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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 120 156
Rank change year-on-year -24 +36 +19
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 770 663 706
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.13% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.04% 11.53% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 486 499
10th Percentile £360 £353 £409
25th Percentile £418 £420 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -1.50% -1.30%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £632
90th Percentile £700 £724 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -3.26% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 3
10th Percentile £29.00 - £35.11
25th Percentile £37.25 - £46.15
Median hourly rate £52.50 £43.00 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -37.77% +207.32%
75th Percentile £65.25 - £74.33
90th Percentile £69.40 - £74.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £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 6,398 5,750 7,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.36% 18.49% 16.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,403 3,797 5,247
10th Percentile £335 £355 £350
25th Percentile £410 £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 119 89 184
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.92
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.09 £21.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -9.41% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.20 £70.75 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £30.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.69% -24.74% -29.65%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -19 632 £516 -6.14% 316
London -11 338 £550 -4.35% 158
UK excluding London -16 330 £475 -3.26% 209
Work from Home -26 243 £500 -3.85% 201
North of England -20 114 £450 -2.70% 67
Midlands -3 75 £525 +5.00% 27
Yorkshire -11 66 £475 -20.83% 18
West Midlands +2 64 £537 +3.27% 17
South East -31 61 £435 -5.95% 47
South West -2 49 £550 -12.00% 30
Scotland -3 48 £450 -4.05% 20
North West -25 44 £441 -3.72% 40
East Midlands -25 11 £400 -20.00% 10
Northern Ireland +6 7 £400 - 1
East of England -17 5 £588 +30.56% 16
North East -12 3 £463 +0.54% 10

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 (5.58%) Confluence
2 23 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.60%) nginx
5 18 (2.34%) Apache
6 12 (1.56%) SAS
7 6 (0.78%) Drupal
7 6 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.52%) Camunda
9 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.39%) WordPress
10 2 (0.26%) Appian
10 2 (0.26%) JBoss
10 2 (0.26%) Traefik
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.39%) 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%) Shopify
1 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 473 (61.43%) AWS
2 234 (30.39%) Azure
3 171 (22.21%) GitHub
4 133 (17.27%) Serverless
5 132 (17.14%) GCP
6 107 (13.90%) Amazon S3
7 92 (11.95%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
9 55 (7.14%) OpenShift
10 54 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (5.58%) Snowflake
13 40 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (5.19%) Power Platform
14 38 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
15 34 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
16 32 (4.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 27 (3.51%) Azure AKS
18 23 (2.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 23 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.99%) Firewall
2 20 (2.60%) DNS
3 18 (2.34%) HTTP
4 11 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.17%) Kerberos
6 7 (0.91%) SSH
7 6 (0.78%) FTP
7 6 (0.78%) IMAP
7 6 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (0.78%) SMTP
8 5 (0.65%) SSL
8 5 (0.65%) VPN
9 4 (0.52%) Internet
10 3 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.26%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.26%) LAN
11 2 (0.26%) WAN
12 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.13%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (16.36%) Relational Database
2 119 (15.45%) NoSQL
3 117 (15.19%) MySQL
4 114 (14.81%) SQL Server
5 99 (12.86%) MongoDB
6 66 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
7 57 (7.40%) Redis
8 53 (6.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 48 (6.23%) DynamoDB
10 44 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
12 33 (4.29%) Power BI
13 31 (4.03%) RDBMS
14 25 (3.25%) Data Lake
15 23 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
15 23 (2.99%) Big Data
16 21 (2.73%) Metadata
17 19 (2.47%) DB2
18 18 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
19 16 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 170 (22.08%) Jenkins
2 152 (19.74%) Git
3 97 (12.60%) GitLab
4 73 (9.48%) JIRA
5 60 (7.79%) JUnit
6 34 (4.42%) Mockito
7 32 (4.16%) Cucumber
8 23 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (2.73%) Gradle
10 17 (2.21%) Liquibase
11 16 (2.08%) JMeter
12 15 (1.95%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.82%) Cypress.io
13 14 (1.82%) Maven
14 13 (1.69%) Postman
15 10 (1.30%) ERwin
16 8 (1.04%) Artifactory
16 8 (1.04%) DBeaver
16 8 (1.04%) Selenium
17 6 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 194 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 161 (20.91%) Finance
3 97 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 77 (10.00%) Banking
5 76 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.12%) Investment Banking
7 16 (2.08%) Front Office
8 15 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.43%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.78%) Retail
13 5 (0.65%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.65%) Marketing
14 4 (0.52%) Legal
15 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.39%) Electronics
15 3 (0.39%) Games
15 3 (0.39%) Local Government
15 3 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 313 (40.65%) Developer
2 123 (15.97%) Senior
3 96 (12.47%) Java Developer
4 75 (9.74%) Full-Stack Developer
5 71 (9.22%) Data Engineer
6 66 (8.57%) Python Developer
7 61 (7.92%) Architect
8 60 (7.79%) Software Engineer
9 57 (7.40%) Senior Developer
10 41 (5.32%) AWS Developer
11 39 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
11 39 (5.06%) Lead
12 38 (4.94%) DBA
13 36 (4.68%) Data Architect
14 34 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
15 33 (4.29%) Senior Java Developer
16 29 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 28 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
18 26 (3.38%) Backend Developer
19 24 (3.12%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (22.73%) Kafka
2 145 (18.83%) React
3 142 (18.44%) Spring
4 126 (16.36%) Node.js
4 126 (16.36%) RESTful
5 113 (14.68%) REST
5 113 (14.68%) Spring Boot
6 50 (6.49%) AngularJS
6 50 (6.49%) CSS
6 50 (6.49%) FastAPI
7 42 (5.45%) Hibernate
8 40 (5.19%) HTML
8 40 (5.19%) JSON
9 37 (4.81%) GraphQL
10 35 (4.55%) .NET
11 31 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
11 31 (4.03%) Vue
12 30 (3.90%) Django
13 29 (3.77%) Keycloak
14 26 (3.38%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 114 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 63 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.03%) Replication
4 30 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.99%) Derivative
5 23 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.34%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.34%) Market Risk
9 17 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (2.08%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (1.82%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.56%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.43%) Clustering
15 9 (1.17%) Equities
16 6 (0.78%) NHS
16 6 (0.78%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 138 (17.92%) Linux
2 29 (3.77%) Windows
3 25 (3.25%) Unix
4 10 (1.30%) VMS
5 9 (1.17%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.52%) zOS
9 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (47.01%) CI/CD
2 264 (34.29%) Agile
3 255 (33.12%) DevOps
4 197 (25.58%) Containerisation
5 190 (24.68%) Microservices
6 157 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
7 143 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 124 (16.10%) Software Engineering
9 122 (15.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 113 (14.68%) Observability
11 99 (12.86%) Test Automation
12 93 (12.08%) Data Modelling
13 90 (11.69%) Migration
14 88 (11.43%) ETL
14 88 (11.43%) TDD
15 79 (10.26%) Analytics
16 78 (10.13%) AI
17 75 (9.74%) Computer Science
17 75 (9.74%) Performance Tuning
18 69 (8.96%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 372 (48.31%) Python
2 303 (39.35%) SQL
3 238 (30.91%) Java
4 127 (16.49%) JavaScript
5 120 (15.58%) TypeScript
6 71 (9.22%) Bash
7 65 (8.44%) Go
8 40 (5.19%) PowerShell
9 35 (4.55%) C#
10 19 (2.47%) PHP
11 18 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 16 (2.08%) Groovy
13 12 (1.56%) Ruby
14 11 (1.43%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.43%) Scala
15 8 (1.04%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.91%) JSX
17 6 (0.78%) Bicep
17 6 (0.78%) VBA
18 5 (0.65%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 229 (29.74%) Security Cleared
2 187 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 96 (12.47%) Degree
4 60 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 30 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 25 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.25%) Master's Degree
7 21 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.69%) OCP
8 13 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.39%) HND
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.13%) CCSM
13 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.81%) QA
3 19 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.69%) GDPR
5 8 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.91%) NCSC
7 6 (0.78%) SLA
8 5 (0.65%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.65%) NIST
8 5 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.52%) WCAG
10 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
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
1 277 (35.97%) Docker
2 11 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.04%) Postfix
5 6 (0.78%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.78%) Dovecot
5 6 (0.78%) Squid
5 6 (0.78%) zsh
6 5 (0.65%) NDS
6 5 (0.65%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.26%) HDFS
9 2 (0.26%) Lustre
9 2 (0.26%) NFS
9 2 (0.26%) Xen
10 1 (0.13%) Ceph
10 1 (0.13%) Samba
10 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 285 (37.01%) Kubernetes
2 167 (21.69%) Terraform
3 112 (14.55%) Grafana
4 89 (11.56%) Ansible
5 81 (10.52%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.99%) Argo
6 23 (2.99%) Nessus
6 23 (2.99%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.21%) Control-M
7 17 (2.21%) IBM Guardium
8 13 (1.69%) Puppet
9 9 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (1.17%) Istio
10 6 (0.78%) linkerd
10 6 (0.78%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.78%) Rancher
11 5 (0.65%) Packer
12 4 (0.52%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.39%) Kibana
13 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (16.10%) Oracle
2 91 (11.82%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.84%) Splunk
4 38 (4.94%) Google
5 31 (4.03%) Databricks
6 25 (3.25%) VMware
7 24 (3.12%) Red Hat
8 22 (2.86%) Atlassian
8 22 (2.86%) Informatica
9 17 (2.21%) Tenable
10 16 (2.08%) Dynatrace
10 16 (2.08%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.82%) Greenplum
12 11 (1.43%) Talend
13 9 (1.17%) IBM
14 8 (1.04%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (1.04%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.65%) Cloudera
15 5 (0.65%) Confluent
15 5 (0.65%) Salesforce