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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 118 140
Rank change year-on-year -36 +22 +13
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 803 680 720
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 2.34% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.07% 12.30% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 500 523
10th Percentile £359 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £780 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £490 £490
% change year-on-year -8.16% - +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.95 £34.05
25th Percentile £45.00 £47.88 £57.94
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -28.00% +233.56%
75th Percentile £69.72 £61.38 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +222.19%

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 7,251 5,528 7,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.28% 19.00% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,906 3,799 5,213
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -3.13% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 102 144
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.09 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -32.54%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.46 £59.44
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.88 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.47% -25.00% -28.19%

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 8 May 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 8 May 2026.

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 8 May 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 -34 674 £500 -9.09% 278
UK excluding London -9 369 £450 -8.16% 139
London -36 343 £550 -5.98% 158
Work from Home -44 253 £500 -9.09% 165
North of England -25 134 £450 -5.26% 42
Midlands -7 92 £450 -10.45% 20
North West -24 74 £449 -5.58% 18
South East -43 71 £429 -7.80% 52
West Midlands -10 67 £463 -13.15% 8
Yorkshire -25 50 £473 -7.35% 12
Scotland +7 49 £425 -8.60% 3
East Midlands -12 24 £410 -18.00% 12
South West -38 20 £606 -3.04% 16
East of England -32 10 £575 +27.78% 6
North East -12 9 £425 -8.60% 12
Northern Ireland +3 2 £400 -20.00%
Wales -9 1 - - 1

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 46 (5.73%) Confluence
2 39 (4.86%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.49%) Apache
5 12 (1.49%) nginx
6 8 (1.00%) Camunda
7 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.62%) SAS
8 4 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.37%) Appian
9 3 (0.37%) CMS
9 3 (0.37%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) JBoss
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.62%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 464 (57.78%) AWS
2 249 (31.01%) Azure
3 142 (17.68%) GitHub
4 125 (15.57%) GCP
5 102 (12.70%) Amazon S3
6 96 (11.96%) Serverless
7 91 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
8 67 (8.34%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 34 (4.23%) OpenShift
14 30 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (3.74%) Power Platform
15 28 (3.49%) Snowflake
16 20 (2.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 20 (2.49%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.99%) Firewall
2 14 (1.74%) DNS
3 7 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.75%) HTTP
5 5 (0.62%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.50%) iSCSI
6 4 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.50%) SSH
6 4 (0.50%) WAN
7 3 (0.37%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.37%) SAN
7 3 (0.37%) SSL
7 3 (0.37%) VPN
8 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.25%) LAN
8 2 (0.25%) MQTT
8 2 (0.25%) NaaS
8 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) VLAN
9 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (18.80%) SQL Server
2 147 (18.31%) MongoDB
3 145 (18.06%) Relational Database
4 131 (16.31%) NoSQL
5 114 (14.20%) MySQL
6 68 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
7 58 (7.22%) DynamoDB
8 55 (6.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 55 (6.85%) Redis
9 34 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (4.11%) Big Data
11 31 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
11 31 (3.86%) RDBMS
12 26 (3.24%) Data Lake
13 24 (2.99%) Power BI
14 22 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 22 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
15 20 (2.49%) Metadata
16 19 (2.37%) Tableau
17 17 (2.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 158 (19.68%) Jenkins
2 146 (18.18%) Git
3 82 (10.21%) GitLab
4 78 (9.71%) JIRA
5 77 (9.59%) JUnit
6 50 (6.23%) Mockito
7 31 (3.86%) Maven
8 29 (3.61%) Cucumber
9 24 (2.99%) Gradle
9 24 (2.99%) JMeter
10 20 (2.49%) Selenium
11 17 (2.12%) SonarQube
12 16 (1.99%) WebDriver
13 15 (1.87%) Liquibase
14 13 (1.62%) Gatling
15 11 (1.37%) DbUnit
15 11 (1.37%) jMock
16 9 (1.12%) Artifactory
16 9 (1.12%) Bitbucket Server
17 8 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 168 (20.92%) Finance
1 168 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 95 (11.83%) Public Sector
3 78 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (6.48%) Banking
5 28 (3.49%) Front Office
6 15 (1.87%) Investment Banking
7 13 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.12%) Legal
9 9 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.00%) Law
11 6 (0.75%) Retail
12 5 (0.62%) Automotive
13 4 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.50%) Military
14 3 (0.37%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.37%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.37%) Games
14 3 (0.37%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 314 (39.10%) Developer
2 139 (17.31%) Senior
3 92 (11.46%) Java Developer
4 81 (10.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 81 (10.09%) Python Developer
4 81 (10.09%) Software Engineer
5 74 (9.22%) DBA
6 70 (8.72%) Data Engineer
7 64 (7.97%) Architect
8 57 (7.10%) Lead
9 52 (6.48%) Senior Developer
10 36 (4.48%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 35 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
11 35 (4.36%) Java Engineer
12 32 (3.99%) Administrator
13 28 (3.49%) Lead Developer
14 27 (3.36%) Software Developer
15 26 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 25 (3.11%) Senior Java Developer
17 24 (2.99%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (24.28%) Kafka
2 177 (22.04%) Spring
3 160 (19.93%) React
4 138 (17.19%) RESTful
5 137 (17.06%) Spring Boot
6 134 (16.69%) REST
7 121 (15.07%) Node.js
8 64 (7.97%) FastAPI
9 58 (7.22%) AngularJS
10 44 (5.48%) .NET
11 42 (5.23%) GraphQL
11 42 (5.23%) Hibernate
12 36 (4.48%) HTML
13 35 (4.36%) JSON
13 35 (4.36%) WireMock
14 34 (4.23%) CSS
14 34 (4.23%) JPA
15 32 (3.99%) Django
16 31 (3.86%) Redux
17 29 (3.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 112 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 78 (9.71%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.61%) Derivative
5 27 (3.36%) Data Structures
6 23 (2.86%) Fixed Income
6 23 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.86%) Replication
7 22 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.37%) Equities
10 17 (2.12%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
12 10 (1.25%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.12%) Market Risk
14 8 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.00%) PACS
14 8 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 122 (15.19%) Linux
2 34 (4.23%) Unix
3 26 (3.24%) Windows
4 14 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.50%) zOS
7 3 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.37%) Android
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.37%) Solaris
7 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (44.71%) CI/CD
2 296 (36.86%) Agile
3 245 (30.51%) DevOps
4 205 (25.53%) Microservices
5 197 (24.53%) Containerisation
6 152 (18.93%) Software Engineering
7 141 (17.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 136 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (15.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 120 (14.94%) Observability
11 114 (14.20%) Test Automation
12 108 (13.45%) Data Modelling
13 102 (12.70%) TDD
14 96 (11.96%) Migration
15 95 (11.83%) AI
16 90 (11.21%) Performance Tuning
17 80 (9.96%) Mentoring
18 78 (9.71%) ETL
19 74 (9.22%) Analytics
20 73 (9.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 345 (42.96%) Python
2 297 (36.99%) SQL
3 284 (35.37%) Java
4 130 (16.19%) TypeScript
5 116 (14.45%) JavaScript
6 59 (7.35%) Bash
7 47 (5.85%) C#
8 45 (5.60%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.99%) Scala
10 29 (3.61%) Go
11 21 (2.62%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.49%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.62%) PHP
14 9 (1.12%) Groovy
14 9 (1.12%) Ruby
14 9 (1.12%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.00%) Bicep
16 7 (0.87%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.62%) Perl
17 5 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 254 (31.63%) Security Cleared
2 204 (25.40%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.85%) Degree
4 34 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.62%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.00%) OCP
12 6 (0.75%) CISSP
13 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.50%) CISM
15 3 (0.37%) PhD
15 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 1 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.98%) QA
2 40 (4.98%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.37%) GDPR
5 10 (1.25%) SLA
6 9 (1.12%) WCAG
7 7 (0.87%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.87%) NCSC
7 7 (0.87%) NIST
8 6 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) DICOM
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 293 (36.49%) Docker
2 11 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.25%) Postfix
4 9 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.62%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.62%) Ceph
6 5 (0.62%) HDFS
7 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.37%) NFS
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.25%) Lustre
8 2 (0.25%) Samba
8 2 (0.25%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Varnish
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 255 (31.76%) Kubernetes
2 137 (17.06%) Terraform
3 123 (15.32%) Grafana
4 82 (10.21%) Prometheus
5 64 (7.97%) Ansible
6 16 (1.99%) Control-M
6 16 (1.99%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (1.99%) Nessus
7 15 (1.87%) Argo
8 12 (1.49%) HAProxy
9 11 (1.37%) Kibana
9 11 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.25%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.25%) Progress Chef
11 9 (1.12%) Puppet
11 9 (1.12%) Rancher
12 8 (1.00%) Istio
13 6 (0.75%) linkerd
14 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
14 2 (0.25%) SELinux
Vendors
1 144 (17.93%) Oracle
2 100 (12.45%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.23%) Databricks
4 29 (3.61%) Splunk
5 23 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.74%) Red Hat
7 21 (2.62%) Google
8 20 (2.49%) Informatica
9 19 (2.37%) VMware
10 16 (1.99%) Atlassian
10 16 (1.99%) Tenable
11 14 (1.74%) Jaspersoft
12 13 (1.62%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.62%) Salesforce
12 13 (1.62%) Talend
13 10 (1.25%) Confluent
13 10 (1.25%) IBM
14 8 (1.00%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.87%) Greenplum
15 7 (0.87%) PagerDuty