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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 123 129
Rank change year-on-year -49 +6 +26
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 870 757 719
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 2.33% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.57% 12.95% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 563 537
10th Percentile £369 £382 £366
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% +0.95% +0.96%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £712 £838 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £482
% change year-on-year -0.63% -0.83% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £25.45 - £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% +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 8,232 5,846 6,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 17.97% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 3,904 4,769
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.75%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 94 90
10th Percentile £15.94 £21.73 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.05 £29.50 £19.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £38.90 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +17.12% -39.06%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £34.74 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.82% +15.80% -42.86%

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 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 5 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 5 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 -69 700 £501 -7.83% 755
UK excluding London -33 362 £475 -0.63% 303
London -68 362 £525 -12.50% 546
Work from Home -60 270 £500 -16.67% 357
North of England -58 116 £500 +1.42% 62
Midlands -22 82 £445 -11.00% 32
South East -40 67 £460 +5.75% 79
Yorkshire -22 55 £500 - 13
North West -59 53 £501 +5.37% 40
West Midlands -36 51 £447 -5.89% 21
Scotland -34 44 £450 -6.49% 27
South West -26 31 £650 +23.81% 49
East Midlands +3 30 £425 -17.48% 10
East of England -9 21 £488 +2.63% 22
North East -48 8 £425 -22.73% 9
Wales -16 4 - - 10

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 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.79%) Confluence
4 22 (2.53%) Apache
5 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.69%) CMS
6 6 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.57%) nginx
8 4 (0.46%) Camunda
8 4 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.34%) IIS
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Finacle
2 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.11%) Odoo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 457 (52.53%) AWS
2 294 (33.79%) Azure
3 167 (19.20%) GitHub
4 126 (14.48%) GCP
5 123 (14.14%) GitHub Actions
6 100 (11.49%) Serverless
7 93 (10.69%) Amazon S3
8 76 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
9 64 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 57 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
10 57 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
11 54 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (5.75%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (4.48%) Snowflake
14 31 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 27 (3.10%) AWS KMS
17 26 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
18 23 (2.64%) Azure AKS
18 23 (2.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.99%) DNS
2 20 (2.30%) Firewall
3 19 (2.18%) SSH
4 18 (2.07%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.95%) HTTP
6 11 (1.26%) HTTPS
7 9 (1.03%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.92%) SAN
9 7 (0.80%) SSL
10 5 (0.57%) 5G
11 4 (0.46%) 4G
11 4 (0.46%) VPN
12 3 (0.34%) Network Security
13 2 (0.23%) DHCP
13 2 (0.23%) FTP
13 2 (0.23%) IMAP
13 2 (0.23%) MQTT
13 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (20.46%) SQL Server
2 170 (19.54%) MongoDB
3 168 (19.31%) Relational Database
4 159 (18.28%) MySQL
5 108 (12.41%) NoSQL
6 101 (11.61%) Redis
7 86 (9.89%) Amazon RDS
8 82 (9.43%) Amazon Aurora
9 44 (5.06%) DynamoDB
10 42 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.56%) RDBMS
12 30 (3.45%) Oracle Database
13 28 (3.22%) Big Data
13 28 (3.22%) Metadata
14 26 (2.99%) Data Lake
15 23 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (2.07%) Power BI
17 16 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
18 15 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
19 14 (1.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 202 (23.22%) Git
2 197 (22.64%) Jenkins
3 97 (11.15%) GitLab
4 79 (9.08%) JIRA
5 71 (8.16%) JUnit
6 59 (6.78%) Mockito
7 48 (5.52%) Maven
8 36 (4.14%) Gradle
9 25 (2.87%) SonarQube
10 23 (2.64%) Liquibase
11 21 (2.41%) Cucumber
12 18 (2.07%) Selenium
13 16 (1.84%) Gatling
14 14 (1.61%) Bitbucket
15 13 (1.49%) JMeter
16 12 (1.38%) Mocha
17 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
17 10 (1.15%) Flyway
18 8 (0.92%) WebDriver
19 7 (0.80%) DbUnit
General
1 199 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.90%) Public Sector
3 130 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (14.71%) Finance
5 52 (5.98%) Banking
6 34 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (1.49%) Front Office
8 11 (1.26%) Military
8 11 (1.26%) Retail
9 10 (1.15%) Law
9 10 (1.15%) Legal
9 10 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.80%) Billing
12 6 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.57%) Automotive
13 5 (0.57%) Marketing
13 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 320 (36.78%) Developer
2 156 (17.93%) Senior
3 111 (12.76%) Java Developer
4 102 (11.72%) DBA
5 68 (7.82%) Senior Developer
6 65 (7.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 65 (7.47%) Software Engineer
7 64 (7.36%) Lead
8 61 (7.01%) Data Engineer
9 58 (6.67%) Administrator
10 51 (5.86%) Python Developer
11 50 (5.75%) Architect
12 48 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
13 39 (4.48%) Java Engineer
14 36 (4.14%) Software Developer
15 32 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
16 28 (3.22%) PostgreSQL DBA
16 28 (3.22%) Python Engineer
17 25 (2.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 24 (2.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (26.55%) REST
2 192 (22.07%) Spring
3 188 (21.61%) RESTful
4 185 (21.26%) Kafka
5 166 (19.08%) Terraform
6 162 (18.62%) Spring Boot
7 151 (17.36%) React
8 104 (11.95%) Node.js
9 74 (8.51%) CSS
9 74 (8.51%) HTML
10 64 (7.36%) .NET
11 56 (6.44%) OAuth
12 54 (6.21%) AngularJS
13 53 (6.09%) Django
13 53 (6.09%) FastAPI
14 48 (5.52%) OpenAPI
14 48 (5.52%) Swagger
15 47 (5.40%) OAuth2
16 43 (4.94%) GraphQL
16 43 (4.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 178 (20.46%) Cloud Native
2 104 (11.95%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (5.98%) Replication
4 45 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 37 (4.25%) Data Structures
6 29 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (2.53%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.41%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (2.07%) Algorithms
11 18 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.03%) Equities
15 9 (1.03%) LIMS
16 8 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
16 8 (0.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.56%) Linux
2 41 (4.71%) Unix
3 39 (4.48%) Windows
4 27 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.76%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.61%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.26%) Solaris
8 9 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.92%) AIX
10 3 (0.34%) VMS
11 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (48.85%) CI/CD
2 306 (35.17%) Agile
3 299 (34.37%) DevOps
4 268 (30.80%) Microservices
5 198 (22.76%) Containerisation
6 173 (19.89%) Software Engineering
7 163 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
8 153 (17.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 147 (16.90%) Full-Stack Development
10 143 (16.44%) Test Automation
11 132 (15.17%) Data Modelling
12 124 (14.25%) Performance Tuning
13 122 (14.02%) Observability
14 121 (13.91%) AI
14 121 (13.91%) Event-Driven
14 121 (13.91%) Migration
15 99 (11.38%) Scrum
16 98 (11.26%) Validation
17 95 (10.92%) TDD
18 94 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 333 (38.28%) SQL
2 318 (36.55%) Python
3 306 (35.17%) Java
4 153 (17.59%) TypeScript
5 110 (12.64%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.78%) C#
7 52 (5.98%) Bash
8 41 (4.71%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.45%) Go
9 30 (3.45%) Scala
10 19 (2.18%) Groovy
11 17 (1.95%) Perl
12 16 (1.84%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.61%) Kotlin
13 14 (1.61%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.38%) Ruby
15 11 (1.26%) PHP
16 10 (1.15%) Korn
16 10 (1.15%) Rust
16 10 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 309 (35.52%) Security Cleared
2 265 (30.46%) SC Cleared
3 52 (5.98%) Degree
4 48 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.53%) AWS Certification
9 18 (2.07%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 9 (1.03%) OCP
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
14 1 (0.11%) CISA
14 1 (0.11%) CISM
14 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (8.74%) QA
2 48 (5.52%) Accessibility
2 48 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.18%) GDPR
4 15 (1.72%) WCAG
5 8 (0.92%) GMP
5 8 (0.92%) GxP
6 7 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (0.80%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.57%) SLA
8 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.46%) SEPA
9 3 (0.34%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 2 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 348 (40.00%) Docker
2 13 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (0.80%) Postfix
6 6 (0.69%) Ceph
6 6 (0.69%) Squid
7 5 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.11%) NFS
9 1 (0.11%) RACF
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 293 (33.68%) Kubernetes
2 112 (12.87%) Grafana
3 87 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 37 (4.25%) Ansible
5 25 (2.87%) Kibana
6 16 (1.84%) Argo
7 15 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.38%) Karpenter
9 11 (1.26%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.15%) HAProxy
11 9 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 8 (0.92%) Control-M
13 7 (0.80%) Nessus
14 6 (0.69%) Istio
15 5 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
15 5 (0.57%) Puppet
15 5 (0.57%) Rancher
16 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
16 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
17 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 184 (21.15%) Oracle
2 130 (14.94%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.94%) Databricks
4 42 (4.83%) Google
5 35 (4.02%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.76%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.53%) Splunk
8 18 (2.07%) Informatica
8 18 (2.07%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.49%) VMware
11 11 (1.26%) Talend
12 10 (1.15%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (1.03%) NetApp
14 8 (0.92%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.92%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.92%) Sybase
15 7 (0.80%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.80%) TikTok
16 6 (0.69%) Solace