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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 122 161
Rank change year-on-year -18 +39 +10
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 794 656 699
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.13% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.16% 11.56% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 487 494
10th Percentile £360 £356 £409
25th Percentile £418 £423 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -1.50% -0.84%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £632
90th Percentile £700 £724 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 3
10th Percentile £29.00 - £35.11
25th Percentile £35.00 - £46.15
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.77% +207.32%
75th Percentile £64.00 - £74.33
90th Percentile £69.35 - £74.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 - £50.25
% change year-on-year - - +82.73%

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 6,529 5,677 7,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.45% 18.44% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,490 3,766 5,186
10th Percentile £337 £353 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £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 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 88 176
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.95
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.07 £21.48
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.97% -9.87% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.79 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.20 £71.13 £77.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.85 £30.11 £40.25
% change year-on-year +82.20% -25.20% -29.21%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -13 649 £520 -5.45% 300
London -7 347 £550 -4.35% 137
UK excluding London -19 341 £475 -3.06% 217
Work from Home -28 246 £500 -3.85% 182
North of England -11 120 £458 -1.08% 67
Midlands -12 76 £525 +5.00% 27
Yorkshire -9 71 £490 -18.33% 16
West Midlands -2 65 £531 +2.12% 18
South East -41 62 £435 -5.95% 50
Scotland +5 51 £450 -4.05% 23
South West -5 49 £550 -12.00% 32
North West -24 45 £447 -2.30% 39
East Midlands -25 11 £400 -20.00% 9
Northern Ireland +4 7 £400 - 1
East of England -18 5 £588 +30.56% 14
North East -11 3 £463 +0.54% 12

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 (5.79%) Confluence
2 23 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.77%) nginx
4 21 (2.64%) Apache Spark
5 18 (2.27%) Apache
6 12 (1.51%) SAS
7 6 (0.76%) Drupal
7 6 (0.76%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.50%) Camunda
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.38%) WordPress
10 2 (0.25%) Appian
10 2 (0.25%) JBoss
10 2 (0.25%) Traefik
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.01%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.13%) Magento
1 1 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.13%) Shopify
1 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 484 (60.96%) AWS
2 244 (30.73%) Azure
3 180 (22.67%) GitHub
4 140 (17.63%) GCP
5 134 (16.88%) Serverless
6 109 (13.73%) Amazon S3
7 96 (12.09%) GitHub Actions
8 76 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
9 55 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 55 (6.93%) OpenShift
10 47 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (5.54%) Snowflake
12 41 (5.16%) Power Platform
13 40 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
14 39 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
15 35 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (4.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 27 (3.40%) Azure AKS
18 24 (3.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 23 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.15%) Firewall
2 20 (2.52%) DNS
3 18 (2.27%) HTTP
4 11 (1.39%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.13%) Kerberos
6 7 (0.88%) SSH
7 6 (0.76%) FTP
7 6 (0.76%) IMAP
7 6 (0.76%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (0.76%) SMTP
8 5 (0.63%) SSL
8 5 (0.63%) VPN
9 4 (0.50%) Internet
10 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.25%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.25%) LAN
11 2 (0.25%) WAN
12 1 (0.13%) DHCP
12 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (16.37%) Relational Database
2 126 (15.87%) NoSQL
3 122 (15.37%) MySQL
4 117 (14.74%) SQL Server
5 109 (13.73%) MongoDB
6 68 (8.56%) Amazon RDS
7 58 (7.30%) Redis
8 53 (6.68%) Amazon Aurora
8 53 (6.68%) DynamoDB
9 46 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
11 33 (4.16%) Power BI
12 31 (3.90%) RDBMS
13 27 (3.40%) Data Lake
14 23 (2.90%) Apache Cassandra
14 23 (2.90%) Big Data
15 22 (2.77%) Metadata
16 21 (2.64%) DB2
17 18 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
18 16 (2.02%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 176 (22.17%) Jenkins
2 154 (19.40%) Git
3 97 (12.22%) GitLab
4 80 (10.08%) JIRA
5 61 (7.68%) JUnit
6 35 (4.41%) Mockito
7 32 (4.03%) Cucumber
8 23 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (2.64%) Gradle
10 17 (2.14%) Liquibase
11 16 (2.02%) JMeter
12 15 (1.89%) Bitbucket
12 15 (1.89%) Maven
13 14 (1.76%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.64%) Postman
15 10 (1.26%) ERwin
16 8 (1.01%) Artifactory
16 8 (1.01%) DBeaver
16 8 (1.01%) Selenium
17 6 (0.76%) PyCharm
General
1 198 (24.94%) Social Skills
2 166 (20.91%) Finance
3 98 (12.34%) Public Sector
4 83 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (9.70%) Banking
6 23 (2.90%) Investment Banking
7 17 (2.14%) Front Office
8 15 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.51%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.76%) Retail
13 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.63%) Marketing
14 4 (0.50%) Legal
15 3 (0.38%) Electronics
15 3 (0.38%) Games
15 3 (0.38%) Law
15 3 (0.38%) Local Government
15 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 322 (40.55%) Developer
2 123 (15.49%) Senior
3 98 (12.34%) Java Developer
4 79 (9.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 73 (9.19%) Data Engineer
6 70 (8.82%) Python Developer
7 63 (7.93%) Architect
8 61 (7.68%) Software Engineer
9 56 (7.05%) Senior Developer
10 40 (5.04%) AWS Developer
10 40 (5.04%) DBA
11 39 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
11 39 (4.91%) Lead
12 36 (4.53%) Data Architect
13 35 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
14 33 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 32 (4.03%) Senior Java Developer
16 28 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
17 26 (3.27%) Backend Developer
18 24 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (22.04%) Kafka
2 152 (19.14%) React
3 144 (18.14%) Spring
4 132 (16.62%) Node.js
4 132 (16.62%) RESTful
5 117 (14.74%) REST
6 114 (14.36%) Spring Boot
7 59 (7.43%) FastAPI
8 52 (6.55%) AngularJS
9 50 (6.30%) CSS
10 43 (5.42%) Hibernate
11 40 (5.04%) GraphQL
11 40 (5.04%) HTML
11 40 (5.04%) JSON
12 36 (4.53%) .NET
13 33 (4.16%) Django
14 32 (4.03%) Vue
15 31 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (3.65%) Keycloak
17 28 (3.53%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 115 (14.48%) Cloud Native
2 63 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.90%) Replication
4 29 (3.65%) Management Information System
5 27 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (2.77%) Derivative
7 19 (2.39%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.39%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (2.14%) Market Risk
10 16 (2.02%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (1.76%) Fixed Income
13 13 (1.64%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.39%) Clustering
15 9 (1.13%) Equities
16 6 (0.76%) NHS
16 6 (0.76%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 143 (18.01%) Linux
2 31 (3.90%) Windows
3 25 (3.15%) Unix
4 10 (1.26%) VMS
5 9 (1.13%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.50%) zOS
9 3 (0.38%) Android
10 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (47.10%) CI/CD
2 277 (34.89%) Agile
3 263 (33.12%) DevOps
4 204 (25.69%) Containerisation
5 198 (24.94%) Microservices
6 163 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
7 145 (18.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 130 (16.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 128 (16.12%) Software Engineering
10 120 (15.11%) Observability
11 101 (12.72%) Test Automation
12 99 (12.47%) Data Modelling
13 91 (11.46%) Migration
14 89 (11.21%) TDD
15 88 (11.08%) ETL
16 82 (10.33%) Analytics
17 80 (10.08%) AI
18 79 (9.95%) Computer Science
19 77 (9.70%) Performance Tuning
20 70 (8.82%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 385 (48.49%) Python
2 310 (39.04%) SQL
3 242 (30.48%) Java
4 134 (16.88%) JavaScript
5 124 (15.62%) TypeScript
6 71 (8.94%) Bash
7 67 (8.44%) Go
8 40 (5.04%) PowerShell
9 36 (4.53%) C#
10 19 (2.39%) PHP
11 18 (2.27%) Shell Script
12 16 (2.02%) Groovy
13 12 (1.51%) Ruby
14 11 (1.39%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.39%) Scala
15 8 (1.01%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.88%) JSX
17 6 (0.76%) Bicep
17 6 (0.76%) VBA
18 5 (0.63%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 233 (29.35%) Security Cleared
2 191 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 101 (12.72%) Degree
4 60 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.78%) Azure Certification
5 30 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 25 (3.15%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.15%) Master's Degree
7 24 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.64%) OCP
8 13 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.38%) HND
11 3 (0.38%) PhD
11 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.25%) CISM
12 2 (0.25%) CISSP
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.55%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.66%) QA
3 19 (2.39%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.64%) GDPR
5 8 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.88%) NCSC
7 6 (0.76%) SLA
8 5 (0.63%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.63%) NIST
8 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.50%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 288 (36.27%) Docker
2 11 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.01%) Postfix
5 6 (0.76%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.76%) Dovecot
5 6 (0.76%) Squid
5 6 (0.76%) zsh
6 5 (0.63%) NDS
6 5 (0.63%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.25%) HDFS
9 2 (0.25%) Lustre
9 2 (0.25%) NFS
9 2 (0.25%) Xen
10 1 (0.13%) Ceph
10 1 (0.13%) iptables
10 1 (0.13%) Samba
Systems Management
1 295 (37.15%) Kubernetes
2 170 (21.41%) Terraform
3 117 (14.74%) Grafana
4 89 (11.21%) Ansible
5 86 (10.83%) Prometheus
6 27 (3.40%) Nessus
7 23 (2.90%) Argo
7 23 (2.90%) Progress Chef
8 21 (2.64%) Control-M
8 21 (2.64%) IBM Guardium
9 13 (1.64%) Puppet
10 9 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (1.13%) Istio
11 6 (0.76%) linkerd
11 6 (0.76%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.76%) Rancher
12 5 (0.63%) Packer
13 4 (0.50%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.38%) Kibana
14 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 126 (15.87%) Oracle
2 92 (11.59%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.67%) Splunk
4 38 (4.79%) Google
5 33 (4.16%) Databricks
6 26 (3.27%) Red Hat
7 25 (3.15%) VMware
8 22 (2.77%) Atlassian
8 22 (2.77%) Informatica
9 21 (2.64%) Tenable
10 17 (2.14%) ServiceNow
11 16 (2.02%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.76%) Greenplum
13 11 (1.39%) Talend
14 10 (1.26%) IBM
15 8 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (1.01%) PagerDuty
16 5 (0.63%) Cloudera
16 5 (0.63%) Confluent
16 5 (0.63%) Salesforce