £15.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.50 £64.61 £64.40
90th Percentile £84.50 £67.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £28.65 £42.50
% change year-on-year +70.05% -32.59% -22.73%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -8 635 £515 -6.36% 776
London +1 348 £530 -7.83% 169
UK excluding London -20 316 £475 -5.00% 703
Work from Home -27 233 £505 -2.88% 411
North of England -6 121 £469 +2.51% 122
Midlands +1 71 £525 +5.00% 77
Yorkshire -4 65 £500 -9.09% 47
West Midlands +5 61 £539 +3.56% 26
South East -34 57 £433 -24.78% 228
North West -11 54 £450 +1.12% 57
South West -2 48 £550 -12.00% 97
Scotland -20 37 £450 -5.26% 32
East Midlands -30 10 £401 -19.80% 50
Northern Ireland +5 8 £400 - 17
East of England -18 2 - - 109
North East - 2 £463 - 19

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 42 (5.50%) Confluence
2 22 (2.88%) nginx
3 21 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.23%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.10%) Apache
6 14 (1.83%) SAS
7 6 (0.79%) Drupal
7 6 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.39%) Camunda
9 3 (0.39%) CICS
9 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.39%) WordPress
10 2 (0.26%) Traefik
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) Appian
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 10 (1.31%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 472 (61.86%) AWS
2 234 (30.67%) Azure
3 173 (22.67%) GitHub
4 147 (19.27%) Serverless
5 137 (17.96%) GCP
6 104 (13.63%) Amazon S3
7 88 (11.53%) AWS Lambda
7 88 (11.53%) GitHub Actions
8 53 (6.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (6.68%) OpenShift
10 49 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (5.77%) Power Platform
12 41 (5.37%) Snowflake
13 40 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
15 34 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (3.41%) Azure AKS
16 26 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (3.15%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.80%) Firewall
2 25 (3.28%) DNS
3 20 (2.62%) HTTP
4 11 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.31%) SSH
6 9 (1.18%) FTP
6 9 (1.18%) IMAP
6 9 (1.18%) Kerberos
6 9 (1.18%) OpenLDAP
6 9 (1.18%) SMTP
7 5 (0.66%) SSL
7 5 (0.66%) VPN
8 4 (0.52%) Internet
9 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.26%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.26%) LAN
9 2 (0.26%) WAN
10 1 (0.13%) DHCP
10 1 (0.13%) NAS
10 1 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (16.91%) Relational Database
2 126 (16.51%) NoSQL
3 111 (14.55%) MySQL
4 104 (13.63%) SQL Server
5 96 (12.58%) MongoDB
6 72 (9.44%) Amazon RDS
7 65 (8.52%) Redis
8 62 (8.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 52 (6.82%) DynamoDB
10 38 (4.98%) RDBMS
11 36 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
12 35 (4.59%) Power BI
13 31 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (3.54%) Apache Cassandra
15 19 (2.49%) Data Lake
15 19 (2.49%) DB2
16 18 (2.36%) Big Data
16 18 (2.36%) BigQuery
17 17 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
17 17 (2.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 174 (22.80%) Jenkins
2 151 (19.79%) Git
3 94 (12.32%) GitLab
4 68 (8.91%) JIRA
5 53 (6.95%) JUnit
6 31 (4.06%) Cucumber
7 29 (3.80%) Mockito
8 23 (3.01%) Gradle
8 23 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 20 (2.62%) Liquibase
10 18 (2.36%) Cypress.io
11 16 (2.10%) JMeter
12 15 (1.97%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.83%) Maven
14 13 (1.70%) Postman
15 10 (1.31%) ERwin
15 10 (1.31%) SonarQube
16 9 (1.18%) Vagrant
17 8 (1.05%) Artifactory
17 8 (1.05%) Selenium
General
1 200 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 154 (20.18%) Finance
3 103 (13.50%) Public Sector
4 77 (10.09%) Banking
5 73 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.01%) Investment Banking
7 19 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (1.97%) Front Office
9 13 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.57%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.79%) Marketing
13 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.52%) Legal
14 4 (0.52%) Local Government
14 4 (0.52%) Retail
14 4 (0.52%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.39%) Electronics
15 3 (0.39%) Games
15 3 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 284 (37.22%) Developer
2 125 (16.38%) Senior
3 90 (11.80%) Java Developer
4 66 (8.65%) Data Engineer
5 65 (8.52%) Architect
6 62 (8.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 58 (7.60%) Senior Developer
8 55 (7.21%) Python Developer
9 54 (7.08%) Software Engineer
10 44 (5.77%) AWS Developer
10 44 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
11 43 (5.64%) DBA
12 41 (5.37%) DevOps Engineer
13 34 (4.46%) Lead
14 32 (4.19%) Senior Java Developer
15 31 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 30 (3.93%) Data Architect
17 29 (3.80%) Python Engineer
18 28 (3.67%) Backend Developer
19 25 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (22.28%) Kafka
2 140 (18.35%) React
3 129 (16.91%) Spring
4 125 (16.38%) RESTful
5 119 (15.60%) Node.js
6 112 (14.68%) REST
7 107 (14.02%) Spring Boot
8 53 (6.95%) CSS
9 45 (5.90%) GraphQL
10 42 (5.50%) HTML
11 40 (5.24%) AngularJS
12 39 (5.11%) FastAPI
12 39 (5.11%) Hibernate
12 39 (5.11%) JSON
13 33 (4.33%) Vue
14 32 (4.19%) .NET
14 32 (4.19%) Django
15 29 (3.80%) Keycloak
16 28 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
17 27 (3.54%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 112 (14.68%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.98%) Replication
4 28 (3.67%) Management Information System
4 28 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (2.62%) Derivative
6 19 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.36%) Market Risk
8 16 (2.10%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (2.10%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.70%) Clustering
10 11 (1.44%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.31%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.05%) Equities
12 8 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.92%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 136 (17.82%) Linux
2 33 (4.33%) Windows
3 25 (3.28%) Unix
4 12 (1.57%) Amazon Linux
4 12 (1.57%) VMS
5 10 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.66%) zOS
7 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.39%) Solaris
9 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.13%) MVS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (45.61%) CI/CD
2 257 (33.68%) Agile
3 256 (33.55%) DevOps
4 191 (25.03%) Containerisation
5 187 (24.51%) Microservices
6 153 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
7 141 (18.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 113 (14.81%) Software Engineering
9 112 (14.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 110 (14.42%) Observability
11 101 (13.24%) Test Automation
12 93 (12.19%) TDD
13 85 (11.14%) Data Modelling
13 85 (11.14%) Migration
14 83 (10.88%) ETL
15 75 (9.83%) AI
15 75 (9.83%) Performance Tuning
16 70 (9.17%) Analytics
17 65 (8.52%) Data Pipeline
18 63 (8.26%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 371 (48.62%) Python
2 305 (39.97%) SQL
3 233 (30.54%) Java
4 119 (15.60%) JavaScript
5 116 (15.20%) TypeScript
6 80 (10.48%) Bash
7 69 (9.04%) Go
8 43 (5.64%) PowerShell
9 27 (3.54%) C#
10 19 (2.49%) Groovy
10 19 (2.49%) PHP
11 17 (2.23%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.70%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.57%) Ruby
14 11 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.44%) Scala
15 7 (0.92%) Bicep
15 7 (0.92%) JSX
16 6 (0.79%) VBA
17 5 (0.66%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 225 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 180 (23.59%) SC Cleared
3 86 (11.27%) Degree
4 56 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.93%) Azure Certification
6 28 (3.67%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.54%) AWS Certification
8 19 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.36%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.70%) OCP
10 13 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.92%) MCP
12 6 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.52%) HND
14 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.13%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.64%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.85%) QA
3 20 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.97%) GDPR
5 8 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.05%) SLA
6 7 (0.92%) NCSC
7 5 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.66%) NIST
8 4 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.52%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 280 (36.70%) Docker
2 12 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.18%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.18%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.18%) Postfix
3 9 (1.18%) Squid
4 7 (0.92%) zsh
5 6 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.66%) NDS
6 5 (0.66%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.39%) KVM
8 3 (0.39%) NFS
8 3 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.39%) Xen
9 2 (0.26%) HDFS
9 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.26%) Lustre
10 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 288 (37.75%) Kubernetes
2 179 (23.46%) Terraform
3 107 (14.02%) Grafana
4 92 (12.06%) Ansible
5 76 (9.96%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.41%) Argo
7 23 (3.01%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.62%) Nessus
9 16 (2.10%) Puppet
10 11 (1.44%) Control-M
10 11 (1.44%) IBM Guardium
11 9 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (1.18%) Istio
11 9 (1.18%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.79%) linkerd
13 5 (0.66%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.66%) Packer
13 5 (0.66%) Rancher
14 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 117 (15.33%) Oracle
2 85 (11.14%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.90%) Splunk
4 43 (5.64%) Google
5 31 (4.06%) VMware
6 29 (3.80%) Databricks
7 24 (3.15%) Red Hat
8 18 (2.36%) Atlassian
8 18 (2.36%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.23%) Dynatrace
10 16 (2.10%) Informatica
11 14 (1.83%) Greenplum
12 11 (1.44%) Tenable
13 10 (1.31%) IBM
14 9 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (1.05%) PagerDuty
16 6 (0.79%) Gigya
17 5 (0.66%) Cloudera
17 5 (0.66%) Confluent
17 5 (0.66%) Talend