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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 125 154
Rank change year-on-year -13 +29 +29
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 760 652 700
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.10% 2.07% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.37% 11.36% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 481 493
10th Percentile £363 £331 £409
25th Percentile £419 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.57% +1.60%
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 6,144 5,739 7,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 18.21% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,236 3,784 5,020
10th Percentile £330 £350 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 76 151
10th Percentile £19.60 £19.71 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £22.12
Median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.73 £64.52
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.88 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.00% -37.74% -12.08%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -3 632 £520 -5.45% 945
London +5 346 £550 -4.35% 171
UK excluding London -18 318 £475 -5.00% 888
Work from Home -28 230 £513 -1.44% 497
North of England +6 118 £475 +2.70% 151
Midlands -1 75 £525 +5.00% 101
Yorkshire +6 64 £500 -16.67% 65
West Midlands +9 61 £540 +3.85% 33
South East -36 57 £433 -24.78% 275
North West -18 52 £450 +1.12% 64
South West -1 47 £550 -12.00% 130
Scotland -19 39 £450 -5.26% 34
East Midlands -19 14 £513 +2.50% 66
Northern Ireland +3 8 £400 - 24
East of England -19 2 - - 144
North East - 2 £463 - 22

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 41 (5.39%) Confluence
2 22 (2.89%) nginx
3 20 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.84%) SAS
5 12 (1.58%) Apache
6 6 (0.79%) Drupal
6 6 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
7 4 (0.53%) CICS
7 4 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.39%) Camunda
8 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.39%) WordPress
9 2 (0.26%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.26%) Traefik
10 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 10 (1.32%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 461 (60.66%) AWS
2 234 (30.79%) Azure
3 180 (23.68%) GitHub
4 143 (18.82%) Serverless
5 133 (17.50%) GCP
6 102 (13.42%) Amazon S3
7 89 (11.71%) GitHub Actions
8 86 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (6.58%) OpenShift
10 49 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
12 43 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (5.66%) Power Platform
13 41 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (5.00%) Snowflake
15 36 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
16 34 (4.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 29 (3.82%) Azure AKS
18 26 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 24 (3.16%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.82%) Firewall
2 26 (3.42%) DNS
3 20 (2.63%) HTTP
4 12 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.45%) 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 6 (0.79%) SSL
8 5 (0.66%) VPN
9 4 (0.53%) Internet
10 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
10 2 (0.26%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.26%) LAN
10 2 (0.26%) WAN
11 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.13%) Spanning Tree
11 1 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (16.45%) Relational Database
2 120 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 109 (14.34%) MySQL
4 102 (13.42%) SQL Server
5 94 (12.37%) MongoDB
6 74 (9.74%) Amazon RDS
7 70 (9.21%) Redis
8 60 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 47 (6.18%) DynamoDB
10 35 (4.61%) RDBMS
11 34 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (4.47%) Power BI
12 25 (3.29%) Apache Cassandra
12 25 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (2.63%) Oracle Database
14 19 (2.50%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.50%) DB2
15 17 (2.24%) BigQuery
16 16 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (2.11%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 177 (23.29%) Jenkins
2 151 (19.87%) Git
3 92 (12.11%) GitLab
4 68 (8.95%) JIRA
5 55 (7.24%) JUnit
6 31 (4.08%) Cucumber
6 31 (4.08%) Mockito
7 23 (3.03%) Gradle
7 23 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (2.89%) Liquibase
9 19 (2.50%) Cypress.io
10 16 (2.11%) Bitbucket
10 16 (2.11%) JMeter
10 16 (2.11%) Maven
11 14 (1.84%) Postman
12 12 (1.58%) SonarQube
13 9 (1.18%) Vagrant
14 8 (1.05%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.05%) DBeaver
14 8 (1.05%) ERwin
General
1 202 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 155 (20.39%) Finance
3 97 (12.76%) Public Sector
4 76 (10.00%) Banking
5 75 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.16%) Investment Banking
7 21 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (1.97%) Front Office
9 13 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.92%) Marketing
13 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.53%) Legal
14 4 (0.53%) Local Government
14 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.39%) Electronics
15 3 (0.39%) Games
15 3 (0.39%) Law
16 2 (0.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 285 (37.50%) Developer
2 131 (17.24%) Senior
3 93 (12.24%) Java Developer
4 62 (8.16%) Senior Developer
5 61 (8.03%) Architect
5 61 (8.03%) Data Engineer
6 58 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 53 (6.97%) Software Engineer
8 50 (6.58%) Python Developer
9 44 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
10 43 (5.66%) AWS Developer
10 43 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
11 42 (5.53%) DBA
12 33 (4.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 32 (4.21%) Senior Java Developer
14 30 (3.95%) Lead
15 29 (3.82%) Python Engineer
16 28 (3.68%) Data Architect
17 26 (3.42%) Backend Developer
17 26 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (20.92%) Kafka
2 139 (18.29%) React
3 122 (16.05%) Spring
4 119 (15.66%) RESTful
5 116 (15.26%) Node.js
6 110 (14.47%) REST
7 101 (13.29%) Spring Boot
8 60 (7.89%) CSS
9 49 (6.45%) HTML
10 43 (5.66%) AngularJS
11 42 (5.53%) JSON
12 41 (5.39%) GraphQL
12 41 (5.39%) Hibernate
13 40 (5.26%) FastAPI
14 37 (4.87%) .NET
15 34 (4.47%) Vue
16 29 (3.82%) Keycloak
17 28 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
18 27 (3.55%) Django
18 27 (3.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 108 (14.21%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.00%) Replication
4 26 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.29%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.50%) Derivative
7 18 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (2.24%) Market Risk
8 17 (2.24%) Onboarding
9 16 (2.11%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.71%) Clustering
11 11 (1.45%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.05%) Equities
13 8 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 133 (17.50%) Linux
2 33 (4.34%) Windows
3 24 (3.16%) Unix
4 12 (1.58%) Amazon Linux
4 12 (1.58%) VMS
5 10 (1.32%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.53%) zOS
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
1 342 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 262 (34.47%) Agile
3 257 (33.82%) DevOps
4 187 (24.61%) Microservices
5 182 (23.95%) Containerisation
6 154 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
7 139 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 113 (14.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 112 (14.74%) Software Engineering
10 108 (14.21%) Observability
11 106 (13.95%) Test Automation
12 91 (11.97%) TDD
13 86 (11.32%) Migration
14 80 (10.53%) AI
15 79 (10.39%) Data Modelling
16 78 (10.26%) ETL
17 75 (9.87%) Performance Tuning
18 66 (8.68%) Analytics
19 61 (8.03%) Computer Science
19 61 (8.03%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 362 (47.63%) Python
2 302 (39.74%) SQL
3 227 (29.87%) Java
4 121 (15.92%) JavaScript
5 116 (15.26%) TypeScript
6 82 (10.79%) Bash
7 71 (9.34%) Go
8 41 (5.39%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.95%) C#
10 25 (3.29%) PHP
11 21 (2.76%) Groovy
12 18 (2.37%) Shell Script
13 16 (2.11%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.84%) Ruby
15 13 (1.71%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.32%) Scala
17 7 (0.92%) Bicep
17 7 (0.92%) JSX
18 6 (0.79%) VBA
19 5 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 217 (28.55%) Security Cleared
2 173 (22.76%) SC Cleared
3 85 (11.18%) Degree
4 55 (7.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.29%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.29%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.37%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.71%) OCP
9 13 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.92%) MCP
11 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.53%) HND
13 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.13%) CCSM
14 1 (0.13%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.39%) Data Quality
1 41 (5.39%) QA
2 22 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.97%) GDPR
4 8 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.05%) SLA
5 7 (0.92%) NCSC
6 5 (0.66%) NIST
7 4 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.53%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.53%) WCAG
8 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 276 (36.32%) Docker
2 12 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.18%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.18%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.18%) Postfix
3 9 (1.18%) Squid
4 8 (1.05%) zsh
5 6 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.66%) NDS
6 5 (0.66%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.53%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.39%) KVM
8 3 (0.39%) NFS
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
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
1 282 (37.11%) Kubernetes
2 176 (23.16%) Terraform
3 109 (14.34%) Grafana
4 91 (11.97%) Ansible
5 76 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.68%) Argo
7 21 (2.76%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.63%) Nessus
9 17 (2.24%) Puppet
10 12 (1.58%) Control-M
11 11 (1.45%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.32%) Istio
13 9 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (1.18%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.79%) linkerd
15 5 (0.66%) Rancher
15 5 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.53%) Data Guard
16 4 (0.53%) Kibana
16 4 (0.53%) Packer
Vendors
1 128 (16.84%) Oracle
2 84 (11.05%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.92%) Splunk
4 41 (5.39%) Google
5 31 (4.08%) VMware
6 30 (3.95%) Databricks
7 25 (3.29%) Red Hat
8 18 (2.37%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.37%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.24%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.84%) Greenplum
11 13 (1.71%) Informatica
12 11 (1.45%) Tenable
13 9 (1.18%) IBM
13 9 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (1.05%) PagerDuty
15 6 (0.79%) Cloudera
15 6 (0.79%) Gigya
16 5 (0.66%) SAP
16 5 (0.66%) Talend