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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 119 132
Rank change year-on-year -65 +13 +43
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 855 804 728
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.57% 2.42% 1.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.56% 13.36% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 597 548
10th Percentile £350 £375 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +0.24% -0.24%
75th Percentile £599 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £830 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £497 £476
% change year-on-year -3.73% +4.31% -4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 3
10th Percentile £25.45 - -
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -62.50% +22.00%
75th Percentile £70.25 £56.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £77.80 £65.50 -
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 8,099 6,018 6,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.86% 18.14% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,397 4,029 4,610
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 81 92
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.96 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% +11.31% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.13 £64.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -78 676 £519 -3.67% 1,199
London -56 389 £525 -12.50% 846
UK excluding London -98 305 £478 -3.73% 410
Work from Home -72 281 £500 -16.67% 517
North of England -86 89 £501 +0.24% 113
Midlands -48 65 £447 -11.92% 41
South East -52 56 £460 +5.75% 85
Yorkshire -42 49 £500 - 33
West Midlands -55 48 £448 -10.50% 28
Scotland -31 43 £450 -4.26% 46
South West -36 35 £700 +27.27% 38
North West -56 35 £525 +10.53% 67
East of England -15 20 £475 - 47
East Midlands -15 16 £413 -19.90% 13
North East -50 5 £500 -14.89% 17
Wales -10 4 - - 17

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 36 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
1 36 (4.21%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.98%) Confluence
3 31 (3.63%) Apache
4 10 (1.17%) nginx
5 7 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.58%) CMS
7 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) IIS
8 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) SAS
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (0.70%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.47%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) 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
1 455 (53.22%) AWS
2 287 (33.57%) Azure
3 172 (20.12%) GitHub
4 139 (16.26%) GCP
5 120 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
6 94 (10.99%) Amazon S3
7 89 (10.41%) Serverless
8 70 (8.19%) AWS Lambda
9 64 (7.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 63 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (6.43%) Amazon ECS
12 53 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
13 47 (5.50%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (4.33%) Snowflake
15 35 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (3.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 28 (3.27%) AWS KMS
18 21 (2.46%) Azure AKS
19 19 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.57%) DNS
2 19 (2.22%) Firewall
3 18 (2.11%) HTTP
3 18 (2.11%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.99%) SSH
5 9 (1.05%) Kerberos
6 8 (0.94%) HTTPS
6 8 (0.94%) SAN
6 8 (0.94%) VPN
7 6 (0.70%) 5G
8 5 (0.58%) 4G
8 5 (0.58%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.58%) SSL
9 3 (0.35%) Network Security
9 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) FTP
10 2 (0.23%) IMAP
10 2 (0.23%) MQTT
10 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (21.29%) SQL Server
2 179 (20.94%) MySQL
3 174 (20.35%) MongoDB
4 173 (20.23%) Relational Database
5 108 (12.63%) Redis
6 103 (12.05%) NoSQL
7 94 (10.99%) Amazon RDS
8 88 (10.29%) Amazon Aurora
9 41 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (4.33%) DynamoDB
11 32 (3.74%) RDBMS
12 31 (3.63%) Metadata
13 28 (3.27%) Oracle Database
14 26 (3.04%) Big Data
15 24 (2.81%) Data Lake
16 22 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
17 18 (2.11%) BigQuery
18 15 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
19 14 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 218 (25.50%) Git
2 201 (23.51%) Jenkins
3 104 (12.16%) GitLab
4 77 (9.01%) JIRA
5 70 (8.19%) JUnit
6 62 (7.25%) Mockito
7 59 (6.90%) Maven
8 41 (4.80%) Gradle
9 27 (3.16%) SonarQube
10 23 (2.69%) Cucumber
11 18 (2.11%) Selenium
12 17 (1.99%) Liquibase
13 16 (1.87%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.40%) Gatling
14 12 (1.40%) Mocha
15 11 (1.29%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.05%) Flyway
16 9 (1.05%) JMeter
17 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
18 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 201 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 142 (16.61%) Public Sector
3 140 (16.37%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (15.44%) Finance
5 64 (7.49%) Banking
6 36 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (1.99%) Front Office
8 15 (1.75%) Retail
9 13 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.17%) Military
12 9 (1.05%) Law
13 8 (0.94%) Legal
13 8 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.70%) Billing
14 6 (0.70%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.58%) Marketing
15 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 315 (36.84%) Developer
2 162 (18.95%) Senior
3 124 (14.50%) Java Developer
4 103 (12.05%) DBA
5 72 (8.42%) Senior Developer
6 67 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (7.72%) Data Engineer
8 62 (7.25%) Software Engineer
9 60 (7.02%) Administrator
9 60 (7.02%) Lead
10 53 (6.20%) Python Developer
11 52 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
12 45 (5.26%) Architect
13 39 (4.56%) Java Engineer
14 34 (3.98%) Python Engineer
15 30 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
16 28 (3.27%) Senior Java Developer
17 26 (3.04%) PostgreSQL DBA
18 22 (2.57%) Java Software Engineer
18 22 (2.57%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (29.82%) REST
2 193 (22.57%) RESTful
3 191 (22.34%) Spring
4 186 (21.75%) Kafka
5 184 (21.52%) Terraform
6 172 (20.12%) Spring Boot
7 156 (18.25%) React
8 91 (10.64%) Node.js
9 87 (10.18%) HTML
10 86 (10.06%) CSS
11 68 (7.95%) .NET
12 63 (7.37%) OAuth
13 60 (7.02%) AngularJS
14 58 (6.78%) Django
15 52 (6.08%) OAuth2
16 51 (5.96%) FastAPI
17 46 (5.38%) Web Services
18 43 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
19 42 (4.91%) Hibernate
19 42 (4.91%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 184 (21.52%) Cloud Native
2 112 (13.10%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (7.37%) Replication
4 48 (5.61%) Product Ownership
5 40 (4.68%) Data Structures
6 33 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (3.04%) AI Agents
7 26 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.99%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.17%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.17%) PKI
14 9 (1.05%) Equities
14 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.94%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 125 (14.62%) Linux
2 51 (5.96%) Unix
3 47 (5.50%) Windows
4 29 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (2.92%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.11%) Solaris
7 16 (1.87%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.29%) AIX
9 9 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.35%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 2 (0.23%) CentOS
11 2 (0.23%) Rocky
12 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (51.46%) CI/CD
2 308 (36.02%) Agile
3 303 (35.44%) DevOps
4 273 (31.93%) Microservices
5 192 (22.46%) Containerisation
6 175 (20.47%) Software Engineering
7 166 (19.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 162 (18.95%) Test Automation
9 156 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
10 135 (15.79%) AI
11 134 (15.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 133 (15.56%) Observability
13 132 (15.44%) Event-Driven
14 130 (15.20%) Data Modelling
15 129 (15.09%) Performance Tuning
16 109 (12.75%) Scrum
17 108 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 107 (12.51%) Migration
19 103 (12.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 101 (11.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 333 (38.95%) SQL
2 312 (36.49%) Python
3 299 (34.97%) Java
4 158 (18.48%) TypeScript
5 130 (15.20%) JavaScript
6 60 (7.02%) C#
7 53 (6.20%) Bash
8 34 (3.98%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.86%) Go
10 28 (3.27%) Scala
11 26 (3.04%) Groovy
12 17 (1.99%) Perl
12 17 (1.99%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.75%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.52%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.40%) PHP
16 10 (1.17%) Korn
16 10 (1.17%) PL/SQL
16 10 (1.17%) Ruby
17 7 (0.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 310 (36.26%) Security Cleared
2 270 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.90%) Degree
4 53 (6.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (4.09%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (3.16%) AWS Certification
9 24 (2.81%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.29%) OCP
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.12%) CISSP
15 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.36%) QA
2 50 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 48 (5.61%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.99%) GDPR
5 14 (1.64%) WCAG
6 8 (0.94%) GMP
6 8 (0.94%) GxP
6 8 (0.94%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.82%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
9 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.47%) SEPA
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 2 (0.23%) PSD2
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 354 (41.40%) Docker
2 12 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) Postfix
6 4 (0.47%) Squid
6 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Ceph
7 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 293 (34.27%) Kubernetes
2 117 (13.68%) Grafana
3 91 (10.64%) Prometheus
4 34 (3.98%) Kibana
5 31 (3.63%) Ansible
6 13 (1.52%) Karpenter
7 11 (1.29%) Argo
8 9 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 8 (0.94%) Control-M
9 8 (0.94%) Puppet
10 7 (0.82%) Data Guard
10 7 (0.82%) HAProxy
10 7 (0.82%) Nessus
10 7 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.70%) Istio
12 5 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
12 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.47%) Bosun
13 4 (0.47%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 188 (21.99%) Oracle
2 130 (15.20%) Microsoft
3 51 (5.96%) Google
4 42 (4.91%) Databricks
5 35 (4.09%) ServiceNow
6 26 (3.04%) Dynatrace
6 26 (3.04%) Splunk
7 18 (2.11%) Informatica
8 17 (1.99%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.29%) Talend
9 11 (1.29%) VMware
10 10 (1.17%) NetApp
10 10 (1.17%) Sybase
11 9 (1.05%) IBM
12 8 (0.94%) Jaspersoft
13 7 (0.82%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.82%) Foundry
13 7 (0.82%) TikTok
14 6 (0.70%) ForgeRock