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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 119 140
Rank change year-on-year -35 +21 +19
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 795 687 711
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 2.34% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.97% 12.33% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 507 521
10th Percentile £358 £400 £369
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £490 £485
% change year-on-year -8.16% +1.14% +0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.95 £34.05
25th Percentile £45.00 £47.88 £57.94
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -28.00% +233.56%
75th Percentile £69.72 £61.38 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +261.01%

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 7,248 5,572 7,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 18.95% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,898 3,838 5,209
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 99 145
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.60 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.52 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £48.72 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.15% -17.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.50 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.25% -20.90% -30.43%

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 May 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 May 2026.

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 11 May 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 -48 665 £505 -8.18% 270
UK excluding London -19 365 £450 -8.16% 131
London -37 338 £550 -5.98% 155
Work from Home -41 252 £500 -9.09% 162
North of England -27 134 £450 -5.26% 36
Midlands -5 90 £450 -10.45% 21
North West -26 73 £450 -5.26% 18
South East -36 69 £433 -6.99% 47
West Midlands -14 65 £459 -13.80% 8
Scotland +16 50 £425 -9.77% 2
Yorkshire -30 50 £473 -6.44% 8
East Midlands -17 24 £410 -18.00% 13
South West -35 20 £606 -3.04% 20
North East -12 10 £425 -8.60% 10
East of England -32 10 £575 +27.78% 5
Northern Ireland 0 1 £400 -20.00%
Wales -12 1 - - 1

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 (5.91%) Confluence
2 39 (4.91%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.52%) Apache
5 12 (1.51%) nginx
6 8 (1.01%) Camunda
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.38%) Appian
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) JBoss
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.63%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 454 (57.11%) AWS
2 247 (31.07%) Azure
3 138 (17.36%) GitHub
4 124 (15.60%) GCP
5 96 (12.08%) Amazon S3
5 96 (12.08%) Serverless
6 88 (11.07%) GitHub Actions
7 67 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 37 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (4.53%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (3.90%) OpenShift
14 30 (3.77%) Power Platform
15 29 (3.65%) Snowflake
16 28 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (2.64%) AWS KMS
18 20 (2.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.14%) Firewall
2 14 (1.76%) DNS
3 7 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.75%) HTTP
5 5 (0.63%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.50%) iSCSI
6 4 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.50%) SSH
6 4 (0.50%) WAN
7 3 (0.38%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.38%) SAN
7 3 (0.38%) SSL
7 3 (0.38%) VPN
8 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.25%) LAN
8 2 (0.25%) MQTT
8 2 (0.25%) NaaS
8 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (18.62%) SQL Server
2 147 (18.49%) MongoDB
3 145 (18.24%) Relational Database
4 130 (16.35%) NoSQL
5 112 (14.09%) MySQL
6 64 (8.05%) Amazon RDS
7 58 (7.30%) DynamoDB
8 56 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 54 (6.79%) Redis
10 34 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (4.15%) Big Data
12 31 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
13 30 (3.77%) RDBMS
14 26 (3.27%) Data Lake
15 24 (3.02%) Power BI
16 22 (2.77%) Apache Cassandra
17 20 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
17 20 (2.52%) Metadata
18 19 (2.39%) Tableau
19 17 (2.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 157 (19.75%) Jenkins
2 145 (18.24%) Git
3 80 (10.06%) GitLab
4 78 (9.81%) JIRA
5 75 (9.43%) JUnit
6 50 (6.29%) Mockito
7 31 (3.90%) Maven
8 28 (3.52%) Cucumber
9 24 (3.02%) Gradle
10 22 (2.77%) JMeter
11 20 (2.52%) Selenium
12 17 (2.14%) SonarQube
13 16 (2.01%) WebDriver
14 15 (1.89%) Liquibase
15 13 (1.64%) Gatling
16 11 (1.38%) DbUnit
16 11 (1.38%) jMock
17 9 (1.13%) Artifactory
17 9 (1.13%) Bitbucket Server
18 8 (1.01%) Bitbucket
General
1 167 (21.01%) Social Skills
2 165 (20.75%) Finance
3 96 (12.08%) Public Sector
4 78 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (6.54%) Banking
6 26 (3.27%) Front Office
7 15 (1.89%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.01%) Law
11 7 (0.88%) Legal
11 7 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.75%) Retail
13 5 (0.63%) Automotive
14 4 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.50%) Military
15 3 (0.38%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.38%) Games
15 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 311 (39.12%) Developer
2 137 (17.23%) Senior
3 91 (11.45%) Java Developer
4 81 (10.19%) Full-Stack Developer
4 81 (10.19%) Python Developer
4 81 (10.19%) Software Engineer
5 75 (9.43%) DBA
6 69 (8.68%) Data Engineer
7 64 (8.05%) Architect
8 57 (7.17%) Lead
9 52 (6.54%) Senior Developer
10 36 (4.53%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 35 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 35 (4.40%) Java Engineer
12 32 (4.03%) Administrator
13 28 (3.52%) Lead Developer
14 27 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 27 (3.40%) Software Developer
15 25 (3.14%) Senior Java Developer
16 24 (3.02%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (24.15%) Kafka
2 176 (22.14%) Spring
3 161 (20.25%) React
4 137 (17.23%) Spring Boot
5 136 (17.11%) RESTful
6 133 (16.73%) REST
7 121 (15.22%) Node.js
8 64 (8.05%) FastAPI
9 58 (7.30%) AngularJS
10 44 (5.53%) .NET
11 40 (5.03%) GraphQL
12 39 (4.91%) Hibernate
13 35 (4.40%) HTML
13 35 (4.40%) JSON
13 35 (4.40%) WireMock
14 34 (4.28%) JPA
15 33 (4.15%) CSS
16 32 (4.03%) Django
17 31 (3.90%) Redux
18 29 (3.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 110 (13.84%) Cloud Native
2 79 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.65%) Derivative
5 27 (3.40%) Data Structures
6 24 (3.02%) Replication
7 23 (2.89%) Fixed Income
7 23 (2.89%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (2.39%) Equities
11 17 (2.14%) Onboarding
12 16 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
13 10 (1.26%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.13%) Market Risk
15 8 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.01%) PACS
15 8 (1.01%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.88%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 118 (14.84%) Linux
2 34 (4.28%) Unix
3 26 (3.27%) Windows
4 14 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.50%) zOS
7 3 (0.38%) Android
7 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.38%) Solaris
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.13%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (44.40%) CI/CD
2 289 (36.35%) Agile
3 245 (30.82%) DevOps
4 204 (25.66%) Microservices
5 192 (24.15%) Containerisation
6 151 (18.99%) Software Engineering
7 142 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 134 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (15.22%) Observability
10 119 (14.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 112 (14.09%) Test Automation
12 107 (13.46%) Data Modelling
13 102 (12.83%) TDD
14 96 (12.08%) AI
15 92 (11.57%) Migration
16 89 (11.19%) Performance Tuning
17 79 (9.94%) Mentoring
18 75 (9.43%) ETL
19 73 (9.18%) Analytics
19 73 (9.18%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 342 (43.02%) Python
2 293 (36.86%) SQL
3 281 (35.35%) Java
4 131 (16.48%) TypeScript
5 116 (14.59%) JavaScript
6 55 (6.92%) Bash
7 47 (5.91%) C#
8 45 (5.66%) PowerShell
9 32 (4.03%) Scala
10 29 (3.65%) Go
11 21 (2.64%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.52%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.51%) PHP
14 10 (1.26%) Groovy
15 9 (1.13%) Ruby
15 9 (1.13%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.01%) Bicep
17 6 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.75%) Perl
18 5 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 253 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 204 (25.66%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.55%) Degree
4 34 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.51%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
9 10 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.01%) OCP
11 6 (0.75%) CISSP
12 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.50%) CISM
14 3 (0.38%) PhD
14 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.29%) QA
2 40 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.02%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.38%) GDPR
5 10 (1.26%) SLA
6 9 (1.13%) WCAG
7 7 (0.88%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.88%) NIST
8 6 (0.75%) NCSC
8 6 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) DICOM
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 290 (36.48%) Docker
2 10 (1.26%) Postfix
2 10 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.75%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.63%) Ceph
6 5 (0.63%) HDFS
7 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.38%) NFS
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.25%) Lustre
8 2 (0.25%) Samba
8 2 (0.25%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Xen
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) KVM
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 252 (31.70%) Kubernetes
2 134 (16.86%) Terraform
3 121 (15.22%) Grafana
4 83 (10.44%) Prometheus
5 58 (7.30%) Ansible
6 16 (2.01%) Control-M
6 16 (2.01%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (2.01%) Nessus
7 14 (1.76%) Argo
8 12 (1.51%) HAProxy
8 12 (1.51%) Kibana
9 11 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.26%) Data Guard
11 9 (1.13%) Rancher
12 8 (1.01%) Istio
12 8 (1.01%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.75%) Puppet
14 5 (0.63%) linkerd
15 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
15 2 (0.25%) SELinux
Vendors
1 144 (18.11%) Oracle
2 99 (12.45%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.15%) Databricks
4 28 (3.52%) Splunk
5 24 (3.02%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.64%) Google
6 21 (2.64%) Red Hat
7 20 (2.52%) Informatica
8 16 (2.01%) Atlassian
8 16 (2.01%) Tenable
8 16 (2.01%) VMware
9 14 (1.76%) Jaspersoft
10 13 (1.64%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.64%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.64%) Talend
11 10 (1.26%) Confluent
11 10 (1.26%) IBM
12 8 (1.01%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.88%) Greenplum
14 5 (0.63%) Siebel