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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 110 149
Rank change year-on-year -37 +39 +8
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 822 698 713
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.80% 2.38% 1.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.42% 12.54% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 519 508
10th Percentile £358 £400 £379
25th Percentile £413 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% +0.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £626
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -5.86% -4.40% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 7
10th Percentile £39.50 £44.95 £33.15
25th Percentile £42.50 £47.88 £50.88
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -22.86% +211.32%
75th Percentile £69.33 £61.38 £82.50
90th Percentile £70.75 £65.05 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +172.73%

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 7,198 5,566 7,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 19.01% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,937 3,847 5,128
10th Percentile £350 £354 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £485
% change year-on-year -2.56% +0.52% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 108 152
10th Percentile £18.13 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.90 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.75 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.01% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.50 £73.63 £72.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +59.61% -9.60% -39.13%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -35 686 £505 -5.34% 272
UK excluding London -18 380 £450 -5.86% 155
London -41 340 £550 -4.35% 161
Work from Home -40 263 £500 -9.09% 202
North of England -34 135 £450 -5.26% 31
Midlands +2 99 £461 -7.85% 15
South East -31 78 £433 -1.14% 54
North West -14 76 £450 -5.26% 15
West Midlands -8 75 £475 -7.77% 6
Yorkshire -38 50 £473 -14.09% 11
Scotland +9 45 £425 -6.59% 14
South West -33 25 £578 -9.33% 22
East Midlands -16 23 £406 -18.80% 9
East of England -31 10 £575 +27.78% 9
North East -15 8 £425 -8.60% 5
Northern Ireland -1 4 £400 -20.00% 3

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 53 (6.45%) Confluence
2 29 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.19%) Apache
5 17 (2.07%) nginx
6 10 (1.22%) SAS
7 7 (0.85%) Camunda
8 5 (0.61%) Drupal
8 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.36%) Appian
9 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) JBoss
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) CPLEX
3 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 491 (59.73%) AWS
2 256 (31.14%) Azure
3 160 (19.46%) GitHub
4 129 (15.69%) GCP
5 114 (13.87%) Serverless
6 107 (13.02%) Amazon S3
7 92 (11.19%) GitHub Actions
8 74 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
12 41 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
13 39 (4.74%) OpenShift
14 37 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
16 32 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
17 29 (3.53%) Power Platform
18 28 (3.41%) Snowflake
19 24 (2.92%) Azure AKS
20 22 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.43%) Firewall
2 18 (2.19%) DNS
3 9 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.97%) HTTP
5 7 (0.85%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.61%) SSL
7 4 (0.49%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.49%) SSH
7 4 (0.49%) VPN
7 4 (0.49%) WAN
8 3 (0.36%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.36%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.24%) Internet
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%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (17.03%) Relational Database
2 139 (16.91%) MongoDB
2 139 (16.91%) SQL Server
3 136 (16.55%) NoSQL
4 129 (15.69%) MySQL
5 71 (8.64%) Amazon RDS
6 64 (7.79%) DynamoDB
7 54 (6.57%) Redis
8 46 (5.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 38 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
11 33 (4.01%) RDBMS
12 27 (3.28%) Big Data
12 27 (3.28%) Data Lake
13 24 (2.92%) Metadata
14 23 (2.80%) Power BI
15 22 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
15 22 (2.68%) Oracle Database
16 20 (2.43%) Apache Cassandra
17 17 (2.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 163 (19.83%) Jenkins
2 159 (19.34%) Git
3 89 (10.83%) GitLab
4 83 (10.10%) JIRA
5 82 (9.98%) JUnit
6 47 (5.72%) Mockito
7 34 (4.14%) Cucumber
8 28 (3.41%) Maven
9 26 (3.16%) JMeter
10 23 (2.80%) Gradle
11 20 (2.43%) Selenium
12 16 (1.95%) Liquibase
12 16 (1.95%) WebDriver
13 15 (1.82%) Bitbucket
13 15 (1.82%) SonarQube
14 13 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (1.09%) Cypress.io
15 9 (1.09%) DbUnit
15 9 (1.09%) ERwin
15 9 (1.09%) jMock
General
1 181 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 166 (20.19%) Finance
3 97 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 68 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (6.81%) Banking
6 26 (3.16%) Front Office
7 17 (2.07%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.85%) Legal
12 6 (0.73%) Law
12 6 (0.73%) Retail
12 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.61%) Automotive
14 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.49%) Marketing
15 3 (0.36%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 326 (39.66%) Developer
2 148 (18.00%) Senior
3 103 (12.53%) Java Developer
4 85 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
5 78 (9.49%) Python Developer
6 74 (9.00%) DBA
7 72 (8.76%) Software Engineer
8 66 (8.03%) Data Engineer
9 62 (7.54%) Architect
10 55 (6.69%) Lead
11 54 (6.57%) Senior Developer
12 36 (4.38%) Administrator
13 35 (4.26%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 32 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
15 30 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 30 (3.65%) Lead Developer
15 30 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
15 30 (3.65%) Senior Java Developer
16 29 (3.53%) Java Engineer
17 27 (3.28%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (23.97%) Kafka
2 176 (21.41%) Spring
3 160 (19.46%) React
4 138 (16.79%) RESTful
5 137 (16.67%) REST
6 136 (16.55%) Spring Boot
7 134 (16.30%) Node.js
8 60 (7.30%) AngularJS
9 58 (7.06%) FastAPI
10 44 (5.35%) Hibernate
11 41 (4.99%) GraphQL
12 40 (4.87%) JSON
12 40 (4.87%) WireMock
13 38 (4.62%) .NET
14 32 (3.89%) JPA
15 31 (3.77%) CSS
15 31 (3.77%) Django
16 28 (3.41%) HTML
16 28 (3.41%) OAuth
16 28 (3.41%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 106 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.65%) Derivative
5 27 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 25 (3.04%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.68%) Fixed Income
8 20 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.43%) Replication
9 19 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.19%) Equities
10 18 (2.19%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
12 12 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.46%) Market Risk
13 10 (1.22%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.09%) Clustering
15 8 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.97%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 130 (15.82%) Linux
2 33 (4.01%) Unix
3 27 (3.28%) Windows
4 13 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.49%) zOS
7 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.36%) Android
7 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.24%) Solaris
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (44.65%) CI/CD
2 303 (36.86%) Agile
3 257 (31.27%) DevOps
4 218 (26.52%) Microservices
5 197 (23.97%) Containerisation
6 147 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (17.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 134 (16.30%) Software Engineering
9 118 (14.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 118 (14.36%) Observability
10 108 (13.14%) Data Modelling
11 105 (12.77%) Test Automation
12 101 (12.29%) TDD
13 94 (11.44%) Migration
14 87 (10.58%) AI
15 86 (10.46%) ETL
16 85 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
17 80 (9.73%) Event-Driven
17 80 (9.73%) Mentoring
18 75 (9.12%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 343 (41.73%) Python
2 309 (37.59%) SQL
3 274 (33.33%) Java
4 127 (15.45%) TypeScript
5 114 (13.87%) JavaScript
6 69 (8.39%) Bash
7 42 (5.11%) PowerShell
8 41 (4.99%) Go
9 39 (4.74%) C#
10 20 (2.43%) PL/SQL
10 20 (2.43%) Scala
10 20 (2.43%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.58%) PHP
12 11 (1.34%) Ruby
13 9 (1.09%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.97%) Bicep
15 7 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.73%) Groovy
16 6 (0.73%) Rust
17 5 (0.61%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 267 (32.48%) Security Cleared
2 216 (26.28%) SC Cleared
3 71 (8.64%) Degree
4 33 (4.01%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
9 12 (1.46%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.46%) OCP
10 11 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.61%) CISSP
12 4 (0.49%) CISM
13 3 (0.36%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.72%) QA
2 43 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.58%) GDPR
5 9 (1.09%) SLA
6 7 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.85%) NCSC
6 7 (0.85%) WCAG
7 6 (0.73%) NIST
7 6 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.61%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.49%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.24%) HL7
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 303 (36.86%) Docker
2 11 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.97%) Postfix
5 7 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.61%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.61%) Ceph
6 5 (0.61%) HDFS
7 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.36%) NFS
8 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.24%) Lustre
8 2 (0.24%) NDS
8 2 (0.24%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 2 (0.24%) Samba
8 2 (0.24%) Squid
8 2 (0.24%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 281 (34.18%) Kubernetes
2 138 (16.79%) Terraform
3 116 (14.11%) Grafana
4 79 (9.61%) Prometheus
5 73 (8.88%) Ansible
6 17 (2.07%) Argo
7 14 (1.70%) Control-M
7 14 (1.70%) IBM Guardium
7 14 (1.70%) Nessus
8 13 (1.58%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.22%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (1.22%) Puppet
9 10 (1.22%) Rancher
10 9 (1.09%) Data Guard
10 9 (1.09%) Istio
11 7 (0.85%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.73%) Kibana
12 6 (0.73%) linkerd
13 5 (0.61%) Packer
14 4 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 153 (18.61%) Oracle
2 102 (12.41%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.89%) Databricks
4 30 (3.65%) Splunk
5 23 (2.80%) Atlassian
5 23 (2.80%) Google
6 22 (2.68%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.68%) VMware
7 20 (2.43%) Informatica
8 19 (2.31%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.70%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.70%) Tenable
10 13 (1.58%) Talend
11 12 (1.46%) Jaspersoft
12 11 (1.34%) Salesforce
13 9 (1.09%) IBM
14 8 (0.97%) Greenplum
14 8 (0.97%) PagerDuty
15 7 (0.85%) Confluent
16 6 (0.73%) OpenAI