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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 116 134
Rank change year-on-year -49 +18 +23
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 884 784 719
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 2.39% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.85% 13.18% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 600 538
10th Percentile £365 £385 £373
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.35%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £643
90th Percentile £738 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £466
% change year-on-year - +1.93% -5.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 6
10th Percentile £27.18 £54.50 £51.88
25th Percentile £27.75 £57.50 £69.00
Median hourly rate £49.50 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% -18.75% +77.78%
75th Percentile £72.11 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.75 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -49.62% -18.75% -

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 8,148 5,949 7,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.35% 18.14% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,411 4,031 5,070
10th Percentile £356 £343 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 90 103
10th Percentile £16.28 £19.20 £14.40
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.50 £20.38
Median hourly rate £39.50 £36.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.69 £60.78
90th Percentile £76.30 £78.83 £72.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -41.46%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -55 719 £513 -6.82% 304
UK excluding London -19 407 £475 - 162
London -61 350 £550 -8.33% 190
Work from Home -63 284 £500 -14.00% 148
North of England -43 129 £480 -3.42% 41
Midlands +5 104 £448 -10.50% 20
West Midlands -20 75 £448 -5.79% 11
South East -39 74 £470 +8.05% 48
North West -42 60 £481 +1.26% 27
Yorkshire -23 58 £488 -2.50% 10
Scotland -6 51 £425 -10.53% 16
South West -28 31 £700 +27.27% 17
East Midlands +6 27 £447 -12.78% 9
East of England -17 19 £575 +27.78% 9
North East -51 11 £425 -19.05% 4
Wales -15 4 - - 7

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 47 (5.32%) Confluence
2 37 (4.19%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.26%) Apache
5 7 (0.79%) nginx
5 7 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.68%) CMS
7 5 (0.57%) Camunda
8 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.34%) IIS
9 3 (0.34%) JBoss
9 3 (0.34%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.02%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.34%) Trello
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Maya
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.11%) Odoo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 468 (52.94%) AWS
2 309 (34.95%) Azure
3 162 (18.33%) GCP
4 159 (17.99%) GitHub
5 110 (12.44%) GitHub Actions
6 97 (10.97%) Serverless
7 95 (10.75%) Amazon S3
8 69 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
10 56 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
10 56 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 52 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (3.62%) Snowflake
13 30 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (3.05%) Azure AKS
14 27 (3.05%) Power Platform
15 26 (2.94%) Route 53
16 23 (2.60%) AWS KMS
16 23 (2.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.15%) Firewall
2 15 (1.70%) DNS
3 10 (1.13%) SSH
4 9 (1.02%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.68%) HTTP
5 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.45%) SAN
6 4 (0.45%) SSL
7 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.34%) MQTT
7 3 (0.34%) Network Security
7 3 (0.34%) VPN
7 3 (0.34%) WAN
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) NaaS
8 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (19.12%) SQL Server
2 168 (19.00%) MongoDB
3 167 (18.89%) Relational Database
4 139 (15.72%) MySQL
5 122 (13.80%) NoSQL
6 75 (8.48%) Redis
7 68 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
8 64 (7.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 55 (6.22%) DynamoDB
10 38 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (3.73%) RDBMS
12 32 (3.62%) Big Data
13 31 (3.51%) Oracle Database
14 27 (3.05%) Data Lake
15 22 (2.49%) Power BI
16 20 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
16 20 (2.26%) Metadata
17 17 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
18 15 (1.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 199 (22.51%) Jenkins
2 193 (21.83%) Git
3 97 (10.97%) JIRA
4 85 (9.62%) GitLab
5 84 (9.50%) JUnit
6 59 (6.67%) Mockito
7 51 (5.77%) Maven
8 35 (3.96%) Gradle
9 33 (3.73%) Cucumber
10 27 (3.05%) Selenium
11 26 (2.94%) SonarQube
12 25 (2.83%) JMeter
13 23 (2.60%) Liquibase
14 20 (2.26%) WebDriver
15 17 (1.92%) Gatling
16 15 (1.70%) Bitbucket
17 14 (1.58%) DbUnit
18 13 (1.47%) jMock
19 11 (1.24%) Bitbucket Server
20 10 (1.13%) Flyway
General
1 189 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 166 (18.78%) Finance
3 133 (15.05%) Public Sector
4 115 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (6.45%) Banking
6 27 (3.05%) Front Office
7 22 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.36%) Military
10 10 (1.13%) Law
10 10 (1.13%) Legal
11 9 (1.02%) Retail
12 8 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.57%) Automotive
16 4 (0.45%) Marketing
16 4 (0.45%) Private Banking
17 3 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 354 (40.05%) Developer
2 163 (18.44%) Senior
3 123 (13.91%) Java Developer
4 93 (10.52%) DBA
5 84 (9.50%) Software Engineer
6 79 (8.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 77 (8.71%) Lead
8 68 (7.69%) Python Developer
9 67 (7.58%) Senior Developer
10 66 (7.47%) Data Engineer
11 58 (6.56%) Architect
12 45 (5.09%) Administrator
13 42 (4.75%) Java Engineer
14 38 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (4.07%) Lead Developer
16 35 (3.96%) Software Developer
17 32 (3.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 31 (3.51%) Backend Developer
19 30 (3.39%) Python Engineer
20 29 (3.28%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (24.66%) REST
2 210 (23.76%) Spring
3 188 (21.27%) Kafka
4 183 (20.70%) RESTful
5 181 (20.48%) React
6 168 (19.00%) Spring Boot
7 135 (15.27%) Node.js
8 65 (7.35%) AngularJS
9 61 (6.90%) FastAPI
10 53 (6.00%) HTML
11 52 (5.88%) CSS
12 50 (5.66%) .NET
13 49 (5.54%) OpenAPI
13 49 (5.54%) Swagger
14 44 (4.98%) Web Services
15 41 (4.64%) Django
16 40 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
17 38 (4.30%) JPA
17 38 (4.30%) OAuth
18 37 (4.19%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 160 (18.10%) Cloud Native
2 119 (13.46%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.07%) Replication
5 34 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 26 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.83%) Derivative
8 25 (2.83%) Equities
9 23 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.26%) Fixed Income
11 18 (2.04%) Algorithms
12 17 (1.92%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.58%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.58%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.36%) Management Information System
15 10 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.02%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 114 (12.90%) Linux
2 36 (4.07%) Unix
3 34 (3.85%) Windows
4 29 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.90%) Solaris
8 5 (0.57%) AIX
8 5 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Android
9 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) VMS
10 2 (0.23%) zOS
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (46.27%) CI/CD
2 345 (39.03%) Agile
3 291 (32.92%) Microservices
4 281 (31.79%) DevOps
5 211 (23.87%) Containerisation
6 185 (20.93%) Software Engineering
7 164 (18.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 160 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
9 136 (15.38%) Test Automation
10 125 (14.14%) Observability
11 123 (13.91%) AI
12 121 (13.69%) Infrastructure as Code
13 120 (13.57%) Performance Tuning
14 116 (13.12%) Data Modelling
15 113 (12.78%) TDD
16 109 (12.33%) Migration
17 106 (11.99%) Event-Driven
18 105 (11.88%) Scrum
19 91 (10.29%) Analytics
19 91 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 340 (38.46%) Python
2 328 (37.10%) Java
3 319 (36.09%) SQL
4 167 (18.89%) TypeScript
5 131 (14.82%) JavaScript
6 53 (6.00%) C#
7 45 (5.09%) PowerShell
8 40 (4.52%) Bash
9 35 (3.96%) Go
10 29 (3.28%) Scala
11 19 (2.15%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.47%) Groovy
12 13 (1.47%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.47%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.47%) T-SQL
13 12 (1.36%) PHP
14 11 (1.24%) Ruby
15 9 (1.02%) Perl
16 7 (0.79%) Rust
17 6 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 309 (34.95%) Security Cleared
2 261 (29.52%) SC Cleared
3 61 (6.90%) Degree
4 43 (4.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 25 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
10 14 (1.58%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.13%) OCP
12 8 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.68%) CISSP
14 4 (0.45%) CISM
14 4 (0.45%) PhD
15 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.11%) CISA
17 1 (0.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.58%) QA
2 41 (4.64%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.41%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.81%) GDPR
5 15 (1.70%) WCAG
6 6 (0.68%) GMP
6 6 (0.68%) GxP
7 5 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.45%) NIST
8 4 (0.45%) SLA
9 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.23%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 344 (38.91%) Docker
2 13 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.24%) Postfix
4 10 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.57%) Ceph
7 4 (0.45%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.34%) HDFS
8 3 (0.34%) Squid
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.11%) NFS
10 1 (0.11%) RACF
10 1 (0.11%) Samba
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 310 (35.07%) Kubernetes
2 142 (16.06%) Terraform
3 123 (13.91%) Grafana
4 91 (10.29%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.30%) Ansible
6 17 (1.92%) Kibana
6 17 (1.92%) Oracle RMAN
7 15 (1.70%) Argo
8 12 (1.36%) Data Guard
9 11 (1.24%) Control-M
9 11 (1.24%) IBM Guardium
9 11 (1.24%) Nessus
10 10 (1.13%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (0.79%) Rancher
12 6 (0.68%) Istio
13 4 (0.45%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
14 3 (0.34%) Puppet
14 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 187 (21.15%) Oracle
2 131 (14.82%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.41%) Google
4 34 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.39%) Databricks
6 22 (2.49%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.38%) Splunk
8 17 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
8 17 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 17 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.81%) Atlassian
10 15 (1.70%) Informatica
10 15 (1.70%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.47%) VMware
12 11 (1.24%) IBM
12 11 (1.24%) Tenable
13 10 (1.13%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.13%) Talend
14 9 (1.02%) Sybase
15 7 (0.79%) TikTok