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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 129 177
Rank change year-on-year +16 +48 -12
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 802 703 719
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.44% 1.87% 1.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.40% 10.51% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 533 516
10th Percentile £375 £331 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £800 £708 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £477 £502
% change year-on-year +3.30% -4.88% +0.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile - - £60.19
25th Percentile £29.00 £75.00 £60.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £80.00 £65.58
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% +22.00% +19.23%
75th Percentile £56.25 £85.00 £71.34
90th Percentile £65.50 - £72.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £62.05
% change year-on-year -18.75% +28.93% -

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 5,983 6,687 7,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.17% 17.83% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,014 4,503 5,558
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £734 £788 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 89 157
10th Percentile £20.78 £17.50 £19.40
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £39.48 £33.93 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -35.37% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £61.60 £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £78.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.49 £30.00 £51.06
% change year-on-year +18.30% -41.24% +25.35%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +29 678 £534 -2.86% 279
London +21 383 £600 +4.35% 138
UK excluding London +28 335 £493 +3.30% 225
Work from Home +16 292 £582 +16.35% 272
North of England +38 118 £500 +8.11% 48
Midlands +36 74 £505 +1.00% 23
Yorkshire +28 65 £500 -13.04% 16
West Midlands +26 61 £500 -9.09% 16
Scotland -18 53 £465 -2.31% 15
South East -7 49 £435 -13.00% 84
South West +18 42 £550 +22.22% 32
North West -3 39 £475 +8.57% 29
North East +7 15 £588 +6.82% 3
East Midlands +1 13 £515 +3.00% 7
East of England -4 7 £475 +31.03% 11
Northern Ireland - 5 £400 - 6
Wales +5 4 £469 +17.19% 9

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 42 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (4.74%) Confluence
3 23 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 19 (2.37%) nginx
5 11 (1.37%) Apache
6 7 (0.87%) Oracle Application Server
6 7 (0.87%) SAS
7 5 (0.62%) Alfresco
7 5 (0.62%) Camunda
7 5 (0.62%) MQSeries
7 5 (0.62%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.50%) JBoss
8 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.50%) WordPress
9 3 (0.37%) CICS
9 3 (0.37%) Drupal
9 3 (0.37%) Luigi
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.37%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (1.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (1.00%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 480 (59.85%) AWS
2 227 (28.30%) Azure
3 177 (22.07%) GCP
4 123 (15.34%) Amazon S3
5 121 (15.09%) GitHub
6 118 (14.71%) Serverless
7 70 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
8 54 (6.73%) Amazon EC2
8 54 (6.73%) GitHub Actions
9 47 (5.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (4.74%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (4.61%) Power Platform
14 36 (4.49%) OpenShift
15 33 (4.11%) dbt
16 31 (3.87%) AWS KMS
17 29 (3.62%) Snowflake
18 26 (3.24%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.62%) Firewall
2 16 (2.00%) HTTP
3 15 (1.87%) DNS
4 14 (1.75%) SSH
5 12 (1.50%) IMAP
5 12 (1.50%) OpenLDAP
5 12 (1.50%) SMTP
6 10 (1.25%) FTP
7 8 (1.00%) Kerberos
7 8 (1.00%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.62%) SSL
9 3 (0.37%) MQTT
10 2 (0.25%) Internet
10 2 (0.25%) VPN
11 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.12%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.12%) LAN
11 1 (0.12%) SAN
11 1 (0.12%) STUN
11 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (14.71%) Relational Database
2 111 (13.84%) MySQL
3 103 (12.84%) NoSQL
4 102 (12.72%) MongoDB
5 88 (10.97%) Amazon RDS
6 87 (10.85%) SQL Server
7 75 (9.35%) Redis
8 73 (9.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 40 (4.99%) Amazon Athena
10 39 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (4.86%) DynamoDB
11 34 (4.24%) Apache Iceberg
12 31 (3.87%) RDBMS
13 29 (3.62%) Apache Arrow
13 29 (3.62%) Dremio
13 29 (3.62%) Power BI
14 25 (3.12%) Oracle Database
15 21 (2.62%) Big Data
16 19 (2.37%) Apache Cassandra
17 18 (2.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 176 (21.95%) Jenkins
2 159 (19.83%) Git
3 74 (9.23%) JIRA
4 62 (7.73%) GitLab
5 60 (7.48%) JUnit
6 38 (4.74%) Maven
6 38 (4.74%) Mockito
7 36 (4.49%) SonarQube
8 32 (3.99%) Liquibase
9 23 (2.87%) Cucumber
10 22 (2.74%) Gradle
11 19 (2.37%) Cypress.io
12 18 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 15 (1.87%) Subversion
14 12 (1.50%) Vagrant
15 11 (1.37%) Postman
16 10 (1.25%) JMeter
17 9 (1.12%) Selenium
17 9 (1.12%) webpack
18 8 (1.00%) Artifactory
General
1 239 (29.80%) Social Skills
2 203 (25.31%) Finance
3 113 (14.09%) Public Sector
4 100 (12.47%) Banking
5 89 (11.10%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (7.73%) Front Office
7 36 (4.49%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.00%) Military
12 6 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.75%) Marketing
13 5 (0.62%) Local Government
14 4 (0.50%) Retail
14 4 (0.50%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.37%) Electronics
15 3 (0.37%) Law
15 3 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 377 (47.01%) Developer
2 121 (15.09%) Java Developer
3 119 (14.84%) Senior
4 78 (9.73%) Software Engineer
5 70 (8.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 68 (8.48%) AWS Engineer
6 68 (8.48%) Senior Developer
7 67 (8.35%) AWS Developer
8 66 (8.23%) Python Developer
9 63 (7.86%) Lead
10 59 (7.36%) Architect
11 58 (7.23%) Data Engineer
12 47 (5.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 46 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
14 44 (5.49%) Python Engineer
15 40 (4.99%) Senior Java Developer
16 35 (4.36%) AWS Software Engineer
17 33 (4.11%) Lead Developer
18 32 (3.99%) React Developer
19 30 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (23.32%) React
2 167 (20.82%) Kafka
3 163 (20.32%) Node.js
4 133 (16.58%) Spring
5 116 (14.46%) REST
6 109 (13.59%) Spring Boot
7 108 (13.47%) RESTful
8 76 (9.48%) AngularJS
9 59 (7.36%) HTML
10 56 (6.98%) CSS
10 56 (6.98%) GraphQL
11 55 (6.86%) Vue
12 47 (5.86%) Hibernate
13 45 (5.61%) FastAPI
14 42 (5.24%) Pandas
15 40 (4.99%) NumPy
16 37 (4.61%) JPA
16 37 (4.61%) Web Services
17 33 (4.11%) ActiveMQ
17 33 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 84 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.86%) Fixed Income
4 42 (5.24%) Replication
5 39 (4.86%) Equities
5 39 (4.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 28 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (3.12%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 20 (2.49%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.37%) Clustering
10 19 (2.37%) Derivative
11 17 (2.12%) Market Risk
12 15 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.87%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.12%) Reinsurance
15 8 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (1.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 114 (14.21%) Linux
2 28 (3.49%) Windows
3 14 (1.75%) Unix
3 14 (1.75%) VMS
4 12 (1.50%) Amazon Linux
5 11 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.37%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.75%) Solaris
6 6 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.25%) zOS
9 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.12%) MVS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (43.14%) Agile
2 317 (39.53%) CI/CD
3 255 (31.80%) DevOps
4 221 (27.56%) Microservices
5 175 (21.82%) Containerisation
6 171 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
7 165 (20.57%) Software Engineering
8 138 (17.21%) TDD
9 129 (16.08%) Full-Stack Development
10 106 (13.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 99 (12.34%) Test Automation
12 79 (9.85%) Migration
13 77 (9.60%) AI
14 76 (9.48%) Mentoring
15 75 (9.35%) Observability
16 73 (9.10%) Scrum
17 68 (8.48%) Computer Science
18 67 (8.35%) Continuous Integration
19 64 (7.98%) Analytics
19 64 (7.98%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 371 (46.26%) Python
2 299 (37.28%) SQL
3 256 (31.92%) Java
4 177 (22.07%) JavaScript
5 170 (21.20%) TypeScript
6 70 (8.73%) Go
7 69 (8.60%) Bash
8 44 (5.49%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.74%) C#
10 25 (3.12%) Groovy
11 18 (2.24%) Ruby
12 16 (2.00%) PHP
12 16 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.75%) PL/SQL
14 10 (1.25%) Perl
15 8 (1.00%) Scala
16 7 (0.87%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.75%) VBA
18 5 (0.62%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 192 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 166 (20.70%) SC Cleared
3 91 (11.35%) Degree
4 53 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (4.49%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.37%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.37%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
11 8 (1.00%) MCP
12 7 (0.87%) CISSP
13 6 (0.75%) OCP
13 6 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.50%) HND
15 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (7.11%) QA
2 37 (4.61%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.62%) GDPR
5 6 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.50%) HL7
6 4 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.25%) SLA
8 2 (0.25%) WCAG
9 1 (0.12%) DICOM
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 247 (30.80%) Docker
2 18 (2.24%) Postfix
3 12 (1.50%) Dovecot
3 12 (1.50%) Squid
4 10 (1.25%) DFS Replication
4 10 (1.25%) zsh
5 8 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.37%) NDS
8 3 (0.37%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 3 (0.37%) NFS
9 2 (0.25%) GPFS
9 2 (0.25%) KVM
9 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) etcd
10 1 (0.12%) SRDF
10 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 244 (30.42%) Kubernetes
2 147 (18.33%) Terraform
3 100 (12.47%) Grafana
4 77 (9.60%) Prometheus
5 55 (6.86%) Ansible
6 24 (2.99%) Argo
7 23 (2.87%) Nessus
8 13 (1.62%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.50%) Control-M
10 11 (1.37%) IBM Guardium
10 11 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (1.25%) Proxmox
12 9 (1.12%) Puppet
13 8 (1.00%) Kibana
14 5 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.62%) Istio
14 5 (0.62%) Packer
15 4 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 4 (0.50%) ZABBIX
16 3 (0.37%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 109 (13.59%) Oracle
2 71 (8.85%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.24%) Google
4 36 (4.49%) Splunk
5 26 (3.24%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.62%) Databricks
8 19 (2.37%) CA Agile Central
9 18 (2.24%) Jaspersoft
9 18 (2.24%) VMware
10 16 (2.00%) Atlassian
11 15 (1.87%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.75%) IBM
13 11 (1.37%) Tenable
14 8 (1.00%) Informatica
15 7 (0.87%) Greenplum
15 7 (0.87%) SAP
16 6 (0.75%) Gigya
16 6 (0.75%) Okta
16 6 (0.75%) TIBCO