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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 121 158
Rank change year-on-year -15 +37 +2
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 851 667 684
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.99% 2.26% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.37% 11.90% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 501 478
10th Percentile £358 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% +1.71%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.13% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £35.00 - £38.93
25th Percentile £40.00 - £55.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -37.23% +204.65%
75th Percentile £66.50 - £76.25
90th Percentile £69.44 - £78.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +154.55%

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 6,881 5,606 7,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.07% 19.03% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,733 3,859 5,146
10th Percentile £350 £350 £343
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 £761 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £488
% change year-on-year -4.34% +1.86% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 96 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £14.36
25th Percentile £27.88 £24.06 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.47% -30.00%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.79 £59.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £74.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.08%

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 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -20 702 £509 -4.64% 324
UK excluding London -11 393 £450 -5.26% 198
London -17 352 £550 -4.35% 165
Work from Home -18 273 £500 -4.76% 227
North of England -20 141 £455 -1.62% 61
Midlands -2 101 £481 -3.80% 30
West Midlands +3 89 £500 +2.04% 19
South East -32 79 £433 +0.87% 48
Yorkshire -14 75 £478 -13.18% 24
North West -26 58 £434 -3.13% 29
Scotland +13 52 £444 -3.53% 16
South West -19 39 £606 -3.04% 24
East Midlands -35 11 £401 -19.80% 11
Northern Ireland +4 7 £400 - 2
North East -8 7 £450 -2.44% 9
East of England -32 5 £588 +30.56% 16

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 55 (6.46%) Confluence
2 25 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.23%) Apache
5 16 (1.88%) nginx
6 10 (1.18%) SAS
7 6 (0.71%) Camunda
8 5 (0.59%) Drupal
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.24%) Appian
11 2 (0.24%) JBoss
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) CICS
12 1 (0.12%) CMS
12 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.12%) Maya
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 512 (60.16%) AWS
2 264 (31.02%) Azure
3 188 (22.09%) GitHub
4 164 (19.27%) GCP
5 137 (16.10%) Serverless
6 113 (13.28%) Amazon S3
7 105 (12.34%) GitHub Actions
8 74 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (5.76%) OpenShift
10 47 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 44 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
12 42 (4.94%) Snowflake
13 41 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
14 37 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
15 34 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (3.88%) Power Platform
17 31 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 28 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
19 22 (2.59%) AWS KMS
19 22 (2.59%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.35%) Firewall
2 13 (1.53%) DNS
3 12 (1.41%) HTTP
4 11 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.06%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.59%) SSL
7 4 (0.47%) Internet
7 4 (0.47%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.47%) VPN
7 4 (0.47%) WAN
8 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.35%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.24%) LAN
9 2 (0.24%) NaaS
9 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) MQTT
10 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.12%) VSAN
10 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 140 (16.45%) Relational Database
3 135 (15.86%) SQL Server
4 129 (15.16%) MongoDB
5 128 (15.04%) MySQL
6 65 (7.64%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (7.29%) DynamoDB
8 54 (6.35%) Redis
9 51 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
10 47 (5.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 38 (4.47%) RDBMS
12 37 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
13 28 (3.29%) Apache Cassandra
13 28 (3.29%) Data Lake
14 26 (3.06%) Big Data
14 26 (3.06%) Power BI
15 24 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
16 22 (2.59%) Metadata
17 20 (2.35%) Hadoop
18 18 (2.12%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 191 (22.44%) Jenkins
2 177 (20.80%) Git
3 108 (12.69%) GitLab
4 91 (10.69%) JIRA
5 82 (9.64%) JUnit
6 43 (5.05%) Cucumber
7 41 (4.82%) Mockito
8 29 (3.41%) JMeter
9 22 (2.59%) Gradle
9 22 (2.59%) Maven
10 21 (2.47%) Selenium
11 20 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
12 19 (2.23%) Liquibase
13 17 (2.00%) Bitbucket
14 15 (1.76%) WebDriver
15 12 (1.41%) Cypress.io
16 11 (1.29%) ERwin
16 11 (1.29%) Postman
16 11 (1.29%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.94%) Artifactory
General
1 214 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 194 (22.80%) Finance
3 98 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 92 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (9.52%) Banking
6 26 (3.06%) Front Office
7 21 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.53%) Financial Institution
8 13 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.71%) Retail
12 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.59%) Marketing
12 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.47%) Law
13 4 (0.47%) Legal
14 3 (0.35%) Electronics
14 3 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 342 (40.19%) Developer
2 144 (16.92%) Senior
3 105 (12.34%) Java Developer
4 87 (10.22%) Python Developer
5 84 (9.87%) Full-Stack Developer
6 73 (8.58%) Software Engineer
7 72 (8.46%) Data Engineer
8 69 (8.11%) Architect
9 62 (7.29%) DBA
10 57 (6.70%) Senior Developer
11 55 (6.46%) Lead
12 33 (3.88%) AWS Developer
12 33 (3.88%) Backend Developer
13 32 (3.76%) Data Architect
13 32 (3.76%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 32 (3.76%) Senior Java Developer
14 31 (3.64%) Administrator
14 31 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
15 30 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
16 29 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (22.44%) Kafka
2 171 (20.09%) Spring
3 160 (18.80%) React
4 147 (17.27%) REST
5 143 (16.80%) RESTful
6 138 (16.22%) Node.js
7 127 (14.92%) Spring Boot
8 71 (8.34%) FastAPI
9 59 (6.93%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.41%) JSON
11 45 (5.29%) CSS
11 45 (5.29%) Hibernate
12 40 (4.70%) GraphQL
13 38 (4.47%) WireMock
14 36 (4.23%) .NET
14 36 (4.23%) HTML
15 34 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
16 33 (3.88%) Django
17 29 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
18 28 (3.29%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 124 (14.57%) Cloud Native
2 88 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.00%) Derivative
4 31 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.06%) Replication
7 23 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.59%) Fixed Income
8 22 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.47%) Data Structures
10 18 (2.12%) Equities
10 18 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.88%) Market Risk
12 16 (1.88%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.65%) Clustering
14 13 (1.53%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 139 (16.33%) Linux
2 28 (3.29%) Unix
2 28 (3.29%) Windows
3 9 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.47%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.35%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Solaris
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.12%) SUSE
8 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (47.00%) CI/CD
2 332 (39.01%) Agile
3 276 (32.43%) DevOps
4 227 (26.67%) Microservices
5 219 (25.73%) Containerisation
6 176 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
7 138 (16.22%) Software Engineering
8 134 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 131 (15.39%) Observability
10 130 (15.28%) Full-Stack Development
11 114 (13.40%) Test Automation
12 109 (12.81%) Data Modelling
13 105 (12.34%) TDD
14 98 (11.52%) Migration
15 96 (11.28%) ETL
16 91 (10.69%) AI
17 87 (10.22%) Performance Tuning
18 83 (9.75%) Mentoring
19 82 (9.64%) Analytics
20 80 (9.40%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 394 (46.30%) Python
2 311 (36.55%) SQL
3 264 (31.02%) Java
4 129 (15.16%) JavaScript
5 124 (14.57%) TypeScript
6 66 (7.76%) Bash
6 66 (7.76%) Go
7 38 (4.47%) PowerShell
8 36 (4.23%) C#
9 19 (2.23%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.12%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.88%) PHP
12 14 (1.65%) Ruby
13 13 (1.53%) Scala
14 9 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.82%) Groovy
15 7 (0.82%) JSX
16 6 (0.71%) Bicep
17 5 (0.59%) Delphi
17 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 263 (30.90%) Security Cleared
2 214 (25.15%) SC Cleared
3 100 (11.75%) Degree
4 58 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.88%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (3.06%) Azure Certification
8 25 (2.94%) Master's Degree
9 20 (2.35%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.00%) OCP
10 17 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.47%) CISSP
14 3 (0.35%) CISM
14 3 (0.35%) PhD
14 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.58%) QA
3 21 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.76%) GDPR
5 8 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.82%) NCSC
6 7 (0.82%) NIST
7 6 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.71%) SLA
8 5 (0.59%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.59%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) DICOM
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 310 (36.43%) Docker
2 9 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.71%) Postfix
5 5 (0.59%) HDFS
5 5 (0.59%) NDS
5 5 (0.59%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 4 (0.47%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.35%) zsh
8 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.24%) Lustre
8 2 (0.24%) NFS
8 2 (0.24%) Samba
8 2 (0.24%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) Ceph
9 1 (0.12%) KVM
9 1 (0.12%) Varnish
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 311 (36.55%) Kubernetes
2 154 (18.10%) Terraform
3 140 (16.45%) Grafana
4 103 (12.10%) Prometheus
5 88 (10.34%) Ansible
6 25 (2.94%) Control-M
6 25 (2.94%) IBM Guardium
6 25 (2.94%) Nessus
7 22 (2.59%) Argo
8 18 (2.12%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.29%) Puppet
10 8 (0.94%) Rancher
11 7 (0.82%) Istio
12 6 (0.71%) linkerd
13 5 (0.59%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.59%) Packer
14 4 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
15 3 (0.35%) Kibana
16 2 (0.24%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 149 (17.51%) Oracle
2 99 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.94%) Splunk
4 39 (4.58%) Google
5 30 (3.53%) Databricks
6 28 (3.29%) Red Hat
7 25 (2.94%) Atlassian
7 25 (2.94%) Tenable
8 24 (2.82%) Informatica
9 22 (2.59%) VMware
10 17 (2.00%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.65%) Talend
12 13 (1.53%) Greenplum
12 13 (1.53%) ServiceNow
13 12 (1.41%) IBM
14 9 (1.06%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (0.94%) PagerDuty
16 6 (0.71%) Confluent
17 5 (0.59%) Cloudera
17 5 (0.59%) OpenAI