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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 123 157
Rank change year-on-year -16 +34 +16
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 761 657 686
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.11% 1.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.09% 11.47% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 485 488
10th Percentile £363 £348 £400
25th Percentile £419 £420 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -2.62% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £632
90th Percentile £700 £712 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £503
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.69% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile - - £37.34
25th Percentile £29.00 - £51.71
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £65.58
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -34.43% +191.64%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £73.99
90th Percentile £58.00 - £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £62.05
% change year-on-year - - +125.64%

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 6,295 5,728 7,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.54% 18.42% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,329 3,766 5,146
10th Percentile £335 £355 £350
25th Percentile £413 £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 £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 85 180
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.86
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £45.75 £35.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +30.71% -17.35% -28.23%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.30 £66.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £28.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.52% -28.38% -28.48%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -9 634 £515 -6.36% 597
London -4 341 £530 -3.99% 169
UK excluding London -21 323 £475 -3.85% 526
Work from Home -34 232 £500 -3.85% 405
North of England -2 123 £463 - 89
Midlands -10 73 £525 +5.00% 47
Yorkshire +3 68 £480 -20.00% 26
West Midlands +11 63 £539 +3.56% 22
South East -41 58 £434 -8.68% 181
North West -16 53 £450 -0.61% 49
South West -1 49 £550 -12.00% 62
Scotland -14 40 £450 -4.46% 39
East Midlands -27 10 £401 -19.80% 24
Northern Ireland +3 8 £400 - 12
North East - 2 £463 - 15
East of England -15 1 - - 82

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 43 (5.65%) Confluence
2 21 (2.76%) nginx
3 18 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.10%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.71%) Apache
6 12 (1.58%) SAS
7 6 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.53%) Camunda
8 4 (0.53%) Drupal
9 3 (0.39%) CICS
9 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.26%) Traefik
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) Appian
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Mattermost
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Chatbot
1 8 (1.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 467 (61.37%) AWS
2 228 (29.96%) Azure
3 176 (23.13%) GitHub
4 142 (18.66%) Serverless
5 136 (17.87%) GCP
6 105 (13.80%) Amazon S3
7 91 (11.96%) GitHub Actions
8 85 (11.17%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 54 (7.10%) OpenShift
10 48 (6.31%) Amazon ECS
11 43 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (5.65%) Power Platform
12 42 (5.52%) Snowflake
13 38 (4.99%) Amazon EC2
13 38 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (4.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (3.15%) Azure AKS
17 23 (3.02%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.68%) Firewall
2 23 (3.02%) DNS
3 19 (2.50%) HTTP
4 11 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.18%) Kerberos
5 9 (1.18%) SSH
6 8 (1.05%) FTP
6 8 (1.05%) IMAP
6 8 (1.05%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (1.05%) SMTP
7 5 (0.66%) SSL
7 5 (0.66%) VPN
8 4 (0.53%) Internet
9 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.26%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.26%) LAN
9 2 (0.26%) NAS
9 2 (0.26%) SAN
9 2 (0.26%) WAN
10 1 (0.13%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (16.95%) Relational Database
2 124 (16.29%) NoSQL
3 113 (14.85%) MySQL
4 105 (13.80%) SQL Server
5 97 (12.75%) MongoDB
6 71 (9.33%) Amazon RDS
7 65 (8.54%) Redis
8 60 (7.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 51 (6.70%) DynamoDB
10 37 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (4.86%) RDBMS
11 35 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
11 35 (4.60%) Power BI
12 23 (3.02%) Apache Cassandra
13 19 (2.50%) BigQuery
13 19 (2.50%) Data Lake
14 18 (2.37%) Big Data
15 17 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (2.23%) Oracle Database
16 16 (2.10%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 174 (22.86%) Jenkins
2 154 (20.24%) Git
3 91 (11.96%) GitLab
4 72 (9.46%) JIRA
5 53 (6.96%) JUnit
6 31 (4.07%) Mockito
7 30 (3.94%) Cucumber
8 25 (3.29%) Gradle
9 23 (3.02%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (2.37%) Liquibase
11 16 (2.10%) Cypress.io
11 16 (2.10%) JMeter
11 16 (2.10%) Maven
12 14 (1.84%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.71%) Postman
14 11 (1.45%) ERwin
15 10 (1.31%) SonarQube
16 8 (1.05%) Artifactory
16 8 (1.05%) DBeaver
16 8 (1.05%) Vagrant
General
1 199 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 150 (19.71%) Finance
3 104 (13.67%) Public Sector
4 77 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (10.12%) Banking
5 24 (3.15%) Investment Banking
6 17 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.71%) Front Office
9 11 (1.45%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.79%) Marketing
11 6 (0.79%) Retail
12 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.53%) Legal
13 4 (0.53%) Local Government
14 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.39%) Electronics
14 3 (0.39%) Games
14 3 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 301 (39.55%) Developer
2 119 (15.64%) Senior
3 88 (11.56%) Java Developer
4 70 (9.20%) Full-Stack Developer
5 66 (8.67%) Data Engineer
6 61 (8.02%) Architect
7 60 (7.88%) Python Developer
8 56 (7.36%) Senior Developer
9 53 (6.96%) Software Engineer
10 42 (5.52%) AWS Developer
11 41 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
12 40 (5.26%) DBA
13 39 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
14 33 (4.34%) Lead
15 31 (4.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 31 (4.07%) Senior Java Developer
16 29 (3.81%) Data Architect
17 28 (3.68%) Backend Developer
18 25 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
19 24 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (22.21%) Kafka
2 136 (17.87%) React
3 134 (17.61%) Spring
4 128 (16.82%) RESTful
5 119 (15.64%) Node.js
6 110 (14.45%) REST
7 108 (14.19%) Spring Boot
8 52 (6.83%) CSS
9 45 (5.91%) FastAPI
10 44 (5.78%) GraphQL
11 42 (5.52%) AngularJS
12 41 (5.39%) HTML
13 39 (5.12%) JSON
14 37 (4.86%) Hibernate
15 35 (4.60%) .NET
16 31 (4.07%) Django
17 29 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
17 29 (3.81%) Keycloak
18 28 (3.68%) Vue
19 27 (3.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 111 (14.59%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.86%) Replication
4 30 (3.94%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.50%) Derivative
7 18 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.37%) Market Risk
8 17 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.23%) Onboarding
9 16 (2.10%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.10%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.84%) Clustering
12 10 (1.31%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.31%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.92%) N-Tier
14 6 (0.79%) Mainframe
14 6 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 135 (17.74%) Linux
2 33 (4.34%) Windows
3 25 (3.29%) Unix
4 11 (1.45%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (1.45%) VMS
5 9 (1.18%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.66%) zOS
7 3 (0.39%) Solaris
7 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.13%) MVS
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (47.04%) CI/CD
2 259 (34.03%) Agile
3 250 (32.85%) DevOps
4 196 (25.76%) Containerisation
5 184 (24.18%) Microservices
6 154 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
7 138 (18.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 119 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 113 (14.85%) Software Engineering
10 111 (14.59%) Observability
11 97 (12.75%) Test Automation
12 92 (12.09%) TDD
13 86 (11.30%) Data Modelling
14 85 (11.17%) Migration
15 83 (10.91%) ETL
16 74 (9.72%) AI
16 74 (9.72%) Performance Tuning
17 69 (9.07%) Analytics
18 64 (8.41%) Computer Science
19 63 (8.28%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 372 (48.88%) Python
2 304 (39.95%) SQL
3 234 (30.75%) Java
4 119 (15.64%) JavaScript
5 116 (15.24%) TypeScript
6 76 (9.99%) Bash
7 69 (9.07%) Go
8 43 (5.65%) PowerShell
9 32 (4.20%) C#
10 18 (2.37%) Groovy
11 17 (2.23%) PHP
11 17 (2.23%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.71%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.58%) Ruby
13 12 (1.58%) Scala
14 9 (1.18%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.92%) Bicep
15 7 (0.92%) JSX
16 6 (0.79%) VBA
17 5 (0.66%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 225 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 182 (23.92%) SC Cleared
3 87 (11.43%) Degree
4 57 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.81%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 26 (3.42%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.50%) Master's Degree
8 17 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.71%) OCP
9 13 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.92%) MCP
11 6 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.53%) HND
13 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.13%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.86%) QA
3 20 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.84%) GDPR
5 8 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.92%) NCSC
6 7 (0.92%) SLA
7 5 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.66%) NIST
8 4 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.53%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 278 (36.53%) Docker
2 12 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.05%) DFS Replication
3 8 (1.05%) Dovecot
3 8 (1.05%) Postfix
3 8 (1.05%) Squid
4 6 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.79%) zsh
5 5 (0.66%) NDS
5 5 (0.66%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 4 (0.53%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.39%) KVM
7 3 (0.39%) NFS
7 3 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.39%) Xen
8 2 (0.26%) HDFS
8 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.26%) Lustre
9 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 286 (37.58%) Kubernetes
2 171 (22.47%) Terraform
3 111 (14.59%) Grafana
4 90 (11.83%) Ansible
5 82 (10.78%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.42%) Argo
7 23 (3.02%) Nessus
7 23 (3.02%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.97%) Control-M
8 15 (1.97%) IBM Guardium
8 15 (1.97%) Puppet
9 9 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (1.18%) Istio
10 8 (1.05%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.79%) linkerd
12 5 (0.66%) Data Guard
12 5 (0.66%) Packer
12 5 (0.66%) Rancher
13 3 (0.39%) Kibana
13 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 121 (15.90%) Oracle
2 91 (11.96%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.78%) Splunk
4 41 (5.39%) Google
5 28 (3.68%) Databricks
6 27 (3.55%) VMware
7 24 (3.15%) Red Hat
8 18 (2.37%) Atlassian
9 17 (2.23%) ServiceNow
10 16 (2.10%) Dynatrace
10 16 (2.10%) Informatica
11 15 (1.97%) Tenable
12 14 (1.84%) Greenplum
13 10 (1.31%) IBM
14 8 (1.05%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (1.05%) PagerDuty
15 6 (0.79%) Gigya
16 5 (0.66%) Confluent
16 5 (0.66%) SAP
16 5 (0.66%) Talend