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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 115 127
Rank change year-on-year -64 +12 +34
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 861 791 724
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.40% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.50% 13.18% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 590 544
10th Percentile £357 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £451 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +0.24% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £838 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £480
% change year-on-year -2.56% +1.56% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £25.45 - £48.23
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £65.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -31.25% +22.00%
75th Percentile £75.25 £62.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £71.50 -
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 8,199 6,001 6,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.02% 18.24% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,479 4,012 4,751
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.84%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 89 89
10th Percentile £16.63 £21.24 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.35 £29.07 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £43.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +24.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £58.44 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £75.10 £81.50 £71.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +4.06% +24.93% -45.45%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -80 686 £513 -3.94% 1,109
London -69 373 £525 -12.50% 771
UK excluding London -68 334 £475 -2.56% 437
Work from Home -76 268 £500 -16.67% 519
North of England -76 94 £500 - 110
Midlands -31 76 £446 -10.80% 48
South East -37 65 £460 +5.75% 108
West Midlands -43 50 £448 -10.50% 38
Yorkshire -41 46 £500 - 34
Scotland -23 43 £450 -6.49% 45
North West -53 43 £523 +10.00% 61
South West -34 32 £700 +29.63% 57
East Midlands -4 25 £425 -17.87% 10
East of England -11 24 £500 +5.26% 36
North East -53 5 £426 -22.64% 16
Wales -11 4 - - 13

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 37 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
1 37 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.72%) Confluence
3 28 (3.25%) Apache
4 7 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.70%) CMS
5 6 (0.70%) nginx
5 6 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.35%) IIS
7 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.23%) Camunda
8 2 (0.23%) JBoss
8 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.70%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) 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 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 443 (51.45%) AWS
2 281 (32.64%) Azure
3 163 (18.93%) GitHub
4 125 (14.52%) GCP
5 118 (13.70%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (11.38%) Serverless
7 95 (11.03%) Amazon S3
8 77 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
9 64 (7.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 61 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
12 55 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
13 51 (5.92%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (4.65%) Snowflake
15 31 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (3.14%) AWS KMS
18 24 (2.79%) OpenShift
19 20 (2.32%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.79%) DNS
2 19 (2.21%) TCP/IP
3 18 (2.09%) Firewall
3 18 (2.09%) HTTP
4 17 (1.97%) SSH
5 10 (1.16%) Kerberos
6 8 (0.93%) HTTPS
6 8 (0.93%) SAN
7 6 (0.70%) 5G
8 5 (0.58%) 4G
8 5 (0.58%) SSL
8 5 (0.58%) VPN
9 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.35%) Network Security
11 2 (0.23%) DHCP
11 2 (0.23%) FTP
11 2 (0.23%) IMAP
11 2 (0.23%) MQTT
11 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (20.67%) SQL Server
2 170 (19.74%) Relational Database
3 165 (19.16%) MongoDB
3 165 (19.16%) MySQL
4 107 (12.43%) NoSQL
5 104 (12.08%) Redis
6 89 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
7 82 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
8 41 (4.76%) DynamoDB
9 40 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (3.72%) Metadata
11 31 (3.60%) RDBMS
12 29 (3.37%) Big Data
13 28 (3.25%) Oracle Database
14 25 (2.90%) Data Lake
15 21 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (1.86%) Power BI
18 15 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.74%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 212 (24.62%) Git
2 193 (22.42%) Jenkins
3 98 (11.38%) GitLab
4 78 (9.06%) JIRA
5 67 (7.78%) JUnit
6 59 (6.85%) Mockito
7 56 (6.50%) Maven
8 38 (4.41%) Gradle
9 28 (3.25%) SonarQube
10 20 (2.32%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.97%) Selenium
12 16 (1.86%) Liquibase
13 13 (1.51%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.39%) Gatling
14 12 (1.39%) Mocha
15 10 (1.16%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.05%) Flyway
16 9 (1.05%) JMeter
17 7 (0.81%) Claude Code
17 7 (0.81%) DbUnit
General
1 196 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 142 (16.49%) Public Sector
3 136 (15.80%) Finance
4 131 (15.21%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (6.50%) Banking
6 39 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (1.86%) Front Office
8 14 (1.63%) Retail
9 11 (1.28%) Military
10 10 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.05%) Legal
11 9 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.81%) Law
13 6 (0.70%) Billing
13 6 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.58%) Automotive
14 5 (0.58%) Marketing
14 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 320 (37.17%) Developer
2 160 (18.58%) Senior
3 124 (14.40%) Java Developer
4 102 (11.85%) DBA
5 71 (8.25%) Senior Developer
6 67 (7.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (7.67%) Data Engineer
8 62 (7.20%) Lead
9 61 (7.08%) Software Engineer
10 59 (6.85%) Administrator
11 51 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
12 49 (5.69%) Python Developer
13 46 (5.34%) Architect
14 36 (4.18%) Java Engineer
15 34 (3.95%) Python Engineer
16 32 (3.72%) Software Developer
17 31 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
18 28 (3.25%) Senior Java Developer
19 26 (3.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 26 (3.02%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (28.34%) REST
2 193 (22.42%) Spring
3 189 (21.95%) RESTful
4 186 (21.60%) Kafka
5 171 (19.86%) Spring Boot
6 165 (19.16%) Terraform
7 150 (17.42%) React
8 100 (11.61%) Node.js
9 80 (9.29%) CSS
9 80 (9.29%) HTML
10 66 (7.67%) .NET
11 59 (6.85%) OAuth
12 56 (6.50%) AngularJS
13 52 (6.04%) Django
14 51 (5.92%) FastAPI
15 49 (5.69%) OAuth2
16 44 (5.11%) GraphQL
16 44 (5.11%) Hibernate
16 44 (5.11%) RabbitMQ
17 42 (4.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 180 (20.91%) Cloud Native
2 104 (12.08%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.92%) Replication
4 46 (5.34%) Product Ownership
5 38 (4.41%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
7 30 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (2.90%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.09%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.86%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
11 13 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.16%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.05%) Equities
13 9 (1.05%) LIMS
14 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
14 8 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.70%) Linux
2 50 (5.81%) Unix
3 40 (4.65%) Windows
4 29 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.79%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.97%) Solaris
7 16 (1.86%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.05%) AIX
8 9 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.35%) VMS
10 2 (0.23%) Rocky
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (49.48%) CI/CD
2 302 (35.08%) Agile
3 297 (34.49%) DevOps
4 267 (31.01%) Microservices
5 195 (22.65%) Containerisation
6 173 (20.09%) Software Engineering
7 156 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
8 152 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 145 (16.84%) Test Automation
10 144 (16.72%) Full-Stack Development
11 131 (15.21%) AI
12 129 (14.98%) Data Modelling
13 125 (14.52%) Event-Driven
14 121 (14.05%) Performance Tuning
15 120 (13.94%) Observability
16 114 (13.24%) Migration
17 110 (12.78%) Scrum
18 96 (11.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 95 (11.03%) Analytics
20 94 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 338 (39.26%) SQL
2 311 (36.12%) Python
3 300 (34.84%) Java
4 154 (17.89%) TypeScript
5 118 (13.70%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.85%) C#
7 48 (5.57%) Bash
8 38 (4.41%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.48%) Go
10 29 (3.37%) Scala
11 22 (2.56%) Groovy
12 17 (1.97%) Perl
12 17 (1.97%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.74%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.51%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.39%) T-SQL
16 11 (1.28%) PHP
17 10 (1.16%) Korn
17 10 (1.16%) Ruby
18 9 (1.05%) Rust
Qualifications
1 304 (35.31%) Security Cleared
2 264 (30.66%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.85%) Degree
4 49 (5.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 31 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 21 (2.44%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.86%) Oracle Certification
10 11 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.28%) OCP
11 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.23%) CISSP
13 1 (0.12%) CISA
13 1 (0.12%) CISM
13 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.76%) QA
2 48 (5.57%) Data Quality
3 47 (5.46%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.21%) GDPR
5 14 (1.63%) WCAG
6 8 (0.93%) GMP
6 8 (0.93%) GxP
7 7 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.81%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.58%) SLA
9 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.46%) SEPA
10 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 346 (40.19%) Docker
2 13 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (0.81%) Postfix
6 4 (0.46%) Squid
7 3 (0.35%) Ceph
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) NFS
9 1 (0.12%) RACF
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 287 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 114 (13.24%) Grafana
3 89 (10.34%) Prometheus
4 31 (3.60%) Ansible
5 27 (3.14%) Kibana
6 15 (1.74%) Argo
7 12 (1.39%) Karpenter
7 12 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
8 10 (1.16%) Data Guard
9 9 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 8 (0.93%) Control-M
11 7 (0.81%) Nessus
11 7 (0.81%) Puppet
12 6 (0.70%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.70%) Istio
13 5 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.58%) Rancher
14 4 (0.46%) Bosun
14 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 189 (21.95%) Oracle
2 124 (14.40%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.99%) Databricks
3 43 (4.99%) Google
4 33 (3.83%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.79%) Dynatrace
5 24 (2.79%) Splunk
6 18 (2.09%) Informatica
6 18 (2.09%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.28%) Talend
9 10 (1.16%) Jaspersoft
9 10 (1.16%) VMware
10 8 (0.93%) CyberArk
10 8 (0.93%) NetApp
10 8 (0.93%) Sybase
11 7 (0.81%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.81%) Foundry
11 7 (0.81%) TikTok
12 6 (0.70%) BeyondTrust