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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 124 151
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 +6
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 833 670 704
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.89% 2.31% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.88% 12.17% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 505 496
10th Percentile £359 £380 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.45% +1.48%
75th Percentile £587 £629 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.37% -5.00% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile £35.00 £44.95 £31.35
25th Percentile £40.00 £47.88 £36.75
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -19.40% +197.98%
75th Percentile £69.22 £61.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.05 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £54.25
% change year-on-year - - +97.27%

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 7,010 5,506 7,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.90% 18.97% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,810 3,831 5,158
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 102 164
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.99 £14.11
25th Percentile £30.26 £24.38 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.23 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.26% -19.44% -29.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.67 £56.81
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.11 £38.50
% change year-on-year +66.09% -21.81% -30.00%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -34 688 £505 -5.34% 288
UK excluding London -17 398 £459 -3.37% 175
London -29 333 £550 -4.35% 152
Work from Home -30 272 £488 -8.62% 201
North of England -19 151 £463 -2.63% 57
Midlands +6 107 £475 -3.06% 18
West Midlands +5 88 £488 +0.83% 8
South East -33 74 £435 +4.50% 48
Yorkshire -15 72 £488 -11.36% 19
North West -17 70 £441 -4.76% 33
Scotland +15 52 £425 -7.61% 12
South West -25 30 £606 -3.04% 20
East Midlands -22 18 £401 -19.80% 10
North East -9 8 £438 -5.91% 6
East of England -36 7 £588 +30.56% 14
Northern Ireland 0 6 £400 -20.00%

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 56 (6.72%) Confluence
2 24 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.28%) Apache
5 16 (1.92%) nginx
6 10 (1.20%) SAS
7 6 (0.72%) Camunda
8 5 (0.60%) Drupal
8 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.24%) Appian
10 2 (0.24%) JBoss
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) CPLEX
3 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 511 (61.34%) AWS
2 260 (31.21%) Azure
3 178 (21.37%) GitHub
4 148 (17.77%) GCP
5 134 (16.09%) Serverless
6 107 (12.85%) Amazon S3
7 103 (12.36%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 43 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (4.32%) OpenShift
14 34 (4.08%) Snowflake
15 33 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (3.48%) Power Platform
17 27 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
18 23 (2.76%) AWS KMS
18 23 (2.76%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.40%) Firewall
2 18 (2.16%) DNS
3 10 (1.20%) Kerberos
4 9 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.96%) HTTP
6 5 (0.60%) SSL
6 5 (0.60%) VPN
7 4 (0.48%) Internet
7 4 (0.48%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.48%) SSH
7 4 (0.48%) WAN
8 3 (0.36%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.36%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.24%) LAN
9 2 (0.24%) NaaS
9 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) VSAN
10 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (18.37%) NoSQL
2 136 (16.33%) Relational Database
3 134 (16.09%) MongoDB
4 133 (15.97%) SQL Server
5 127 (15.25%) MySQL
6 68 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
7 63 (7.56%) DynamoDB
8 50 (6.00%) Redis
9 48 (5.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 41 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
11 35 (4.20%) RDBMS
12 26 (3.12%) Data Lake
13 23 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
13 23 (2.76%) Big Data
13 23 (2.76%) Power BI
14 22 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
14 22 (2.64%) Metadata
15 18 (2.16%) Oracle Database
16 17 (2.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 187 (22.45%) Jenkins
2 159 (19.09%) Git
3 107 (12.85%) GitLab
4 84 (10.08%) JUnit
5 82 (9.84%) JIRA
6 44 (5.28%) Mockito
7 39 (4.68%) Cucumber
8 28 (3.36%) JMeter
9 26 (3.12%) Maven
10 25 (3.00%) Gradle
11 24 (2.88%) Liquibase
12 20 (2.40%) Selenium
13 18 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
14 16 (1.92%) Bitbucket
14 16 (1.92%) WebDriver
15 13 (1.56%) SonarQube
16 11 (1.32%) Artifactory
16 11 (1.32%) ERwin
17 10 (1.20%) Cypress.io
18 8 (0.96%) DbUnit
General
1 199 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 181 (21.73%) Finance
3 100 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 74 (8.88%) Banking
5 71 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.00%) Front Office
7 19 (2.28%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.68%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.72%) Law
11 6 (0.72%) Retail
12 5 (0.60%) Legal
12 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.48%) Marketing
14 3 (0.36%) Automotive
14 3 (0.36%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 325 (39.02%) Developer
2 147 (17.65%) Senior
3 102 (12.24%) Java Developer
4 80 (9.60%) Full-Stack Developer
5 79 (9.48%) Python Developer
6 75 (9.00%) Software Engineer
7 70 (8.40%) Data Engineer
8 67 (8.04%) DBA
9 64 (7.68%) Architect
10 56 (6.72%) Senior Developer
11 51 (6.12%) Lead
12 34 (4.08%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 33 (3.96%) Administrator
14 32 (3.84%) Senior Java Developer
15 31 (3.72%) AWS Developer
16 30 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
16 30 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
17 29 (3.48%) Backend Developer
17 29 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (3.48%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (23.17%) Kafka
2 170 (20.41%) Spring
3 156 (18.73%) React
4 154 (18.49%) RESTful
5 142 (17.05%) REST
6 132 (15.85%) Spring Boot
7 130 (15.61%) Node.js
8 60 (7.20%) FastAPI
9 56 (6.72%) AngularJS
10 44 (5.28%) Hibernate
11 42 (5.04%) JSON
12 39 (4.68%) WireMock
13 38 (4.56%) GraphQL
14 35 (4.20%) .NET
15 33 (3.96%) CSS
16 32 (3.84%) Django
17 30 (3.60%) JPA
18 29 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
19 28 (3.36%) Keycloak
19 28 (3.36%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 117 (14.05%) Cloud Native
2 92 (11.04%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.84%) Derivative
5 29 (3.48%) Management Information System
6 25 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.64%) Fixed Income
8 22 (2.64%) Replication
9 19 (2.28%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
10 18 (2.16%) Equities
11 17 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.92%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.68%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.68%) Market Risk
14 11 (1.32%) Clustering
15 8 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 140 (16.81%) Linux
2 26 (3.12%) Unix
2 26 (3.12%) Windows
3 12 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.48%) zOS
6 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.36%) Android
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Solaris
7 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.12%) SUSE
8 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (46.22%) CI/CD
2 313 (37.58%) Agile
3 278 (33.37%) DevOps
4 230 (27.61%) Microservices
5 208 (24.97%) Containerisation
6 153 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
7 141 (16.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 139 (16.69%) Software Engineering
9 132 (15.85%) Full-Stack Development
10 118 (14.17%) Observability
11 110 (13.21%) Test Automation
12 107 (12.85%) Data Modelling
13 105 (12.61%) TDD
14 95 (11.40%) Migration
15 89 (10.68%) AI
16 88 (10.56%) ETL
17 85 (10.20%) Performance Tuning
18 80 (9.60%) Event-Driven
19 79 (9.48%) Analytics
19 79 (9.48%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 366 (43.94%) Python
2 310 (37.21%) SQL
3 264 (31.69%) Java
4 122 (14.65%) TypeScript
5 112 (13.45%) JavaScript
6 70 (8.40%) Bash
7 61 (7.32%) Go
8 40 (4.80%) PowerShell
9 37 (4.44%) C#
10 18 (2.16%) PL/SQL
10 18 (2.16%) Scala
10 18 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.68%) PHP
12 11 (1.32%) Ruby
13 9 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.96%) Bicep
15 7 (0.84%) Groovy
16 6 (0.72%) JSX
17 5 (0.60%) Delphi
17 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 266 (31.93%) Security Cleared
2 211 (25.33%) SC Cleared
3 91 (10.92%) Degree
4 50 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (3.00%) Master's Degree
8 22 (2.64%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.80%) OCP
9 15 (1.80%) Oracle Certification
10 14 (1.68%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.48%) CISSP
14 3 (0.36%) CISM
14 3 (0.36%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.16%) QA
3 22 (2.64%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.44%) GDPR
5 7 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.84%) NCSC
5 7 (0.84%) NIST
5 7 (0.84%) SLA
5 7 (0.84%) WCAG
6 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.60%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 304 (36.49%) Docker
2 11 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (0.84%) Postfix
5 5 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.60%) Ceph
5 5 (0.60%) HDFS
6 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) NFS
7 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.24%) Lustre
7 2 (0.24%) NDS
7 2 (0.24%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 2 (0.24%) Samba
7 2 (0.24%) Squid
7 2 (0.24%) Xen
8 1 (0.12%) Varnish
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 295 (35.41%) Kubernetes
2 161 (19.33%) Terraform
3 128 (15.37%) Grafana
4 92 (11.04%) Prometheus
5 88 (10.56%) Ansible
6 15 (1.80%) Argo
6 15 (1.80%) Control-M
6 15 (1.80%) IBM Guardium
6 15 (1.80%) Nessus
6 15 (1.80%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.08%) Puppet
7 9 (1.08%) Rancher
8 8 (0.96%) Istio
9 7 (0.84%) HAProxy
10 6 (0.72%) Data Guard
10 6 (0.72%) linkerd
10 6 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.60%) Packer
12 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 147 (17.65%) Oracle
2 102 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.92%) Splunk
4 29 (3.48%) Databricks
4 29 (3.48%) Google
5 24 (2.88%) Atlassian
6 23 (2.76%) Red Hat
6 23 (2.76%) VMware
7 22 (2.64%) Informatica
8 15 (1.80%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.80%) Tenable
9 13 (1.56%) Talend
10 12 (1.44%) Greenplum
10 12 (1.44%) IBM
11 10 (1.20%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (0.96%) PagerDuty
13 7 (0.84%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.72%) Confluent
15 5 (0.60%) OpenAI