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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 116 139
Rank change year-on-year -36 +23 +19
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 797 691 728
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 2.36% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.96% 12.44% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 511 526
10th Percentile £358 £400 £372
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 £631
90th Percentile £700 £775 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £490
% change year-on-year -6.25% -2.04% +1.03%
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 - - +190.91%

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 7,269 5,556 7,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.29% 18.97% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,928 3,836 5,196
10th Percentile £350 £357 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 103 143
10th Percentile £16.73 £19.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.88 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.39% -17.98% -31.73%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.31 £58.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.40% -25.00% -27.27%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -45 666 £500 -9.09% 269
UK excluding London -20 373 £450 -6.25% 137
London -38 333 £550 -5.98% 151
Work from Home -45 252 £500 -9.09% 160
North of England -22 136 £450 -5.26% 37
Midlands -5 93 £455 -9.55% 15
North West -22 74 £449 -5.58% 15
South East -39 71 £429 -7.60% 54
West Midlands -8 68 £469 -14.77% 6
Yorkshire -22 52 £474 -10.61% 7
Scotland +1 49 £425 -7.61% 5
East Midlands -18 24 £410 -18.00% 9
South West -40 21 £606 -3.04% 19
East of England -46 10 £575 +27.78% 7
North East -14 9 £425 -8.60% 15
Northern Ireland -1 3 £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 46 (5.77%) Confluence
2 40 (5.02%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.63%) Apache
5 11 (1.38%) nginx
6 8 (1.00%) Camunda
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.38%) Appian
8 3 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Drupal
8 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
9 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.50%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Maya
4 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
1 464 (58.22%) AWS
2 248 (31.12%) Azure
3 141 (17.69%) GitHub
4 124 (15.56%) GCP
5 105 (13.17%) Amazon S3
6 97 (12.17%) Serverless
7 88 (11.04%) GitHub Actions
8 68 (8.53%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (5.27%) Amazon ECS
10 41 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (4.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (4.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 36 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (4.39%) OpenShift
15 33 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (3.76%) Power Platform
17 28 (3.51%) Snowflake
18 21 (2.63%) Route 53
19 20 (2.51%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.13%) Firewall
2 15 (1.88%) 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%) Internet
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%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (19.07%) SQL Server
2 147 (18.44%) MongoDB
3 145 (18.19%) Relational Database
4 129 (16.19%) NoSQL
5 116 (14.55%) MySQL
6 70 (8.78%) Amazon RDS
7 59 (7.40%) DynamoDB
8 56 (7.03%) Amazon Aurora
9 54 (6.78%) Redis
10 35 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (4.27%) Big Data
12 32 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
12 32 (4.02%) RDBMS
13 27 (3.39%) Data Lake
14 24 (3.01%) Power BI
15 23 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
16 21 (2.63%) Metadata
17 20 (2.51%) Tableau
18 17 (2.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 159 (19.95%) Jenkins
2 147 (18.44%) Git
3 81 (10.16%) GitLab
4 78 (9.79%) JIRA
5 75 (9.41%) JUnit
6 48 (6.02%) Mockito
7 30 (3.76%) Cucumber
7 30 (3.76%) Maven
8 23 (2.89%) Gradle
8 23 (2.89%) JMeter
9 20 (2.51%) Selenium
10 17 (2.13%) SonarQube
11 16 (2.01%) WebDriver
12 13 (1.63%) Gatling
12 13 (1.63%) Liquibase
13 11 (1.38%) DbUnit
13 11 (1.38%) jMock
14 9 (1.13%) Artifactory
14 9 (1.13%) Bitbucket Server
15 8 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 168 (21.08%) Social Skills
2 166 (20.83%) Finance
3 95 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 76 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (6.90%) Banking
6 27 (3.39%) Front Office
7 16 (2.01%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.13%) Legal
10 9 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.00%) Law
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%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 311 (39.02%) Developer
2 139 (17.44%) Senior
3 95 (11.92%) Java Developer
4 79 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
4 79 (9.91%) Python Developer
5 77 (9.66%) Software Engineer
6 74 (9.28%) DBA
7 70 (8.78%) Data Engineer
8 63 (7.90%) Architect
9 56 (7.03%) Lead
10 52 (6.52%) Senior Developer
11 36 (4.52%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 35 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
13 34 (4.27%) Java Engineer
14 32 (4.02%) Administrator
15 28 (3.51%) Lead Developer
16 26 (3.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 26 (3.26%) Senior Java Developer
16 26 (3.26%) Software Developer
17 24 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (24.22%) Kafka
2 174 (21.83%) Spring
3 154 (19.32%) React
4 135 (16.94%) RESTful
5 134 (16.81%) Spring Boot
6 131 (16.44%) REST
7 121 (15.18%) Node.js
8 63 (7.90%) FastAPI
9 58 (7.28%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.27%) .NET
10 42 (5.27%) Hibernate
11 39 (4.89%) GraphQL
12 37 (4.64%) JSON
13 35 (4.39%) HTML
13 35 (4.39%) JPA
13 35 (4.39%) WireMock
14 34 (4.27%) CSS
15 31 (3.89%) Django
16 30 (3.76%) Redux
17 29 (3.64%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 109 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 74 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.27%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.76%) Derivative
5 25 (3.14%) Data Structures
5 25 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.89%) Fixed Income
7 22 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.76%) Replication
8 20 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.38%) Equities
10 17 (2.13%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
12 10 (1.25%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.25%) Market Risk
13 9 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.00%) PACS
14 8 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 124 (15.56%) Linux
2 35 (4.39%) Unix
3 25 (3.14%) Windows
4 13 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.50%) zOS
7 3 (0.38%) Android
7 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.25%) Solaris
8 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
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
1 358 (44.92%) CI/CD
2 295 (37.01%) Agile
3 244 (30.61%) DevOps
4 202 (25.35%) Microservices
5 196 (24.59%) Containerisation
6 149 (18.70%) Software Engineering
7 137 (17.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 134 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
10 118 (14.81%) Observability
11 112 (14.05%) Test Automation
12 106 (13.30%) Data Modelling
13 99 (12.42%) TDD
14 93 (11.67%) Migration
15 92 (11.54%) AI
16 91 (11.42%) Performance Tuning
17 80 (10.04%) Mentoring
18 78 (9.79%) ETL
19 76 (9.54%) Analytics
20 73 (9.16%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 343 (43.04%) Python
2 293 (36.76%) SQL
3 279 (35.01%) Java
4 125 (15.68%) TypeScript
5 113 (14.18%) JavaScript
6 60 (7.53%) Bash
7 46 (5.77%) PowerShell
8 45 (5.65%) C#
9 32 (4.02%) Scala
10 30 (3.76%) Go
11 21 (2.63%) Shell Script
12 20 (2.51%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.51%) PHP
14 9 (1.13%) Groovy
14 9 (1.13%) Ruby
14 9 (1.13%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.00%) Bicep
15 8 (1.00%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.63%) Delphi
16 5 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 252 (31.62%) Security Cleared
2 202 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.28%) Degree
4 34 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
9 10 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.13%) OCP
11 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.75%) CISSP
13 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.50%) CISM
15 3 (0.38%) PhD
15 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.90%) QA
2 40 (5.02%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.01%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.38%) GDPR
5 10 (1.25%) SLA
6 9 (1.13%) WCAG
7 7 (0.88%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.88%) NCSC
7 7 (0.88%) NIST
8 6 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
10 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) DICOM
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 293 (36.76%) Docker
2 11 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.25%) Postfix
4 9 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.63%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Varnish
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 253 (31.74%) Kubernetes
2 139 (17.44%) Terraform
3 123 (15.43%) Grafana
4 81 (10.16%) Prometheus
5 65 (8.16%) Ansible
6 16 (2.01%) Control-M
6 16 (2.01%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (2.01%) Nessus
7 15 (1.88%) Argo
8 12 (1.51%) HAProxy
9 11 (1.38%) Kibana
9 11 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.25%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.25%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.25%) Puppet
11 9 (1.13%) Rancher
12 8 (1.00%) Istio
13 6 (0.75%) linkerd
14 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
14 2 (0.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 143 (17.94%) Oracle
2 103 (12.92%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.27%) Databricks
4 30 (3.76%) Splunk
5 23 (2.89%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.63%) Google
6 21 (2.63%) Red Hat
7 20 (2.51%) Informatica
8 19 (2.38%) VMware
9 16 (2.01%) Atlassian
9 16 (2.01%) Tenable
10 14 (1.76%) Jaspersoft
11 13 (1.63%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.63%) Talend
12 10 (1.25%) Confluent
13 9 (1.13%) IBM
14 8 (1.00%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.00%) PagerDuty
15 7 (0.88%) Greenplum