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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 138 155
Rank change year-on-year +18 +17 +23
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 849 673 769
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.37% 1.85% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.42% 10.47% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 499 539
10th Percentile £363 £325 £405
25th Percentile £425 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £710 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile - - £60.19
25th Percentile £29.00 - £60.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £65.58
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -34.43% +45.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £71.34
90th Percentile £71.50 - £72.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.05
% change year-on-year - - +46.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,327 6,430 7,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.67% 17.71% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,330 4,242 5,407
10th Percentile £332 £345 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £534
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £650
90th Percentile £715 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 88 145
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.00 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.30 £21.64
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.55 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.65% -33.59% +4.40%
75th Percentile £69.44 £53.75 £67.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.85 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +99.45% -40.45% +13.38%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 17 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 November 2025. 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 +24 716 £525 -4.55% 298
London +21 395 £600 +4.35% 148
UK excluding London +15 354 £475 -3.06% 237
Work from Home -2 289 £525 +0.96% 177
North of England +19 129 £500 +7.24% 45
Midlands +15 76 £523 +6.63% 22
Yorkshire +17 70 £500 -16.67% 11
West Midlands +23 65 £525 +8.58% 14
South East -17 64 £429 -14.25% 116
South West +8 49 £550 -1.12% 20
North West -6 46 £450 +1.12% 31
Scotland -17 45 £450 -5.76% 16
North East +7 14 £550 - 3
East Midlands -12 11 £518 +3.50% 8
Northern Ireland +3 8 £400 - 3
Wales +1 4 £469 +17.19% 5
East of England -13 4 £450 +1.41% 12

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 48 (5.65%) Confluence
2 32 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.94%) nginx
4 23 (2.71%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.41%) Apache
5 12 (1.41%) SAS
6 8 (0.94%) Oracle Application Server
7 6 (0.71%) Drupal
8 5 (0.59%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.47%) Alfresco
9 4 (0.47%) Camunda
9 4 (0.47%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.47%) WordPress
10 3 (0.35%) CICS
10 3 (0.35%) JBoss
10 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (1.30%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 507 (59.72%) AWS
2 242 (28.50%) Azure
3 168 (19.79%) GitHub
4 157 (18.49%) GCP
5 137 (16.14%) Serverless
6 136 (16.02%) Amazon S3
7 88 (10.37%) AWS Lambda
8 75 (8.83%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 55 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (5.77%) OpenShift
12 48 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
13 41 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 41 (4.83%) Power Platform
14 32 (3.77%) Snowflake
15 31 (3.65%) Azure AKS
16 29 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
17 27 (3.18%) AWS KMS
17 27 (3.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.06%) Firewall
2 19 (2.24%) DNS
2 19 (2.24%) HTTP
3 15 (1.77%) SSH
4 12 (1.41%) IMAP
4 12 (1.41%) Kerberos
4 12 (1.41%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (1.41%) SMTP
5 10 (1.18%) FTP
6 9 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.82%) SSL
8 4 (0.47%) Internet
8 4 (0.47%) VPN
9 3 (0.35%) MQTT
10 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
10 2 (0.24%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.24%) LAN
10 2 (0.24%) WAN
11 1 (0.12%) DHCP
11 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (15.78%) Relational Database
2 125 (14.72%) MySQL
3 118 (13.90%) NoSQL
4 107 (12.60%) MongoDB
5 103 (12.13%) SQL Server
6 96 (11.31%) Amazon RDS
7 78 (9.19%) Redis
8 67 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 46 (5.42%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (4.59%) RDBMS
12 33 (3.89%) Power BI
13 29 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
14 28 (3.30%) Oracle Database
15 25 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
16 23 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
17 22 (2.59%) Apache Iceberg
17 22 (2.59%) Big Data
18 20 (2.36%) Hadoop
19 17 (2.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 191 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 167 (19.67%) Git
3 79 (9.31%) JIRA
4 77 (9.07%) GitLab
5 68 (8.01%) JUnit
6 35 (4.12%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.65%) Liquibase
7 31 (3.65%) Mockito
8 28 (3.30%) Maven
9 24 (2.83%) SonarQube
9 24 (2.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (2.59%) Gradle
11 21 (2.47%) Cypress.io
12 18 (2.12%) Bitbucket
13 16 (1.88%) JMeter
14 15 (1.77%) Postman
15 12 (1.41%) Vagrant
16 11 (1.30%) Subversion
17 10 (1.18%) DBeaver
17 10 (1.18%) webpack
General
1 249 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 196 (23.09%) Finance
3 106 (12.49%) Public Sector
4 93 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (10.25%) Banking
6 42 (4.95%) Front Office
7 31 (3.65%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.53%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.94%) Marketing
13 5 (0.59%) Local Government
13 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.59%) Military
13 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.47%) Electronics
15 3 (0.35%) Legal
16 2 (0.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 351 (41.34%) Developer
2 141 (16.61%) Senior
3 119 (14.02%) Java Developer
4 79 (9.31%) Full-Stack Developer
5 71 (8.36%) Senior Developer
6 64 (7.54%) Architect
6 64 (7.54%) Data Engineer
7 63 (7.42%) AWS Engineer
8 61 (7.18%) Software Engineer
9 60 (7.07%) AWS Developer
9 60 (7.07%) Python Developer
10 56 (6.60%) Lead
11 51 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
12 41 (4.83%) Senior Java Developer
13 39 (4.59%) Python Engineer
14 36 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 31 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
15 31 (3.65%) DBA
16 26 (3.06%) Backend Developer
17 25 (2.94%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (20.49%) Kafka
2 169 (19.91%) React
3 146 (17.20%) Node.js
4 136 (16.02%) Spring
5 126 (14.84%) RESTful
6 122 (14.37%) REST
7 109 (12.84%) Spring Boot
8 66 (7.77%) CSS
9 63 (7.42%) AngularJS
10 57 (6.71%) GraphQL
10 57 (6.71%) HTML
11 49 (5.77%) Hibernate
12 44 (5.18%) Vue
13 41 (4.83%) FastAPI
14 37 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
15 33 (3.89%) JSON
16 32 (3.77%) Pandas
17 31 (3.65%) .NET
17 31 (3.65%) NumPy
17 31 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 98 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.24%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.42%) Replication
4 29 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
4 29 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 26 (3.06%) Fixed Income
6 23 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.59%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.47%) Equities
8 21 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 20 (2.36%) Derivative
10 19 (2.24%) Clustering
10 19 (2.24%) Market Risk
11 17 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.88%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.30%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (1.06%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 146 (17.20%) Linux
2 31 (3.65%) Windows
3 22 (2.59%) Unix
4 15 (1.77%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (1.77%) VMS
5 11 (1.30%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.35%) Solaris
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.24%) zOS
10 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (42.52%) CI/CD
2 341 (40.16%) Agile
3 278 (32.74%) DevOps
4 224 (26.38%) Microservices
5 200 (23.56%) Containerisation
6 186 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 138 (16.25%) Software Engineering
9 124 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 119 (14.02%) TDD
11 112 (13.19%) Test Automation
12 91 (10.72%) Observability
13 87 (10.25%) Migration
14 79 (9.31%) AI
15 76 (8.95%) Computer Science
15 76 (8.95%) ETL
16 74 (8.72%) Mentoring
17 71 (8.36%) Analytics
17 71 (8.36%) Data Modelling
18 65 (7.66%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 396 (46.64%) Python
2 312 (36.75%) SQL
3 261 (30.74%) Java
4 151 (17.79%) JavaScript
4 151 (17.79%) TypeScript
5 87 (10.25%) Bash
6 74 (8.72%) Go
7 42 (4.95%) PowerShell
8 29 (3.42%) C#
9 27 (3.18%) Groovy
10 26 (3.06%) PHP
11 20 (2.36%) Ruby
12 17 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.41%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.18%) Perl
16 7 (0.82%) JSX
16 7 (0.82%) Scala
16 7 (0.82%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 223 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 188 (22.14%) SC Cleared
3 102 (12.01%) Degree
4 64 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (4.48%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 24 (2.83%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.36%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.41%) OCP
11 12 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.94%) MCP
13 7 (0.82%) CISSP
14 6 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
15 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.47%) HND
17 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
18 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
19 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.95%) QA
2 42 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.77%) GDPR
5 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.35%) HL7
8 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.24%) SLA
8 2 (0.24%) WCAG
9 1 (0.12%) DICOM
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) NIST
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 289 (34.04%) Docker
2 15 (1.77%) Postfix
3 12 (1.41%) Dovecot
3 12 (1.41%) Squid
4 11 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (1.18%) DFS Replication
5 10 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.06%) zsh
7 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
8 5 (0.59%) NDS
8 5 (0.59%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 5 (0.59%) NFS
9 3 (0.35%) KVM
9 3 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.35%) Xen
10 2 (0.24%) GPFS
10 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.24%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) HDFS
11 1 (0.12%) Samba
Systems Management
1 296 (34.86%) Kubernetes
2 168 (19.79%) Terraform
3 108 (12.72%) Grafana
4 79 (9.31%) Prometheus
5 75 (8.83%) Ansible
6 26 (3.06%) Argo
7 23 (2.71%) Nessus
8 19 (2.24%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.88%) Puppet
10 12 (1.41%) Control-M
11 11 (1.30%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.18%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (1.06%) Packer
14 8 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.82%) Istio
16 5 (0.59%) Kibana
17 4 (0.47%) Rancher
17 4 (0.47%) ZABBIX
18 3 (0.35%) Ambari
Vendors
1 122 (14.37%) Oracle
2 88 (10.37%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.30%) Google
4 40 (4.71%) Splunk
5 26 (3.06%) Red Hat
6 24 (2.83%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.83%) VMware
7 23 (2.71%) Atlassian
8 21 (2.47%) Databricks
9 18 (2.12%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.77%) CA Agile Central
10 15 (1.77%) IBM
10 15 (1.77%) Jaspersoft
11 11 (1.30%) Tenable
12 8 (0.94%) Informatica
13 7 (0.82%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.82%) Greenplum
14 6 (0.71%) Gigya
14 6 (0.71%) PagerDuty
14 6 (0.71%) SAP